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Recommended Listen: François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence
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Recommended Read: Our Customers Demand Terrible AI Systems
“Up until recently, the industry was pretty stagnant. We had been relying on outdated ideas like “ready for market,” “finished product,” and “works reasonably well.” We were all stuck selling products that broke only after a few years. Now, we’re… Read More »Recommended Read: Our Customers Demand Terrible AI Systems
Recommended Read: The Slop Society
“Meta, as an institution, has been rotten for years, making trillions of dollars as it continually makes the service worse, all to force users to spend more time on the site, even if it’s because Facebook and Instagram are now… Read More »Recommended Read: The Slop Society
Recommended Read: 52 Things I Learned in 2024
“Irish peacekeepers have been in Lebanon so long that some Lebanese are developing Irish accents.”
Recommended Read: Godot Isn’t Making it
“The other assumption — those so-called scaling laws — has been that by simply building bigger data centers with more GPUs (the expensive, power-hungry graphics processing units used to both run and train these models) and throwing as much training… Read More »Recommended Read: Godot Isn’t Making it
Stupid limits
Why can you only have 5000 songs in a playlist on YouTube Music? Or, 10000 on Spotify? Why does shuffle does not work for such large playlists properly? How come it breaks down the app if you try to make… Read More »Stupid limits