A critic can recommend a book that changed him. What he cannot do is recommend, at scale and in advance, the book that would change him next — because what a critic sells is continuity of criteria, and that book's whole function is to break them. This isn't a complaint about any particular paper. It's … Continue reading The Book Nobody Can Recommend
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Cheap Confession
On what language models made cheap, what they left exactly as expensive as it was, and why the difference is the whole argument A scheduling manager writes the rule that shifts get posted on Thursday for the following Monday. From where she sits, it is obviously good: it gives three days' notice where there used … Continue reading Cheap Confession
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