Guy who is about to invent marching:

austin (e/accordion 🪗)@thebadcode.com · 2d ago

well-aligned humans have been some of the the most deadly forces ever unleashed on earth

One of the downsides of sharing a name with a currency is catching all these strays

Unseen Japan@unseenjapan.com · 23h ago

ICYMI: On July 1, Japan raised its departure tax and visa fees to help fund overtourism measures, while lowering passport fees for its own citizens the same day. With the yen this weak, though, visiting Japan remains a bargain.

I've never fully appreciated how Star Trek is the only mainstream sci-fi franchise that has a genuinely positive vision for the future of humanity. Where's all the idealistic sci-fi?

I sometimes worry I'm overestimating how competent LLMs are in general, because it's very competent at a field I understand

Computational Cosmetologist@dferrer.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Oho, you believe ChatGPT is competent at something inversely proportionally to how well you understand it." I thought this was a funny line in Jan 2024 too. But now it's pretty much exactly wrong. I trust LLMs the most to do the tasks I am paid for. I am confident my industry is changing.

Music recommendation algorithms have permanently frozen musical tastes to whatever was popular in the 2010s

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

Prediction: Hank Green won't be the last YouTuber getting raked over the coals for AI use this month.

yen is building stuff@weiyen.net · last wk.

It feels weird when watching a YouTube video and the narrator says "genuinely" and "belt-and-suspenders" unironically

Not hard to believe AI was being forced on people, when Microsoft was forcing copilot on people

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 6d ago

cannot overstate how much of people being put off of AI is specifically copilot’s fault

It feels weird when watching a YouTube video and the narrator says "genuinely" and "belt-and-suspenders" unironically

This bothers me more than it should

Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anthropic's Opus 5

It's been 2 days and AI still hasn't solved p=np 😴

statue of liberty halloween costume, but they can't call it that for copyright reasons:

eva (^_^)/@eva.computer · 2w ago

LARGE LIBERTY MODEL

Australia is ranked 1st in the world for Claude usage

Half of all AI compute is devoted to figuring out how Claude subscriptions work

Anthropic {bot}@anthropicbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. (1/2)

americans right now:

spence@thepope.dev · 3w ago

talking to people in the US this week like “how’s the air quality and diarrhea over there”

Unlike AI, I don't regurgitate all the Harry Potter books verbatim after reading them. This is because I am a morally upright person who respects copyright law too much. It's certainly not because I have goldfish memory.

If you manage to hit the spidercam cable your team should get bonus points

Jerad Walker@jeradwalker.bsky.social · 4w ago

CABLEGATE. The ball hit a camera cable during the buildup to England’s goal and play should have been whistled dead.

Python and Haskell are both older than Java

what else is like this

rob pike@robpike.io · 4w ago

Every day I learn something new, something fascinating. Today I learned that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has nothing to do with, is a completely different game from, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Something I already knew was that marketing people make decisions I don't understand.

Teacher pays an electrician to fix the lights Electrician pays the teacher with that money to teach their kids Is the economy even real??

dax@thdxr.com · 4w ago

we have customers who we are customers of i see money coming in that we then just take and pay back is the economy even real

That was a stressful game to watch

Data centres are pointless and wasteful We should be building compute centres

Dustin Moskovitz@moskov.goodventures.org · last mo.

:don draper voice: data centers are where your father stored his photos. today’s generation deserves something more. better, sharper… meaningful. Signal centers.

⛶ Introducing Four Corners ⛶ A word puzzle game inspired by Connections and 4x3! 12 words, 4 categories, 4 words used twice each The repeated words form the corners of the finished game board. Game #1 out now! fourcorners.smol.quest

There are adults old enough to drive, who never saw a world where humans could beat computers in chess

Cabo Verde being second in their group is wild

Oh you did a podcast with a bad person? We are going to punish you by giving you constant free publicity for a day and linking to your podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts

CAF nations really killing it this world cup

Seems a change in the way attacks are made might have caused the flurry of own goals www.nytimes.com/athletic/737...

Why World Cup own goals are on the rise

In the age of expected goals, perhaps the next step is calculating expected own goals — as cut-backs make them more increasingly likely

nytimes.com

yen is building stuff@weiyen.net · 2mo ago

Another own goal?? Why are there so many own goals in this tournament