😔 so tough to lose a community member. Sending love to the family.

Pluribus is so damn good. Vince Gilligan knocks it out of the park again.

Stumbled upon this gem of a podcast and binge listened to it all weekend. They‘re whip smart, thorough, and funny. Here’s one episode on the complicated dynamics and history of public commentary on women’s bodies: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Great podcast covering the history of AI and various perspectives on developing superhuman intelligence podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This is a raw, brave book about love, addiction, and the unexpected beauty in our messy human experience. I couldn’t put this one down.

I’m officially a fan of Erik Larson. This was a solid book, really enjoyed learning about the Battle of Britain and the resilient spirit of the Brits during the blitz.

Listening to this on repeat 🎧 open.spotify.com/album/5WulAO...

Incredible book on addiction and the modern society’s unintended effects on our neurocircuitry.

Finally got to meet this legendary piece. Matisse is my favorite artist to view in person 🎨

Wow—nearly 7 million people participated in No Kings:

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

KEXP is an incredible station. If you don’t know about them yet, start listening www.kexp.org

It’s all about the women’s race at the inaugural Mammoth 200. Incredible to watch these runners on my home turf 🦣⛰️ www.youtube.com/live/yTZT9AJ...

“The researchers demonstrated that hallucinations stemmed from statistical properties of language model training rather than implementation flaws.” www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

In case anyone needs a primer on the authoritarian playbook youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...

#illustration #creativity

“They don’t really understand what’s going on, but that deep pile of data allows them to present an illusion of intelligence. I wouldn’t actually call it intelligence.” Gary Marcus outlines an AI-realist position chatting with chess legend Garry Kasparov. open.spotify.com/episode/564U...

Oh no you didn't Disney 🤭 youtu.be/y6wLcx7AkRM?...

lol did the dudes from ’Mountainhead’ establish this center?

One-stop resource from NASA about yesterday's announcement of a potential biosignature on Mars: science.nasa.gov/mars/the-mar...

“Generative ai would not be the first tech fad to experience a wave of excessive hype. What makes the current situation distinctive is that AI appears to be propping up something like the entire U.S. economy.”

Dan Carlin is one of my favorite podcasters, it really doesn’t get better than Hardcore History. Here Dan reflects on the current times in America, with a historian‘s perspective. www.samharris.org/podcasts/mak...

I suspect we're in the twilight period of traditional software development, and that an increasing number of successful supply chain attacks like this will be the driver towards fundamental shifts towards paranoia about dependencies and formal verification. jdstaerk.substack.com/p/we-just-fo...

The smoke is unbearable rn in the Eastern Sierra 😞💨

The more I learn about history, the more I understand how important learning about history is. This is doubly important in my own professional field. @olivia and colleagues driving home the point against the inevitability of AI reminding us of this.

“correlations with human output mean little to substantiate claims of human-likeness, especially when the input to the AI models tested is the output of human cognition in the first place” A truly incredible piece, so many amazing quotes. Well worth the read and a much needed counter.

Ghost pepper strawberry jam might be a peak culinary combo 🌶️🍓

Lovely podcast about philosophy. It’s approachable and modern. open.spotify.com/show/4aIlXHT...

The AI coding tools are dope but we still need to optimize code for humans to read. It’s still a human who will be debugging your multi-layered ternary during an incident, for now.

Having just returned from a trip to Baja California Sur, I find myself feverishly planning the next adventure. This article illuminates a simple but difficult to embody truth about the cycles of drudgery and excitement. moretothat.com/travel-is-no...

The “AI jobs apocalypse” heralded by AI CEOs like Dario Amodei and Sam Altman is a story with one particular audience in mind: the bosses who are eager to see it happen

I’ve always been fascinated by the engineering problems a product like Figma faces. This is an amazing read on how they (successfully) implemented horizontal sharding in their databases www.figma.com/blog/how-fig...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but always use the native URL API to manipulate query parameters! 👏🏻 this is such a common course of bugs

Do yourself a favor and give the original XX album a spin.

I want to learn German just for all the incredible vocabulary. Take “kummerspeck”, meaning the weight you gain from being sad and eating too much. Hilarious.

TIL that prettier does not format c++!

Showing up in the tiny town of Bishop, CA #handsoff

No I’m good, just need to go run an ultra marathon to clear my head.

It’s neat that I’ll soon have a more visceral connection to why my grandma reused aluminum foil and cut mold off cheese.

On the bright side, the resurgence of gallows humor is fun

Forsythia is the most wonderful reminder of the warm and bright times ahead. My favorite early bloomer 💛

Glad they went with the subtle cover.

Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?

If anyone’s struggling staying on schedule I recommend you get a senior dog. It’s 7:01am and my dude is NOT having a late breakfast.

Fascinating podcast exploring the innate value of the human writing process. This fuzzy line everyone has about what is an “ok” use for AI is ripe for inspection. I certainly have my own convictions, what informs them? open.spotify.com/episode/492n...

Been having those kinds of mornings where I get out of the shower and question whether I even put shampoo in my hair but then quickly land on “fuck it we’ll get there next time”

This article will not give you anxiety ✨🧠🤙🏻 nymag.com/intelligence...