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Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on "pragmatic interpretability" (AI Alignment Forum)
https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/StENzDcD3kpf…

Federighi und Apples KI-Ambitionen: Pragmatismus statt Innovation?
Apples KI-Entwicklung: Ein langer Weg steht bevor. Softwarechef Federighi setzt auf pragmatisches Vorgehen und vermeidet große Ausgaben, so ein Bericht.

This article by @… squarely hits in the feels, names and articulates what's happening in the tech industry, and points towards pragmatic things we can do.
Notably — and I cannot sufficiently underscore how crucial this is — Anil spells out that power by its very definition is fundamentally requisite to enact any influence on the direction of tech. We cannot cha…

Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, on the rupture of the old world order:
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/01/20/principled-and-pragmatic-canadas-path-prime-minister-carney-addresses
He goes righ…

“Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
Thank you, Larry.It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it.
Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
-- Perlis's Programming Proverb #58, SIGPLAN Notices, Sept. 1982

from my link log —
Software architecture is overrated, clear and simple design is underrated.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-architecture-is-overrated/
saved 2019-09-19

Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated
I had my fair share in designing and building large systems. I've taken part in rewriting Uber's distributed payment systems [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/distributed-architecture-concepts-i-have-learned-while-building-payments-systems/] , designing and shipping Skype on Xbox One and open-sourcing RIBs [https://github.com/uber/RIBs], Uber's mobile architecture framework. All of these systems had thorough

Ich hab grad Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Minneapolis¹ gehört und muß einfach nur heulen.
Ich weiß nicht, ob das nachvollziehbar oder anschlußfähig ist, aber so reagier² ich, wenn sich Menschen³ einfach hinstellen und das Richtige tun, weil sie davon überzeugt sind. Nicht fatalistisch, sondern mutig und pragmatisch. Ganz viel Liebe.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Hugo Blouin:
🎵 Soupe pragmatique
#HugoBlouin
https://ambiances-magnetiques.bandcamp.com/track/soupe-pragmatique

@… just watched your #FOSDEM talk about Dune3D. I really like how pragmatic your software design choices are.

Final talk of the day, Adam Wiggins Local-first software: pragmatism vs idealism #SyncConf