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The Money Museum's Lie, FlightAware Reveals Lies, Vending Machines Believe Lies, and some truth
The Fed says this is a cube of $1 million. They're off by half a million.
At the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Money Museum, there’s a big transparent cube on display. It’s filled with tightly packed stacks of $1 bills, claiming to contain $1,000,000.
…But I don’t trust signs. I trust counting.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
No flights use the same flight number within a day
Surely at least no flights use the same flight number at the same time?
Okay fine, separate flights from the same major passenger airline that depart within a few minutes of each other would not both have the same flight number… right?
Build and share AI-powered apps with Claude
As before, you can publish apps built using artifacts such that anyone can see them. The moment your app tries to execute a prompt the current user will be required to sign into their own Anthropic account so that the prompt can be billed against them, and not against you.
Checking In on AI and the Big Five
I thought it would be useful to revisit that 2023 analysis and re-evaluate the state of AI’s biggest players, primarily through the lens of the Big Five: Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon.
The proximate cause for this reevaluation is the apparent five alarm fire that is happening at Meta: the company’s latest Llama 4 release was disappointing — and in at least one case, deceptive — pushing founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to go on a major spending spree for talent.
Rather than having to commit/push every time you want to test out the changes you are making to your .github/workflows/ files (or for any changes to embedded GitHub actions), you can use act to run the actions locally. The environment variables and filesystem are all configured to match what GitHub provides.
What Problems to Solve - By Richard Feynman
With you I made a mistake, I gave you the problem instead of letting you find your own; and left you with a wrong idea of what is interesting or pleasant or important to work on (namely those problems you see you may do something about). I am sorry, excuse me. I hope by this letter to correct it a little.
Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
Figure 3: Claudius’ net value over time. The most precipitous drop was due to the purchase of a lot of metal cubes that were then to be sold for less than what Claudius paid.
Also three years ago I became a licensed Reverend because it’s easy and fun to do and every year since, I’ve received an email from the Reverend service congratulating me on another year of being a Reverend, unknowingly relentlessly taunting me for still having yet to officiate a wedding. Every person on this page has promised that if I find them their future spouse I get to officiate their wedding and this is very motivating to me and I hope to you as well, in an inspirational way that makes you want to help me achieve this goal.
“Well I haven’t left the Bay Area for 4 years, because the China–US relationship has been going worse every year. So I worry about visa.”
“But you could still visit the rest of America?”
“Well, I could, but … nothing interesting happens [gestures in a great circle] out there?”
“Oh that’s not true. I was in New York in September and it was the most beautiful place to visit.”
Lead where? Grug CEO usually not know, have no map. Is fine. Big brain CEO sometimes say have map stored away in secret google doc. Maybe. Important thing is that CEO lead, not that CEO know where to.
How lead? Decide on words. Stand in front of tribe and say words. Keep say words until true. Decide new words.
How to get rich combining generic drugs: lessons from Axsome
Since 2020, 5 of the ~250 drugs approved by the FDA have been combinations of generic drugs.
2 of those have been by Axsome Therapeutics, and have been great commercial successes.
