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A thread of books I finish in 2025
Book 1
Lesson:
The problems of the future will be solved by people who are young today observing issues and deciding to invent solutions.
Book 1
Lesson:
The problems of the future will be solved by people who are young today observing issues and deciding to invent solutions.
tbh I love Waffles
October 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
tbh I love Waffles
diminishing returns to AI scale are an illusion
Economic value comes from completing long projects, not single questions. And accuracy drives how long a project AI does: small gains compound exponentially!
Reasoners are much more accurate, with big impacts
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09677
Economic value comes from completing long projects, not single questions. And accuracy drives how long a project AI does: small gains compound exponentially!
Reasoners are much more accurate, with big impacts
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09677
September 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
diminishing returns to AI scale are an illusion
Economic value comes from completing long projects, not single questions. And accuracy drives how long a project AI does: small gains compound exponentially!
Reasoners are much more accurate, with big impacts
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09677
Economic value comes from completing long projects, not single questions. And accuracy drives how long a project AI does: small gains compound exponentially!
Reasoners are much more accurate, with big impacts
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09677
I don’t think the AI cycle is coming to a stop just yet
August 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I don’t think the AI cycle is coming to a stop just yet
New blog post on my experiments with Apple's new foundation model
I tried to make Apple's lil' model act like Golden Gate Claude collisions.substack.com/p/fine-tunin...
I tried to make Apple's lil' model act like Golden Gate Claude collisions.substack.com/p/fine-tunin...
Fine-Tuning Apple's New Foundation Model
Building a Golden Gate-Obsessed AI Assistant
collisions.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
New blog post on my experiments with Apple's new foundation model
I tried to make Apple's lil' model act like Golden Gate Claude collisions.substack.com/p/fine-tunin...
I tried to make Apple's lil' model act like Golden Gate Claude collisions.substack.com/p/fine-tunin...
Reposted by Kyle Russell
another drop in the bucket, bit by bit, the collective unconscious updates it's model of the world and the future
github.com/cloudflare/w...
github.com/cloudflare/w...
June 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
another drop in the bucket, bit by bit, the collective unconscious updates it's model of the world and the future
github.com/cloudflare/w...
github.com/cloudflare/w...
Built an app for funzies today
May 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Built an app for funzies today
hmm, one has to wonder how this might have played out if they embraced AI codegen
Anil on AI in 2023 and 2025
Anil on AI in 2023 and 2025
May 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
hmm, one has to wonder how this might have played out if they embraced AI codegen
Anil on AI in 2023 and 2025
Anil on AI in 2023 and 2025
"the way I see it, if you're going to build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?"
May 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"the way I see it, if you're going to build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?"
antinatalism, or: “what if my depression could be an ideology?”
NEW: Reddit banned an anti-natalist group after the Palm Springs explosion
Archived posts in the group showed members discussing how to accelerate the end of society.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Archived posts in the group showed members discussing how to accelerate the end of society.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Reddit bans an anti-natalist group after Palm Springs explosion
The community, r/Efilism, is devoted to a philosophy mentioned on a website published before Saturday's bomb blast.
www.nbcnews.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
antinatalism, or: “what if my depression could be an ideology?”
Jobs program for James Earl Jones impersonators. Uber or DoorDash but for pretending to be Darth Vader in a game of Fortnite
SAG-AFTRA files an NLRB unfair labor practice charge against Epic's Llama Productions for using AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice in Fortnite (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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May 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Jobs program for James Earl Jones impersonators. Uber or DoorDash but for pretending to be Darth Vader in a game of Fortnite
Picked up a few comic books for my birthday last week
Hickman's Secret Wars was pretty solid, excited for the MCU movie take on it in a few years
But WOW Brian Michael Bendis's Daredevil run is so so good, already like 40%+ through the omnibus collection
Hickman's Secret Wars was pretty solid, excited for the MCU movie take on it in a few years
But WOW Brian Michael Bendis's Daredevil run is so so good, already like 40%+ through the omnibus collection
May 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Picked up a few comic books for my birthday last week
Hickman's Secret Wars was pretty solid, excited for the MCU movie take on it in a few years
But WOW Brian Michael Bendis's Daredevil run is so so good, already like 40%+ through the omnibus collection
Hickman's Secret Wars was pretty solid, excited for the MCU movie take on it in a few years
But WOW Brian Michael Bendis's Daredevil run is so so good, already like 40%+ through the omnibus collection
Happy Speed Racer day!
I know we'll be celebrating this evening
I know we'll be celebrating this evening
May 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Happy Speed Racer day!
I know we'll be celebrating this evening
I know we'll be celebrating this evening
Each day I’m a little more open to getting UBI and hanging out with my daughter all the time
February 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Each day I’m a little more open to getting UBI and hanging out with my daughter all the time
I bet Claude and o3 can write good-enough COBOL
Welfare for mid level management people and skilled workers we need so we can plug and play. Whole farms of people we pay to do nothing but keep their COBOL skills sharp funded by whatever rich libs we can shake down or guilt into helping. That sort of thing.
February 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I bet Claude and o3 can write good-enough COBOL
More pleasurable to engage with trolls from the other side than scolds from your own
i do not understand why journalists remain on Twitter, where the US government is almost certainly reading their DMs whenever they want
February 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
More pleasurable to engage with trolls from the other side than scolds from your own
men want one thing and it’s disgusting
February 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
men want one thing and it’s disgusting
What do people mean when they say “nobody asked for” AI
Almond milk: tastes okay, provides nutrition and hydration
Social media: addictive, toxic in large doses, occasionally useful for organizing and connecting
AI: over valued garbage that nobody asked for, has seeped into every corner of life, enshitification
Social media: addictive, toxic in large doses, occasionally useful for organizing and connecting
AI: over valued garbage that nobody asked for, has seeped into every corner of life, enshitification
February 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What do people mean when they say “nobody asked for” AI
Oh yeah Apple Intelligence will make me a daily user 🙄
Sources: Apple plans to refresh the Vision Pro with Apple Intelligence, a new Spatial content app, and a revamped guest mode in visionOS 2.4, as early as April (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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February 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Oh yeah Apple Intelligence will make me a daily user 🙄
Rebuilt an iPod mini I got for free on Facebook
Always wanted one growing up. In sixth grade I’d pay this kid Cullen $1 to use his on the bus ride home
Always wanted one growing up. In sixth grade I’d pay this kid Cullen $1 to use his on the bus ride home
February 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Rebuilt an iPod mini I got for free on Facebook
Always wanted one growing up. In sixth grade I’d pay this kid Cullen $1 to use his on the bus ride home
Always wanted one growing up. In sixth grade I’d pay this kid Cullen $1 to use his on the bus ride home
Another facet of using these tools that puts demands on the user: using them to learn or work faster while still always asking yourself, “could it know this?”
February 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Another facet of using these tools that puts demands on the user: using them to learn or work faster while still always asking yourself, “could it know this?”
Parts coming Wednesday to rebuild a 4th gen iPod I got for free on Facebook Marketplace
February 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Parts coming Wednesday to rebuild a 4th gen iPod I got for free on Facebook Marketplace
nights and weekends side project
February 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
nights and weekends side project
Prior eras we compare to didn't have social media
One major limitation on autocracies is that they replace the free press entirely with synchophants, with insulates the regime from external critique and also externally verifiable facts on the ground.
It is, ahem, the Emperor's News Clothes, and it works to cloak the administration until it doesn't
It is, ahem, the Emperor's News Clothes, and it works to cloak the administration until it doesn't
February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Prior eras we compare to didn't have social media
You need new tactics
We’re gonna have to march.
February 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
You need new tactics