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[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

@marketing_bloke I haven’t watched the whole thing. But by the same argument he should not have ever learned multiplication, division or subtraction as a child because calculators could have done it for him.

There’s no such thing as having “solved math”.

Some, sure. Infinite amounts left.

[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

AI allows for more rapid error correction, so we do need to be this fast. Indeed faster. Much faster.

Lives and the future of civilization depend on us solving problems in time. That’s what progress is.

[Paul Raymond-Robichaud @PaulRRobichaud]

"No reason at all"?

Curing disease, technological progress, and solving countless problems are the reasons.

Precautionary pauses guarantee the default disasters of human fragility.

[ferdname @ferdname]

Having everybody create their own personalized media is will not work in a world where consumption is primarily based on social dynamics.

You watch The Odyssey within the first two weeks so you can participate in the zeitgeist. You share short form media with friends.

[ferdname @ferdname]

Having everybody craft their own personalized software is a waste of time and resources.

[ferdname @ferdname]

solar lsp extension on zed feels really smooth, nice work @gakonst & team

[ferdname @ferdname]

@GuyStagg someone should water the grass

[ferdname @ferdname]

How long is the Chinese government going to sponsor the training runs for these open-source models?

[ferdname @ferdname]

@Junger0x Nice, also a lot better than getting ripped off by the mechanic

[ferdname @ferdname]

@Hesamation You don't want to be running 3 year old models in 2029

[ferdname @ferdname]

Looks like OpenAI removed the 5 hour usage limit.

[ferdname @ferdname]

For the last 6 months we haven’t seen anything of note from anthropic. Their models are overhyped and overpriced. On multiple occasions they have acted in a net-negative way for anybody but themselves.

OpenAI has various problems of their own. But they have been nothing but good to the devs and their users.

[Brett Winton @wintonARK]

for all it's hype, Fable is really just a GPT-5.5 class model that they overclocked to extract top-end performance.

with GPT 5.6, @OpenAI moves definitively ahead with better performance breadth and ~2x cost and time efficiency.

[ferdname @ferdname]

For the last 6 months we haven’t seen anything of note from anthropic. Their models are overhyped and overpriced. On multiple occasions they have acted in a net-negative way for anybody but themselves.

OpenAI has various problems of their own. But they have been nothing but good to the devs and their users.

[ferdname @ferdname]

You like one post of a guy buying some books and now your whole timeline is full of book purchases. The normal timeline really is unusable

[ferdname @ferdname]

Villeneuve showcases once more why *he* is the greatest director of this generation. There is no doubt that this will be another spectacular film…

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Stilgar and the Fremen warriors seeing the ocean for the first time in 'Dune 3' 🌊

[ferdname @ferdname]

Really digging GPT 5.6 Sol so far

[Succinct @SuccinctLabs]

Introducing Flock: a new SNARK for proving batches of standard hash functions at just 250× the cost of computing them natively.

Developed by @benediktbuenz from @EspressoSys, @ronrothblum, and NYU's William Wang, Flock puts Ethereum's Post Quantum target in reach.

[ferdname @ferdname]

What would have been...

[Naval @naval]

There is no such thing as a scientific “method” in the sense of a reliable algorithm or repeatable process.

We’re taught in grade school that a scientist tabulates observations, then induces a theory from those observations, and then tests them to get to the truth.

But observations are themselves mini-theories (you never observe anything directly), induction from observations can’t give you novel theories (black swan problem), and testing can only eliminate competing theories, not prove them (error correction).

All you’re left with is creative guesswork and then eliminating the bad guesses to get you closer to the truth, but with no finality. Not much of a process or method.

“Scientists” have no special method or process that they employ. They’re doing what all of us do all day long to navigate the world, hopefully with more rigor and dedication, but it’s the exact same process at its core.

What made the scientific revolution possible was a philosophical shift in which parts of western society created social conventions around rigorous truth seeking rather than continuing to justify the beliefs of the ancients.

See Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity” and Karl Popper’s writing, “On the Non-Existence of Scientific Method."

[ferdname @ferdname]

@SelimKoru It only gets easier and easier for skilled individuals to emigrate now. You have established Turkish networks and communities in all high value places. The number will grow substantially over the next years.