Ex-Quant Trader. Unapologetically miserable. Views are my own.
Shaolin
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The ability to build anything has come with a critical lesson:
Engineers have really, really bad ideas.
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Everyone in the replies wants to make it about immigration, but it’s brainrot surface-level analysis.
The better question is:
Who influenced those policymakers? And what were those policymakers doing during their formative years that made Europe OK with this?
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Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.
Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. wapo.st/4yt6dHY
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They really just got on stage and said this newly designed 4000+ pound car can do flips and go half the speed of sound (380+mph) and will ship in 2028. This is a prank, right?
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this child faked a rabona into a croqueta to directly create an assist, WHAT AM I SEEING
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Being a dad is just telling yourself “it’s been an expensive month, we’ll get back on track next month” over and over again until you die
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Genuine question: what good did David Reuben's buying and selling of property do for the rest of the country?
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JUST IN: Dozens of lawsuits allege obesity drugs Ozempic, Wegovy, & Zepbound can cause irreversible vision loss.
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The UK’s most powerful government-built AI supercomputer, Isambard-AI, cost £225m
The Botley Road bridge cost roughly the same
Apparently our frontier AI capacity and one bridge are comparable national investments
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A short rail bridge over a two-lane road in Oxford took longer to build and cost more (inflation-adjusted) than some of the most famous construction projects in history
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I feel sorry for Ed Sheeran
Yes, he’s a multimillionaire recording artist
But he’s also — at heart — a Hollister, gap-year normie
The sort of middle-class lad who can’t help but bust out the guitar at a house party and wants everyone to get along
He’s not built for this age
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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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JUST IN: Professor Jiang claims AI isn’t real intelligence & is instead “manipulated by humans somewhere in India.”
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Jiang Xueqin styles himself "Professor Jiang" but is a high school teacher with a Yale BA in English literature and no university faculty position. His claims misrepresent AI as live human manipulation rather than output from trained neural networks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Xue…
indiatoday.in/world/story/pr…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_lan…
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jev is insane 🫣
it makes realtime virtual try-on hauls possible.
built this experiment for Drape with @typesafeai
> i talk
> jev reads transcript + what i'm wearing
> picks from my closet
> changes my outfit in realtime
cost: $0.0011 per decision
time: ~620ms per decision
imagine getting ready like this:
After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?
I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev
• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions
AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution