I keep putting minimalist Markdown in my Mastodon posts because I’m eternally optimistic that the default UI will display it one day.

Markdown is pretty nice on its own, and one day all my old posts will spring to life and become typographically beautiful.

Here’s an excellent video from @karpathy@sigmoid.social with some intriguing ways to think about Large Language Models:

1. They are a lossy compression of the Internet.
2. They could be seen as “… the kernel process of an emerging operating system”. – they coordinate a lot of resources (memory, computational tools) for problem solving. The internet is the “disk”, the context window is “RAM” as working memory.