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The AI vibes in America are almost definitively rotten. There was an interesting Pew survey on attitudes towards AI recently. They asked Americans whether the increased use of AI in daily life made them more concerned or more excited, and the responses are telling. Among 18–29-year-olds, 55% now say they are more…
keep reading — 6 min ↗“If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.” ― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders
keep reading — 1 min ↗Looking at all the online discourse, it might feel like everybody is using AI. But that's really not the case. Contrary to all the proclamations that AI is overhyped, if anything, I'd argue that AI is still underhyped. And I think the best available data is broadly on my side. If you look at surveys of AI usage,…
keep reading — 4 min ↗keep reading — 1 min ↗Expensive to produce, expensive to store... so what’s the solution? Government intervention — and lots of it. All along the supply chain, the US has stepped in. It has bought stakes in several US rare earth producers, struck offtake agreements with some of those producers to ensure a minimum price for their products, and pledged $10bn in debt backing for Project Vault, a stockpiling initiative designed as a backstop against…
keep reading — 1 min ↗The fact that a 17GB file can do all of this stuff on my home machines is a miracle. Once again, I’m delighted and amazed at how much progress local models have made this year. A year ago this would have been competitive with the best and most expensive of the proprietary models—today it can run on a capable laptop. The only thing holding this back from being a daily driver is performance. It feels pretty slow on both the M5…
One older leaf, brought back into the light.
keep reading — 3 min ↗In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.