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“Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physics. Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it. I used to do whatever I felt like doing it didn't have to do with whether it was important for the development of nuclear physics, but whether it was interesting and amusing for me to play with. … So I got this new attitude. Now that I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything, I've got this nice position at the university teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.” - Feynman
People: HN thread on devs not getting hired. Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age. The blackboard magic. Midjourney introduces Character Reference (aka stability of generation) - AND bans images of Trump/Biden ahead of the elections. GameOfFrogs. We lost Vernor Vinge - how invented the cyberspace.
Tools: Spreadsheets as futures-gazing, simulation tool. Interesting AITM against MS tenants. Useless (?) arrow pointing at the center of the galaxy (dev’d with ChatGPT). Navigation overload and LLMs. The UK Futures toolkit (PDF) - and the Triple Access Planning Handbook for transport (PDF too).
Tech: Grok to be open-sourced, or not (maybe not the training)? Personal (gatekeepers) AIs. LLAMA to un-redact documents. LLM implemented in Excel. UK watchdog on AI in public spending (PDF).
AI: Claude3 changes (inc. autoprompt creation, quite meta). UN resolution for AI. Interesting mapping for digital debt (see the different cogs, even if under the lens of debt). The Parliament approved the AI Act.
