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Heads-up: Amazon removing Kindle file downloads this week blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/02/12/d...

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Zeno would have discovered his paradoxes much sooner if he’d witnessed Uber’s idea of ETAs

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Protip for politicians and business leaders who just discovered podcasts and aping Trump: you don’t need your own podcast interviewing random celebs for a few months. It takes years to build an audience and most people won’t care anyway. You go on other people’s podcasts. That’s how Trump won.

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LLMs can make you smarter, but they can also act as the ultimate confirmation bias machine in the hands of a user who wants to feel smart without having their beliefs challenged. As the user below demonstrates.

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Bashtag is buzzword of the day

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Clip from 2000 shows how much designers overlooked the use of a screen. While Palm and others were selling touch screen PDAs to geeks, mainstream consumer focus was on making tech as invisible as possible. youtu.be/uBfvvjviMQs

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In defence of OpenAI. Yes, the whole industry can learn from the crowd’s reaction to DeepSeek’s verbosity of introspective rumination. However, the pundits act like OpenAI did nothing in this direction. o1 did expose the thinking steps, just in less detail and a distinct (transient) UI.

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I’ll say it again. What makes this platform different is that it’s moderated. And, The Terms of Service are enforced. Bluesky is not like Twitter The world needs a platform where people who disagree can have a real discussion.

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OpenAI Superbowl’s ad:

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Mark my words: generative AI is a new medium.

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I’m not a big gamer, but excited to get Civ on the Quest youtu.be/3IMdxcP8uSM?...

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Make a devop cry in one sentence:

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After 3 decades, PDF madness finally tamed thanks to LLMs. Machine-readable and mobile-friendly. Straight to markdown with that bs at the cost of pennies. www.sergey.fyi/articles/gem...

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‘"YouTube continues to be the leader in streaming watchtime and podcasts," the company noted in its 4Q earnings release. That's a glancing, anodyne statement. But it's also meaningful: I've never seen Google mention podcasting in its messages to Wall Street before.’ www.aol.com/youtube-take...

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Chat feels like such an obvious holding pattern on the way to better UIs for making use of LLMs.

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A blind experiment comparing an AI essay (by DeepSeek, what else!) to a human essay. 60% correctly guessed which one was AI, not much more than a coin toss.

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Due to a typo in their DNS config, Mastercard was sending critical traffic to akme.ne instead of Akamai's true akme.net domain for FIVE YEARS until someone noticed. Luckily the Nigerian domain name was never registered. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/mast...

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Awk.

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In terms of public awareness, AI became a matter of national pride this week. It might already have been an arms race, but now that dynamic is visible to the public, the media, and the politicians. 1962’s man on the moon is 2025’s AGI. Unbounded funding and zero meaningful roadblocks from here.

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Wrote up some notes on the leaked system prompt for OpenAI's new Operator browser automation "agent" As usual, the leaked system prompt provides significantly more useful information than the official documentation! simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/26/...

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Apple Intelligence does worse than a coin toss: “Siri correctly provided the winner of just 20 of the 58 Super Bowls that have been played.” onefoottsunami.com/2025/01/23/n...

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Naming your company “Aardvark Insurance” was 20th century SEO

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This is how much ChatGPT API pricing dropped in a year. You pay ~ 10-15% of what you paid a year ago for a superior model and much bigger context window (max: 8K vs 128K)

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How to read more books in 2025: s/three-hour “conversation” podcasts/audiobooks/g 🫡

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Wanted ChatGPT feature: bang commands !o1 respond using o1 model !g open Google search for this query etc

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Apple validating the “stochastic parrot” crowd, who would otherwise be laughed out of the room by now

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Good news for introverts – selling software up to enterprise level with a “no calls” policy. “Sorry we only do emails” is viable at least for companies with strong presence and a good product.

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ChatGPT’s $200 plan not just for professionals cranking out boring Python code. This married lady using it to keep her AI boyfriend fully engaged. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...

Heads-up: Amazon removing Kindle file downloads this week blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/02/12/d...

Zeno would have discovered his paradoxes much sooner if he’d witnessed Uber’s idea of ETAs

LLMs can make you smarter, but they can also act as the ultimate confirmation bias machine in the hands of a user who wants to feel smart without having their beliefs challenged. As the user below demonstrates.

Bashtag is buzzword of the day

Clip from 2000 shows how much designers overlooked the use of a screen. While Palm and others were selling touch screen PDAs to geeks, mainstream consumer focus was on making tech as invisible as possible. youtu.be/uBfvvjviMQs

In defence of OpenAI. Yes, the whole industry can learn from the crowd’s reaction to DeepSeek’s verbosity of introspective rumination. However, the pundits act like OpenAI did nothing in this direction. o1 did expose the thinking steps, just in less detail and a distinct (transient) UI.

I’ll say it again. What makes this platform different is that it’s moderated. And, The Terms of Service are enforced. Bluesky is not like Twitter The world needs a platform where people who disagree can have a real discussion.

OpenAI Superbowl’s ad:

Mark my words: generative AI is a new medium.

I’m not a big gamer, but excited to get Civ on the Quest youtu.be/3IMdxcP8uSM?...

Make a devop cry in one sentence:

After 3 decades, PDF madness finally tamed thanks to LLMs. Machine-readable and mobile-friendly. Straight to markdown with that bs at the cost of pennies. www.sergey.fyi/articles/gem...

‘"YouTube continues to be the leader in streaming watchtime and podcasts," the company noted in its 4Q earnings release. That's a glancing, anodyne statement. But it's also meaningful: I've never seen Google mention podcasting in its messages to Wall Street before.’ www.aol.com/youtube-take...

Chat feels like such an obvious holding pattern on the way to better UIs for making use of LLMs.

A blind experiment comparing an AI essay (by DeepSeek, what else!) to a human essay. 60% correctly guessed which one was AI, not much more than a coin toss.

Due to a typo in their DNS config, Mastercard was sending critical traffic to akme.ne instead of Akamai's true akme.net domain for FIVE YEARS until someone noticed. Luckily the Nigerian domain name was never registered. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/mast...

Awk.

In terms of public awareness, AI became a matter of national pride this week. It might already have been an arms race, but now that dynamic is visible to the public, the media, and the politicians. 1962’s man on the moon is 2025’s AGI. Unbounded funding and zero meaningful roadblocks from here.

Wrote up some notes on the leaked system prompt for OpenAI's new Operator browser automation "agent" As usual, the leaked system prompt provides significantly more useful information than the official documentation! simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/26/...

Apple Intelligence does worse than a coin toss: “Siri correctly provided the winner of just 20 of the 58 Super Bowls that have been played.” onefoottsunami.com/2025/01/23/n...

Naming your company “Aardvark Insurance” was 20th century SEO

This is how much ChatGPT API pricing dropped in a year. You pay ~ 10-15% of what you paid a year ago for a superior model and much bigger context window (max: 8K vs 128K)

How to read more books in 2025: s/three-hour “conversation” podcasts/audiobooks/g 🫡

Wanted ChatGPT feature: bang commands !o1 respond using o1 model !g open Google search for this query etc

Apple validating the “stochastic parrot” crowd, who would otherwise be laughed out of the room by now

Good news for introverts – selling software up to enterprise level with a “no calls” policy. “Sorry we only do emails” is viable at least for companies with strong presence and a good product.

ChatGPT’s $200 plan not just for professionals cranking out boring Python code. This married lady using it to keep her AI boyfriend fully engaged. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...

Books are a superpower

Oh cool, you've found any IT conference's Wi-Fi