So basically you've built a mechanism for a model to de-compress itself.

Not for a lack of trying! Had to enforce tool building through code as models tend to just execute arbitrary code when allowed.

To add to this, as long as the diff representing the removal of the driver is kept in the git history it would be trivial for someone in the far future to say to an AI agent:

"Please take this linux source and patch the Bus mouse driver back in but match the new driver interface".

With code preserved in git history it's never actually "removed". It's just, disconnected.

Sorry but I think this should be left up to the user to decide how it works and how they want to burn their tokens. Also a countdown timer is better than all of these other options you mention.

Yeah this is actually quite shocking. In my earlier uses of CC I might noodle on a problem for a while, come back and update the plan, go shower, think, give CC a new piece of advice, etc. Basically treating it like a coworker. And I thought that it was a static conversation (at least on the order of a day or so). An hour is absurd IMO and makes me want to rethink whether I want to keep my anthropic plan.

> Also a lot of bullet points are bad

> Slides should have maybe a sentence of text at most

Proceeds to have slides with many bullet points and more than several sentences of text per.

I don't find issue with the slides as they are but if you're going to make arbitrary rules why not follow them yourself?

I haven't seen the associated talk, but (a) I would imagine the author chuckled while reading this, because it's sort of a joke among scholars, and (b) the point is likely focused much more on the context of presenting research (e.g., at conferences) rather than a blanket ironclad rule for all presentations you ever make ever.

While I think there's some validity to your point that the author's presentation suffers excess verbosity, I'm not too worried about it because the linked slides seem more meant to act as a reference document than an example of a good presentation, and the level of text is just fine for that purpose.

Yeah I’m the author, this was a joke. I also wanted to convey to the students in the room that this was not a high quality presentation, more so text just converted into presentation form.

Seemed pretty clear to me, for what it's worth, but perhaps it is less obvious to those not steeped in similar traditions of academia.

Thanks for this, by the way! It's a lovely resource!

There are presentations that you actually present to an audience, to which this point is valid.

But lots of presentations, including this one I think, are merely used as a means of conveying information (yeah, not my favorite way of doing so, but being a contrarian doesn't do anybody's career any good), and those are indeed intended to be read and need to have explicitly all the information that you otherwise would be speaking and addressing.

My guess is probably there is a difference between slides used for presentation and slides used for reading myself alone

Your family is starving and your dog died of radiation poisoning from the fallout but at least your local LLM can browse this and recommend a good software stack for your automated booby traps.

Not really, AI slop flood is also some kind of end of World. It gets harder and harder to hoard pre-2020 content.

I agree. This is language evolving. If someone from the 16th century could hear a modern well-educated person speak English today they would likely be horrified at how degenerate it would sound to them.

So I don't think current English is in some perfect state that should not change.

On god.

The thought process goes like this:

They're a customer already if they're opening the home screen and they probably already mounted it on their wall so fuck them. Show them ads. Also turn on the microphone in the background (what my Hisense tv does).

Your amazon links are broken. But I think you're missing the point of this thing. This isn't for people that really even care about performance. It's for people that want a laptop that works with their iPhone, does all the things their school needs them to do in a browser, and doesn't come with a complete dogsh*t OS, and isn't of dubious quality like an HP or a "NIAKUN", whatever that is.

Now the color options, that's a tragedy.

>Your amazon links are broken.

Thanks. Fixed.

>This isn't for people that really even care about performance. It's for people that want a laptop that works with their iPhone

That was my conclusion to my comment in my original. The title of "no other budget laptop can compete" is not just sensationalized, it is factually wrong. It should have been "the least expensive macbook yet comes with a catch"

No that title is perfectly correct. You just can’t see past your technical blinders to what compete really means.

> Now the color options, that's a tragedy.

Maybe they need to bring back psychedelic iMacs.

https://www.slashgear.com/1706745/rare-apple-imac-designs-fl...

"No other budget laptop can compete on offering MacOS" is certainly a correct statement, but it's not a particularly interesting one. If they're missing the point, it's because it was exaggerated to the point of not being recognizable.

And for their kids sick and tired of trying to help them fix Window's incompetence. You're into Dell for at least $800 for anything approaching an actually usable laptop. This is definitely my mom's next laptop.

Because it's a different operating system?