Beta Ben Popper V2.3

Director of Content at @Stackoverflow. Formerly business editor @verge and communications at @djiglobal. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu player. Brooklyn native.

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We brought an April Fool's joke to life

https://t.co/95LVDDR1HP

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I was today year's old when I learned where the killer riffs from Mortal Kombat theme song came from https://t.co/njyiU0NoWi

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Started talking about sleepovers at breakfast with the kiddos....which led to a story about the Mortal Kombat theme song....and now I’m just listening to Jock Jams Volume 1 at 7:20AM

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A robot you can eat, battery and all. This is my kind of gonzo tech.

Made to mimic prey so wild boars will chomp it down, receive their medication, and digest the little jelly bot.

I'm ready to chow down on some nanobots if they'll clean my colon.

https://t.co/fBdmV7pi3M

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I've hear folks argue about AI agents as just an upgrade on RPA. "This isn't just RPA on steroids!"

But so what if it is? RPA could handle a certain level of task, now it can go broader and deeper.

What we have now is RRPA or RPA² - Routine REASONING Process Automation FTW!

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Lots of hand wringing from talking heads about Apple potentially outsourcing AI.

How could they abandon full vertical integration?!?

It's not like they used a competitor to power search on iOS for the last two decades....

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14 minutes to find the meaning of life

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

sumovabitch, they did it

they really really did it

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Check out the full post for a deeper dive

https://t.co/Q5Rpyxdg2E

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"It is a crazy update that I don’t think the world has really understood yet," said CEO Sam Altman.

What's he talking about?

The idea that progress in AI is limited largely by constraints around compute and energy has dominated the conversation for the last two years.

In a recent video, however, OpenAI made a fascinating admission.

The researchers working on its next frontier model, GPT5, say that scarcity of DATA, not compute, is the biggest obstacle to training the next frontier model.

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Books you can read in less time than one doom scroll loop

https://t.co/rhco2OjrUT

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@premium please cancel my Premium subscription immediately and confirm here and by email.

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Back on my BS, making the media machine go BRRRR

Tune in for insight on the state of today's AI IDE market - AKA: which bot writes the best code?

[Steve (Builder.io) @Steve8708]

Ranking AI IDEs - which is best? https://t.co/SypU48jXao

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@dr_cintas They need to turn this into a multi-player game - a sort of AI powered pictionary - guess the three inputs for subject, style, setting.

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Things are getting fun

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@aweissman You're lucky! Sounds like you are well versed in experiencing joy. It's a muscle that needs to be exercised

[Max Pekarsky @maxverse]

Writing while I code has been hugely beneficial to my process - so I shared my thoughts on the @StackOverflow blog.

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@cwolferesearch Congrats!

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@colineverest Always good for a bookie

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Trying to calculate the over/under on taking a vacation in Iceland as volcanic activity in the area reaches new highs.

A) Trip of a lifetime, visual spectacle
B) Flights cancelled, spas closed?
C) I actually perish beneath a wave of lava

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@zachklein Also a location likely to weather climate change well over next decade or two

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Critically important that value flow between the communities creating the knowledge and the big AI builders in a ethical and mutually beneficial way
https://t.co/0GulDGiN2W

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Pretty sure it was @Jason who said on the @theallinpod that there was a ton of value in the data sets of big web communities :)

https://t.co/MO4EIoAGyr