Jay Batson

If you’re inclined to dig a layer deeper than the surface “next word predictor” descriptions of Generative AI, this is an excellent read for those who want to know more. open.substack.com/pub/understand…

@Tiana_Celine_23 As much as Rita is amazing, and kudos to anyone willing to dance next to him, watch this again and defocus your eyes a bit; take in the two. Astaire is just more fluid, expansive & expressive. #legend

She is not watching him to see when and what to do next. She is doing her own dance and keeping up with the master. She is a real beauty as well as one masterful dancer!

@0xwhrrari @grok analyze for truth vs viral sensationalism

I gave Claude one Polymarket equation and told it to find every mispriced contract It hasn't stopped running in 4 months $600 → $14,190 Every Polymarket contract is priced by one formula: C(q) = b × ln(Σ e^(qi / b)) The pricing function inside it is softmax - the same math Claude uses to pick its next token Claude doesn't just understand this equation, it thinks in it So I gave it a task: "Scan every open contract, compute fair value, flag anything the market has wrong 24/7" It finds the gap, sizes the position by Kelly, enters before the crowd corrects Market shows 0.38, math shows 0.57, bot buys Resolution hits, bot collects 120 days 61.2% win rate 2.31 sharpe -3.8% max drawdown 425 trades 87% of Polymarket wallets are underwater They trade feelings against a formula that doesn't bluff, doesn't tilt, doesn't chase losses The edge is having something that reads the math faster than any human - and never stops looking

I read a lot of advance review copies of books. Publishers should be judged by editorial quality. Famous authors rarely get pushback from developmental editors (but should), and many books lack strong line and copy editing. Sloppy proofreading in ARCs is the clearest quality tell

Unless I’m missing something, #Safari on #apple #iOS 26.3.1 is leading to unaware tab proliferation leading to slowdowns. Closing a tab now takes 3 taps, and is buried/non-obvious. Friends cite phone slowdown; checking tabs shows many 10s open, likely using resources.

How have I been a Christian for all of my life, and not really truly appreciated this distinction? This is an awesome article. thedispatch.com/article/evange…

Yes. nytimes.com/2026/03/01/opi… via @NYTOpinion

The headline is bait; but there is good thinking work here about what kinds of business advantages survive AI's suddenly being able to do what your software did.

Man I know it's partly me, but AI-generated code definitely isn't pretty or DRY unless you keep reviewing / bashing.

Western people these days are animated more by feelings than by values. But societies can’t run on feelings; values matter more. The west needs to go back to living like it. open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/…

He is right, and @rabois is himself a barrel.

@thepondering_ And you think R’s will do anything? There is Trump behavioral precedent that doing so will cost them their jobs; publicly worrying about this will get them unemployed (unemployable long term!). So, nuthin’ changin’. The grift will continue unabated.

fwiw Andy McCarthy — conservative lawyer, Fox News legal analyst, National Review contributor, professional hater of Biden, Obama, and Democrats — is diving into Trump's corruption and acknowledged the UAE-crypto scandal alone is far worse than anything alleged about Biden

More complaints from me. (I guess X is my "complaint box.") #apple does this big UX upgrade called "Glass" (pretty lame), and leaves the carets to expand sub-things in Mac email on the opposite side of the thing to expand in these two frequently-used areas. Sigh. #misspentTime

@iruletheworldmo Keeping a mistakes/lessons file seems like something the @cline team should add to memory-bank. Team? (I’ll add it crudely to my own, but this should be part of “update memory bank” by default.

codex with 5.3 taught me something that won't leave my head. i had it take notes on itself. just a scratch pad in my repo. every session it logs what it got wrong, what i corrected, what worked and what didn't. you can even plan the scratch pad document with codex itself. tell it "build a file where you track your mistakes and what i like." it writes its own learning framework. then you just work. session one is normal. session two it's checking its own notes. session three it's fixing things before i catch them. by session five it's a different tool. not better autocomplete. it's something else. it's updating what it knows from experience. from fucking up and writing it down. baby continual learning in a markdown file on my laptop. the pattern works for anything. writing. research. legal. medical reasoning. give any ai a scratch pad of its own errors and watch what happens when that context stacks over days and weeks. the compounding gains are just hard to convey here tbh. right now coders are the only ones feeling this (mostly). everyone else is still on cold starts. but that window is closing. we keep waiting for agi like it's going to be a press conference. some lab coat walks out and says "we did it." it's not going to be that. it's going to be this. tools that remember where they failed and come back sharper. over and over and over. the ground is already moving. most people just haven't looked down yet.

Is it just me, or does anybody else feel like the rounded corners & a few other bits of #macOS #Tahoe's UX release makes their computer feel like a child's toy? I mean, "No sharp corners! Safe for children!" Is this #WindowsME for #Mac?

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. Immigrants: 📌Pay more in taxes and take fewer benefits 📌Work more, earn more than the average native-born worker 📌Cost less in retirement, they do not drain Social Security for decades 📌Barely touch welfare, there is no free ride

"Third, we must be prepared that if we oppose Christian Nationalism, especially from inside the church, we may, like Rev. Hill, be branded a Marxist or a Communist..." Read why from the conclusion: buff.ly/TaB683y

@andy_jerome @Brcremer “Only individuals, not government” assumes government has no moral dimension. But laws always encode values. If citizens claim Jesus’ ethic of mercy, care for the poor, and peacemaking, their public policies will inevitably reflect it. Not a Christian state, just moral coherence.

@Brcremer You continually blur the lines between the role of the government and the responsibilities of the church.

It’s always "The Bible must influence our laws!" until it comes to all those verses about welcoming the immigrant, helping the poor, feeding the hungry, bringing healthcare to the sick, forgiving debts, caring for our planet, laying down our swords, or loving all our neighbors.

@sox1_chi @Brcremer “Only individuals, not government” assumes government has no moral dimension. But laws always encode values. If citizens claim Jesus’ ethic of mercy, care for the poor, and peacemaking, their public policies will inevitably reflect it — not a Christian state, just moral coherence

@Brcremer All of those actions pertain to Christian individuals to do them, not the government.

@BethMooreLPM I want to judge a leader by how much the leader has been like Jesus - not how much the leader has “done for the country”. These are not opposites - both can happen. I long for a leader I can believe is acting as Jesus would.

I long for a day when the United States has a president who, just for starters, not to even get into more serious matters, is not older than Methuselah and does not sound like a 13 year-old on TikTok talking about middle school classmates. I don’t think this is too much to ask. And do not say to me, I guess you wish we had so-and-so and think what they’d do. We don’t have so-and-so. We have this one. And I don’t think it makes me woke to wish he acted like a grown-up.

@DBVolkov @EXM7777 Interesting last section - is it challenged by Ralph Wiggum loops?