Seems like my co is shedding US jobs and moving them to Taiwan, and paying up to 75% less in salary.

Where does this money go? I see that some is lost value, like in the downed aircraft, but what groups are profiting off this crazy flow?

Must be a fun time to work on open problems. I published my graduate research close to a decade ago, often find myself fantasizing about tackling open problems with Claude.

I went *browserless on my device and it has solved my screen compulsion issues with very little downside. It has been the most effective step I've ever taken. I realized I really love msg'ing friends, having access to maps and navigation, banking, just a handful of apps (no google apps), and that all along it was the browser.

*ios doesnt let you delete Safari so I set a 10 minute timer on it, and i dont have any adblock or content filtering enabled, so it's essentially only good for brief checks (auto-shop phone number, quick news check, etc.) but is useless for anything beyond that.

honestly, you couldn't even build your own house.

There's a great discussion with Stephen Wolfram on the Sean Carroll podcast. Listening to it made me think very highly of Wolfram. He's a free thinking, eccentric, mathematician, scientist; who got started doing serious work at a very young age. He still has a youthful creative approach to thought and science. I hope LLMs do pair well with his tools.

Recently I went back to The Ecstasy of Communication by Jean Baudrillard which I couldn't get through back in the day when I first picked it up. I used Haiku to walk me through the first chapter, and Haiku would not state anything verbatim due to copyright, but if I referenced a sentence it knew it exactly.