the kids and the commies are always right, nobody ever listens to them and nobody ever learns a single lesson from being completely wrong about everything all the time because capitalism gives them headpats and belly rubs for refusing to change

I don’t want to be an AI booster, but all of us who write text for a living (coders, copywriters, mgmt to some extent) have to confront the Innovators dilemma for our products: AI is not as good as a professional, but a)it keeps improving and b)one day (today, in some cases) it’ll be “good enough”

I really like these “Git of Theseus” charts that make your git repo look like a weathered mountain. Unfortunately they can be slow/cumbersome to make. By reimplementing it in Rust with a better algorithm I got a massive speedup, hopefully now more people will make them! amedee.me/introducing-...

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

jacobin.com/2025/09/kirk... I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. This feels like a normal, level-headed, centrist take. It shouldn't take one of the most leftist publications to publish this, this to me is a WaPo/WSJ/NYT uncontroversial opinion. Instead these other places are hagiographizing.

The two things to remember about the Hillary email thing is: A) the Times have hated the Clinton's since they made them look dumb in the 1990s. B) by the time the NYT printed this, it had already been discovered that the whole thing was a troll job by Jason Chaffetz, and the FBI had cleared her.

There’s a funny thing where historically we tend to inadvertently use the “currently hot thing” as our model of the mind. Freud used steam engines, when I was a kid it was computers, and recently deep learning/“predictive processing”. But now the hot thing is LLMs, and they are so faulty!

It's very telling that the far left refuses to support huge pieces of shit who everyone hates

Everything is {gender|computer}

hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot

Something I’m not seeing any discussion about is vibe coding for UX prototyping. I just implemented a figma for a complicated new feature in 2 hours, you can interact with it much better and find gaps in the user flows. It’s like 3D printing a prototype to iterate on before sending it to the factory

Google buying Wiz for $32B (!) and adding a bunch of ex-Unit 8200 spies (the cyber unit of the IDF) to their payroll is the final straw for me, I’m going to start de-googling my life.

At your company, is your key issue collaborating on things that could be transactional, or trying to treat collaborative things transactionally? Or somewhere in between?

Holy absolute fuck this story is damning. Medicine’s culture has to change to weed out perceived “toxic geniuses”, or else it’s going to keep killing people like the 16 year old girl mentioned here. www.propublica.org/article/thom...

Everyone values arts and humanities until it’s time to pay for it; everyone thinks they can be a painter or a writer until they try; everyone is a confident problem solver until there’s no single right answer.

"Working in this field in 2024 is like ..." (we asked 570 people to answer this with a metaphor). Some themes/examples:

Cool! The heavyweight models had 80-90% precision vs bag-of-words doing 67%, so "LLM stuff" still has some value at the top end, but I love to see simpler stuff like BoW still holding its own and having applications for on-device classification

Me: We have to take care of ourselves and each other because opposing authoritarianism is a long fight and you will burn out. Also me: I cannot remember to eat on a regular basis.

optimizations will continue until the perf improves

80 degrees on Halloween 😱

reading a lot of job postings recently, like this one: "Seeking a code-slinging sorcerer to sprinkle some magic on our avant-garde digital quests" 🙄🤮 I think this is so common bc the people writing the JD are deeply bored, they think the job is boring and they need to "spice it up" to attract people

… it’s an ok number

Packing some books… Circles make the coolest covers

I've been reading a lot of math recently, and while I knew Borsuk-Ulam I had never seen such a beautiful explanation and fun motivation, plus such a computational useful follow-on www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVq...

Has any college or university tried NOT clearing an encampment, but just providing general security around the area, keeping it chill, waiting for the semester to end?

David Schmitt, Nothing Is Under Control, 2023.

Cursor has made writing Rust 2-3x easier for me. So much time saved by having someone fix type system issues for me and knowing the "shadow stdlib" of which serde/rayon/etc functions to call/which traits to use and which traits don't work for the use case.

When I learned about Daubechies wavelets in JPEG they sounded so foundational I assumed they had been invented centuries ago. I didn't realize Ingrid Daubechies is my parents' age and has lived a fascinating life! 1st woman full professor at Princeton in '94: www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/m...

I was gifted this Timemore coffee scale(eightouncecoffee.ca/products/tim...) for my birthday, it’s great. This thing has the nicest “getting started” UX I’ve ever experienced! A thin plastic overlay explains all the features, but it doesn’t get in the way, and you can remove it whenever. It’s genius

I'm really into these generated IKEA instructions, apparently building a skycraper only requires a stick figure person applying an allen key to a 3 story building generativeai.pub/now-the-ai-c...