Jason Gorman

Bats are flying mice.

Dolphins are swimming dogs.

Humans are shopping apes.

Vibe flying

Developers: "The problem is that the faster we go, the more we get things wrong and have to fix them or do them over again, which actually makes us slower overall"

Big Tech: "I see, yes. What if... hear us out... what if you could get things wrong much, much faster?"

"Developers won't need to understand syntax anymore, just as long as they can <goes on to describe things that will require understanding of syntax>"

After 34 years in software development, I'm beginning to wonder if being "left behind" might in fact be the secret to a long career.

To borrow from a quote by Frank Zappa about rock journalism:

People who don't understand software engineering interviewing people who don't understand software engineering for people who don't understand software engineering

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

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It means that was in its training. LLMs aren't aware of anything.

That's over 7 hours of downtime in one month.

Stripe has less than 5 minutes in a year.

Congratulations, Anthropic, on achieving one nines reliability in February.

I thought it might take until the end of the year, but I obviously underestimated them.

(Okay, technically it's 2 nines, but they're supposed to be consecutive.)

A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

Some variations of the SM7 have built-in preamps plus other processing, but I have preamps galore (home recording buff) :-)

I am starting another bookshop and library tour in late April - tour dates here and more being added - including Devon and Cornwall at end of June

robinince.com #bookshops #libraries #poetry #books #comedy

I've got a podcast in me, I reckon. But the range of microphones available is mind-boggling.

Which variation of the Shure SM7 should I buy?

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity

And nor is it the beginning, if my order book's anything to go by :-)

Vendors are desperately slapping AI labels onto their tools to keep the hype cycle going, but AI is absolutely not the end of DevOps.

If I think of all the levers I could pull to improve the performance of a software development team, the data's clear that "AI" code generation has so little leverage where team outcomes are concerned that I doubt it would even be on the list.

Becoming a member is a great way to contribute to a party that doesn't run on "donations" from the mega-rich (who may or may not expect favours in return - I couldn't possibly comment)

Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.

What are the chances that eval awareness appears in the model's training data, and it's just giving the most probable response? (Claude can't shut itself down, BTW)

Screenshot of an X post by Aaron Rupar quoting a statement from Ansari accusing the Department of Justice of withholding FBI witness interviews involving allegations against Donald Trump related to Epstein and asking why Pam Bondi has not testified about the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Below is a video still of a woman labeled “Ms. Ansari” speaking at a hearing table with a microphone.

Five GOP members joined Democrats to subpoena Pam Bondi to testify before the Committee.

Could we iterate the apples in ways that are equivalent in, say, complexity, but all-new apples the models won't have seen before?

One thing that came up tonight a couple of times is the friction in testing LLMs in a "apples with apples" way across versions of models. The risk is that your apples found their way into the training data, and the model ends up overfitted to them in the next iteration.

By jingo, that was a lot of Zoom today!

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I see the sentiment being expressed widely these days, but not accompanied by any increase in interest in actually doing anything about it :-(

Bottom line is that our culture has always been an evolving product of migration, and our economy's never worked without it.

Migration is part of what makes this country great.

We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.

The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

You have to try it a whole bunch of times, on a range of similar problems, against a testable definition of "success", and look at the *distribution* of the results for statistically significant trends.

Otherwise, we risk throwing a 7 and concluding that these must be "the good dice".