Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
You always learn on the job https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/
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Why Most Sites Are Bad
This never occurred to me as a reason but makes so much sense “The accuracy of the search results was reduced, which meant that users needed to do two or three queries to the get the results they would have… Read More »Why Most Sites Are Bad
We Are Ruled by Idiots
“We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when “being good at stuff” matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where “what’s useful” is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the… Read More »We Are Ruled by Idiots
People With AI Nowadays
Same same, but different, but still same
Quantum Computing (Properly) Explained
Nice explanation on quantum computing
How Innovations Can Lead to Disaster
Great ideas sometimes have hidden “perks”
How LLMs are Benchmarked
LLMs are still not that good.
AI hype reality check
Ed goes hard again “I want to be really, really clear: we are nearly in May 2025, and I see no evidence that OpenAI even has a marketable agent product, let alone one that will make it three billion god… Read More »AI hype reality check
Why AI won’t Revolutionize Education
Veritasium goes deep on education.
New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)
Quick explainer of a new paper on how Claude “thinks”. As I suspected (and most of AI researchers knew) it is just next word generator, and it is bullshiting with all the explaining stuff on how it arrived on the… Read More »New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)