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Is it possible to write good code without reading it?

My rideshare driver today asked me for advice.

(and Dealing With LLM Religion) I am opening an LLM coding contest, and I want you to enter it.

The tech industry's founding ideals have a mixed track record.

I have always seen the computer as a tool that gives us new ways to think.

Some folks like Sam Altman define AGI in terms of the usefulness of AI surpassing some human threshold, when we have "a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work."

I only speak English, and I have always been a little envious of relatives who can read Chinese.

"Boss-man is at it again."

I have been teaching myself to vibe code.

At the NeurIPS Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop, I was asked to give an opinion on Neel Nanda's recent blog post on "pragmatic interpretability."

Why are AI stocks rising so quickly?

A traveler came upon two merchants selling magical lamps at a crossroads.

Lessons from Financial Survival Under Authoritarian Regimes The Hamburg Banker's Dilemma In the autumn of 1933, Max Warburg sat in his mahogany-paneled office at M.M.

The firing of Jimmy Kimmel is shocking, but in the wake of the firings of Lisa Cook and Susan Monarez, it is also ridiculous.

In 1932, Stalin's authoritarian central planning program wrecked Soviet agriculture, starving millions.