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Software engineer (Children’s Media: Daytime Emmy, Bologna Ragazzi), Xennial, Dad, Rust Belt → France → SF → Startup → Big Tech → PNW
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

How to fix complex systems: 1) build guardrails to make sure essential services aren’t disrupted 2) audit how the system functions today 3) make small auditable changes 3a) if a part is too complex to edit, build a replacement in vitro then swap I believe Musk is incompetent, not nefarious.

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Cassandra Peterson and Paul Reubens

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

someone on linkedin, of all places, sent me an article about querying the LLM’s knowledge by *thought token forcing* basically, insert a gentle suggestion, like `<think>I know this` and the R1 completes it with, e.g., details on tienamen square dsthoughts.baulab.info

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Valid AI criticisms: - ill-gotten training data - bubble - fossil fuels - hamfisted use-cases - bad ROI Invalid: - it’s not useful. LLM’s are useful to my job and AlphaFold won noble prize. Pretending it has no value detracts from valid arguments.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Boeing imports $10 billion of goods per year from Canada and Mexico. It has no ability to offload the costs. 90% of Washington’s fertilizer comes from Canada. www.seattletimes.com/business/wa-...

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submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

Why do we have to teach Trump and his supporters civics? This is fucking stupid, they are fucking stupid. Not knowing how to be president should be disqualifying.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I asked a car saleman a question about a car and they responded "I don't know, let's look it up". Then I watched him type it up into Google and he read to me the AI generated response at the top. It's one thing to consider someone might do that, horrifying to actually see.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Trumps next big con is trying to make you believe he has more power than he has.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Trump can’t stop the green transition, he’s just making sure the future of green tech is Chinese.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s a good use for AI: remix Home Alone so I get different booby traps every Christmas viewing.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I picked up Turok during the steam sale. I had it as a kid and forgot how fun it is. I didn’t recall how there is that sound that spawns new enemies next to you as an incentive to keep moving. Good game. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turok_(...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I gotta speak up. I love Canada. They welcomed my grandfather after WW2. I would vacation there as a kid in MI. In my early 20s I traveled to Montreal and partied with people from around the world. Now I live in WA and being able to easily visit makes me happy. I’ll fight anyone over Canada.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Today OpenAI announced o3, its next-gen reasoning model. We've worked with OpenAI to test it on ARC-AGI, and we believe it represents a significant breakthrough in getting AI to adapt to novel tasks.

submitted 65 days ago • 20 comments

I wish pc gaming would grow up past teenage fantasies and be content I can play with my kids. I think 1/7 games I got on steam sale are appropriate to play in front of kids.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Do yourself a favor and zoom into Andy’s profile picture, it’s precious (I don’t use that word lightly).

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Gist: We mythologize billionaires as geniuses since it’s harder to accept we live in a society that could reward them so much if they were anything less. Good read.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

submitted 72 days ago • 2857 comments

www.npr.org/2024/12/11/n...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

imo The Ramones should’ve recorded a Pet Sematary-esque song for every Stephen King film adaptation, e.g. 🎶I don’t want to be dining at the hotel from The Shining/ I don’t want a blowjob from a bear🎶

submitted 74 days ago • 125 comments

Movie recommendation: The Abominable Dr. Phibes. A biblical scholar seeks revenge on the doctors that failed to save his wife’s life. Featuring Vincent Price. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/abominable...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments