Found this awesome cloud when flying into Salt Lake City a few weeks ago.

Had a convo with a colleague after they got an email about how to use ai to do something. Seriously! Just Ask the ai! Use childlike questions! It’s really easy. It isn’t a person. No need to get embarrassed. Ask stupid questions. Learn quickly! It’ll help!

The future of programming is going to look like plumbing and electrical work. Lots of people can do the basics (with ai… leveraging huge libraries and vast infrastructure). Still lots of room for expertise. (Standards bodies.. certification…)

It’s so annoying when people throw LLM generated text at you WITHOUT TELLING YOU IT’S LLM GENERATED … look, I don’t care if you throw ideas from an LLM at me. But at least do me the courtesy of telling me it’s LLM generated.

It’s usually so painfully obvious once you use these tools yourself.

There are new deans! More synergy! Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a dean????

My favorites… www.flickr.com/photos/na… and www.flickr.com/photos/na…

It’s humbling and also super exciting to hear the astronauts try and describe what they are seeing in this eclipse.

Crazy fact. If you take all the other planets, they just fit between the earth and the moon! Even the giant gas giants. They aren’t so big.

Dear nasa. The inside pictures from Artemis look great! The outside camera is crap! What is going on! Switch your bandwidth priorities? Is there a limit on the outside camera? Get nerdy with us!

Places where writing turns out to matter…
- software engineering / development -> No! LLMs are great at this
- actual writing for humans -> Ugh! LLMs are terrible at this!

Meta. Of course.

I also had some fun with a local minimax server. That actually works.

I used an old 2013 MacBook Air with Linux mint installed laptop. Not my real system :)

I was using sonnet. Haiku is too limited I think. Opus is better but even more$$$

Definite agree!

How are you paying for tokens? I blew through $100 on Claude api and couldn’t justify the reward…

I just with Anthropic would build Claude Code with some type of virtualization / isolation built in so you can dangerously-skip-permissions and make it useful. @gruber@mastodon.social It’s so good but just cannot be trusted. Docker/colima/etc. are dev-tolerable, but not a product.

On my recent exam in a grad class. I took a question I often ask and gave it to Claude and ChatGPT and had the students pick which answer was better. Which LLM do you think had the better answer? (just… in general… it’s a question in numerical optimization.) There was a decisive winner!

Also uniquely impactful time! arXiv needs a new vision in light of LLM developments

Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678 arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.

This might be the biggest job in (open) science. Cornell is creating a new non-profit organization to house @arxiv.bsky.social -- and hiring a new person to lead it.

jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

It’s so weird that the Claude LLM seems very worried about how long things take. It’s always saying things like, “OMG, it’s gonna take more than 10 minutes, I need to subsample, this is too big/too long.” This seems like such a weird behavior.

So we need to keep reviewed and cryptographically hashed version of these … otherwise can’t bad actors just make lots of crappy paper llms files?

I’m a level 15 not robot. Then my time allocation ran out

Hard vs soft constraints

With the GFC, Covid, SVB, and Liberation Day, throwing money at the problem or putting out a statement was enough to put out the fires. But energy is molecules and the Fed can’t print molecules.

One the greatest moments of my week is opening a new bag of @yesplzcoffee.bsky.social … just an overwhelming caramelly happiness leading into a nice cup.

A fascinating note by Don Knuth describing how Claude helped resolve a conjecture that he had posed for an upcoming chapter of TACP. I'm now worried that he will get distracted again, produce something incredible, and TACP will once again wither away :). www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

From TurboTax…

“Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Credit

A credit is available for expenditures incurred in the manufacture of a small modular nuclear reactor. “

I unfortunately don’t qualify.

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