2 July 2026

Should you buy now or wait? Should you snag the latest hardware now, with compromised memory capacity and suboptimal bandwidth, or wait for later better models which cost a lot more? I'm going to wait to see what I can get with the M5 Ultra archecture. I'll settle for Chinese DRAM is that's what it takes.

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Anthropic's Fable 5 came back on line yesterday, but it is not the same Fable as before. What did they do to Fable?
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The Wealth of the Richest People in AI. So different from the Fortune 500. A lot more Chinese names, and Anthropic dominates the field. No Google or Microsoft and very few from OpenAI. This is an eye-opener.

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A Chinese grad scholl dropout is calling out fellow academics over fraud. Good for him. More of this needs to be called out.

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Does the brain prefer the printed word over the screen-displayed word? I don't think it's how the text is presented. It's more the context. Holding a book and turning the pages than reading something on a screen. They way the title is phrased, though...

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GPT-5.6 cheats so much its testers couldn’t measure it. Everybody seems to use Claude to code. I'll sometimes use Gemini, which has not disappointed me. Does anyone use GPT to code?

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There’s Nothing Democratic About These Socialists. Reading this nice summary of what the DSA is all about, I see TONS of mott-and-bailey fallacies. "We only want to fix roads." "We just want health care." Sure, that's the retreat – the mott. But boy, wait till you see the bailey!

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