It amazes me that even today Apple has not made Siri capable of providing AI summaries without going to chatgpt. Siri is massively neglected and this is like an obvious value-add 🤌

Apple has enough money to build their own foundation models and rope in a team of crack AI folks.

... the logical order of deduction in a subject, with too many definitions without, or before, the examples which motivate them, and too many answers before, or without, the questions they address."

This quote by Fields medalist William Thurston is so apt:

"The most efficient logical order for a subject is usually different from the best psychological order in which to learn it. Much mathematical writing is based too closely on ... (continued below)

So I found a good use (among others) for AI tools (chatgpt et al): eliciting key perspectives from Hacker News threads.

Some HN threads get very good participation from senior, experienced technical folks and it is nice to get a quick overview before reading specific comments.

India should prioritize translations to/from English and other global languages. So much great Indian literature is virtually unknown globally due to lack of translations. So many of our students struggle due to high quality English content being unavailable in Indian languages.

While LOTR is definitely an outstanding work (and the movies too), I always suspected that there were traces of racism in it - especially how the defenders of men happened to be in the West 😉

scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1830…

Pro tip: If you want your smartphone battery to last long on a single charge, start reading books (actual physical ones)! 😀

Am I mistaken to think that there might be a hidden role being played by the military-industrial complex in the recent spike of conflicts and wars that we are seeing around the world.

Major militaries around the world have a real need now to upgrade as new tactics (especially drone warfare) emerge.

Watching test cricket is meditative at times. Good commentators can stay silent for a few balls, and you are just watching the game move along.

Such a relief from the incessant noise, lower quality games and commentary in T20 matches!

Test cricket is still very enjoyable.

#IndVsEng #cricket

Using ChatGPT right now to help me build some Grafana dashboards, and it's absolutely dope for that. I think this really is an area where LLMs shine: speeding up boring parts of your work, done many times before, yet hard to remember.

One day I'll open a coffee shop dedicated to the not-insignificant intersection between database nerds and coffee snobs. Until then, enjoy this comic.

That's the thing: EVERYBODY's AI is flailing. Nobody has anything new! They're all spinning their wheels! The proof here is that people are willing to leave OpenAI just for money, knowing they're going to Meta to be The Court Jester At The Rot King's Party

Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...

The Stanford researchers found that GPUs were utilizing only about 50% of their potential bandwidth due to the overhead from launching and terminating hundreds of small kernels. By consolidating these into a single large megakernel, they increased GPU utilization to 78% of its potential bandwidth!

PyTorch Compiler video series

In the first episode, Avik Chaudhuri discusses a few simple principles that drive the programming model for export & illustrates them via a series of examples.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAoR...

AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation, with confidence intervals ruling out effects larger than 1%.

www.nber.org/papers/w33777

VC is *the* most automatable job. Literally just put in all the deals and their returns and you can see exactly what should be invested in, and exactly what they skipped because of their biases. It's like saying you couldn't replace an ATM with AI.

Twenty20 cricket needs to tilt bit more in favour of the bowlers. 200+ scores are obscene. Teams should be able to post scores in 140-170 70% of the time, 170-190 scores 10-15% of the time, 200+ scores like 2-3% of the time.

It would weed out batsmen who cannot vary their game.

Another one from Saathiya,

बर्फ गिरी हो वादी में,
ऊन में लिपटी सिमटी हुई,
बर्फ गिरी हो वादी में,
और हँसी तेरी गूंजी,
ऊन में लिपटी सिमटी हुई,
बात करे धुआँ निकले,
गरम गरम उजला धुआँ,
नरम नरम उजला धुआँ …

From Ishqiya’s Dil to Bachcha Hai

उम्र कबकी बरस के सुफ़ैद हो गई,
कारी बद्री जवानी की छटती नहीं,
वल्लाह ये धड़कन बढ़ने लगी है,
चेहरे की रंगत उड़ने लगी है,
डर लगता है तन्हा सोने में जी …

There are very few people nowadays who can write poetry for songs in Hindi movies at a level that comes close to Gulzar’s work (maybe Akhtar, but there is still a significant gap). I suspect most people can’t even discern the good from the trash that is shoveled as music.

It is very disappointing that good technical books are so expensive these days. The target customers of these books are mostly unable to spare such expenses on books, especially multiple expensive books. Online subscriptions like O’Reilly are helpful but we need some solutions for physical books.

It is so funny that even when posting what should be a triumphant moment about a launch of some new image generator Sam Altman can't even post an image where the guy has the correct number of fingers

It is amazing that there is pretty much no app that does not suck at making pdf files easy to read on smartphones.

Maybe there isn’t a huge demand for it. However, it seems like a use case for which you could have a good number of people who would pay for it if you can solve it well.