Toots for assaf@mas.to account

Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-30 at 20:19

if you think AI is some sort of elevated intelligence this story seems alarming:

"The big deal here seemed to be that a total novice had been able to construct a pretty complex machine with AI as his major guide, even when the AI didn’t really want him to do this in the first place.”

if you know AI is just text munching this is not at all remarkable

if you know this blog post is only capturing your clicks by saying one thing while pretending to say the other … nice!!

https://www.corememory.com/p/a-young-man-used-ai-to-build-a-nuclear

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-30 at 20:14

The SF Standard perfectly captures what's going on in the AI world right now:

“Breaking news: As you’ve been reading this, Qwen has defeated DeepSeek. That’s right, Alibaba just unveiled an LLM that can put DeepSeek out of its job, a job that’s putting out of work our own AI, whose intent in the first place is to put everyone else out of work."

https://archive.ph/uyHi0

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-30 at 19:42

Coffee Commit — analyze your caffeine-driven code productivity and show your caffeine correlation key metric

https://coffeecommit.dev

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-30 at 11:35

“I’d like to mention that Mr. Zuckerberg, who I talked to last week, said that the 5% of least performance from Meta will be made redundant,” Arnault said, before adding the novel form of linguistic gymnastics: “Or they will be promoted outwards, so to speak.”

new corp speak: “promoted outwards”

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bernard-arnault-tech-layoffs-term-20064107.php

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-29 at 19:01

How to look busy in the office

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-29 at 18:13

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-29 at 18:11

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-29 at 17:35

“Bonta’s memo clearly illustrates what a legal clusterfuck the AI industry represents, though it doesn’t even get around to mentioning U.S. copyright law, which is another legal gray area where AI companies are perpetually running into trouble. "

https://gizmodo.com/californias-ag-tells-ai-companies-practically-everything-theyre-doing-might-be-illegal-2000555896

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-29 at 17:31

“Open Vallejo characterizes the Zizians as an “ideology centered on using scientific techniques to enhance human decision making,” though a better description might be “a bunch of Extremely Online wackos with radically bad ideas.” Indeed, online descriptions of the Zizian worldview make it sound pretty damn out there: it’s an apparent offshoot of the Rationalist movement, which is a (mostly) online movement that circulates around the LessWrong web forum.”

https://gizmodo.com/suspects-in-recent-murders-are-two-young-computer-nerds-that-reportedly-have-ties-to-a-techno-cult-2000556155

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-29 at 13:11

If Teenage Engineering made a numeric keypad for your computer

https://www.yankodesign.com/2024/12/04/modular-numpad-concept-adds-some-teenage-engineering-industrial-aesthetic-to-your-workflow/

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-29 at 11:43

VSCode Pets adds playful pets 🦀🐱🐶 in your code window

https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-28 at 11:04

Good!

Das said that for Silicon Valley, the biggest impact of DeepSeek’s breakthrough is the realization that “Whoa, the U.S. may not be the epicenter of cutting-edge tech when it comes to training models,” adding, “That hurts the American psyche in a lot of ways.”

(friendly reminder that having lots of cash to spend is not a moat)

https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/27/deepseek-openai-china-us-tech-battle/

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-28 at 10:57

quick tips for setting up Ghostty and Fish

https://www.alexhyett.com/newsletter/improving-my-terminal-setup/

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Written by Assaf 🌴 on 2025-01-28 at 10:45

"While assessing the current product is important, what most companies fail to understand is that much more important than the products they are buying, is the organization’s ability to develop new products going forward…"

https://www.svpg.com/ma-and-the-product-model/

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