pretraining is an elegant science, done by mathematicians who sit in cold rooms writing optimization theory on blackboards, engineers with total absorb of distributed systems of titanic scale posttraining is hair raising cowboy research where people drinking a lot of diet coke yell new hyperparameters to try at each other across the room. it’s doing too many tables! the vibes are getting worse, turn down the knob! checkpoint gpt-9-final-v320-restart4 is calling me names! the goose is loose

Steve Jobs on how to build great things

We did this to him. This government. This country. We condemned him to this torture because he dared to follow our own laws and seek refuge here. Utterly sick.

Batteries. We have fucking batteries. Are these people idiots?

Today, runway frontage homes are the only way you can take off practically from your property. The homes have to be sited near one of the few runways like this, like how large dams need to be at large flowing rivers.

If you vibe code an app like tea, and never build in auth, the claude code agent or whatever won't actually tell you you're fucking up unless you ask about the *specific* thing you're worried about fucking up. contemplate this on the tree of woe

Buyer's remorse setting in

If you like scaling laws in AI you’ll love scaling laws in biology, like allometric scaling of energy production density as a power law with exponent -1/4 across 100’s of millions of years of evolution. Also a new and similar scaling law for sleep - connecting it to metabolism!

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Hungary: “The lesson of Hungary is this: We cannot claim to care about democracy only when it costs nothing. Trump, like Orban, no doubt believes everyone can be bought. America’s elites are proving him right.”