eric bacus
@ericbac.us
Professional vfx/mograf artist Computer science enthusiast + hotkey junkie. Dad, Hubs, and Son to the best of the best of the best. https://ericbac.us https://pulsepad.web.app https://dungencrawler.web.app @slashdotfooter.bsky.social
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. - Andy Finkel, computer guy
Can you imagine how much we could accomplish as a country if we redirected all the money being spent on these elections to investing in and improving the lives of every American?
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"Guess who I bumped into?" Jack Smith was spotted (with a Springsteen Tee) at the "Power to the People" concert by Joanne Leahy. Who thinks he would be a great AG?
Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau
This photograph of a football match in Gaza by Palestinian photographer Jehad Alshrafi was removed from the Deauville Sport Images Festival in France last month following a pressure campaign from the Israeli government:
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” Jimmy Carter, born on this day in 1924
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
I was reflecting on how many random contingencies went into creating the current accelerating AI moment and had Opus 5.5 put together a video, inspired by old science show Connections, to try and point out how a series of initially unrelated ideas led to the moment we are in now.
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. -- Weisert
Dance of Autumn, 1917 Piotr Stachiewicz (Polish, 1858-1938) starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/8288226...
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature." — Brian Eno
All of this effort from the AI labs pouring into proofs, but there are so many other interesting problems in other fields For example, this historian used AI to make progress on the cyphers of John Dee & the intellectual antecedents that Darwin drew from. resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-ne...
AI labs need to start funding historical research
Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
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I propose this as the official replacement for the famous (and now saturated) METR Long Task Horizon chart that used to be in every AI presentation.
every (convex) quadrilateral is a square- if you view it from the right perspective
what would computing be like today if in the early days the companies making computers had successfully convinced legislators that computers are too dangerous for anyone but certified companies to have direct, unmonitored and unrestricted access to
Fascinating! This type of work is a huge part of realizing the _humanistic_ promise of all this technology youtu.be/RUB37QhWNkw?...
Live-Cell Imaging and the Limits of Structural Biology | Eric Betzig on Super-Resolution Microscopy
YouTube video by 632nm
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Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
No we don’t have any presents. Or what was it you said? “Gifts”? No we don’t have those, why would you think that. Why are you being weird
A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about
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When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers. -- The Wall Street Journal
The man in the Chinese room drawing hearts on his translations because he just wants to love.
Having Fable 5.1 Max and GPT-6 Astra Pro argue with each other over proposed translations of the famously untranslated Minoan language Linear A. (Neither of them appear to have cracked it, for what its worth). All the work so far at this Github: github.com/emollick/lin...
Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers. -- David Parnas