Excellent points. It's also worth noting that many people don't wind up working in the field they studied at university. CS grads have probably been the exception in recent years, because the industry has been booming, but the two most successful entrepreneurs I know studied philosophy and art history. A friend who is very senior in recruitment studied economics.

That is an excellent point so long as you don't take it too far! Lisp/Haskell/Erlang yes. INTERCAL/Brainfuck less so...

Hmmm. "Comforting haze" seems dubious. My grandmother had Alzheimer's and at least from the outside it seemed like a bad LSD trip that never ended. She didn't understand what was happening and was scared.

Sample size of one and anecdotal of course, but...

Love the verbification!

I was thinking the same. It's a simple idea, heavily over-explained. The code is similar, massively overengineered for such a simple test.

I guess if it's on the inside of a water-cooling loop, you should be OK if the water is pure enough. I don't know how hard that "enough" would be, though.

Thanks for the link -- I read that when it was published, then the other day I wanted to send it to someone but I'd forgotten where it was.

Which are not? There are Chinese models that are only months behind, which is impressive -- but they are still behind.

Not that much, though, and the gap seems diminishing every couple of months.

Let's hope this trends only continues. A few months behind is not such a big deal. That being said, a few months = a year with these models.

Yup, agreed -- it's amazing how close they are getting! I was just wondering if there was some true frontier non-US model that I'd missed.

I have it running on a Proxmox VM. It basically just sends me summaries -- it reads a bunch of RSS feeds I pointed it to (news, tech, etc) and gives me a daily summary, along with an image of the day based on that. It also sends me recommendations for times to go for a run based on the weather and my Strava activity, daily recommendations for stargazing (what's visible and when, weather, etc), and a couple of daily reminders for things I tend to forget.

I'm using Claude as the model, though, so it's smart but pricey. Should configure it to use different models for different things, but it's trickier than I would have expected to do that.

Wait, that's it? Seven paragraphs, all short? Two quotes, one from some anonymous MS exec? Is the site sending some minimal version of the article to me because I'm using Brave, or is this the lowest-content article I've seen in weeks (and I'm on Twitter)?