Monday, July 07
Daily News Stuff 7 July 2025
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- Why AI sucks. (Dwarkesh)
Because it doesn't learn.
Specifically, current large language models are not designed to acquire and verify new facts and to discard old one that turned out to be incorrect, or to adopt new modes of though that streamline reasoning.
They are trained, once, and then left to slowly rot until they are replaced.
Interesting comments on this article too: Arguing about when AI will replace humanity and then admitting that nobody really knows anything and it will probably never happen.
Tech News
- Why software teams slow down as they grow. (Medium)
Because everything does.
- Nvidia's new desktop CPU arrives this month. (Tom's Hardware)
No, you can't buy one. But you will be able to buy mini-PCs built around it... For around $3000.
I don't expect it to set the world on fire.
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IT saying that's been around for some time now -Putting twice as many programmers to work on a late project will make it twice as late.
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Fred Brooks, mythical man-month. I bought that, and the DeMarco/Lister Peopleware a couple months back, and have found the time to finish PEopleware. An interesting aspect of Brook's explanation is that he bases it on communication within a group, and coupling between the ideas of that group. Which has interesting implications for the case where academics has a large economic impact. (It is of purely academic interest for the case where academics has minimal economic impact.)
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