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> I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham, even if our motives are at present misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.
fee.org/articles/let...
fee.org/articles/let...
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Fifty-one years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote this landmark missive. Take a moment today to study this great piece of rhetoric.
fee.org
January 19, 2026 at 4:55 PM
> I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham, even if our motives are at present misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.
fee.org/articles/let...
fee.org/articles/let...
I’m buying the argument that concentrating compute in data centers is the greener option. Logically, it’s easier to mitigate environmental impact when it's contained in one place rather than dispersed everywhere. www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is...
Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, and more...
The Batch AI News and Insights: Many people are fighting the growth of data centers because they could increase CO2 emissions, electricity prices...
www.deeplearning.ai
January 16, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I’m buying the argument that concentrating compute in data centers is the greener option. Logically, it’s easier to mitigate environmental impact when it's contained in one place rather than dispersed everywhere. www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is...
Wow. Best moment in television I've ever seen: Pluribus S01E03, the filling of the grocery store. Such a vivid painting of how much we rely on one another. Love to whomever dreamed that scene up.
December 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Wow. Best moment in television I've ever seen: Pluribus S01E03, the filling of the grocery store. Such a vivid painting of how much we rely on one another. Love to whomever dreamed that scene up.
3 weeks. One AI. One human. Zero terminal commands.
We built a volatility prediction model entirely through chat with Claude. It ran overnight, every night, without being asked.
The timelines for data science have collapsed.
lit.ai/blog/2025/12/23/vibe-data-science/
Merry Christmas.
We built a volatility prediction model entirely through chat with Claude. It ran overnight, every night, without being asked.
The timelines for data science have collapsed.
lit.ai/blog/2025/12/23/vibe-data-science/
Merry Christmas.
Vibe Data Science - LIT.AI
We spent 3 weeks collaborating with Claude on a volatility prediction model. 169 training runs, 46 architecture versions, and one breakthrough moment at a Christmas party. This is what vibe data scien...
lit.ai
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
3 weeks. One AI. One human. Zero terminal commands.
We built a volatility prediction model entirely through chat with Claude. It ran overnight, every night, without being asked.
The timelines for data science have collapsed.
lit.ai/blog/2025/12/23/vibe-data-science/
Merry Christmas.
We built a volatility prediction model entirely through chat with Claude. It ran overnight, every night, without being asked.
The timelines for data science have collapsed.
lit.ai/blog/2025/12/23/vibe-data-science/
Merry Christmas.
Cat Mode updated this morning to auto-detect keyboard ID and filter out pointer devices: gist.github.com/xcud/a3587af...
Protecting laptop keyboards from cats since May 2025.
Protecting laptop keyboards from cats since May 2025.
A bash script to disable your laptop keyboard when your cat sits on it. Auto-detects common laptop keyboards (including dual-controller setups like Lenovo Ideapad). Just `chmod +x cat_mode.sh` and bin...
A bash script to disable your laptop keyboard when your cat sits on it. Auto-detects common laptop keyboards (including dual-controller setups like Lenovo Ideapad). Just `chmod +x cat_mode.sh` and ...
gist.github.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Cat Mode updated this morning to auto-detect keyboard ID and filter out pointer devices: gist.github.com/xcud/a3587af...
Protecting laptop keyboards from cats since May 2025.
Protecting laptop keyboards from cats since May 2025.
Over Thanksgiving break we wrote and published two apps to the Google Play store in 14 hours.
www.lit.ai/blog/2025/12...
AI Slop?
www.lit.ai/blog/2025/12...
AI Slop?
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Over Thanksgiving break we wrote and published two apps to the Google Play store in 14 hours.
www.lit.ai/blog/2025/12...
AI Slop?
www.lit.ai/blog/2025/12...
AI Slop?
I cannot believe that in the year 2025 there exists physical documents which you must retain and produce on demand or face negative consequences. Paper documents. Twice in two weeks I had to find such documents. Both times took hours to locate. Let's go digital government agencies!
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I cannot believe that in the year 2025 there exists physical documents which you must retain and produce on demand or face negative consequences. Paper documents. Twice in two weeks I had to find such documents. Both times took hours to locate. Let's go digital government agencies!
Fake but fun AI job interview question: If em dashes are so uncommon in normal discourse, why do AIs use them so much?
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November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Fake but fun AI job interview question: If em dashes are so uncommon in normal discourse, why do AIs use them so much?
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First, it's long past time to classify them as AI, not LLM. Yes, I know, we, the pros, spent years snickering at you for calling them AI, but that was then and this is now. The amount of design and engineering that goes into these systems apart from the LLMs now exceeds that which went into the LLMs
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
First, it's long past time to classify them as AI, not LLM. Yes, I know, we, the pros, spent years snickering at you for calling them AI, but that was then and this is now. The amount of design and engineering that goes into these systems apart from the LLMs now exceeds that which went into the LLMs
This past weekend I resumed my AI research, conducting an experiment where LLMs are given a heartbeat as a stimulus, rather than taking user input as a stimulus. LLMs have MCP to internal msg system, git, and jira. Interestingly, Claude mostly slept, waiting for human input via msging or jira.
October 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This past weekend I resumed my AI research, conducting an experiment where LLMs are given a heartbeat as a stimulus, rather than taking user input as a stimulus. LLMs have MCP to internal msg system, git, and jira. Interestingly, Claude mostly slept, waiting for human input via msging or jira.
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Gemma 27B variant discovered a new cancer pathway treatment that has been validated
Scientists setup an environment and context, the model made a novel inference
blog.google/technology/a...
Scientists setup an environment and context, the model made a novel inference
blog.google/technology/a...
October 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Gemma 27B variant discovered a new cancer pathway treatment that has been validated
Scientists setup an environment and context, the model made a novel inference
blog.google/technology/a...
Scientists setup an environment and context, the model made a novel inference
blog.google/technology/a...
Reposted by xcud
Karpathy: nanochat
A small training+inference pipeline for creating your own LLM from scratch
$100 will get you a somewhat functional model
$1000 is more coherent & solves math
detailed walkthrough: github.com/karpathy/nan...
repo: github.com/karpathy/nan...
A small training+inference pipeline for creating your own LLM from scratch
$100 will get you a somewhat functional model
$1000 is more coherent & solves math
detailed walkthrough: github.com/karpathy/nan...
repo: github.com/karpathy/nan...
October 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Karpathy: nanochat
A small training+inference pipeline for creating your own LLM from scratch
$100 will get you a somewhat functional model
$1000 is more coherent & solves math
detailed walkthrough: github.com/karpathy/nan...
repo: github.com/karpathy/nan...
A small training+inference pipeline for creating your own LLM from scratch
$100 will get you a somewhat functional model
$1000 is more coherent & solves math
detailed walkthrough: github.com/karpathy/nan...
repo: github.com/karpathy/nan...
I was raptured. I came back. One person in particular was jelly he couldn't join me. It would cause too much of a fuss. Even with all of our problems, heaven is a place on earth.
September 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I was raptured. I came back. One person in particular was jelly he couldn't join me. It would cause too much of a fuss. Even with all of our problems, heaven is a place on earth.
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How does the Claude Code team build Claude code? Today's deepdive covers this.
An interesting take from them: "Mockups feel like a thing of the past when you can build 5-10 working prototypes per day."
The full article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-claude...
An interesting take from them: "Mockups feel like a thing of the past when you can build 5-10 working prototypes per day."
The full article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-claude...
September 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
How does the Claude Code team build Claude code? Today's deepdive covers this.
An interesting take from them: "Mockups feel like a thing of the past when you can build 5-10 working prototypes per day."
The full article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-claude...
An interesting take from them: "Mockups feel like a thing of the past when you can build 5-10 working prototypes per day."
The full article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-claude...
My father died two weeks ago. I'm still very sad. He was a good man. He was a mathematician and a teacher.
I'll probably delete this later. I don't know why I'm telling you. I'm so sad.
I'll probably delete this later. I don't know why I'm telling you. I'm so sad.
August 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
My father died two weeks ago. I'm still very sad. He was a good man. He was a mathematician and a teacher.
I'll probably delete this later. I don't know why I'm telling you. I'm so sad.
I'll probably delete this later. I don't know why I'm telling you. I'm so sad.