In 2018, Torvalds decided to pull back from his angry young man stance. He took a break from the Linux kernel to work on his behavior toward other developers. After he got a handle on it, Torvalds returned to the kernel. He's been much more mild-tempered since then. As he
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Finding Your Perfect AI-Powered Romantic Match
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Dating advice: find someone who autocompletes you.
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Management Demands Office Return: Workplace Policy Shift
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“Management wants you to return to the office.” The office:
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Google’s Epic Legal Defeat Threatens 200 Billion App Store Industry
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This is a big one. https://
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Overnight Model Training Run Produces NaN Values
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gm Waking up to find out that my overnight model train run produced a bunch of NaNs.
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LLMs as Scaffolding for Advanced AI Systems
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Hot take: LLM based AI is a scaffolding stage for the truly powerful AI that will be able to directly tap into the economically viable technology of its own.
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GPT-5 Hardware Made from Stones: Chip Manufacturing
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Same as gpt-5 hardware actually. Chips literally made out of stones.
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Self-Promotion Isn’t Arrogance: Why Work Must Be Visible
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Hot take: "Let your work speak for itself" is actually NOT a sign of "humility"; at best it's a sign of naiveté, and at worst it's actually a form of arrogance.
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Predictive Modeling Challenges: Data Quality and Pundit Predictions
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Making predictive models when you have lots of clean, well organized, high quality data can still be extremely challenging. It can be a very humbling experience. It’s incomparably more difficult when you have no such data. And that’s where most pundits operate.
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Revolutionary Technology Cycles Consume Their Own Pioneers
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Every revolution ends up eating its own children.