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I'm curious to see what the data shakes out, but I've always heard complaints about how absurd it is for "entry level jobs" to require X years of experience.
This dumb cutie doesn't even know what ChatGPT is
Drew, did you remember to study for your test? It's today!
This could be pretty cool for an indie Myst-like game
What's a printer?
I didn't fully understand the motivations of the protagonist during the climax, but the reuniting of the cast during the denouement saved the film. 8/10 on IMDb (which is basically a 10)
Business leans on hunches more than any probably realizes.
Such a great, intuitive intro to neural networks
On my phone I can't even find a way to natively navigate to this Schedules menu.
How is Costco almost 3x cheaper for vanilla extract? I understand economies of scale and buying in bulk but... How??
Can you explain your thought process to come up with a number to that question? Did you do some fun Bayes' stuff, or what?
Yes, it's alternate costs/tradeoffs, exactly. We also save energy because we aren't visiting websites anymore after seeing the LLM answers, but that's another tradeoff. If you chat with an LLM vs human, that's saving energy too! But at what cost? Energy usage is only one factor
I've wondered before if a user is completing projects even marginally faster with AI, then isn't their overall energy expenditure lower? That's less time spent microwaving lunches, driving to and from work, borrowing coworkers' energy, using other energy resources etc
Etymologically, some names waitbutwhy.com/2013/12/how-...
Can I get an invite to Lobsters?
Makes sense when the output is Bea Wolf. Worth it
Ugh you made me have to go and do my own research into what it is
Alphabet you say? You think Google will acquire them??
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People still put their devices on airplane mode for airplanes?
But is it BACK
@simonwillison.net did your speaker invitation get lost in the mail? www.airisksummit.com
The irony of using AI to secure AI https://mattsayar.com/letting-inmates-run-the-asylum-using-ai-to-secure-ai/
Am I the weird one for joining Zooms when they start instead of +2 minutes later?
Ah, so you're hiring an intern, got it
But why?
Why axe "yz?"
Haha today I got an "Update from Zillow" email saying thanks but no thanks
But my second grade teacher said "'Ain't' ain't a word."
My kid recently said "no I amn't" and I can't think of a valid reason to correct him
I don't know what you mean, please teach how to cook
Which Claude? Any of the 4s?
I just started reading Bea Wolf to my kids this week because they're finally old enough, so hurry!
In the spirit of Hanlon's Razor, "never attribute malice that which can be explained by incompetence," maybe they think it keeps the information from being further distributed? Either way, this sucks
www.cryonceaweek.com
I'm a thought follower in that I follow my thoughts to eating a hamburger
Yeah, it stands to reason (ha!) that even-newer models would produce similar results.
I like this. I'd love to see this done with even newer models (Claude 4 family, GPT-4.1). Even still, this makes me rethink how we're implementing things at work!
I tried to switch to iPhone (15 Pro Max) and after a couple months switched back. If I STARTED on an iPhone I don't know that I would switch because it's by far more popular in North America
Good catch, will fix!
My kid says "No I amn't" and I can't
I'm having too much fun with LLMs mattsayar.com/llms-arent-j...
Allowlisting your site didn't help any, though
I'm not on anything corporate but I use NextDNS for ad-blocking. Maybe you got swept up in some blocklist?
People want LESS of Simon??
@ashley.dev is your website down?
For calendar events on my Pixel I would share my screen with Gemini and say "add to calendar." It either works perfectly or I get "As a Large Language Model I cannot directly add Calendar events, however you can do it yourself by..."
So NOT SentinelOne as previously rumored. PAM instead of Endpoint. Interesting
Tri-tip used to be a great value, but that's not true so much anymore. I recently bought four lbs of pork tenderloin for a grand total of $12 and half of it fed my whole family with leftovers. Highly recommend this recipe www.menshealth.com/nutrition/a6...
But still hopefully less than your supply! I just read an article about large audiences not necessarily translating to large sales numbers, so I'm happy for you
How many people bought the mug so far?
Social Security
Would you like some chamomile tea
Honestly, it's <= number of keystrokes to input an emoji
This is the world I want to live in
Please don't stop! I get the frustration, but don't let the bad apples spoil it for the rest of us
Pretty sure that's a Dark Mirror episode
For what it's worth, Zach, one of my favorite parts of BlueSky is reading your thoughtful posts. Keep doing that. There's SO MANY people out there that you'll never really need to succumb to lowest-common-denominator tactics like ragebait
Never apologize for not being an extremely online person
This has been a really great way to show the power of LLMs at work https://mattsayar.com/how-i-make-an-mcp-server-out-of-almost-anything/
I think Game of Thrones (the show) was one of the last big, shared cultural media moments of that media generation. Too bad it whiffed so hard at the end.
Add an offline Wikipedia backup on that USB for context engineering. It's only a few tens of GB en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Really enjoyed reading how you did this. Your whole experience makes me pine for a way to easily dock a phone with a full size keyboard and monitor on the go.
I'm a very happy Free Tier user, and I'm sure it's all-hands-on-deck right now. Godspeed! mattsayar.com/sayonara-sen...
Brevo, the email service, is having an outbound email outage. The good news is you can subscribe to updates via email! status.brevo.com
It's like trying the doorknob before kicking in the door https://mattsayar.com/never-hurts-to-ask-getting-a-drm-free-ebook/
@cwgabriel.bsky.social Just finished Sleeping Gods last night. Great recommendation! It suffered a little from exposition-dumping at the end, but the reviews for book 2 and 3 in series indicate it just gets better and better. Thanks again
Ring should create a PM position for you on the strength of this idea alone
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The answer seems apparent to me: GitHub Copilot is free
Taking a break from your medium screen to type into your tiny screen?
I was hoping for a solid roast but I'm glad you liked it!
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Are you hating on NotebookLM? I love NotebookLM. I've been using it to study up on OS security practices by making podcasts out of PDFs
I went to NYC last summer and found a spot with a dollar slice. The lady in line in front of me alleged that she got shortchanged and argued about it for a while. I finally got my slice. It wasn't that good.
I, too, didn't go out to be seen. Happy to help
According to the appendix, they gave each developer less than 30 minutes of training in Cursor before setting them loose. It took me a lot longer than that to develop the intuition of when it's appropriate to use these tools. I'm still learning!
But what if Goofus manifests the hallucination into reality a la www.holovaty.com/writing/chat...
And not to mention the hedonistic treadmill! Learn to live within your means, no matter your financial appreciation. That will help you relax a little as you try and figure out the story you want to tell about your life.
I think it's reasonable to reach a point in your career where you care about the story your resume is telling. If you can direct your career to tell a story you're proud of, that's even better.
Is it Calendar Month at every nonprofit this July??
Asking everyone at the car show if their vehicle supports Android Auto
I don't know why I received this in the mail, but I would totally use this if I didn't have to hold onto it for six months first.
Never read Wodehouse. How do those books make you feel? What itch do they scratch?
I think the magnitude of the numbers should largely be the same as when it was published, but I agree it's been long enough to justify an updated edition!
Factfulness is a book built entirely around "most of your intuitions are wrong." Chapter 3 is all about population growth and how it will end eventually. This is the website associated with the book: www.gapminder.org/answers/the-...
I'm glad you like it!!
I wrote my first Chrome extension to simplify Wikipedia articles https://mattsayar.com/simple-wikiclaudia/
Make AI do it
You timed this perfectly with me finishing my book last night and wondering what I should read next! Stop spying on me
It's liberating. The more I use these tools, the more uses I find for these tools.
Jason it's Sunday they're sleeping
WebP works pretty well for my use case at least https://mattsayar.com/why-does-everyone-hate-webp/
This is the first time I'm hearing about it! Thanks for the heads up
They don't have a restaurant up there anymore