links, etc 2024 MADE Bike Show People and Products – Spencer Harding, Jade Elhardt, & John Watson | The Radavist | A group of individuals who share a love of cycling and the outdoors. so. much. delicious bike pr0n. tags: bikes

links, etc Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need a delicious waste of network bandwidth and linux network drivers. quite amusing. Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model? • The Register no. tags: linux, ai, hacks

links, etc Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art i read pretty much anything that ted chiang decides he wants to publish to the world at large. he’s been particularly critical of AI over the past few years and i have a difficult time arguing with the ground that he’s staked out. this article is well worth the time to read. it’s full of solid, nuanced perspective on the topic of art and human engagement with art....

range: why generalists triumph in a specialized world (david epstein) i had to bail on this after dragging myself well over halfway through it. i just couldn’t take the repetition any more. if there was something revelatory in the last 100 pages, my skimming did not surface it. i feel fine with this. key points/messages: subjecting your kid to focus on a single sport early in life is a bad idea....

links, etc The changing role of the US dollar this was an interesting read. kind of hand-wavy, but some interesting trends to note. of particular interest here is the absence of any discussion (or even a passing reference) to crypto. what is interesting is the creation of direct digital currency exchanges coming out of china, et al. these all service to obviate the need for a vehicle currency (aka, the US dollar)....