2025-05-01
Dumping the F-35 Fighter Could Hit Canada Like A Mack Truck
What Does Canada Do If It Cuts the F-35 Fighters Purchase To Just 16? It Would Be a Big Mistake: Canada is waffling again about whether to buy the F-35....
Dont focus on updating P doom
Published on May 1, 2025 11:10 AM GMTMotivation: Improving group epistemics.TL; DR (Changes to) P doom/alignment difficulty are a shibboleth dominating conversations, distorting epistemics. Instead, focus on updates to your...
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
*Michael Truell* is the co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor—the fastest-growing AI code editor in the world, reaching $300 million in annual recurring revenue just two years...
PC gaming can't stop getting Ws, as Microsoft shares it's being weighed down by console and hardware revenue woes
We're having a sensible chuckle from our (ivory) gaming towers.
'China is right behind us': Jensen Huang says we need to 'accelerate the diffusion of American AI technology around the world'
Is more exports or less exports in the American interest?
Thinking About Communication
The article explores the concept of communication beyond traditional human-centric views. It delves into quantum physics, highlighting how particles like photons can carry vast amounts of information through properties such...
How to complete the A Taste of Home quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
Tick off another friendship quest for Mirabel.
I spent the day using GameSir's new GameHub app, potentially corrupting my phone and gaming PC, so you don't have to
If you want to sideload a dodgy seeming Trombone Champ emulator, GameHub is pretty good.
10 Years of Marketing Cheat Codes in Under 10 Minutes
The stuff no one teaches you — but actually moves the needle.Continue reading on The Startup »
Books Don’t Make You Smarter. They Make You Useful
The article explores the paradox of reading in the age of AI: while we forget most of what we read, that forgetting serves a purpose—shaping implicit understanding, worldview, and creativity....
Avoid These 8 Mistakes When Using AI in Healthcare
The healthcare industry, including pharma, medical devices and patient care, have all increased their reliance on AI, especially Large Language Model (LLM) But while new tech brings immense promise, it’s...
Incentives, Not Intent, Are Taming Us
The article explores how domestication—genetic, chemical, and behavioral—is not exclusive to animals. It argues humans have long domesticated each other, often without conscious intent, through institutions, culture, marketing, and even...
Emergence, Not Design, Is Powering AI’s Human-Like Abilities
The article explores emergence—the rise of complex, unplanned behaviors from simple components—linking it from the origins of life to AI. Just as life, language, and consciousness emerged from randomness, new...
Understanding AI Terms Matters More Than Ever [Part 2 of 2]
Part 2 deepens the reader’s AI intuition by unpacking second-tier terms like GenAI, hallucinations, alignment, reasoning, emergence, RLHF, and AGI. It explains how AI’s apparent intelligence is a product of...
More Intellimouse than eXtreme gamer, Cherry's new wireless gaming mice give understated office chic in the best possible way
These gamer mice have that Microsoft Office aesthetic.
If the AI is so Smart – Why Can’t it Do Things Without me Asking? [Part 1 of 2]
This article emphasizes that building real intuition about AI starts with understanding its core terminology. It explains how foundation models like GPT function—not as intelligent entities but as powerful pattern-completion...
This One CV Mistake Made Me Invisible to Hiring Algorithms
A few months ago, I was deep in the job-hunting trenches, sending out applications like there was no tomorrow. After submitting 100 applications, I landed just one interview and one...
Foundation Models Could Free Us from Language Limits
The article traces how language enabled civilization but now limits progress. AI foundation models—like LLMs—can overcome language’s constraints by offering not just information but truth-checking, personalization (via RAGs), and agency....
Not All Disruptions Replace—Some Just Fork
The article distinguishes between transformative technologies, which fully replace old systems (like electric light), and fork technologies, which create parallel paths (like bicycles or handcrafted goods). It argues that hyped...
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