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Tuesday, September 1, 20261 item

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 - 7 posts · tagged: #ai #poker #knicks #agents

WHEN +EV ISN'T THE WHOLE QUESTION

September's AI release calendar, laid out in one quoted list - Fable 5.1, GPT 6 Astra, Grok 4.7, DeepSeek V5, Gemini 3.8 flash and more inside a single month - drew the day's first reaction: spelled out like that, the pace of change is remarkable (x.com). Hours later Every's week-long Fable 5.1 test landed - "the strongest coding model we've used" - and got a repost plus a short verdict: "This review makes me want to use Fable 5.1. Check it out." (x.com).

The day's most engaged post was a poker hand. Sixteen players left, A8s in early position with ten big blinds and the blinds about to jump - shove, button shows queens, out after three days of grinding. The question isn't the shove's chip EV, which was probably fine; it's whether a decision can be right in isolation and wrong once you weigh what happens if it goes badly - startups included (x.com). One reply pushed back directly: "pretty clearly the right call" (x.com).

Elsewhere: a webhook that returned HTTP 200 while a Postgres worker silently dropped the payload over an unescaped unicode character in a property address - "My grandmother would think I am speaking a foreign language" (x.com). An inbox agent that finds unopened newsletters, adds checkboxes, and unsubscribes on command: "works like a charm!" (x.com). A clear-grape Gatorade review from a glass-bottle lifer who wanted to hate it and kinda digs it (x.com). And a note that Jalen Brunson turned 30 - if he gets another ring, "they better just give him the statue" (x.com).

Sunday, August 30, 20261 item

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 - 4 posts · tagged: #ai #knicks #nyc-eats #agents

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WAIT GOES AWAY

Two of Sunday's posts circle the same question. Taalas is generating roughly 14,000 tokens per second, about 100x ChatGPT's pace, and the post quoting the demo asks the follow-up: what happens when waiting goes away? The evening's first post answers it in advance: demand for intelligence grows 50x in the next few years. If both hold, faster supply doesn't relieve demand - it creates it.

The rest of the day: Kevin Durant spent the summer publicly crediting the Knicks' Finals comeback with breaking his brain, an unusual amount of praise from that corner. And a documented home attempt at L'Artusi's mushroom dish, rated pretty good.