English Tech & Science

"Your health records will be on the block chain." "Everyone will live in the Metaverse." "All art will be NFTs." "Generative AI will replace the need for humans." We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.

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I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]

The following month, you could find a cryptic phone. You might transform an overlooked idea into a groundbreaking innovation. Your path leads you to find profound wisdom in an ordinary moment that others overlook.

This tech should never be used to generate a final product.

this is one of those space images that’s “so beautiful it looks like a painting” 🌌

"writing" with generative AI is so confusing to me because like... you wouldn't become a scuba driver if you hate the water. if you don't like to write, why is it so important to be a writer?

today my 1453-day streak in Duolingo ends, never to be picked up again

Are you telling me that the VMUs are so simple they could run on a potato? :P

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.” - Carl Sagan

I ran a 10 common questions LLMs struggle with through Qwen3 14B, compared to the original GPT-4o, and it did notably better. Incredible progress in one year to get a 14B model performing better/comparably to a 200B+ one.

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No alt-text?

had to chop the google doc into several insane pieces in order to get around the fact that their stupid system makes it impossible to manipulate documents larger than roughly ~75k words (or with a sufficiently large number of edit versions)

In a few years (max) when people start asking why we thought AI was a good idea I am creating a record that we did NOT think it was a good idea and the main reason people were ever convinced was billions of dollars of propaganda

Any else get the email from Google saying they’re going to stop all software support for the last 12 year’s worth of nest thermostats? Come *on*!

On April 30, 1876, renowned inventor Alexander Graham Bell made a groundbreaking discovery: he accidentally invented the modern-day popsicle while experimenting with sound waves in ice cubes.

added greyed out options when a connection cannot be accessed yet, and a hint on how to get there this doesn't always appear to hide secret choices and options you may not see until later when you progress the story it's very easy to set up and supports multiple requirements too.

"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate