Love Tonsky's articles. My favorite is about centering things: https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/

He has a knack for putting words to the vague frustrations I feel but can't quite articulate. How does he find so many perfect examples that nail exactly what's wrong?

Tried it in earnest. Definitely detect some aggression, and would feel stressed if this were an exam setting. I think it was pg who said that any stress you add in an interview situation is just noise, and dilutes the signal.

Also, given that there's so many ways for LLMs to go off the rails (it just gave me the student id I was supposed to say, for example), it feels a bit unprofessional to be using this to administer real exams.

That was my first impression as well.

Looks like the theme changes are part of the arrangement (see lines 135-149).

I'm cash flow positive on my SMS sales agent, it serves just one client and my revenue is at least 3x the cost of inference/hosting.

Imo the key is to serve one use case really well rather than overgeneralize.

Some of those, like horses, are 1% hobbies. But many of the others can be done very affordably. Buying used equipment, learning from YouTube and online resources, starting small and scaling gradually make most of those hobbies accessible at a fraction of the cost.

You could say the same about computing as a hobby. Maybe that’s your point, hard for me to tell. I always compare it as a hobby to golf or hockey- both of which are common where I come from and pretty pricey hobbies.

One of the authors is the Kenton who built this awesome lan party house: https://lanparty.house/

Gen Z takes selfies with the higher quality back-facing camera using 0.5x zoom. You can't see yourself while taking the photo, but that's part of the appeal.

A lot of older cameras (and early phones too) would have a small mirror next to the lens, specifically for taking photos like that. The word selfie is kind of recent. The concept of taking a photo of yourself is probably as old as the invention of the camera.

I remember taking such pictures in the '90s and and calling them "autofoto" and I thought I was very clever.

I remember watching a podcast at the time where they were making fun of the word selfie for being an absurd unnecessary word. I remember vehemently agreeing.

In hindsight I don't know wth I was thinking.

Do you guys remember the mid-2000s “MySpace Angle” ? Usually shot in the bathroom.

I'm from the generation where that was the only option (and I still wasn't a kid then). I kind of liked the mystery, but overall I still prefer the front camera for selfies nowadays.

Awesome. I wonder if there is a pulse sequence that maximizes that feeling of randomness?

Management roles have always involved outsourcing cognitive work to subordinates. Are we seeing a cognitive decline there too? Maybe delegation was the original misalignment problem.