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In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use a low mark to reward your loyal investors. If you run a hedge fund, the main temptation is to report better performance.

Money Stuff: CoinDeal’s Bentleys Weren’t Real

Matt Levine

Before using dried fruit I rehydrate it in a bowl of water with a splash of vinegar (otherwise it can be too dense and chewy).

Six Seasons

Joshua McFadden

My gut tells me this pattern, which doesn’t really have a name, is going to be *the* pattern for working with these technologies to do complex things. The best name I can find for it is “specification repair”—see, for example, [this paper](https://arxiv.org/html/2309.16120v3). You ask a question and the LLM transforms it into a more detailed specification of a problem, then writes code to test that specification, then creates more specification, then tests that.

Is “Specification Repair” the AI Endgame?

Paul Ford

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