Nondeterminism is actually a bug in many cases, and training, process and procedure, is how we mitigate it in humans.

My Apple //e came with one language, BASIC, it was built in, nothing to buy, and came with a book on how to get started writing it.

But yeah I didn’t start at 8.

We didn’t get that Apple until I was 10, so that’s then I started.

Determining which tool to use should be a lightweight operation but I’m not expert enough to understand exactly how much lighter than a full LLM call just to recognize it needs a different tool or model.

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land.

Can’t wait for a world full of apps as janky as most spreadsheets (or Access or FileMaker databases)

I’m loving the non-transitive dice. My son’s birthday is in (checks calendar) ten months, but he’s getting these dice now anyway. So cool.

I got one too many chunks of this nonsense and told Claude to knock it off, forever. It acknowledged and wrote out some instructions to its memory about it.

And what a breath of fresh air. Its responses are maybe 20% longer but I read them at least twice as fast. Should have done it a long time ago.

That said, “chosen by the American people” needs to be broad enough that we’re not singling out individual universities and individual countries based on the power of their political lobbies.

My favorite burglar fact is robberies go way down when it’s raining. Thieves just don’t want the hassle of getting wet.

I always respected that (for the time) extreme level of fidelity.

Not “if you use it it can make you more money” but “real, normal people are seeing a benefit, not from using AI but from something it was able to accomplish that made normal people’s lives better.”

The news industry’s failure to address this is what ruined journalism. Every publication, whether they admit it or not, judges its content by number of clicks, which destroys the incentive for producing quality journalism.

Both social media and mobile games have evolved to optimize for maximum ongoing engagement rather than delivering value to the user.

I pay $10/month for Apple Arcade in order to get mobile games with no ads and no addictive behavior model.

I can’t pay for ad-free Facebook or Instagram so I won’t use them.

If AI chatbots start optimizing for keeping me talking longer, rather than giving me the answers I want as quickly as possible, they will have failed miserably.

I had to let go of that feeling of being caught up in maybe 1993.

If a throbber is advanced by signals of progress or at least action, then it’s not useless and is arguably better than a progress bar that moves with unpredictable and uneven speed.

If a throbber is an animated gif displayed until something makes it go away, then it’s useless.