Category: Blog
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David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream
Lynch saw that if the US dreamed of safety and prosperity and the suburban drive and the picket fence, it also dreamed of the opposite: of escape, danger, adventure, sex and death. And the two collided and opened up chasms and sinkholes in the lost highway to happiness. Lynch was a film-maker who found portals…
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David Lynch: The blinding light of love
Lynch appreciated robins and worms equally, as few others have before. — Read on www.avclub.com/david-lynch-death-earnestness-blinding-light-love
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David Lynch Dead: ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘Twin Peaks’ Director Was 78
“Well,” Lynch said, “imagine if you did find a book of riddles, and you could start unraveling them, but they were really complicated. Mysteries would become apparent and thrill you. We all find this book of riddles and it’s just what’s going on. And you can figure them out. The problem is, you figure them…
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AI as Accelerated Cultural Progress
We’re running through generations of cultural learning within each cycle. Like selective breeding of the mind We, as intentional creators, can force AIs to learn our 50k years of intellectual development in a fraction of the time. Every problem that an o1 solves is now a training data point for an o3 (eg. any o1…
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AI’s Uneven Arrival – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
…most great people actually are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. And you can only shoot through the number of unique barrels that you have. That’s how the velocity of your company improves is adding barrels. Then you stock them with ammunition, then you can do a lot. You go from…
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Working with an LLM: komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs
You can’t mindlessly use an LLM and hope to get anything more than mindless results. The mindset and concepts you bring to the LLM determine whether it gets good results. o If you have a coherent worldview and concept, the LLM can help you fill it in. o If you don’t, the LLM will hallucinate…
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ChatGPT reveals the system prompt for ChatGPT Tasks
What’s fascinating about such an LLM prompts is that it reads just like instructions to a colleague or assistant and yet there is still resistance to the notion that these systems are x% intelligent (and getting more intelligent). — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/15/chatgpt-tasks/
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Agents
an agent is characterized by the environment it operates in and the set of actions it can perform. The environment an agent can operate in is defined by its use case. If an agent is developed to play a game (e.g., Minecraft, Go, Dota), that game is its environment. If you want an agent to…
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My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends
within three years it won’t be surprising at all to see most information professionals use LLMs as part of their daily workflow, in increasingly sophisticated ways. We’ll know exactly what patterns work and how best to explain them to people. These skills will become widespread. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/10/ai-predictions/
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The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay | Russia | The Guardian
Generation P imagines advertising, television and politics as the key tools that corrupt, secretive interests use to create a false reality. The novel’s hero, Vavilen Tatarsky, is an aspiring poet whose literary ambitions are scrambled by the Soviet collapse. In the free-for-all of newly capitalist Russia, Tatarsky goes into advertising, “translating” American slogans into Russian ones.…