I like raw metal flashlights because I like the idea that we gathered up the remnants of dead stars and made them shine again.

Fun fact: the difference between viruses and bacteria is that viruses mine Bitcoin and bacteria train large language models

I swear I just saw a Waymo in South Hills. I knew they were coming to Pittsburgh but figured they'd just be downtown.

It's so cool to be using a tool and seeing new features and suddenly remembering it was something you asked Codex or Claude Code to add before dinner and apparently they figured it out.

Was hoping my new glasses would come in before christmas but apparently the lab accidentally melted them.

I kind of wish my suburban Pittsburgh backyard was half as exciting as the people on Facebook who think coyotes and hawks prey on humans think it is.

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My little basement office is so cozy in the winter. I put the insulated bags from the HelloFresh boxes over the window, turn off the overhead lights, and crank up the heater.

Finally added external runners to my chat app that can be seeded by mini sessions from the caller so it can offload time consuming post turn agents (e.g., memory, second opinion, etc) without blocking the main chat.

It really breaks the "next token predictor" understatement when the LLM is like: Tell you what, just give me the last email you wrote and I'll mimic your tone.

I hope "psychosis" doesn't become just another useless label like "slop". Some of what I see people joke about as "LLM psychosis" feels awfully close to when people make fun of those on the spectrum when they hyperfocus on something.

Do I have any followers here familiar with med tech and hipaa stuff? Have a hypothetical I need a gut check on.

Hid from carolers like they were terminators. I would never survive in a hallmark movie.

How can Lee Pace look so cool in literally anything he wears.

**looking around nervously gif**

about half the people on this website act like the first time anyone lied on the internet is when we managed to teach linear algebra to do it. like separating truth from fiction is somehow a new demand that this talking magic box imposes on us.

It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if part of the “AI makes you dumber” claims is similar to the “it’s a week before xmas and I’ve turned off my brain” claims. We’re in a transitional period and even those of us who keep up on the stuff are unsure of what’s next.

I continue to think LLMs are absurdly powerful for learning, and I'm using them more often for it. The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism. You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.

"people need the dignity of work" as a response to a highly automated future is just the Protestant work ethic rearing its head

Nothing says preparedness like your pants falling down as you try to run with all the elements stuffed into your pockets.

What is the deal with users these days thinking developers should consult them on every little thing? Every single day it's a bunch of them screaming about some new feature they don't like on something they don't pay for or create.

This site is radicalizing me. Going to start looking for property for my data center slash elevator factory.

You cant even prefabricate elevators in America We are turning into a country of grifters

Seriously, why, why why why, is all reporting on this one topic filled with such obviously insane framing decisions?

If we ever get to where we can upload into computers the first thing I’m going to do is find the Outlook grammar checker and kill it.

Someone in the neighborhood fb group is talking about caroling on our street and all I can think is: don't come here don't come here. What is the proper response to them? Do you clap? Throw cookies? I lack both the social skills and xmas spirit for something like that. I mean... this is our tree.

So many of those who parrot the anti-AI environmental talking points because they don't like AI don't seem to realize that those originating these claims would gladly come for the things they do like if given the chance. You don't like AI, so what? You like air conditioning?

It seems my brother has escalated his DIY snow making this year.

I hate how people can't just express condolences without having to do the stupid little "I didn't agree with" or "politics aside" dance.

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Kind of wish there was a game that could connect other games. Like I'm wandering though the brush in a fishing game when I stumble across a cave that leads me into a vault in fallout.

Really don't want to shovel several inches of snow at 14°F today with my arm still messed up. Think we'll just hunker down and wait it out. Plus the Subaru could handle it if needed.

Titanium isn't the most practical material for a flashlight but damn if it isn't sexy.

Added the label a while ago because I'd forget about the deduplication and compression and think I was missing data.

The only thing I don't like about data centers is how separate and walled off they are. Let us live amongst them and eat noodles cooked by the heat of the thinking sand.

whole lotta people frame their "policy ideas" in the language of "if I was empowered with authoritarian control and resistance was effectively crushed". they miss the entire bit about implementation and incentives for reaction or subterfuge or community buy-in. once you see it, it's everywhere.

i don’t really think this is an excuse for the level of incuriosity, ignorance, and cynicism on display in the culture though in the past we celebrated new technological breakthroughs or at least had some humility about our ability to assess them from non-expert perspectives

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The bet that AI won't be profitable is almost guaranteed to be wrong. Current models are already at the "magic" level and it won't take many years before we have AI accelerator chips that are orders of magnitude more efficient than current ones. That's where the big bet confidence comes from IMHO.

Feels like a solenoid on kinda day.

I wish I would have grabbed a copper E05-II when they were available, but the SC13 is great. Now I just need a stainless light.

This is our birthright we make tools it's how we got this far and it's how we get out. but if we insist that the very tradition of crafting problem-solving artifacts is tainted, something evil to reject... that's binding our limbs to a rock and tossing ourselves into the abyss

Are luddites getting paid by the token or something? They generate more text than any LLM I've ever used.

Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake

As someone from a long line of people seemingly incapable of getting bored, I just don't get the concern about AI taking meaning and things to do. Is that something that happens to most people?

if i had told anyone ten years ago that we would have self-declared luddites and people saying that they'd rather not cure cancer if our automation is so good that humans cannot experience the joy of doing science it would have been considered laughable hysteria

this is from a neurips panelist i wish him all the compassion and selflessness he shows towards those with cancer

I think we're probably a long way off, if ever, from not needing to hire humans. But there's going to be a lot of narcissistic injury along the way as employers can be more selective and not need to hire particularly unpleasant ones.

Humans need more natural predators. Someone should run on an Albert Wesker inspired platform.