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How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time...

Debt can be leveraged to accelerate growth, but in time, every ledger needs to be balanced.

15.02.2026 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FWIW: The "that" in "no one promoting AI is talking about that" could refer to "current machine learning is anything close to human cognition" or "AI definitely has practical applications"...

12.02.2026 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

In the above: "Model assumptions: GPUs not includedβ€”this models everything upstream of compute hardware". So how does this model confirm that heat rejection is not an issue?

11.02.2026 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A grid of images showing SocioPatterns wearable devices, collaborators of the project, proximity graphs, and deployments in museums, hospitals, villages.

A grid of images showing SocioPatterns wearable devices, collaborators of the project, proximity graphs, and deployments in museums, hospitals, villages.

Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it

14.01.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

A very long and important THREAD -

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

04.01.2026 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2301    πŸ” 1331    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 464

A collection of recorded observations annotated with contextual and methodological metadata.

22.11.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The first signs of panic?

30.10.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Big on title
light on insight
as so often
a fortune is.

20.08.2025 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜₯https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/

27.07.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

Happy to see that there are still some adults in the room... machinelearning.apple.com/research/ill...

08.06.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Makes you wonder if he's gaming the market? The ultimate poop and scoop?

09.04.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown | CNN Business Apple has been getting hammered in tech and financial media for its uncharacteristically messy foray into artificial intelligence. After a June event heralding a new AI-powered Siri, the company has d...

"Bottom line: Apple is not the laggard in AI. AI is the laggard in AI."
edition.cnn.com/2025/03/27/t...

29.03.2025 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why do you think they are different people?

22.03.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Apple reportedly planning executive shake-up to address Siri delays Apple is looking to right the ship after key Siri features delayed to 2026.

Being expected to deliver the undeliverable is no joy. arstechnica.com/apple/2025/0...

21.03.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

uv is significant improvement, thank you!

16.02.2025 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I would like to read it, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available for my kobo ebook reader (on kobo.com).

17.01.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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