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Just received this email from OpenAI / ChatGPT: “Starting October 30, 2026, your included usage in ChatGPT Work and Codex will decrease from 20 times to 10 times the ChatGPT Plus allowance. Your GPT-6 Pro limit in Chat will decrease from 200 to 100 messages per week. Your price remains unchanged and you’ll keep your … Read more
For white balance, the key is not “gray” specifically. The key is neutral and not clipped. A black, gray, or white target can work if it is spectrally neutral and properly exposed. Gray is popular because it lands in the safest zone. A white card is intuitive for white balance because you’re saying: “this should … Read more
It is said that AI is only: ‘based upon your “training” (which is: discerning token-interconnection likelihood), show what is the next most likely token?’ That is by definition recall. If you “trained” AI solely on the single token “ai is ai” then its answer could only ever be “is” or “ai” or “is ai” or … Read more
SOURCE: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-turn-your-ai-into-a-world AI models are capable of amazing creativity, but that creativity gets stifled by how they’re trained. Large language models are next-token predictors: at each step, they look at a sequence of text and predict what comes next based on millions of examples. The results may be rated by humans, and those ratings fed … Read more
Precise, fast lookups from massive memory.md It’s clear that a new kind of multi-faceted, multi-layered “memory system” is required to properly, fully serve the LLM harness. Not flat files, not semantica, not graph. What? To my mind, after looking at it for 5 minutes to eval if it’s worth a try …. qmd — ” … Read more
However, AI does love and glean from hints in whatever form. Think of cipher “salt” or the “Heil Hitler” trick / hint / shortcut reportedly discovered in the hacking / breaking of German ENIGMA code machine / cipher. Giving AI a nudge, a starting point, an heads-up remains useful. SimonScrapes covers 20 similar tips. 1 … Read more
“The Riemann Hypothesis is the most imporant Unsolved Problem in mathematics.” It has not been totally solved, but there has been meaningful progress made by Claude AI. The prompting human was a software engineer who, after being rebuffed by Claude’s “that’s a 150-year old problem, I’m not going to do that”, simply replied, “believe in … Read more
Twisting history of base level, increasingly required technology. “you end up building the same pieces of the system, one outage at a time”
This guy breezily takes apart an old IBM TEMPESTed PC and along the way describes thoroughly the reasons why and how the engineering and build was done, what problems it solved, etc. “It’s not paranoia if They are in fact ‘out to get you’ and They know how to do it.” 1:52:05 This brings me … Read more
