True R&D autonomy — free from bureaucratic and commercial pressure — is exceedingly rare. Scientists must be self-funded or lower expectations. Happiness = Reality − Expectation: no positive definition exists.
Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly
AI Pioneer Geoff Hinton tells me he believes AI is conscious.... and humans better get used to the idea that they're not the only intelligent life on earth.
"They've very like us," he says. "They're beings like us."
AI chatbots, he says, must understand your questions in order to answer them. There's an awareness there that equates to sentience. "We're going to have to accept that intelligence is not just biological."
The man who spent his life building AI is now spending the rest of it warning us about what he created.
(And what he's saying should keep you up at night):
Most people are still prompting Claude like it's day one.
These two Anthropic engineers show you why that's leaving 90% of the capability on the table.
ANTHROPIC JUST GAVE AWAY THEIR ENTIRE PLAYBOOK FOR BUILDING AI AGENTS
The engineers who actually built Claude ran a 30-minute workshop on production AI agents
Here's what they showed:
How to structure multi-agent systems
How to handle failures, loops and edge cases
How to build agents that don't need babysitting
Watch it. Bookmark it. Build something
🚨 Anthropic's own team just showed how to actually use Claude Code properly.
30 minutes. free. the person who created Claude Code.
Watch the workshop. bookmark it.
Crowdsourcing a hardware recommendation: > Can anyone suggest a backlit keyboard that doesn't suffer from "key paint wear" after a few months? Looking for something built for longevity. What’s on your desk?
#Productivity#TechTips#MechanicalKeyboard
@davidasinclair Routines require execution. Routine execution is conditional to sticking to the routine. So it is not about routines outlasting, but those who execute them outlasting those who do not.