Evan Hensleigh

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I look after interactive charts and things at the Economist. Not quite sure what I'm doing here yet. @futuraprime.net on Bluesky
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lol
God, this bubble burst is going to be so brutal
If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
@simon Oh wow, I'd totally missed this. That looks really handy, thanks!

@simon This is really useful, thanks for writing this!

Have you experimented with getting LLMs to work with your own libraries that may change regularly (and that the model probably won't have been trained on anyway). Is the best approach to just load these libraries' codebases into the context window alongside your code? Better to load the documentation?

Truly, who among us has not had days like the parents of Aaaaaaaah, legendary goatfolk qlippoth.

So Ed Zitron has been digging into the numbers behind the AI Bubble and coming away pessimistic and, unusually, I actually think he’s downplaying the risks a bit because much of them are hard to quantify as hard numbers

https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/

- The only plausible growth story today for the stock market as a whole is magical “AI” productivity growth. What happens to the market when that story fails?

There Is No AI Revolution

Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead investors to frame unprofitable, unsustainable, environmentally-damaging and mediocre cloud

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

this was such a great read:

The hardest working font in Manhattan – Aresluna https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

The hardest working font in Manhattan

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

@aendra Good luck!