John Grange
@jmgrange.bsky.social
Co-founder + CTO @ OpsCompass | Co-founder + GP @ MOVE Venture Capital | Cybersecurity, AI, software | Tinkerer | Dad
Videogames actually don't need a lot to be *cool*. Like, here's the intro from DOOM 64. Tech-wise it wasn't particularly impressive even when it was brand new. But it was cool. And even now, more than a quarter of a century later, it's still kind of cool.
On the one hand, military history has a more even political balance than most history (that is, there are more conservatives there), but on the other hand, every military historian I know, even the conservatives (*especially* the conservatives), pretty much despises Pete Hegseth.
Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱@glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 2y agoI was repulsed by military history for a longtime because I (wrongly) associated it with people like Hegseth. I now realize that the Hegseth types are basically anti-military historians.
Quantum mechanics is described by a consistent & VERY well tested mathematical framework, & nothing we've seen in particle physics experiments is inconsistent with its basic tenets. It's incredibly precise -- we can predict properties & behaviors of particles to truly amazing levels of precision. 🧵
This thing where folks are convinced it's cheaper to order doordash than make a burrito because they're comparing the cost of one dashed burrito to the cost of ingredients for like 8 burritos feels like the food version of folks who grew up with ipads and smartphones not knowing how to use computers
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y agoi feel like no one taught a lot of these kids about per unit cost? like, even if i buy the most expensive ingredients, the per unit cost of making chocolate chip cookies at home is still cheaper than buying them from a bakery.
🔥 Cozy up to a digital fireplace with Sierra On-Line's "A Computer Christmas" (1986). 🎄💾 This vintage software's Yule Log vibe reminds us why preserving digital works matters. 🎁 See the whole card. ➡️ archive.org/details/sier... Preservation #Christmas #vanishingculture
Everyone in this picture would be able to walk if the polio vaccine had existed in time for them.
I spent the day with o1-preview-2024-09-12. Ignoring costs, because that wasn't really my concern today, my impression falls pretty much in line with its results on LiveBench Language benchmark, a benchmark I feel is fairly reflective of model capability.
I'm both pissed off that the Bills lost a winnable game by 2, yet exhilarated by that all time Josh Allen performance. 6 TDs😍
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Bill Barnwell@billbarnwell.com · 2y agoKhalil Shakir deserves more hype. This is the sort of run after catch where people would complain that the video game is broken.
I don't know that much about Syria, I always from a cursory look went "Assad seems really bad." In the process, my analysis outperformed about 80% of people who comment on Syria.
Sports Bluesky has been excellent again this weekend
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Why waste time getting an education or learning an actual skill like a sucker when you could be in the arena trying things like pumping a shitcoin
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2y agoThere’s a site called Pump.Fun where you can pump and dump crypto memecoins. A kid earned $50,000 doing so and angry people who bought only tor the price to crash doxxed him then harassed his family. Clearly what we need here is less regulation.
Chain of Thought helped LLMs reason forward through problems. This paper found teaching them to also work backwards (like humans checking their work) makes them even better “reasoners” Applying basic human thinking strategies to LLMs continues to yield interesting new ideas arxiv.org/pdf/2411.19865
The Reality of #AI and Biorisk "We find that existing studies around AI-related biorisk are nascent, often speculative in nature, or limited in terms of their methodological maturity and transparency." ~ @sarahooker.bsky.social et al. arxiv.org/abs/2412.0... #GenerativeAI
The Reality of AI and Biorisk
To accurately and confidently answer the question 'could an AI model or system increase biorisk', it is necessary to have both a sound theoretical threat model for how AI models or systems could...
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This is exactly right. The 90s/2000s idea of 'mainstream' media simply doesn't exist anymore. Republicans own the mainstream media, as it exists today. The Democratic party definitely needs to recalibrate.
I only listen to Russillo during the NBA season, and yet, he's still my 2nd most listened to pod. Maybe the season is too long!😂
New paper in @natureportfolio.bsky.social reports intervention that restored walking in people with spinal cord injuries using deep brain stimulation. One participant said “I feel the urge to walk.” And (slowly) did. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation augments walking after spinal cord injury - Nature Medicine
Whole-brain anatomical and activity surveys identify the lateral hypothalamus as a key driver of recovery from spinal cord injury, leading to a deep brain stimulation therapy that augments the recover...
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Wow, this is such a useful resource of industry LLM applications! And filtering via search/tags is so responsive. I was thinking of compiling something like this over the holidays (ala applied-ml) but thanks to @strickvl.bsky.social I can spend the time reading instead ♥️ zenml.io/llmops-datab...
Alex Strick van Linschoten@strickvl.bsky.social · 2y ago🤔 Do you ever wonder how companies are putting LLMs and GenAI apps into production? What stacks do they use? What architecture did they go with? I put together a database of known public technical writeups with summaries of the key technical features.
Somehow what I'm working on tonight ended up requiring me to build a Windows 11 VM in Azure, with a very particular WSL distro setup. Basically, witchcraft. Pray for mercy upon my soul.
NBA Cup all day today! It's like the Christmas Day schedule, but with extra games too. Five windows from 12:00 PM ET to 10:00 PM ET. Should be a fun day of hoops!
I think this is a great observation. Also, it's a clue about the best (and worst) applications and user experiences for LLMs.
Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2y agoAn observation is that managers and teachers are often much better at “getting” LLMs than coders. Coders deal with deterministic systems. Managers and teachers are very experienced at working with fundamentally unreliable people to get things done, not perfectly, but within acceptable tolerances.
One of the best things about NBA games is seeing a 6’1 guy playing and thinking “that little freak, that little gremlin”
Anthropic released an interesting thing today: an attempt at a standard protocol for LLM tools to talk to services that provide tools and extra context to be used other the models modelcontextprotocol.io
Introduction - Model Context Protocol
Get started with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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