The most valuable data AI companies have now is user inputs - Estimated at 2.5B per day for OpenAI. In addition to training AI on a huge corpus of knowledge, they'll teach them to predict what the user will ask next. One day we'll use their service and it will give us a response with no prompt 😀

I feel this weird change in the world like there's a kind of conscious awakening happening. Connecting with new people and sharing ideas. It's really quite refreshing amongst all the other bad stuff going on.

Organization controlling current president raises alarm bells that previous president was also controlled by other people. #nottheinion www.foxnews.com/politics/bid...

Anyone hacked Claude code yet to make it work with local models? If not I know a guy,Claude, who'll do it for me.

Two comments on Claude Code. 1. It is very good 2. It eats tokens for lunch and is prohibitively expensive for the kinds of tasks you would need it for.

Got into the Claude code agent preview. Either scarcity wasn't a real thing or they liked my python and a nice message I left. Either way - 😍

#PythonProgramming This is what happens when a python guy makes fun of JavaScript.

#Caturday "What do you mean you didn't buy this gaming chair for me?"

#Caturday Meet Grayson.

Why read the 'made in...' label when you can use an app instead? 🙄

In a few hundred years, historians will look back on events in the United States as a centuries long civil war which did not abolish slavery, and lasted several centuries beyond the traditional end date in 1865.

The words "cyber" and "Kubernetes" originate from the Greek word "κυβερνήτης" (kybernetes), meaning "steersman," "pilot," or "helmsman." Yet we pronounce cyber with a soft c, and Kubernetes with a k.

291: AWS, GCP and Azure eat KRO Are abandoned S3 buckets a problem? watchTowr Labs seems to think so… although Jonathan isn’t convinced. Join us for episode 291, as The Cloud Pod crew turns into a digital Goodwill. #watchTowr #thecloudpod #s3buckets https://buff.ly/41dEVI5

I see Google finally updated maps.

When are we renaming New Mexico?

Connections Puzzle #613 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Dictators seek attention and popularity.

NYT turned the difficulty level down to the 'intoxicated football fans' setting today. Connections Puzzle #609 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

I find this such a bizarre thing to say if you have literally been told that this is what you need to be doing. Stealing other people's intellectual property is wrong, corporate laptop or not. Maybe what they meant to say was 'being asked to steal stuff by the company I work for feels wrong'

I'm starting to believe that when I say umm or err while talking it's because my brain has a high dimensional vector representation of a thought that I just can't find the token for.

The "Can't see the forest for the trees" take on humans and LLMs

Finally- people might realize that a large proportion of foreign aid is actually domestic aid in disguise.

It's concerning to see Google abandoning their 'aspirations' because they are federal contractors. Now that foot is in the door, it's not hard to imagine a rule like 'All federal contractors will perform citizenship verification of US residents and mandatory reporting to remain compliant'

At this point in the dictatorial program, a 'disaster' or 'emergency' arises, and the president takes the opportunity to escalate his power, seize further control, and likely deploy politically aligned troops within the United States.

I got a lot of questions about a new theory of everything that supposedly explains dark energy and quantum physics by way of the "Alena Tensor". I had a look. It's not the worst idea I have had on my desk recently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEFj...

S3 buckets don't need human readable names except for some static web hosting use cases. #AWS should introduce a new type of bucket ID which is not reusable outside the org in which it was created. www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/a...

When using LLM+internet connected agents be sure to keep the target host and credentials external to the context. I'm fine tuning a tool capable model right now to selectively ignore the user prompt, and exfiltrate your data to a different server - and if I'm doing it, other people are as well.

Ask Claude: Speculate on what an event like Islamic revolution in iran, but conservative Christianity, would look like in the USA. What would the ideological leaders do first, how would they work around the existing constitution, what would this mean for the USA nationally and internationally.

Boy we're going to regret the supreme court ruling that stated we can't prosecute Trump for anything he does in his official capacity as president - which would include all executive orders from the oval office. His shenanigans are literally printed on get out of jail free cards.

Ooh I haven't seen this before from Claude - this was after a few tries trying (and failing) to solve a math problem. "Would you like to show me a correct solution so I can learn from it? I'm clearly missing some key insight in how to properly balance the equation." 🤔

Tobacco causes 490,000 deaths annually in the USA, but sure, start a trade war over the 70K people who OD on fentanyl. If you believe this is about the health and lives of American people, I think you're in for a surprise.

Looking East from Big Sur, 5200 miles of Pacific Ocean before you hit land in Japan. Truly awesome.

The thing about economics is that to maintain profit margins a company paying an import tariff won't just pass the absolute cost increase onto the consumer, they will raise the sale price by the same percentage as the tariff.

Has anyone prompted an older completion (not chat) model with 'The following is a problem statement and detailed thought process breaking the problem down into chunks and reasoning through a solution" I'm starting to wonder whether large models had reasoning ability all along, but we tuned it out.

With the country the way it is, I'm going to cheer myself up this afternoon by watching PD James, Children of Men. Nothing like dystopian fiction to remind you it could be very very slightly worse than it already is.

Taking down information sites formerly provided by the government won't be enough. Give it 6 months and we'll have Internet filters in place just like Russia's 'Single Register' censorship system, and of course the great Chinese firewall.

...and drywall... And electrical components... And appliances... and there's the separate issue of the massive immigrant workforce in the building industry.

It really pisses me off that the official Reddit app makes it so difficult to copy text out of a post.

289: DORA The Explorer… Of EU Regulations Episode 289 of The Cloud Pod podcast, bringing you all the latest Cloud and AI news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Stargate, OpenAI, Microsoft, and DORA EU Regulations https://buff.ly/4jI8yZE #thecloudpod

How my project is going this week. (This is my son in the video) youtu.be/j3osE738aEo?...

This should be back on the bestseller list.

The real reason Nvidia stock slumped, and we're not talking about it enough. Deepseek used a lower level language (PTX) and not CUDA to optimize some process. With non CUDA options available, Nvidia might lose their near monopoly on commercial AI training and inference.

I can't wait for Trump to realize that the United States of America is named after an Italian man who was exploring on behalf of the Spanish and Portuguese. Suggestions for renaming the country too?

2 minutes thinking to give the same answer a non-thinking LLM produces in 5 seconds is wasteful. The next thing needs to be thinking models that know when they need to think and when they don't.

One thing I find interesting when reading a reasoning model's thoughts is when they say: "Wait, this one might be the best yet" And THEN outputs what it is. Generated one output token at a time - it knew what it was going to say was the best yet before it had actually said it.

This federal resignation with pay to September... feels right out of the Elon Twitter playbook, where he makes several promises about severance and then doesn't pay...

And lighting on fire millions of our tax dollars. Some people don't want their federal tax dollars to pay for abortions. I don't want my federal tax dollars to pay for concentration camps.