The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Right-clicking and shift-clicking.
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John D. Cook
• John
In the novel Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, a sailor asked Nathaniel Bowditch to teach him how to do navigational calculations, but the man only knows how to add and subtract by counting on his fingers. He had not heard of multiplication. Bowditch is surprised, but realizes if he made tables of logs of trig functions, […]
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Steve Blank
• steve blank
This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught. The class is now taught in hundreds of universities worldwide and helped launch thousands of startups. But this past summer, I got thinking about whether AI killed our Lean LaunchPad class, and with it the […]
Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus
An open letter about how you could change the world, tomorrow
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
On September 24, 1998, Ebay held its IPO at $18 per share, reaching $53 per share in its first day and making founder Pierre Omidyar and president Jeffrey Skoll instant billionaires. Ebay’s first annual report listed the company’s dependence on
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Troy Hunt
• Troy Hunt
Heads up: the first 7 mins is a bit quiet until we worked out the external mic was misbehaving - sorry! But get through that and have a listen to Scott's experiences with how Report URI is identifying malware-infected machines within orgs, all due to CSP reporting. It&
Release: llm 0.36
- New OpenAI models:
gpt-6-solfor GPT-6 Sol andgpt-6-lunafor GPT-6 Luna. #1702- Model plugins can now declare
supports_conversation = Falsefor models that only accept single-turn prompts. LLM raisesllm.ConversationNotSupportedwhen these models receive assistant or tool history, andllm chatrejects them before starting a session. See Models that do not support conversations. The first plugin to use this is llm-typesafe. #1692- Reasoning traces in the Markdown output of
llm logsare now wrapped in<details><summary>tags. #1701
Release: llm-anthropic 0.29
Adds support for Claude Opus 5.5:
llm -m claude-opus-5.5 "prompt goes here"
Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus
The new secret is the old secret
Hey, you know it's like super obvious if you're using AI to write your scripts for TikTok and YouTube, right? [...] It's not just the general AI-isms of "it's not X, it's Y", or the rule of three, or the really weird broken staccato-like way of writing where you just say a lot of things with all these punctuation marks. and it sounds really deep, but it's not.
It's the lack of anything. It's the lack of a definitive sort of spear of your voice. It's the fact I can tell you don't have opinions about the thing that you're talking about.
— @therealcornpop, on TikTok
Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus
Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings
John D. Cook
• John
A couple days ago a friend told me about the book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, a fictional account of the life of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838). I’ve been listening to the book on Audible, and apparently it’s only lightly fictionalized. Bowditch was a self-educated mathematician and astronomer, best known for his book The American Practical Navigator, […]
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Entropic Thoughts
• kqr
Terence Eden’s Blog
• Terence Eden
Last year I ran an experiment to test the ability of modern LLMs to correctly answer a relatively straightforward question. Every single one of them got it wrong. Some missed information, some made up false statements, none were right. Of course the fanbois variously claimed that I was holding it wrong, my prompts were shit, I should have chosen better defaults, and - my favourite - that it…
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
23 years ago, on September 23, 2003, AMD changed the game for x86 once and for all. They released the Athlon 64 CPU, a chip that did something Intel didn’t want. Intel didn’t want to extend the x86 CPU architecture
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Andrew Nesbitt
• Andrew Nesbitt
Path traversal via a manifest field appeared in eight of ten package managers audited and thirty-three times in four months of everyone else's advisories.