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the main difference between the twitter algo and the bsky algo is that bsky doesn't reward the current thing as much

so, niche posts are more likely to be read on here, while stuff about the big news story is likely to be read on twitter
January 27, 2026 at 3:09 AM
some thoughts on chatgpt ads

1) chat assistants are going to end up directing an enormous amount of consumer spend over the next couple of years
January 27, 2026 at 3:01 AM
many people say that they want to work on safety but just want high-prestige jobs at the foundation labs
January 26, 2026 at 8:53 PM
some thoughts on dario's essay

1) there's nothing new here if you're familiar with the ai safety discussions that have been happening on twitter
Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
www.darioamodei.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:20 PM
each new iteration of coding models gives me the opportunity to redo my website (fleetingbits.io)
January 25, 2026 at 3:39 AM
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 AM
January 24, 2026 at 1:00 AM
claude's constitution is slow reading, but my take at 27 pages in is that it feels very passive aggressive
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 PM
January 23, 2026 at 7:12 PM
eval fever seems to have died down - like 6 months ago everyone was putting out their own cottage eval
January 23, 2026 at 7:09 PM
January 23, 2026 at 5:41 PM
it still takes an enormous amount of iteration to get a website to be polished with claude code
January 23, 2026 at 6:13 AM
January 23, 2026 at 6:00 AM
some thoughts on agentic qwen shopping from alibaba / what agentic shopping means for amazon

1) alibaba added agentic shopping to its qwen app, which sets up purchases for the user over other alibaba services; users can then pay in the qwen app with alipay
January 23, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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June 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
feels like the Apollo Research review of o1 was a bit adversarial - just getting that vibe from the description in the system card
December 7, 2024 at 12:11 AM
It's interesting how many disasters come from a collection of small failures - often because people are not sufficiently motivated to coordinate.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRM2...
The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure
YouTube video by Practical Engineering
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Interesting thread on what social media rewards in academic articles. I think overbroad claims but, you know, you take what you can get.

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December 5, 2024 at 5:02 AM
December 4, 2024 at 2:06 AM