My take? The paper's conclusion is overstated. It misinterprets fundamental limits in model "memory" (i.e., context length) as limits in "reasoning." However, the study's framework for evaluating models against scaling complexity is a valuable contribution, as is its classification of three distinct performance regimes. This analysis will also offer an answer to one of the paper's open questions..........

A few days ago, my CTO Chris shared Cloudflare's open-sourced OAuth 2.1 library that was almost entirely written by Claude. .........

This past week, GitHub announced CoPilot X, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Plugins, and Runway announced their text-to-video Gen-2 model. I’m scared. Terrified, even. Last night I smoked a little too much weed and caught myself realizing just how much of life is simply thinking/saying/writing the next token in a sequence. But there’s more to life than just language, right? Or is there?.........

The Ledger + Consensus Mechanisms: Cryptocurrencies, at their root, are a big book of IOU’s. Jill buys some eggs from Jack, and to keep track of their money they go to the big book in the middle of the town square. Jill writes:.........

Last March, weeks after my 22nd birthday, I was diagnosed with Indeterminate IBD. Which is a fancy way of saying they couldn’t tell if it was Crohn’s or Ulcerative Colitis. The doctors were leaning Crohn’s, and it seems like people are more familiar with Crohn’s thanks to our disease representatives Pete Davidson and Hank Green, so I usually just say I have Crohn’s. I’ll spare the pretty details, but the highlights of my senior year of college included dropping from 135 to 108 pounds in 30 days (I’m 5’8), night sweats, and 10+ mandatory potty breaks a day. This all culminated in an 8 day emergency room trip to the hospital............