Dies anyone have anything interesting planned for the weekend? Into the angry wasp phase of British summer, where the R&R slips away and we head into the busy autumn industrious quarter where a lot of Brits churn out 65% of their annual output (we all secretly know this is true).

Anyone spoken to people at Deepmind recently, who are working on Gemini? Combining multimodal LLM with a TreeSearch layer?

To understand what AI means for the future you have to understand ecological models and the forces within. Math, programming, politics, business, these things and others will not be predictive.

What is a term for doing a job that eliminates a job or chore? Similar to automate but much broader to include other methods such as just removing the thing? Is there any word from any culture that means this? Feel like Japan has a word for this? Also… what if it’s a lifestyle? eg I spent the whole weekend doing X, now I never have to do Y ever again. What is this called?

nostr:

Must say… very impressed with @jb55 this past week. 👏 🎉 nostrdb and nostrscript doing some powerful stuff, very impressed with the ambition and where this is going. Building from a deeper foundation. 🧱 Can now see the junction ahead where @jack says it flips from people running away from a thing, to people running toward a thing. I’m so fucking bullshit right now. 🐮

Premier League starts again this weekend and suddenly half of all British men can stop avoiding eye contact because they already talked about the weather.