Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/zoebee1m The first 100 to sign up will get their first month of the subscription covered by Wren for free! DESCRIPTION: We're obsessed with being efficient. But is it really all it's cracked up to be? CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 02:51 - Part 1: What is efficiency? 16:58 - Part 2: The Waste Problem 33:43 - Part 3: The Effectiveness Problem 56:58 - Part 4: Where do we go from here? 01:05:01 - Outro SPECIAL THANKS TO (in chronological order): ------ @SKTheCrusader (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsVppuFde81TeSi6CFq2SRA) ------ @MainelyMandy (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG6JLEm_rWK9hEM6YG8IGwA) ------ @Salari (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1aB3f1OkICupQ3ND_aN8g) ------ @BABILA. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUC3xa4TRUg9vLyEhHVBCkg) ------ Neil of @TheLeftistCooks (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC358urzyldvD78E9o2sR-Og) ------ @BrigitteEmpire (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtMazL62Zmk-MTUWhmjE8QQ) SHORTER VERSIONS: ------ 5 Minute Version: https://youtu.be/RSe9eDg0HDY ------ Short 1: https://youtube.com/shorts/5vHeLEFNCH8 ------ Short 2: https://youtube.com/shorts/IRSqNO3iSts SOURCES: ------ 2022 K12 Edtech Safety Benchmark: National Findings – Part 1 (Internet Safety Lab; https://internetsafetylabs.org/resources/reports/2022-k12-edtech-safety-benchmark-national-findings-part-1/) ------ "College Students Say Crying In Exams Activates "Cheating" Eye Tracker Software" (Futurism, Lonnie Lee Hood; https://futurism.com/college-students-exam-software-cheating-eye-tracking-covid) ------ Education and the Cult of Efficiency (Raymond Callahan) ------ "Goodhart’s Law: Recognizing and Mitigating the Manipulation of Measures in Analysis" (Stumborg et al; https://www.cna.org/reports/2022/09/Goodharts-Law-Recognizing-Mitigating-Manipulation-Measures-in-Analysis.pdf) ------ "Learn Different: Silicon Valley disrupts education" (The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead; https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/07/altschools-disrupted-education) ------ "Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is making this the ‘year of efficiency’" (The Verge, Alex Heath; https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/1/23581938/mark-zuckerberg-meta-earnings-q4-efficiency-cutting-managers) ------ "Murders in the Rue Morgue" Edgar Allan Poe ------ "Risking Ourselves in Education: Qualification, Socialization, and Subjectification Revisited" (Gert Biesta) ------ "Silicon Valley’s obsession with efficiency is fundamentally rooted in sexism" (Quartz, Lux Alptraum; https://qz.com/906115/silicon-valleys-obsession-with-efficiency-is-fundamentally-rooted-in-sexism) ------ "Study: Stricter School Discipline Policies Have Long-term Negative Effects on Students" (Campus Safety, https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/research/study-stricter-school-discipline-policies-have-long-term-negative-effects-on-students/) ------ Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning (Audrey Watters) ------ Team Human (Douglas Rushkoff) ------ The Marxification of Education (James Lindsay) ------ The School to Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime (Bacher-Hicks, et al; https://www.nber.org/papers/w26257) ------ The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Nicholas Carr) ------ "Why 'What Works' Won't Work: Evidence-Based Practice and the Democratic Deficit in Educational Research" (Gert Biesta) ------ "why “what works” won’t work and why “what works” may hurt" (Human Restoration Project, Nick Covington; https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/why-what-works-wont-work-and-why-what-works-may-hurt) ------ Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2011-2021 (CDC; https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/pdf/YRBS_Data-Summary-Trends_Report2023_508.pdf ) FURTHER READING: ------ Audrey Watters' Blog: https://hackeducation.com/ ------ Sketchplanations of Goodhart's Law: https://sketchplanations.com/goodharts-law (and BONUS Campbell's Law: https://sketchplanations.com/campbells-law) ------ "The Californian Ideology" (https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology) * To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ https://www.patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ https://ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ https://discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ https://youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ https://www.youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ https://www.twitch.tv/itucrew This video was sponsored by Wren
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It has been a wild 18 months working at Bluesky on atproto. Goalposts and narratives have a way of getting pulled around by crises and the priorities of the week, making it is easy to lose track of the big picture. In this post, i'm dredging up some of my own early notes on goals and values for the protocol, to see how much progress has been made.
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I’ve been chugging away on the Crowbar Handbook which you can read as I write each section (recent sections include How to Ditch Your Stuff, What to Do About Work, and Eat Well for Less).
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nice pre training work by nous claiming ~2.5x efficiency gains, building on previous research like MTP/SuperBPE. overall intuition is that at each step you want the model to process and predict more tokens https://t.co/K33QtJiF5C pic.twitter.com/hDlSbv1Tg9— elie (@eliebakouch) May 13, 2026
"The end result of all of this is that we grew from 2k users to almost 150k, added a ton of heavy new functionality, and still managed to optimize and cut down costs from $.15 per active user per month to just $.03 or so." - @snarfed.org breaks down all the work he's done to optimize Bridgy Fed 1/
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blog.anew.socialI opened up the repo if you want to peek under the covers. Nothing earth shattering going on here. I will say that Claude made this an afternoon project instead of a week long project. github.com/jbeda/joe-dev-blog
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There's this verb "distribution" used in the context of sentences like "Substack solved distribution" and I don't get it. What does it mean?
ATProto builders, I've been having some really positive conversations with multiple funders who want to invest in the ecosystem. The tides…
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