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Release: datasette-fixtures 0.1a0 One of the smaller features in Datasette 1.0a30 is this: New documented datasette.fixtures.populate_fixture_database(conn) helper for creating the fixture database ta

Bloomberg: DeepSeek says it will lower V4 Pro API prices by 75% to 0.435/1M input and 0.87/1M output tokens, making permanent the discount prices set to expire on May 31 — DeepSeek said it will make p

A discussion about difficulties getting Ollama to fully utilize dual NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPUs when running various language models including 8B and 70B parameter models. Users report that despite Ollama r

Gary Marcus humorously notes that George Hotz, an AI researcher and entrepreneur, is beginning to echo Marcus's own views or criticisms, likely regarding AI safety, limitations, or technical concerns.

The post references a cost-saving prompt that users can employ, likely in an AI system, to receive money-saving advice or optimization suggestions. This appears to be a tip about leveraging specific p

fascinating - the X algorithm literally gives no weight to being truthful or well-sourced. which kind of shows. So I spent some time studying the new Twitter/X algorithm today since the latest version

Fate loves irony, but despises hypocrisy you’re fundamentally misunderstanding the controversy here, while invoking a controversy that should have made it obvious. “race swap” wasn’t even a conversati

Gary has been wrong about plenty of things, and right about plenty more. That's what happens when you say things publicly about the future. I disagree with him about lots of his expectations about the

This appears to be a social media comment acknowledging Gary Marcus's previous critical positions on AI, with the commenter suggesting that negative reactions directed at Marcus validate the accuracy

This post from Gary Marcus appears to reference a humorous or notable moment related to his work, with image attachments in Traditional Chinese that provide context to the claim that he 'has won again

@GaryMarcus @hendrycks @Yoshua_Bengio We recently tested all of the major LLMs with tic-tac-toe, modified chess, and a novel game -- even the top models all failed: illegal moves, claiming a win when

GOOGLE CEO: “THERE IS SOME IRRATIONALITY IN THE CURRENT AI BOOM. THE GROWTH OF AI INVESTMENT HAS BEEN AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT.” ASKED WHAT HAPPENS IF THE AI BUBBLE POPS, HE SAID: “I THINK NO COMPANY I

Grok Build is pretty amazing. Not just for enterprise software. My son loves the Chicago Cubs. We built a Cubs app, with a live API feed, scores, standings, news, users, and ability for users to post.

Grok Build sub-agent swarm weekend fun. You can reuse the prompt for your projects: Read the proof of `https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-proof.pdf` and come

Grok, an AI assistant, can provide information about geological features, local history, and points of interest in unfamiliar locations when activated with the 'Hey Grok' voice command. The feature is

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Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers — A

have always wondered about this: is it that the true believers willfully simply don’t want to understand my actual positions or do they lack the cognitive chops to follow them? @GaryMarcus This, sadly

here’s one sample, below, not even the only one I saw today; another claimed I don’t do research anymore when I had published articles in two top journals (Science and the Proceedings of The Royal Soc

he’s not dumb and certainly his IQ is above average but as I wrote somewhere before “I think that Musk has consistently made a dumb set of choices - largely stemming from a mix of four cognitive error

hilarious how all the objections to this post about how elon understands engineering better than science point to elon’s engineering accomplishments, rather than his (meager) record of scientific inno

Financial Times: How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity — Deals hit record highs, unloved

I asked my eng team if I could ship code to prod They told me no 💀 CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to g

⚠️⚠️⚠️i don’t think most people understand the implications of the mood shift below, so I will spell them out. they are serious, and eventually will affect the global economy. when a serious coder as

> I’m now in the LeCun/Marcus camp on LLMs > real programming agents will need world models > not some RLVR shit it’s over The Eternal Sloptember https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/2

Interesting point … but are there any critics of mine that are “authentic” who have laid out a systematic critique, without relying on strawmen? @GaryMarcus While addressing some critics can be helpfu

interestingly (although it is bit apples and oranges) the number below is a similar to the fraction of cars involved in car accidents (mostly nonfatal) in a week. but, crucially, we have tons of measu

It makes many online spaces intolerable. If I want to talk to ChatGPT or Claude, I'll just talk to ChatGPT or Claude, I don't need to talk to ChatGPT and Claude pretending to be DoofWarrior123 on X wi

It's actually 1% of the population that committed 63% of violent crimes, at least in Sweden. You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of t

It’s no longer just AI companies & their founders being sued over AI training - individual researchers are now being sued, too. In a new lawsuit, two authors allege that Guillaume Lample, while an AI

This post criticizes perceived inconsistency in public figures' responses to different cases of alleged injustice, contrasting support for George Floyd protests with claimed silence regarding a case i

This post likely provides a beginner-friendly introduction or tutorial on tmux, a terminal multiplexer used for managing multiple terminal sessions and windows within a single connection. Based on the

Let the record show: honest critique is not pessimism. Your points on scaling limits and neurosymbolic AI have been validated. Fair debate requires engaging with what was actually said. Retweeting thi

LLM companies are likely to be like airline companies: small margins, intense competition, high expenses. @GaryMarcus Airlines taught us something important: unlimited demand does not guarantee attrac

LongCat-Video-Avatar 1.5 is an upgraded open-source framework that prioritizes extreme empirical optimization and production-readiness for audio-driven human video generation. The v1.5 release replace

Tool: Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games Via Hacker News I learned that UK publisher Usborne published free PDFs of their 1980s Computer Books, some of which I remember working through on my Co

Nicki Minaj posted a message of gratitude on X (formerly Twitter) expressing appreciation for Elon Musk's contributions to humanity. The post represents a public endorsement or acknowledgment of Musk'

MergeNB is a VSCode extension to resolve Jupyter Notebook git merge conflicts . It applies three-way merge logic on matched notebook entities (source, metadata, outputs, execution_count) to automatica

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating — Moment, the fina

Gary Marcus discusses whether it is worthwhile to publicly document and explain the logical and conceptual errors made by his critics, framing it as a potential educational exercise. The post reflects

Clem Delangue reports consuming approximately 17 million tokens daily when running local language models, indicating substantial usage of on-device AI inference. He expresses satisfaction with the uti

my main takeaway from the Bun rewrite is that legacy codebases will be incredibly valuable as a source for 'distilling' code into new forms every game should be crossplatform, all legacy software shou

neurosymbolic by @swarat et al for the Erdos win, with much more careful, quantitative work than openai’s in hindsight i wonder whether OpenAI rushed theirs out, knowing this was coming? Another 9 ope

ngl I thought this was them talking about no researchers under 18 There are some darn good ai researchers in that age bracket Anthropic Doesn't Allow Kids Under 18 — Here's Why⁣ ⁣ 'We just don't know

not using LLM’s works for me Prolonged AI use may make it harder to think critically and creatively, recent research suggests. But there are ways to keep the brain fit https://www.economist.com/scienc

Our inference stack, optimized for Blackwells, with a novel attention kernel and many new optimizations has started rolling out! It's already charting on Artificial Analysis, eg: #1 speed and latency