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Interesting! I did not know this about TREC's decision or the scipy calibration module.

The only way you convince Republicans it’s awful is by reminding Republicans power can be abused in both directions.

It opens the door for Democratic administrations to do the same to vendors for their own political reasons. That’s ultimately why Ted Cruz spoke out about the Kimmel cancelation. It doesn’t take long …

These bullies wilt when everyone stands up in one voice. But when some parties capitulate (OpenAI), it sets a precedent that this behavior is OK. And then it’s not long until you become the target.

The products are the harnesses, and IMO that’s where the innovation happens. We’ve gotten better at helping get good, verifiable work from dumb LLMs

Basically the implication - most software has a huge second mover advantage. The creator of software puts the work in (AI assisted or not). The second mover can use an LLM to do a straightforward clon…

> If AI-generated code cannot be copyrighted (as the courts suggest), then the maintainers may not even have the legal standing to license v7.0.0 under MIT or any license. Does this mean company X …

Has anyone else noticed this? In our area, it seems in 2025 a lot of local businesses (ie local toy stores, etc) have closed. Presumably tariff pressures hurt (among other affordability issues). The b…

All very true. I wonder if you max out your options in China. It seems the Party is suspicious of ambition and high profile winners. I'm sure you can live comfortably, but there's a ceiling.…

I wonder how a US lab hasn't dumped truckloads of cash into various laps to ensure these researchers have a place at their lab

Manager or not I think the real risk is overly adapting your skills to one company. Managers becoming experts at one companies politics and cannot instead of general organizational dynamics. The devs …

“ though no contract has been signed” Is doing a lot of work here

I think it’s from a perception (right or wrong) that OpenAI engineered this kerfuffle to hurt a competitor and cozy up to the administration

They actually encourage insider trading as to influence the prediction and make it more accurate. Some insider selling changes the prediction downwards The WANT the information

In this case I bet they rotate Khamenis until they find someone who will capitulate like in Venezuela. Thats the hope at least. Seems like a completely different situation though. It could just as eas…

We used to have nice things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen... …

The difference is Anthropic wants contractual limitations on usage, explicitly spelling out cases of Mass Surveillance. OpenAI has more of an understanding that the technology will follow the law. The…

Yeah I do that too. I also teach training with Jupyter notebooks (ironically about agents). I still find it invaluable.

If I’m learning for the first time, I think it matters to hand code something. The struggle internalizes critical thinking. How else am I supposed to have “taste”? :) I don’t know if this becomes prod…

That’s silly I think you overestimate the influence of traditional media these days. CNN is a declining asset. Nobody under 60 gets their news from these places. Anyway, by the time the deal closes Tr…

IIRC these also involved the Feds. When Feds are not involved, its harder for State AGs to win. Not impossible. And they can slow things down / get concessions.

Before people jump into existential despair here about the software field, do we know the breakdown of roles? How many were tech vs support, operations, HR, and other roles?

Based on past owners of Warner Brothers, seems fairly likely in a few years. The value will be 1/10 of what it is today.

The behavior of each party in this whole process gives you a lot more confidence in Netflix leadership than Paramount / Skydance. Paramount was about to go to idiotic lengths to get this. Netflix…

State AGs play a role in anti trust enforcement. So it’s not over yet.

Maybe running up the price was part of the point.