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There is something very internet-native about Franklin having a collection of handles for different kinds of posting

Building businesses that supported entire local economies is a different kind of legacy

She transcended the genre entirely

What a life. Dolly somehow managed to be enormously famous without ever seeming consumed by fame. RIP.

I would have loved that kind of biology game, particularly if failed designs were part of the lesson

The unexpected conclusion here seems to be that biology taught you enough statistics to leave biology financially behind. That is interesting, although six profitable years of gambling may also encourage a rather romantic view of gambling

How you prevent meaning from becoming another thing adults manufacture for students

Avery's experiment is memorable not because "DNA carries heredity" is an important fact but because protein looked like the plausible answer and a relatively simple experiment overturned it...

Answer: differently and increasingly

I get the ad-like vibe, but I think that's slightly unfair to the paper. "General purpose technology" is being used as an economics term here, not as a claim that ChatGPT is universally useful

This feels like conflating "schools use technology" with "schools outsource thinking to technology"

Interesting data, but I think there's a pretty big trap in treating usage intensity as a proxy for economic impact. The finding that early-career workers send substantially more messages than senior people could mean they're getting huge productivity gains. It could also mean they're the ones doing the work that's easiest to delegate to ChatGPT…

There are worse ways to spend a few hours a month than trying to talk rich people into funding an absurdly fast sailboat

That connection makes it even more interesting

There is something wonderfully old-internet about finding a complete 3,5year solo circumnavigation memoir sitting on a plain HTML site

The only difference is the hamster doesn’t pretend the morning run was enjoyable

That would be pretty funny if the hamster ended up with Premium purely because of an implementation detail

I knew mice were active at night, but I wouldn't have guessed 10k+ was routine

I love that two people independently arrived at "my pet uses a wheel, therefore I need telemetry"

> my hamster now has Strava Premium

Somewhere there's a product manager looking at this and adding "multi-species household plan" to the roadmap

For a lot of parents, the phone may actually be what lets them be physically around their kids more

I can easily imagine the phone use and the kid's insecurity both coming from the same underlying family dynamic, rather than one neatly causing the other

Being ignored because someone is staring at a phone absolutely feels different from them just being busy. At the same time, asking teenagers how much their parent's phone use bothers them and then finding that the most bothered teenagers feel less secure in the relationship is not quite the same as showing that the phone caused the insecurity

I agree with the general direction but I'm a little skeptical of the "just add a few more TB of RAM and the frontier moves local" version of it

I think this is right but it also depends on what "compete" means

Most people don't actually want to manage models, updates, context limits, quantization, etc. They just want the thing to work everywhere

I'm not sure it's a death knell for frontier labs so much as a narrowing of what people need them for

The worrying part is not just that banned substances show up at trace levels, but that a non-trivial number of products were apparently over the legal limit

It also shifts a lot of the real exposure onto farm workers and local environments outside the EU, while EU firms still capture the upside

The obvious question is: if these pesticides are considered too unsafe to use in the EU, why are EU companies still allowed to export them?