Could be mistaken but isn’t that building used for the Severance tv show?

The thing I can’t stop thinking about is that Ai is accelerating convergence to the mean (I may be misusing that)

The internet does that but it feels different with this

> convergence to the mean

That's a funny way of saying "race to the bottom."

> The internet does that but it feels different with this

How does "the internet do that?" What force on the internet naturally brings about mediocrity? Or have we confused rapacious and monopolistic corporations with the internet at large?

I'd call it race to the median, converging to mediocrity, or what the kids would call "mid"

> How does "the internet do that?"

Stack exchange. Google.

Please explain how these cause a "convergence to the mean."

I assume they’re saying that the most common and popular solutions propagate, power-law style. LLMs just amplify that loop.

Indeed 'race to the bottom' seems more like capitalism in general.

That is my hope. At the same time, feels like a peak “don’t know what we don’t know” situation

Inside of me are two wolves. One that’s like “F Apple” and another that is like “Are they going to do an M5 ultra or…?”

We can appreciate their hardware achievements and at the same time condemn them for their monopolistic anti-user decisions.

There it is--pretty much that.

How’s Gemma 4 been?

Edge models are good for their purpose but putting them in agentic flow with current ollama quants on a Mac Mini I see high tool use error rate and output hallucination.

For JSON to text formatting it works well on a one-round basis. So I think you should realistically have an evaluation ready to go so you can use it on these models. I currently judge them myself but people often use a smart LLM as judge.

Today writing eval harness with Claude is 5 min job. Do it yourself so you can explore as quants on Gemma get better.

I love the Mac trackpad but would love it more if the pencil worked with it

A larger and, more importantly, taller trackpad that also functions like a Wacom with Apple Pencil, which would compel Apple to adopt a more square display, 3:2 or 4:3, capable of showing more lines of code. Too bad that would cannibalize the iPad line, so Apple would never do it.

I’d like to think governments would serve the interests of the people but in my experience it’s just been they serve the interests of the corporations.

FYI I’ve only lived in the UK and the USA, both of which are living far below their potential

Yea, it is incredible to see what could be accomplished with time and technology.

Someone in my immediate family had Glioblastoma, it felt like fighting a hurricane.

I don’t know about established companies pivoting but new operations/projects don’t seem to default to Jira like they did previously. In my very non-scientific sample size, I’ve noticed a shift in the last 3-6 months

What is everyone shifting to, and at what scale? I can see moving to breaking down tasks in separate markdown docs for a small(ish) startup, but working at a company of more then say 1k or so requires a bit more infrastructure to deal with the cross cutting concerns (compliance/legal, pm's, leadership, etc). I'm at a reasonably sized F500 and Jira is the default, despite how much all of us despise it, mainly because it ticks all of the boxes for aforementioned areas.

Yea, I’m just consulting with small projects. A year ago Jira felt like the default, last month I learned about Linear.

I’ve just been surprised lately at how often it isn’t the first thing mentioned. I came from a Fortune 500 and Jira was mostly hated there as well. I still think its foothold is so big that it’ll be a long time before anyone goes through the effort to migrate. I’d personally rather live with it than try to replace it.

Yea, but since they link to a page where they describe openclaw as “malware reading your text messages” I’m assuming they like to think of this as something more evolved