2025-05-17
Practical advice for engineers in these troubled times
Since 2023, the rise of interest rates has caused a sea change in how software companies relate to their engineers. It’s harder to be a software engineer now than at...
For many, patience is the killer LLM feature
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, famously said that his goal was to make intelligence “too cheap to meter”. Right now, buoyed by venture capital, we’re living in that world. Every...
Why strong engineers are rarely blocked
Earlier in my career I used to get blocked1 constantly, but these days it’s rare. What changed? At first glance being blocked sounds like it’s outside your control, since it...
You cannot beat the final boss of No Rest for the Wicked's latest saga
The founder of Moon Studios has become the action RPG's worst enemy.
Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Crashing, and We Finally Know Why
Amazon, the multi-trillion dollar e-commerce monolith, seemingly cheaped out on keeping a key feature installed on its delivery six-propeller drones. And predictably, this backfired almost immediately. On a rainy December...
Social Anxiety Isn’t About Being Liked
Published on May 16, 2025 10:26 PM GMTThere's this popular idea that socially anxious folks are just dying to be liked. It seems logical, right? Why else would someone be...
2025-05-16
The Internet Phone Book is “an annual publication for exploring the vast...
The Internet Phone Book is “an annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers,...
Events: Debate & Fiction Project
Published on May 16, 2025 9:51 PM GMTI'm doing a couple of events next week which people might be interested in attending:Event: Tsvi & Abram debate AI timelines. Abram expects...
It's actually far more than that, but most of the changes are on the database level. I did fix the f
It's actually far more than that, but most of the changes are on the database level. I did fix the feed submission form though - when adding your site, Enter...
How Fast Can Algorithms Advance Capabilities? | Epoch Gradient Update
Published on May 16, 2025 9:38 PM GMTI'm cross-posting my guest post on Epoch's Gradient Updates newsletter, in which I describe some new research from my team at UChicago's XLab...
Air to Bread
Published on May 16, 2025 9:35 PM GMTEpistemic Status: Pretty certain about the points raised, but expect large out-of-model error. Not an expert on any of the discussed topics. Critique...
Delaying Navy’s F/A-XX Fighter Would Be a ‘Disaster’ vs. China
Key Points – Potential multi-year delays to the US Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation carrier fighter program—reportedly due to funding debates, industrial base capacity concerns, and strategic indecision over manned versus unmanned...
AI Is Helping Job Seekers Lie, Flood the Market, and Steal Jobs
The advent of generative AI has fundamentally altered the job application process. Both recruiters and applicants are making ample use of the tech, making an already soul-sucking and tedious process...
I Like Good Art and I Cannot Lie
I was reminded the other day of what a curated treasure trove of art 20x200 is. So I took a spin through their archive and pulled out some favorites. First...
Finally, some good news: The world's only Warhammer academic conference is returning in September to present more talks like 'The ethical implications of the Imperium’s war with chaos and the inverted meaning of order'
In the grim darkness of the 21st century, there is only scholarly analysis of the grim darkness of the 41st millennium.
In a World First, CRISPR Drug Tailored for One Baby Shows Life-Saving Promise
Scientists used CRISPR tech to create a custom-made drug targeted at helping a newborn baby fight a rare genetic disorder. According to an extraordinary new paper published in The New...
P-Values Know When You're Cheating
Published on May 16, 2025 8:34 PM GMTThis post is not "the solution to p-hacking" or even "the problem with p-hacking". But I had some recent insights into thinking behind...
World of Warcraft game director on the woeful patch 11.1.5: 'It's not the experience our players are expecting or deserve'
Bugs and time-gated content enraged players.
Meet The Women In Tech: Saaniya Chugh and Managing the Ever-changing Tech Culture
Saaniya Chugh is a Senior Technical Consultant at ServiceNow Canada. Her work revolved around designing and implementing the ServiceNow platform in alliance with the business operations across customers and industries....
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