Impressive collection, but surprising it hasn’t burned down yet with all those lit candles on bookshelves.

The issue is that we didn’t have these kinds of incongruent animations twenty years ago, and nowadays they are the norm, worsening user experience.

It’s highly uncertain what will happen in 950 days.

I think it's easy to predict some things that will happen in 950 days

in 950 days there will be several hundred warehouses concentrating over a million people in this country including many thousands of children costing a quarter trillion dollars (already funded)

and the Iran War will still be happening despite over a hundred declared "deals"

and the US will be running Cuba (forcing millions to return there)

statistical noise or the lack of it will be the least of our problems

Read up here for example: https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/...

The real underlying issue is that (block, sex, age) is basically a unique identifier.

The C standard doesn’t guarantee that arbitrary integer values converted to a pointer and back result in the same integer values again. It only guarantees the other direction, that a valid pointer to void, when converted to uintptr_t and back again, will result in a pointer that compares equal to the original. The conversion from uintptr_t to pointer may for example clear or truncate some of the bits of the integer value, or normalize it in some other way.

I disagree under the following circumstances, which in my experience is the common case: You don’t know from the outset all relevant considerations that go into implementing something. Coding yourself is an exploration process of those considerations. Being shown a finished solution doesn’t let you see and understand all the considerations and the possible options that you’d have contemplated when implementing it yourself. When reviewing, you still have to do that exploratory thinking to weigh the possible options. And the fact that you have to do that exploration purely mentally rather than in a process of working with code arguably makes it harder (similar to contemplating alternative solutions to a Sudoku purely mentally, actuallu).

There rarely is a single correct way of implementing some requirement or feature. It’s a trade-off between compromises, not binary correct or incorrect like a Sudoku puzzle. The insights that the exploration give you may even lead you to implement something significantly different from what you originally set out to.

Trump and friends are only interested in investments they can personally make money from.

> The real story here is that this may be the beginning of governments restricting the availability of strong LLMs to the public, to you.

That would also significantly dampen the commercial incentives to develop such strong models, given the high costs involved.

On the other hand, such a future would probably save white-collar jobs.

I’m not gravely irked by it, but it does sometimes distract you from the content of the blog post you just read. Similar to “you might also be interested in […]” footers and the like. I’d prefer writings to not be bookended or interrupted by stuff that isn’t directly related to the contents of the article, as to not distract one’s flow of thought from the reading.

If I want to donate, I’d look at the blog’s About page. Placing it on every article page does come across to some extent as trying to increase donations.

These "buy me a coffee" buttons make me feel guilty, similar to being shamed into tipping. I'll make a buy/don't decision when I see the cost upfront. Everyone makes choices on how they earn their living, I'm just saying these things make me uncomfortable and I wish there was a better way.

> My perception is that there is less interest in open source, and in coding in general. The main reason I love coding is that it is a challenge, and I think this is actually the same reason why a lot of people prefer to give money to an AI lab and get a machine to spit out code for them, even with the risk of the code being subpar.

I maintain the hope that those technically minded who are really interested in coding and care about doing things properly using their own reasoning on all levels of detail will find each other and maybe become less diluted as a community by the coding-just-for-money crowd than in the past decade or two.