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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Terrible Software
• Matheus Lima
'What do you think?' without a position isn't a question — it's a task assignment. State your opinion first. Let people react to something concrete.
Het coalitieakkoord heeft een boel woorden die raken aan digitalisering, digitale autonomie en cybersecurity. Veel van de plannen komen niet uit de lucht vallen, en zijn gebaseerd op bijeenkomsten, gesprekken en documenten van de afgelopen jaren. Het is goed te zien dat men gebruik heeft gemaakt van dit eerdere werk (zoals het stuk Wolken aan de horizon, en Ons Digitaal Fundament). Specifiek moet het initiatief van de digitale club van D66 om samen te werken met de digitale zuster-afdelingen van CDA, GroenLinks-PvdA en VVD genoemd worden, waar een gezamenlijk document met input uit is gekomen.
TIL: Running OpenClaw in Docker
I've been running OpenClaw using Docker on my Mac. Here are the first in my ongoing notes on how I set that up and the commands I'm using to administer it.Here's a screenshot of the web UI that this serves on localhost:
Tags: ai, docker, til, generative-ai, llms, ai-agents, openclaw
These are my notes and expanded thoughts from this month’s Space News segment on ABC Radio Hobart and ABC Northern Tasmania. Every month I join Lucie Cutting on Sunday mornings to chat about what’s happening above and beyond.
Here’s what we discussed, plus some of my notes, and expanded thoughts from this edition of the programme:
Katherine Bennell-Pegg was named 2026 Australian of the Year on Sunday 26 January at the National Arboretum in Canberra. She’s 41, born in South Australia, holds dual British-Australian citizenship, and is the first person to qualify as an astronaut under the Australian flag. She hasn’t flown to space yet.
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are accelerating the divide.
Originally in 2019, GPT-2 was trained by OpenAI on 32 TPU v3 chips for 168 hours (7 days), with $8/hour/TPUv3 back then, for a total cost of approx. $43K. It achieves 0.256525 CORE score, which is an ensemble metric introduced in the DCLM paper over 22 evaluations like ARC/MMLU/etc.
As of the last few improvements merged into nanochat (many of them originating in modded-nanogpt repo), I can now reach a higher CORE score in 3.04 hours (~$73) on a single 8XH100 node. This is a 600X cost reduction over 7 years, i.e. the cost to train GPT-2 is falling approximately 2.5X every year.
Tags: andrej-karpathy, gpt-2, generative-ai, ai, llms, openai
The cleansing fire of rebirth
On Make, CloudFormation, and GitHub Actions.
Getting agents using Beads requires much less prompting, because Beads now has 4 months of “Desire Paths” design, which I’ve talked about before. Beads has evolved a very complex command-line interface, with 100+ subcommands, each with many sub-subcommands, aliases, alternate syntaxes, and other affordances.
The complicated Beads CLI isn’t for humans; it’s for agents. What I did was make their hallucinations real, over and over, by implementing whatever I saw the agents trying to do with Beads, until nearly every guess by an agent is now correct.
— Steve Yegge, Software Survival 3.0
Tags: steve-yegge, coding-agents, generative-ai, ai-agents, ai, llms
micahflee
• Micah Lee
As ICE continues its invasion of American cities, kidnapping and murdering the people who live there, observers on the ground are increasingly relying on Signal groups to organize mutual aid and rapid response networks. In Minneapolis, people are using hyper-local Signal groups for their buildings, streets, neighborhoods, and schools.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling
Recently this post from @Merocle caught my eye:
I'm fixing my iFixit soldering station. I haven't used it for a long time and the battery has gone overdischarge. I hope it will come back to life. Unfortunately, there are no replacements available for sale at the moment.
Devices with built-in rechargeable batteries have been bugging me a lot lately. It's convenient to have a device you can take with you and use anywhere. And with modern Li-ion cells, battery life is remarkable.
