@eliotetc.bsky.social @rickyftw.bsky.social Watched the latest episode, and the Sam Altman bit gave me flashbacks to being in a band in the late-90s/00s and having clubs offer to pay us in “exposure.” Lol, riiiiiiiight …
Sweet! Being pissed off at tech bros is better for my gym routine then thrash metal, as it turns out. Looking forward to listening in the morning.
Should I eat a sandwich right before bed? Probably not. Am I gonna? Yeah.
I often wonder if the pandemic led to where we are or just brought about the current era faster, whether it created this or simply hastened the inevitable. I tend to think the latter
As expected, Anthropic is introducing weekly limits, after increasing costs dramatically on Cursor in late May/early June, and as I reported a few weeks ago, Claude code was costing anthropic remarkable amounts. I told you!!!
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Really sorta memed the life out of that Coldplay thing in record time I feel like.
In the words of Steve Gaines, "You got that right!"
It's real fun at universities these days. I feel like Galileo telling Paul V that the geocentric model is wrong when arguing that tech CEOs overstate everything and that, currently, we have a neat app that boils a lake for a ppt outline.
This is killing me, lol. Of course ChatGPT tells you it was wrong! It’s programmed to be obsequious to the user. I’ve tested it on questions where I knew the answer, had it give the same “I’ll get it right this time” response and then continue to give wrong answers.
I have to spend so much time double checking it that it’s faster to just do it for scratch. There is no way I’d trust technology that can’t even consistently give the same answers for a regression model and will make up citations regularly with my career.
I’m really surprised to hear someone as intelligent as Brian also be so credulous of AI’s ability to do research. Doing research is a big part of my job, and while AI streamlines some things and can be really useful for getting started, it’s is completely untrustworthy for generating research.
Ah, summer. When I get to enjoy sitting on the porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book, and being endlessly pelted by God's favorite practical joke - giving June bugs wings.
Interesting what happens when people can no longer afford to to be blinded by endless consumption.
Bill Clinton as a grim reaper killing the hillary 08, kamala 2024 and Cuomo 2025 campaigns
Definitely gave me a research idea which might actually be novel enough that I am hesitant to post it, lol.
Good stuff.
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Cool. So we've hit the era where our foreign policy is the equivalent of an older sibling holding a younger sibling down, hitting them in the face with the younger's own hands, and yelling, "Stop hitting yourself!"
Photo of FDR with the quote: I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Zohran Mamdani having billionaires throwing everything they can at him reminds me of this.
Deep dish pizza now has a powerful ally in the war against New York style pizza.
You know, I feel like if the best you can do is tell me "It will be delivered between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m.," you could just leave it at, "Today sooner or later - maybe plan to order lunch in if you expect to actually get this today," would suffice, UPS.
So “electrocute” is a portmanteau. I guess I never really thought about it until last night while listening to @iwriteok.bsky.social.
Can’t say that I’m shocked though. . .
I’ll show myself out now.
Fried chicken is the final boss of addictions it seems.
You learn pretty quickly to not stick your finger in a light socket after doing it. No amount of being told seems to teach that lesson like doing it.
Shame that 30% of the country is forcing a collective version of this by needing to rip things down to remember why they were built to begin with.
Some centuries you just get lucky I guess.
You know, if you look at human history since the neolithic revolution and the rise and fall of empire, America really blew ours pretty quickly in a spectacularly stupid way. Makes you think that those European powers in the 1800s who saw us as a bunch of yokels pretty much called it.
March Madness: Florida wins its third national title and denies Houston its first, rallying for a 65-63 victory.
It's weird to me how 18th Century enlightenment thinkers are fetishized by a segment of our population, yet they seem to know nothing about them. For instance, if you think this tariff business makes any sense, never use the phrase "invisible hand" ever again. Adam Smith is rolling in his grave.
Had three flights cancel on me today and met Cornell West before giving up and driving from Memphis back to Oxford through an hour’s worth of tornado warnings.
What was your Saturday like?
Every year since 2010 - "I am going to really get ahead of this conference deadline this year and save myself the last minute freakout."
And every year since 2010 - "Well, guess I'm writing 3/4s of this paper in 48 hours while trying not to devolve into a weeping mass hiding in the corner"
The Bill & Ted movies will always be one of my favorite series of movies, which is of course largely due to the chemistry between you and Reeves. I'd be fascinated to see what that chemistry looks like in a totally different context.
Some days I find myself wondering that if, as a species, we're going to end up extinct due to ourselves, a natural catastrophe, the growing brightness of the sun, or the heat death of the universe anyway, that maybe the whole neolithic revolution was a mistake.
