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If you’ve ever wondered just how passionate people are about free samples at Costco, look no further than these 2 incidents:

Related to my post about self-hosted bookmarking tools (thanks to everyone for the suggestions!), I’ve been exporting my bookmarks from various sites so I can eventually aggregate them into once place. It’s a lot of work, and it might mostly … Read more

A few weeks ago I was roasting some pumpkin for a delicious soup and towards the end of the cooking time the fan on the oven started into overdrive, making a lot of noise then it started beeping and popped … Read more

I knew the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Political Science Association, the American Statistical Association, and the National Academy of Sciences had problems. It turns out the American Sociological Association does some bad things too. … Read more

A Facebook post by the Dallas PD promoting the seizure of $100,000 in cash from a woman who has not been convicted or even charged with a crime. Let’s get one thing out of the way: it’s not normal to … Read more

Increasingly powerful AI systems are being released at an increasingly rapid pace. This week saw the debut of Claude 2, likely the second most capable AI system available to the public. The week before, Open AI released Code Interpreter, the … Read more

Today in Tedium: I think, in many ways, one of the biggest challenges we face as computer users is that things are sometimes too easy. We can control our home from thousands of miles away, and cause servers to go … Read more

Do a full security and compliance audit of LLM providers. Spoiler alert: only OpenAI could meet our requirements for now. Props to them for building a robust service! Draft new terms and conditions that detail what data we send to … Read more

 | Posted on January 26, 2023 Introduction So I recently completed my PhD in Mathematics from the University of Oxford. (Hurrah! It was so much fun.) In 2-and-a-bit years I wrote 12 papers, received 4139 GitHub stars, got 3271 Twitter followers, … Read more