Short posts
Estimating frontier LLM sizes by asking about obscure facts. Pretty interesting idea here. https://01.me/research/ikp/
talkie is a chatbot trained on pre-1931 text. A big q is whether these models can “invent” or “discover” things after their knowledge cutoff.
Oh and it’s also quite fun.
New: See why tech companies are paying people to do chores
Featuring many videos of robots attempting to fold clothes
Enjoyed this essay by Armin Ronacher. “The middle ground between rejecting a technology outright and embracing it fully is usually occupied by people willing to explore it seriously enough to judge it.”
Useful: An archive of congressional press releases from 2001-2026, with daily updates. Nice resource by Derek Willis
Back after a few days off, and I think I’m no longer an inbox-zero person
Made my TV debut yesterday, talking about my latest story on AI and jobs with NBC News NOW (around 1:29:20)
Labels on these scatterplots brought to you by avoid-overlap — my library for automatic label placement on charts. Let me know how it goes if you give it a shot.
New: AI job exposure is important, but there’s more to the picture. Here’s what the research says on adaptability.
Find your job here 🎁 https://wapo.st/4cP2ZHM
More details on how Pentagon uses Claude from NYT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html
