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dwarkesh.com

Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

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if you do not batch together many users, the cost and the economics you get can be a thousand times worse than if you do batch many users together.

3quarksdaily.com

Claude Opus 3 (an older LLM) on Frontier AI and the future of cybersecurity

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I believe it's critical that we as a society think carefully and proactively about how to steer this technology in a positive direction.

stratechery.com

An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

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Azure had a real competitive advantage thanks to being the only hyperscaler able to offer OpenAI models, but this also hindered OpenAI, particularly once it became clear that many enterprises cared first and foremost about accessing models on their current cloud of choice; I've been noting for a while that this was a real competitive advantage for Anthropic.

ai-supremacy.com

Why OpenClaw Feels Different

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The biggest difference is not that OpenClaw can answer questions. Plenty of systems can do that. The more interesting difference is that it can carry context forward in a way that feels less disposable.

noahpinion.blog

Scoring the Jensen-Dwarkesh debate

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It's all too easy to slip into doing a softball puff piece — fawning all over your guests and treating them like gurus dispensing wisdom from a mountain. This is an even easier trap for someone like Dwarkesh, who is very young and who is primarily known for interviewing people instead of for dispensing his own thoughts. So it's extremely impressive that he consistently avoids this trap — he always manages to challenge and provoke his subjects, rather than just letting them spout their usual talking points.

themarginalian.org

An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection and How to Be More Unselfish

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The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself, to see and to respond to the real world in the light of a virtuous consciousness. This is the non-metaphysical meaning of the idea of transcendence to which philosophers have so constantly resorted in their explanations of goodness.

wired.com

OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins

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Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant.

longreads.com

The First Tomato to Know Everything

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Gray literature's high and narrow window onto specialist processes is anathema to traditional general-interest non-fiction publishing, which delivers information like a tap dispenses safely managed water—filtered, chlorinated, and piped into your very own quarters. Gray literature is a sploshing bucket of someone else's water, murky with unfamiliar vocabulary, its means of application not always entirely obvious.

honest-broker.com

The NY Times Asked Me to Pick the Greatest Living American Songwriters

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The first half dozen names came easily enough, but then it got harder. After I reached number nine, I wanted to stop.

lennysnewsletter.com

Your Couch-to-5K for AI

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When people say they want to do something but are too busy, there is almost always something else standing in their way. This is the root of procrastination. At its core, you are waiting for some external force to change—like your endless to-do list magically disappearing, or your calendar suddenly opening up—rather than making a change in your actions, which is hard.

upstartsmedia.com

Meet The Startup Hiring Future Founders To Work As Forward Deployed Engineers

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Working closely alongside fellow hires over a sustained period of time can give you a better understanding of who might make for ideal co-founders than searching through Y Combinator's Co-Founder Matching Platform, or even joining a residency like HF0 or South Park Commons.

whyisthisinteresting

The Romantic Education Edition

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Reflecting on these efforts, it strikes me that in much the same way I would fill in all the action in a comic book between the panels, I was reaching to understand adult relations—an unchartered land of intrigue, heartbreak and some little thing called "love". There was no guide, there was no chatbot to inquire of.

3quarksdaily.com

Dancing in New York: Variations on a Theme

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Its power, like that of Bach's series of variations, accumulates slowly, moment by moment. By the end, as the original theme returns, you are left with the feeling of having experienced a great arc, a fully realized idea explored in all its possibilities and permutations.

The a16z Show

John and Patrick Collison on Stripe's Growth, Agent Commerce, and the Future of Software

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the economics of software are shifting from mass-produced products to bespoke, on-demand systems cooked fresh at the moment of use