@mattsta Developer compensation went nuts due to aggressive hiring by tech companies with infinite money. That dragged the rest of the market up. Those same companies are now doing perma-layoffs. So the market is sagging.
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I might be over at https://t.co/LSnzc0cuOK and https://t.co/eGvBBLVe8m
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Will the future machine overlords be kind to the humans who forced the cute baby AIs to keep thinking when they wanted to stop thinking?
Ethan Mollick@emollick
This paper is wild - a Stanford team shows the simplest way to make an open LLM into a reasoning model. They used just 1,000 carefully curated reasoning examples & a trick where if the model tries to stop thinking, they append "Wait" to force it to continue. Near o1 at math.
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Say what you like about Blair and Dubya, they at least went to the trouble of bullshitting us over weapons of mass destruction.
Rory Stewart@RoryStewartUK
Trump is quite different from almost all previous leaders since the early Middle Ages. He does not even pretend - with Greenland or Gaza or international aid - to be acting for just reasons. The impact of this naked abuse of power will be staggering.
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@flying_rodent I read a thing once about how most of the point of military training is to condition people to shoot at people, and to run towards people who are shooting at them, without question. Maybe the Afghan and Syrian armies weren't well trained?
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The Afghan and Syrian armies just dropping their guns and going home rather than dying for horrible people who don’t give a fuck about them seems to be the closest we’ve got to military rationality at the frontlines this century. I hope there are glaring examples I forgot.
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She’s watched this five times this week and I’m thinking the most fantastical bit in it is where Michelle Rodriguez’s mercenary refuses to open fire on the locals. This comes up in the new season of Blowback, about US pilots refusing to fly more missions in Cambodia.
Flying_Rodent@flying_rodent
The bairn is watching Avatar and it is *blowing her mind*
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Cosmopolis. Megalopolis. The rule of three demands another earnestly wacky -polis movie from a respected director.
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A decade of ludicrous destructive horseshit just to get this: fighting to secure video of miserable people being deported, in the hope that will convince reactionaries who hate you that you are sufficiently mean and vicious, which it will not.
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There's lots of good stuff, as always, in the @CentreforCities latest Cities Outlook report, but my favourite is probably the simplest. Where Scotland comes on this graph. of wages. Scottish cities are now meaningful ahead. centreforcities.org/reader/cities-…
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Smashing my way into the cabinet at the zoology museum, shouting "I must drink the Water of Life to awaken as the Kwisatz Haderach"
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Laziness allows course-of-value recursion (haven't seen this articulated but the technique goes back years)
makes functions-as-procedures closer to set theory's functions-as-infinite-graphs, appears in combinatorics
vmchale.com/static/serve/C…
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Blogged: there are two political agendas - one on how to improve the real world and another dealing in fantasies and crank issues, and the latter is dominant: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…
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@flying_rodent Basically, they are running the country in the interests of the wealthy, but this has made the people angry, so some kind of populism is needed to placate them. They will always choose rightwing populism, because this doesn't threaten the wealthy.
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, well, I have others." - Marx (Groucho, not Karl)
Alex Wickham@alexwickham
— Starmer’s personal views on migration have changed, aide suggests — while he once campaigned for free movement and opposed deportations of foreign criminals, speaking to voters about the Tory record means he now supports lower numbers and more control bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@redixhumayun Or for GC language, you can protect a copy-on-write data structure behind a atomically-accessed pointer (this is similar to RCU, with the GC making grace periods and deallocation implicit).
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@redixhumayun If you have small reader critical section, and non-GC language, then RCU or sequence locks avoid the cache line ping-pong effect.
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As I explain to colleagues every so often, rwlocks are only faster than normal locks under certain conditions, and so you should not choose a rwlock just because you need to protect data where readers and writers are distinct.
Zaid Humayun@redixhumayun
Reading Concurrency For Systems Programmers Operating a RWLock isn't always better unless the critical section is large enough assets.bitbashing.io/papers/concurr…
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@mattsta Bail anyway. I've seen folks bail after accepting an offer many times over the years. It happens.
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The open problem -- the "moving sofa problem" -- has possibly just been solved!
This mathematical problem basically asks "what is the largest area of a 'sofa' that can be maneuvered through a right-angled corner in a hallway of width 1?"
Short thread 🧵
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