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Today is the last day of the year with a 6pm sunset in NYC.
Next week is the only week this fall when the sun sets between 5 and 6.
Fun fact: in 2002-2006 there's not a single day in the fall with a 5-6pm sunset in NYC.
it's always funny to see muse casually "Clearing CAPTCHA"
"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
Needing to choose effort levels when using ai is like needing to choose between performance and efficiency cores when opening an app.
Hosting - connecting souls - is truly an art.
Today we honor the many hosts who put their heart into bringing people together. They are artists, magicians, and wonderful humans.
Introducing The Art of Hosting: 10 interviews with some of our favorite hosts from around the world.
Dinner parties, running clubs, art galleries, tech events, third spaces… Great gatherings might feel like magic, but there’s a lot of thought and craftsmanship behind every little detail.
We asked hosts to show us how they do it: artofhosting.luma.com
i always wonder why the states that support driver license in Apple Wallet are overwhelmingly, let's say, not the most "advanced," maybe except CA.
why is that? why are states like NY and MA not adopting it?
i really like this idea.
market economy is perhaps the best thing invented for collaboration at scale and we should use it in more places.
e.g. ever see people at large companies spending their days in back-to-back meetings with 10+ people in them?
if meeting organizers are required to pay attendees (and pay a tax to the company), the number of such meetings will drop by 90%.
jane street doesn't allocate its GPU cluster by committee. it runs a live internal auction and lets researchers bid against each other for it.
no approvals. no allocation meetings. no manager deciding whose model matters more this quarter.
"our compute cluster is available for everybody. you're tasked with realistically thinking about how to value this job you're running versus all the other things."
"and there's not really any guard rails."
it's also globally readable and writable. anyone can see what anyone else is running, and anyone can kill anyone else's job.
"you can just nuke somebody else's job anytime."
which produced exactly the outcome you'd expect at least once:
"there was an instance where an unwitting researcher ran a command in a jupyter notebook to adjust the bids on his job. he accidentally ran the command without any arguments — which meant he changed the bids of every single job running on the hive."
they fixed that one afterwards.
but the visibility is the point. if your job is failing while you're away from your desk, someone else sees it and pauses it for you.
"i see that you're running this job and this MFU is just terrible. what's going on?"
"a lot of things can be sorted out without it going up the ranks."
that cluster is the same one from their data centre film. 4,032 GPUs, 56 racks, 8,000km of fiber, allocated by internal price discovery.
they built a market to decide who gets to use the market-making machine.
New AI benchmark just dropped: RiemannBench
We asked an unreleased research version of Claude to take a stab at the Riemann hypothesis.
It didn’t solve it, but it did make strides on a related problem: it increased the lower bound for the fraction of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2%.
anthropic.com/research/riema…
as an xoogler myself i really want google / gemini to succeed.
but it's worrying to see people (still) at google saying "things are great" when they clearly aren't.
it'd be much more reassuring if google can do some introspection, and acknowledge that "we didn't do a good job in the last year or so and there are structural issues that need to be fixed asap."
we need the "tim cook apologize for apple maps on ios6" response, not "we are cooking and things are incredible" response. even if it's just pr speak (which i hope it is).
