May be too technical for kids, but “Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants” is wonderful.

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...

But replit isn’t just a coding assistant - it’s value is that it handles all the associated parts of launching a web app. It manages api secrets, hosts the app, does user authentication, etc. And its target user is “semi-technical”, you don’t even see the code it writes by default.

Creating a db and not accidentally permanently deleting it is one of the capabilities it should have.

That’s an implementation choice. All the math involved is deterministic if you want it to be.

It will still be nondeterministic in this context. Prompts like “Can you do X?” and “Please do X” might result in very different outcomes, even when it’s “technically deterministic”. For the human operating with natural language it’s nondeterministic.

There are fonts designed to be legibly at really small size. I wonder if there are voices that are especially understandable at extreme speeds.

Could use an “auctioneer” voice to playback text at 10x speed.

I'm also a fast listener. I find audio quality is the main differentiator in my ability to listen quickly or not. A podcast recorded at high quality I can listen to at 3-4x (with silence trimmed) comfortably, the second someone calls in from their phone I'm getting every 4th word and often need to go down to 2x or less. Mumbly accents are also a driver of quality but not as much, then again I rarely have trouble understanding difficult accents IRL and almost never use subtitles on TV shows/youtube to better understand the speaker. Your mileage may vary.

I understand 4-6x speakers fairly well but don't enjoy listening at that pace. If I lose focus for a couple of seconds I effectively miss a paragraph of context and my brain can't fill in the missing details.

Here’s their repo: https://github.com/bryanswkim/Chain-of-Zoom

Can you explain more?

Or it could read the article and rewrite the title to make the point clear.

And give a score based on how interesting it will likely be to you.

How is that? There are lots of things that are illegal that are just “speech”.

Fraud, threats, impersonation, etc etc.

I think it’s like asking someone “how many times does your pen change direction when writing the word strawberry on paper”.

You need to think really hard to get to an answer, because that’s more fine grained than the way you usually think about words and letters.

This article:

1) Does not describe a layoff, which is an active action the company has to take to release some number of current employees, and instead describes a recent policy of "not hiring." This is a passive action that could be undertaken for any number of reasons, including those that might not sound so great for the CEO to say (e.g. poor performance of the company);

2) Cites no sources other than the CEO himself, who has a history of questionable actions when talking to the press [0];

3) Specifically mentions at the end of the article that they are still hiring for engineering positions, which, you know, kind of refutes any sort of claim that AI is replacing engineers.

Though, this does make me realize a flaw in the language of my proposed bet, which is that any CEO who claims to be laying off engineers due to advancement of LLMs could be lying, and CEOs are in fact incentivized to scapegoat LLMs if the real reason would make the company look worse in the eyes of investors.

[0] https://fortune.com/2022/06/01/klarna-ceo-sebastian-siemiatk...