Welcome to that point of the week once I take far too many tabs I’ve left open, put up them right here, after which make the strenuous effort to shut them from my browser regardless of how harmful it appears to my hoarder mind to try this.
“The one factor you’ll be able to actually do is guarantee that the time she spends with you is as stress-free as attainable.” — Dawson from Dawson’s Creek. RIP James Van Der Beek
Love isn’t just a sense. It’s additionally an attachment bond. Need to know the distinction? Learn this.
NYT reviews some tales on the theme of the “grand romantic gesture”.
What to search for in a lifelong accomplice. I by no means appreciated the thought of the looking being for a lifelong accomplice myself. On courting apps, you’ll be able to choose that, which appears to make the partnership the objective, which you insert an individual. As if the exogenous half is the partnership, and the individual the endogenous half. I consider it otherwise. However anyway, I did technically click on on that article so I simply now put up it.
The key happiness could also be to be liked by others.
On the challenges of loving and accepting love after trauma, and one’s nervous system has turn out to be hijacked by fixed hypervigilance.
Harvard legislation college alums share tales of affection.
Methods you’ll be able to mess up when somebody is susceptible to you for the primary time.
What our wants and relationships tells us about ourselves, and our pasts. I’m a sucker for articles like these.
On grieving what are known as “ambiguous losses” that are losses that don’t shut effectively. Divorce, ghostings, different issues. They are often in their very own method traumatizing, and that they lack a transparent container, doubly so.
Recommendation from those that are grieving on what you are able to do in direction of those that are grieving. Don’t be afraid and invite them to inform their tales in regards to the individual is one.
What predicts who turn out to be criminals and different issues about Millennials and their plunging crime charges, a brand new e-book from a Harvard sociologist, Robert Sampson, says that it’s not simply you might be or the place you might be but additionally when you might be that predicts participation in crime.
Talking of crime, Malcolm Gladwell has a brand new e-book on weapons popping out.
Talking of crime, is AI killing open supply?
Talking of crime, Andrew Wheeler has written a e-book about LLMs and python he revealed by means of Crime De-Coder. Yow will discover a free copy right here.
Talking of crime, an AI agent retaliated when somebody rejected the code it wrote. The agent wrote successful piece, hinting at blackmail, and tried to smash their profession. Nevertheless it’s unclear what AI agent this was, and it doesn’t sound prefer it was Claude code (one more reason in all probability I’ll solely use CC).
A seminar on the lasting results of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment on Black well being and participation in healthcare might be at Harvard this month, in addition to on YouTube.
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham shares one thing for these occupied with utilizing Claude Code as safely as attainable through which you create kind of a pc inside your laptop the place nothing can get damaged. The beauty of this period is in case you are confused by that, you simply ask Claude to go right here and determine it out and do it after which it’s executed.
On AI writings its personal code.
Can AI make us quicker and but erode ability? One other piece about that.
I completed Surprise Man and appreciated it. Did I adore it? No probably not. Do I like tremendous hero exhibits anymore, although? I’m not certain. However I assumed it was good and the appearing was phenomenal, the tremendous hero stuff apparently low key and ambiguous largely till the very finish, and the attitude on appearing as a craft fairly fascinating. I feel some other strategy to describe what appearing is like for actors would’ve been navel gazing however on this story, it by some means may by no means be that, which was fascinating. That mentioned we’d get Cloak from Cloak and Dagger.
Netflix comes out with one other espionage present. These then again I can’t get sufficient of.
Seems like Google and Character.AI have settled with households over their AI merchandise being implicated within the suicides of youngsters.
Cairo has 23 million individuals however no site visitors lights.
Some indicators of growing older effectively.
Massive language mannequin hacking for textual content classification duties.
This jogs my memory of Hamermesh’s work on the labor market results of magnificence, solely it’s AI classification of peoples faces.
Come by the Frostival Lodge in Again Bay. I glided by on the best way to the Tremendous Bowl and it was pretty.
These socks look pretty and gentle (and Christmas-y).
Anthropic releases nonprofit pricing for Claude.
Talking of Anthropic, the New Yorker has an article saying that nobody actually understands Claude, not even its creator.
Is AI disrupting the marketplace for romance novels (did I already put up this?)? Effectively, disruptive could or is probably not correct, however in all probability there are a ton extra of them being written quicker. They aren’t writing about romance novels I don’t assume (or are they?), however Imke Reimers and Joel Waldfogel even have a brand new NBER working paper form of about this.
Alex Imas on the productiveness of AI on the micro and macro stage.
Hans describes a course of for utilizing Claude Code to learn papers. Hans has a captivating improvement in what he’s doing — as he reads papers, he has Claude Code spin up simulations for him.
Talking of jobs, Anthropic is hiring an economist.
I proceed to dream of retiring on the ocean in Rhode Island.
After 3 a long time of feeding feral raccoons, a few hundred of them confirmed as much as her home saying they wished extra meals. I really feel for this girl — extreme compassion for animals is a curse, not a blessing, and you will get in over your head in a moments discover. The one answer to feeding wildlife is to not.
The duty mannequin has turn out to be the workhorse mannequin for considering AI’s impact of labor and combination productiveness. A brand new NBER paper extends the mannequin to include human capital.
Charles Jones opening line within the summary of his new NBER working paper is fairly strongly worded: “AI will doubtless be an important know-how we’ve ever developed.”
Information Past Borders convention for late March. Particulars right here.
A meta evaluation to the returns to training. I must see the listing of papers on this and the factors used for which of them to incorporate and exclude.
My buddies chuckle at me for loving my Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, as a result of it’s so bizarre trying, however you realize what’s worse than a bizarre trying VR headset? One that’s unnoticeable. Creepy article about guys filming ladies in public with their Ray-bans.
Faculties report much more issues with Meta’s Ray-bans too.
However talking of the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional — it apparently now has a YouTube app.
Right here’s somebody who regrets their Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. I must get his electronic mail so I should buy his. I’m two years in, and nonetheless use it each day. It’s the only finest piece of know-how I personal after my laptop computer. It’s an enormous productiveness factor for me. Nevertheless it isn’t for everybody. Not every thing is for everybody.
Winter will quickly be over in Boston, sadly. I’ve liked it right here. This was my winter playlist.
Unhealthy Bunny has made a literal fortune from streaming on Spotify. I truly thought it was subsequent to unattainable to do these numbers.
I now frequently dream of homes in Rhode Island overlooking the ocean.
Paul had Claude code write a paper in two hours.
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad
I used to be writing about land reform in West Bengal final night time and was curious if it had persistent results on the possession distribution.
So I did what anybody would do, I* wrote an instructional paper on it
Seems — sure! 1/
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This worldwide thriller on Netflix is meant to be good.
Declining male friendships. I’m a bit of inquisitive about this as a regularity although to be sincere as a result of these information don’t appear to be precisely what they seem like.
Harvard Society of Fellows economist Zoë Hitzig has resigned from her place at OpenAI. Right here is her opinion piece written within the NYT. In it she discusses a few of her causes and considerations about OpenAI transferring in direction of promoting. Extremely suggest every thing Zoë has written, together with this. Right here is one in all her books of poetry.
One other resignation got here from Anthropic’s security group. Apparently, he too is a poet.
Deepfakes and AI have been interfering with the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping.
I’ll proceed to be impressed that Apple received the #1 place right with this high 100 listing. Took some boldness to dethrone Thriller, however they received it proper.
“Tinder didn’t work out so I’m placing myself on Zillow.” (McSweeney’s, seen on Kottke).
Massive 12 months for Spider-man motion pictures. Spider-noir appears wild.
Contemplate writing one thing on your particular somebody this valentines. Or be their pal.
Has Claude pulled out in entrance? Not in weekly customers which continues to be dwarfed by OpenAI, however possibly within the areas that matter — agentic competency, skilled usefulness, depth and reminiscence.
Karpathy says the close to future is in harassing brokers.
James Van Der Beek of Dawsons Creek handed away this week. His household put up a gofundme. Therapy for his most cancers had been pricey for the household of six.
Going viral on platforms is tougher than it was corporations suggestion techniques “for you” are simply, effectively, for you. So the Mr Beasts of the world is probably not as widespread once more.
