I have a horrifically bad habit of transforming questions so that either yes or no is indeterminate.

Do you think this is a good idea? Or should we consider other options?

Yes.

Doh!

You mean Currer Bell?

New ai coding innovation: “Tech credit default swaps”

A friend who worked at GE couldn’t watch 30 rock. She said it hit too close to home.

I recall (in the 90’s) Hal Abelson, after teaching back propagation, then said the real training algorithm for neural networks is the Graduate Student algorithm.

The original imitation game concerns performative identity within a social role, with a triangular competition structure.

The machine must model the other contestant’s signaling behavior.

It has second order signaling in a game about social norms -> a Nash Equilibrium.

Arguably a sentience test.

I used Claude Code back on 3.7 to write a bunch of rust. It accomplished my ridiculously ambitious perf goal.

It was a pain to have it fix rather than disable warnings, but that constraint was the point.

It’s the only thing i’ve ever open sourced, pinned on my profile.

I’m now exploring lean 4.

Expert users of tools give animacy to their tools … academics studying things treat the target of study as objects, but it isn’t the natural default even of scientists.

Here is a study of mars rover operators reaching consensus with the rovers: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Agree.

I missed out for a while because the first interview I listened to seemed saturated with giggles. I think because he was interviewing some friends.

His prep and questions are great.

Common arithmetic skills have all been downhill since we dropped base 60 for counting. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon...

I think it will eventually be obvious the metric cognitive core is incompatible with the imperial cognitive core.

Sadly I tend to let it slide until I find myself typing ALL CAPS back at it.