Link. “Workers without sick leave and those who can’t work from home if they or their children test positive and are required to isolate bore a disproportionate burden”

Link. In the context of a talk Scott wanders all over the place – but he mirrors my thoughts on where AI-denial goes wrong. I’d have spent a bit more time on how “non-special” human cognition seems.

I mostly agree with his other points too …

Link. Several Novo Nordisk competitors have flamed out … a good illustration of why drug development is ferociously expensive (even before marketing and all the the rest).

Link. Sounds like Apple might now be backing off a bit.

Link. I’d not seen that comparison before.

Link. defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate MajorOSUserNotificationDate -date “2025-02-07 23:22:47 +0000”

I don’t do these for fear of complexity and future problems.

Link. Persuasive comparison.

Link. “For about a year leading up to the submission of P.&I.D.’s proposal, Quinn and Cahill sent Taiga and one of her daughters just a bit more than $25,000 in incremental payments.”

Basically everyone is kind of a villain. Too complex to summarize.

Link. I have had to do this.

Link. Xi is what happens when a Trump gets unlimited power.

Link. Montreal was like this in the 80s. COVID accelerated health care retirements and also increased patient volumes.

Link. I have 3 slide rules I think. Beats looking up log tables.

Link. The Reds are now completely disconnected from reality.

Link. Most useful early review by a tester.

“No one has a great definition for sentience, which is okay because LLMs are in no way sentient…”

This sentence contradicts itself.

Link. Science is just getting started.

Link. A desperate rear guard action as Reds fight to preserve their lifestyle.

Link. “Apple declined to provide an early review unit to The New York Times …

… I could tolerate juggling a notes app, a browser and the Microsoft Word app for no longer than 15 minutes before feeling nauseated…

…had planned to write this review with the headset before realizing I wouldn’t make my deadline…”

Link. Sadly article doesn’t say why it ended.

Link. They never seem to break but it’s going to get hard to find replacement parts if they do.

Link. open ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iCloud\~com\~apple\~iBooks/Documents/

Once you open it you can use a few methods to create a desktop shortcut. Changes to files here show up in Books.app. It seems a promising way to find things in the library.

Link. “… a mathematically provable argument for how and why an LLM can develop so many abilities… when Arora and his team tested some of its predictions, they found that these models behaved almost exactly as expected”

Researchers applied techniques from random graph theory. These models have unexpected behaviors.

We don’t know if this is how *we* “understand” but I suspect it’s something similar. We are not magical.

“Many people found it a little bit eerie how much GPT-4 was better than GPT-3.5, and that happened within a year. Does that mean in another year we’ll have a similar change of that magnitude? I don’t know. Only OpenAI knows.”

Link. They evolved so two X is the ideal. In humans two active X is quite bad news so women suppress one copy, but the technique has apparently bad side-effects.

Link. An explainer for the young who don’t remember RSS.

Link. It was done primarily for her epilepsy, she suggested doing the OCD as well. “work involved the coordination of researchers from OHSU, UCLA, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania.”

Sounds like for her controlling the OCD was even more valuable than managing her epilepsy. It’s not a complete cure though.

Link. Best summary to date.

Link. A Mastodon inspired post. “The proto-Nazis will always be with us. At least until the AIs end us all. We have to manage them to have a civilization.”

Link. That number seems impossible, I think growth was maybe mostly Amazon. Apple’s layoffs sound covert. Microsoft is still growing.

Link. I think the first iPod used a non-Apple RTOS? I wonder what they are using here.

This is the most interesting VP article I’ve read.

Link. Although XMTP is unlikely to matter the essay is a good overview of messaging chaos.

Link. Mostly demographics. He doesn’t mention voters making persistently bad choices (Italy).

But why is Canada doing poorly? And Australia so well?

Link. The article doesn’t mention weed, otherwise more like 80s Boulder CO than anywhere else. It will be crushed soon.

Link. Other than developers willing to invest now for 2027 revenue — assuming Apple doesn’t kill the product.

Link. Powerful. Don’t miss the alt text.

Link. Specifically the Russian side of the campaign.

Link. India’s states have wildly divergent economies, food, and culture.

Link. Without the union wages fell behind and work conditions became intolerable. Not to mention heinous prisoner conditions.

Red voters have destroyed much of Wisconsin.

Link. It’s never worked reliably for me.

Link. “McNerney installed ‘Six Sigma,’ a regimen used at GE to measure and standardize business practices but loathed by 3M researchers as a creativity killer”

I suspect killing the “weakest” 10% every year was the worst poison.

Link. Modi’s India has delusions.

Link. Brave where others cower. Now we all know the name Rajan Khare.

Link. “Their ideal outcome appears to let the order fray and then let the United States expend resources to repair the damage”

Link. Journalists are suffering – which impacts coverage of the economy.

Link. We live in a glass house and we can’t make enough weapons to even supply Ukraine.

“Hackers for Volt Typhoon compromised hundreds of Cisco and NetGear routers, many of them outdated models no longer supported by manufacturer updates or security patches, in an effort to embed an army of sleeper cells that would be activated in a crisis.”

Link. “Apple may have inadvertently revealed that some of these core ideas are actually dead ends — that they can’t ever be executed well enough to become mainstream”

Apple can afford to fail.

Link. “some members of the advisory committee that recommended against that approval resigned in protest, and Medicare later declared that they would not pay for the drug”

The FDA should review that approval the way aviation reviews plane crashes.

Link. There are two others in use almost as worthless.

Link. It is an expected finding. The unexpected part is that prevalence was low, CJD is more “contagious”.

Link. Interesting comments on who is using LLMs to do work.

Link. Portugal’s program is amazing and SF is just a (rich) city — but the fentanyl gap is astounding and unexplained.

PS. We need a lot more journalism like this. Great work.

Link. From the map the Twin Cities (MSP) are projected to do well.