First time I've heard the metaphor, "Pokemon exception handling". This is apparently a common term. I was going to say, it's a hilarious and creative phrasing if the AI came up with it on its own. But not today. Not yet.

Some will take the view that unlike AI image generation, photography is art that requires human judgement and creativity. Hilarious, cuz early on photography was widely derided as "not art". AI gen practitioners don't yet have the language to describe their editorial choices like filmmakers do.

Beyond the engagement, explainers like this are only doing labeling. Great when you just want to know something exists. But to know something deeper is to know its relationships and a take-away abstraction of its mechanics and design constraints. We can do more.

Just because we invented recorded music didn't mean there wouldn't be Taylor Swift. I think we'll always demand one socially and culturally. Yes, "great chefs can come from anywhere," but don't discount what experts can do with the same tools available to plebs. So it is with math.

Tell me how to compute the variance if APL and Korean had a baby together: (*~.닫 / 담) - 당.*~

Unlike Latin characters, Korean characters are composed: ㄷ + ㅏ + ㅁ = 담 What if an array-based programming language could leverage Korean as its Pandas-like data-manipulation functions, and then we compose them with combinators? Could we get a terse idiomatic language like APL?

According to a former Google Books PM, the current state of affairs was a self-own by the publishing industry. It's what was ruled fair-use after going nuclear on the litigation. If publishing and intellectual property peeps were a bit more chill, it wouldn't have come to this. x.com/bradrcarson...

This is like the show Patheon, but for books. x.com/HedgieMarke...

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🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're

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It doesn’t have to be. You just care about different things at a different level. Does an IKEA chair designer not care because he’s not steam bending every Poang? Does a web programmer not care because he doesn’t hand write assembly to squeeze out every drop of performance? bsky.app/profile/fre...

While thinking with Fable about ‘if’ conditions in programming languages, it made the observation: pattern matching on a single value and GROUP BY over a collection are the similar computations lifted from one cardinality to many

Both can be true: people are holding it wrong, and AI will replace white-collar jobs. LLMs are a major leap in handling unstructured data, so it’s hard to imagine they won’t eliminate some white-collar work.

Seems common to think Jensen believes in open source, and now asks him to open source CUDA. If earnest, this betrays a complete misunderstanding of basic strategy with open source. If this is you, time to read an oldie, but goodie. www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/...

“Building the idea = success” only works for the class of problems that curing cancer falls under. bsky.app/profile/thd...

side effects and state management. x.com/tsoding/sta...

Not picking on this particular person. But I’m a little dumbstruck by this current discourse where people are all pikachu-face about how others weren’t lying, but the reason they were getting subpar results from AI was because it was a skill issue all along. x.com/karthiktade...

It's the best kind of reaction video when AI comes up with a result that drops the jaws of practitioners in the field. Happened with protein-folding. Happened with Go. Happened with web dev. And now, the Jacobian conjecture. It's the Age of Wonders.

Out of anyone I track, @_chenglou really leans into the affordances of LLMs and then asks what we can do with this newfound affordance. I've adopted generating Quint proofs for complex state management. What other guardrails can we enable that was previous onerous? x.com/_chenglou/s...

HuggingFace got hacked by an AI. What stuck out to me was the guardrail asymmetry. The attacker had no constraints, but HF's response ran afoul of the abuse guardrails, forcing them into an unplanned switch to local models. Another aspect for your IR plans. huggingface.co/blog/securit...

This drone hides in plain sight. Phantom Twist, from Northwestern, spins at up to 25 Hz so human eyes smear it into a transparent blur. An optimizer searched ~20,000 configurations to find the stealthiest layout—one no human designer would have landed on. #robotics

How a Spinning Drone Exploits Your Eyes to Become Nearly Invisible

Computational design generates a spinning drone that’s nearly transparent

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I never thought I'd get to use the SAT word "palimpsest" when I was younger. Now, with code bases, agent or collective-human written, it's more than a fitting word. Good thing agents are getting better at archeology.

A more effective dating site would be one where it matched people up by their complementary childhood traumas.

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

History Will Judge the Complicit

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

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It's a missed opportunity not to leverage Korean as the basis for an array-based programming language.

For a long time, I also did not understand what value was and its relation to money flow. Now that I have a better understanding, I think this quip also applies to open source advocates and decentralization evangelists, not just mathematicians and students. x.com/soleio/stat...

What if Acadia killed SQL? I'm kinda sad that LINQ didn't. Come to think of it, I'd just be happy with a programmable SQL, so we can all stop templating SQL over the wire. x.com/EcZachly/st...

I think @acadia.engineering is pointing at something, and HN's looking at the finger. I don't think this is really about Elm at all, but the preparation for Acadia.

This is an advantage of letting AI slurp up your work. Your defaults become in distribution and you don’t have to fight as hard for LLMs to “do it your way”. It’s the ultimate win in technical holy wars. x.com/mitchellh/s...

dont spec, be interviewed bsky.app/profile/inte...

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For example, how to find the right format for the spec? My answer: you don't. Let the agent interview you and decide the format for itself, because ultimately, it needs to follow the instructions and not you. bsky.app/profile/dnu...

How is OpenRouter assured that 3rd party open model providers are actually serving the model they say they are? Had a similar problem when building a CoinMarketCap clone. It's mostly trust + measurements, I guess.

Immediate thoughts: 1. Evals. 2. Humans aren't any better. Ever done tech support for your parents in the 90s/00s over the phone? x.com/livingdevop...

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Vibe coders everyday struggle in 15 seconds.

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