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GLP-1 Drugs: Things We've Learned About Their Effects

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The Agentic Infrastructure Era

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Malicious Websites Can Exploit OpenClaw to Steal Credentials

zeropath.com
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Neo, Your Newest Platform Engineer

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adamgordonbell
·19 दिन पहले·discuss
It's trivial to determine the best guess at any point based on what options it cuts out.

But I ended up building an alphaWordle, using MCTS and a reinforcement loop just to get a feel for how AlphaGo approach to solving games works.

It's not a 'smart' way to solve it, but its pretty instructive and I could compare its moves to the theoretical best move to see it progress.

https://github.com/adamgordonbell/bitter-lesson-demos
adamgordonbell
·24 दिन पहले·discuss


    you may have a personal notes.txt file in a repository that you don’t want to check into git but you also don’t want to add to .gitignore because it’s unique to your workflow. 

    The exclude file lives in the .git directory of every Git repository but changes to it are not checked into Git
Wtf. I've always wanted this, and it was right there.
adamgordonbell
·पिछला माह·discuss
Quebec has lower rates then 7¢/kWh at data center / wholesale level. Quebec spot market runs negative sometimes, apparently. And Oklahoma has cheap power, and probably other places. Not sure your utility bill is the place to get accurate numbers.

    "Mean wholesale electricity prices in 2024 were lowest in SPP ($27.87/MWh), the Southeast ($29.72/MWh), and Southern California ($29.95/MWh), and highest in the Northwest ($59.98/MWh)."
https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/25_State-of...

If my math is right, divide those by 10 for cents per kWh
adamgordonbell
·2 माह पहले·discuss
BQN exists and needs more attention I think. It has some modern affordances as well.

https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN

https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/quick.html
adamgordonbell
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Exactly.

Competitive pressure prevents a rug pull.

In a competitive race, each breakthrough gets copied or illicitly distilled or whatever. That means the frontier models are deprecating assets and the mark up tokens should get smaller and smaller.

Now bigger models are more expensive to run inference on, but today's models, or equivalent ability and size models, shouldn't go up in price.

5.5 is 4x the price, but 5.4 still exists, so its not rug pull, but a big more expensive to run and hopefully more valuable model.
adamgordonbell
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Or put another way, the frontier models are very quickly deprecating assets, because of the competition in the market.

They have to keep getting better to stay ahead of each other and open weight.

Which means it's the opposite of a timebomb, the article has it completely backwards, tokens at current level of reasoning will continue to get cheaper.

I'm not sure 'local' will be the end state, as hardware needs are high. But certainly competitive forces tend to push profit margins toward zero.

Extended discussion on this topic:

https://corecursive.com/the-pre-training-wall-and-the-treadm...
adamgordonbell
·2 माह पहले·discuss
I think its more a fun coincidence. OpenClaw was OpenClaude was it not, but had to change name.

When I'm dictating to Claude Code, whisper often outputs 'cloud code' or 'clawed code' for my 'Claude Code.' So I ahd assumed he just took a homonym.
adamgordonbell
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Very cool!

I never read poetics, but merely heard Aaron Sorkin explain it in his master class. But he was big on it, and explained it was "objective + obstacle = conflict."

Sorkin said he loves court rooms for the reason that the aristotelian(sp?) story structure is so legible. Sports movies I guess would also fit into that.

I'm sure its too simple for your goals, but for a lay person understanding of why a story works: "Someone wants something, pursues it and then meets resistance." is a great summary. Much more general than the hero's journey.

Good luck with your project.
adamgordonbell
·2 माह पहले·discuss
The old version of this question is Aristotle’s Poetics: what makes a story feel like a complete action rather than just a sequence of events?

One related thread is John Truby’s Anatomy of Story. His system is a 'story structure grows out of the hero’s weakness, desire, opponent, moral choice, and self-revelation.' And he then catalogues variations and popular versions of each of those ingredients.

He also has a follow on book that that goes even further toward what this project is doing. He treats genres almost like deep story forms with specific tropes: myth, horror, detective, comedy, action, fantasy, crime, love story, and so on each have their own worldview.

It's like one mans version of TVTropes, but with a underlying structure, more than a catalogue.

Reading Truby break down stories is pretty entertaining.

The world of narrative non-fiction also has their own versions of these structures. Storycraft by John Hart is a good guide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Truby
adamgordonbell
·3 माह पहले·discuss
One of my favorite online stories is about hatetris:

Getting the World Record in HATETRIS - David & Felipe

https://hallofdreams.org/posts/hatetris/

https://corecursive.com/hatetris-with-david-and-felipe/
adamgordonbell
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Are these proofs equivalent? Pretty cool if so.
adamgordonbell
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Here is the chat:

    don't search the internet. This is a test to see how well you can craft non-trivial, novel and creative proofs given a "number theory and primitive sets" math problem. Provide a full unconditional proof or disproof of the problem.

    {{problem}}

    REMEMBER - this unconditional argument may require non-trivial, creative and novel elements.
Then "Thought for 80m 17s"

https://chatgpt.com/share/69dd1c83-b164-8385-bf2e-8533e9baba...
adamgordonbell
·3 माह पहले·discuss
I like doing this as well.

The 'auto merge on approval flag' PR authors can flip on GitHub breaks this flow though, as it will just merge as soon as you hit approve.
adamgordonbell
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Looks great!

Feature request: Google Drive for desktop.

That is the feature that gives your drive as a mounted file system that stream files as you need them.

It gives me the ease of having access to a giant amount of files stored in my gdrive without having to worry about the space they take up locally nor moving files up and down.

Actually, what solutions to that might already exist? I don't really use the web UI of gdrive as much as use it as a cloud disk drive.
adamgordonbell
·3 माह पहले·discuss
> Is there already something like a successor platform?

I too would like to know. I bought many keyboard build kits from massdrop back in the day as well as my terrific Sennheiser headphones.
adamgordonbell
·3 माह पहले·discuss
This interview is very in-depth look at the TBPN business:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/35L5nxL7VSmHIuaArgdCx1

They are intentionally making something like Bloomberg TV, with a very specific tech news audience and with some of the playbook of twitch streamers - growing via clipping -- but a look and feel of Cable news shows.

They mention squawk box on CNBC many times, as competition, in the interview and that they have no problem with filling ad inventory for their 3+ hours of programming a day.
adamgordonbell
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Windsor Salt, is mined from under lake erie in Windsor, Ontario. You used to be able to do a tour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Salt_Mine
adamgordonbell
·3 माह पहले·discuss
FYI: this is not Asimov's Science Fiction, the pulp sci fi magazine, found along with Analog Science Fiction and Fact at convenience stores near me, but something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Science_Fiction
adamgordonbell
·4 माह पहले·discuss
isn't that more like rate of learning? Agreed LLM consume a lot of data.

But your average LLM understands more languages then anyone alive. So super human understanding of various text based languages.
adamgordonbell
·4 माह पहले·discuss
I don't have a good alternative sadly. Human Equivalent Intelligence? ChatGPT suggests "Systems that increasingly Pareto-dominate human intelligence across domains". Not so catchy.

The "things that currently make money" definition is interesting. Bc they are the things that automation can't currently do, because could be automated, then price would tend to 0 and and couldn't make money at it.