Today’s Swedish shoehorn

Hotel Storfosen

Let’s say you’re building a traditional desktop software app, like Microsoft Excel. You come out with major new versions every few years, but once the code is written, you can sell it to infinite users at no extra cost. It’s just copies of code. You gotta maintain it, but those costs are marginal.

AI does not work like this. AI’s marginal costs are pretty significant, because you have to pay for inference. The more users you have, the higher your variable costs get. If a billion people suddenly want to use your app, you might not have capacity to serve them, even if they’re willing to pay.

The Swedish love their shoehorns

Gulf of Bothnia

Osthammer

Osthammer

Good morning

Reading Ogawa’s Memory Police was my favorite book so far this year

Morning in Osthammer

Been reading a sci fi series where-in their are giant orbiting transit stations So far we have managed an orbiting station the size of a School bus

I did not hear Disney say “we were wrong” So, by step 9 rules We do not have an amend If I were Disney’s sponsor, I would have them re-write that apology before I would ok it for delivery

if you're in line to cancel disney+ stay in line

If you were to ask, I would tell you that the most surprising thing about Sweden is there use of candles in restaurants and bathrooms

Travel thousands of miles to find a Buddha in a bathroom who is the same as the Buddha in my living room

Osthammer

Swedish Skyway

A room with a view. Osthammer

We could solve the plastic pollution problem in one minute Simply stop plastic bags and bottles Instead, we will wring our hands and decide clearly improbable plans

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

Stockholm

Lots of statues. Great bird roosts

Not saying I won a Nobel…

I love the brain dead assumption that you can expand the tent by running anti-abortion candidates without also losing any voters

Next up

Stockholm bound From JFK

*inventing Bluetooth* Well, it works about 60% of the time. That’ll probably be good enough forever.

Ezra Klein is a lot easier to understand when you accept that he has zero interest in helping people and his core interest is building an ever growing money generating platform where he can sit in the center and say people should talk with fascists more so they can all be friends.

Highland cow fact: because they live on top of mountains, every photo of a highland cow looks badass and heroic

Had a sudden NEED to read Raymond Carver So I am Reading Raymond Carver A small Good thing Definitely the right choice

Good morning

Sick burn

Sunset

From behind, a Tesla truck Looks Like a commercial oven Odd choice

Either Life’s Rich Pageant Or Reckoning

ikr

Watching news on airline setbacks should be illegal

"Britain must burn more fossil fuels and bills must rise in order to power the robot that'll fire everyone. How else will I afford my next private island?"

Every dystopia all at once

Just met with a guy who is back giving sobriety another shot So good for me. And maybe for him

AAHHH

McCarthy completes basically nothing to his left. Not the best sign (and something defenses probably know about since I know about it)