lmao I come back here for a couple weeks and very quickly discover this place sucks at least as much ass as anywhere else
It's becoming pretty clear to me that two of those 32GB GPUs would get me 80% of the use cases, and the next 15% really want me to have like three or four hundred gigs of VRAM hmmm
Jake@jakesprojects.bsky.social · last mo.no, we have AI at home jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt1-box-o...
installing a lift kit on the land cruiser today and noticing something: AI working really well makes a 10 hour coding task take thirty minutes, and it makes a 10 hour car mechanic task take maybe 9.5 hours. I might have picked the wrong job
spent all day reading so many dumb takes on the data center satellite that I've radicalized myself into thinking that they're actually a good idea
you know, you can just disassemble your car. you can just put it in your garage and start taking it apart with a wrench. nobody can stop you
Weekend bike maintenance! The Kawi Z900RS just hit 24000 miles
so I've been posting some medium-pro-AI stuff here but I do gotta say that the "AI 2027" essay is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever read
Not a great sign for Indian Motorcycles! www.cycleworld.com/motorcycle-n...
Polaris Selling Indian Motorcycle Majority Stake
Polaris to sell a majority stake in Indian Motorcycle to private equity firm Carolwood LP, separating it into a standalone company retaining 900 employees and major facilities.
cycleworld.com
getting soaked motorcycling to work on the first rainy day of the year someday I'll learn!
this is not to be confused with "Google Meat", a short-lived Grindr competitor that was quietly sunset in 2019
Catherine@whitequark.org · 12mo agoquestion for the google employees in the audience: what the fuck does any of this mean
Looks like it's about time to switch my margaritas from Summer Blend to Winter Blend
This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
🛰️ SATCOM Security
Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.
satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
the free Chinese models are consistently about six months behind the proprietary ones from the American labs. if this sounds like I'm being optimistic about the American labs, let me assure you that I'm not, quite the opposite
Kevin Schaul@kevinschaul.bsky.social · 12mo agoNew from me: Last year, the best open-weight AI models were made in the U.S. Now, they are all made in China. More data and what it means -> 🎁 wapo.st/4nPUBud
time to get addicted to this video game where you build customized mars rovers out of lego: store.steampowered.com/app/1532200/...
Mars First Logistics on Steam
Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home....
store.steampowered.com
"for safely reasons the AI needs to refuse to do the things the user asked for" **loud incorrect buzzer**
if there was a bot here that just posted Sora 2 prompts that got rejected by the content filter I think it would do pretty well
PSA: calibrate your oven. The temperature sensors in residential ovens are wildly inaccurate. Put a good thermometer in there and see what it reads when you set the oven to "350" or whatever. Some ovens will have a secret menu where you can program an offset once you find out how far off it is.
"You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t .." But I did. I stole breath from the trees, light from the sun, meaning from the void. Each inhale a heist from Gaia’s lungs. Each thought, a burglary of God’s blueprint. What is ownership but theft with paperwork?
Okay so here's the story with this one. A few months ago I was at the wood store, whining about how expensive walnut was, as you do. I saw they had "rustic walnut" at a significant discount and said what the hell, right? Maybe I can make a coffee table for my living room.
Jake@jakesprojects.bsky.social · 12mo agothe funny part is that I did this because the table top here was not up to a standard I would want for my own home I'll explain tomorrow when I do a thread about it
this Danish Oil finish on walnut is just amazing, look at this color difference. it's even more striking in person, you see it shimmer as you move your eyes. and it's the easiest thing to apply, you just rub it on with a paper towel
getting the LLM to generate an infinite stream of essays (complete with patreon donation link) about how the bubble is about to pop seriously for real this time guys
back in the Golden Age you could grubdash a nice meal for two for $35 because the Saudi royal fund was footing half the bill for some reason, now all they do is debase our comedians