Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.
Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus
Just saw a graph at the FT from John Burn-Murdoch that really distills something I have been trying to articulate.
They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model. – The Eternal Sloptember
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
• Ernie Smith
Can you legally protect an artistic style? Not currently, but an Adobe-backed bill, a seeming reaction to AI, is pitching the idea. Personally, I see a bunch of blurred lines.
Eli Bendersky's website
• Eli Bendersky
A few months ago I wrote about using LLM agents to help restructuring one of my Python projects. It's worth beginning by saying that the rewrite has been successful by all reasonable measures; I've been able to continue maintaining that project since then without an issue.
In this post, I …
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus
Some thoughts on what just happened
Construction Physics
• Brian Potter
Chatbots replacing realtors, Chinese synthetic diamonds, Australian batteries, Meta’s data center tents, and more
Terence Eden’s Blog
• @edent
Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …
Andrew Nesbitt
• Andrew Nesbitt
Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world
I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized world? Why do people want the administered reality? Why do people want to be managed? Why do people not want root?
Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a2
I added a CLI to micropython-wasm (issue #7), inspired by the first draft of the blog entry when I realized it would be a great way to illustrate the Try it yourself section.
Tags: python, sandboxing, webassembly, micropython
lcamtuf’s thing
• lcamtuf
![Getting silly with C, part &((int*)-8)[3]](https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eb358cde-7901-46a3-abfc-b9db4b9f9a74_1000x592.jpeg)
Read on to uplevel your coding SKILLS.md.
lcamtuf’s thing
• lcamtuf
Read on to uplevel your coding SKILLS.md.
