Neal Stephenson - Anathem is great and not an easy reader. I enjoyed most of his other books but that one was the complexity sweet spot for me.

Umberto Eco and Ursula Le Guin I agree on.

His latest one, polostan, may be the worst book I’ve ever read on the other hand.. No idea what happened.

If it's only proofreading text you've written, the changes will be minimal enough that watermarking seems impossible to me.

> Turn the lights down low in the bedroom

Sets lights to 30% but also off

> Turn the lights low in the bedroom

Sets lights to on

This is a cool idea but I think humans assume more than 14MB of intelligence. This is like the unhelpful guard in the swamp castle of Monty Python's Holy Grail

Haha, its not a generalist model, cheap devices cannot run LLM in production, so we brig on-device intelligence to them in the size they can. Needle is niche, not a Gemma or GPT replacement.

Right, but I don't think consumers would consider this "intelligence". It's too dumb.

I'd suggest writing by hand as a proof of work, for now at least!

Sounds interesting but the blog seems hijacked by some advert to me, anyone else?

If that study was of submariners, is it possible long-term high-level exposure causes the body to adapt?

I am suspicious of 0.1% having a significant effect though, given oxygen is around 20% and we naturally exhale a couple of percent CO2.

I mean that can't be right, as the body's breathing response is triggered by that amount of CO2 buildup. It's not about what's in the air. It's about what the body can take up. Maybe submariners are self-selected to be more physically fit, e.g. larger heart, lung capacity etc. to compensate.

I think he's doing 15% every month, not every year. It's not an implausible growth rate for a unicorn startup; it is implausible to expect it.

I've been thinking about this, and I think software is uniquely knowledge work that has the most defined structure and least personally interaction. Hell, some of the software I write is for machine to talk to other machines. It's not surprising such a closed system is so amenable to AI, and other knowledge workers are not getting the same benefits.

> Overwhelmingly Large Narrative Unit

I miss Iain M Banks. Thanks for this lovely little nod to the Culture

Thankyou for sharing this. I've been reading the culture series over the last few months and this beautifully articulates ideas that I've not been able to.

I sometimes wonder what goes through designers heads.

The article is surely good. But it's long form and I need to pay attention to it in order to appreciate it.

Yet they decided to add an obnoxious banner to the view which cannot be hidden and keeps distracting me every few sentences by being significantly more attention grabbing then the article.

So I stopped reading. I would've likely read to the end and consequently been more willing to spend money, but I never got to that point.

Yes I have ADHD, and I'm sure other people that don't have it don't have such an issue. But to me the design for that element is in direct contrast to the content being served. If the article was short form it'd be able to ignore it, but with it being long form, I cannot and thus my experience was actually negative.

One can only hope The Culture is the trajectory the future bends to.

No thank you

Ughh. Another Iridian sympathizer.

Also a reference to astronomer telescope naming: https://xkcd.com/1294/

I think you are (informally and correctly) doing Bayes theorem here. The prior is combined with the conditional to give the posterior estimate; the conditional is not itself the estimate.