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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 11h

Closures are a poor man's object

Objects are a poor man's closure

yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 16h

I've always maintained that lab-grown meat companies should be giving us forbidden meats like the dodo, instead of $50/kg beef

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 1d

I'm scrolling my phone in bed to distract myself from the regrets of things I never did because I'd rather scroll my phone in bed

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 1d

The average browser user makes about 20,412 bookmarks per day. Making them confirm every bookmark is just mean.

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 2d

There's a funny vicious cycle where the US needs robots to catch up in manufacturing output, but robots are manufactured too...

yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 2d

Still, I'm fairly certain AI-generated videos will be used for 80% entertainment, 20% disinformation

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 2d

Some points I can think of

- the underlying world model can yield interesting results (as the article says)

- cheap, quality educational videos on arbitrary topics could be great. Sora is nowhere able to produce this yet.

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 2d

As someone who has found LLMs to be very useful, I cannot see the upside to having AI-generated videos.

What is the strongest steelman case for Sora-like technology being good for society?

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 3d

I try to be clear about what form of AI I'm talking about.

I was chatting with someone about their experience with "AI", and then I realised they were referring to Bixby

ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 3d

wild how often i see antis casually claim their main experience with AI is the Google search AI Overview and then pontificating seriously about the implications for AI in general based on that experience, when literally every single AI user and also the people at Google all hate that specific tool

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 3d

(Stocks can stay flat)

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 3d

Only the elite know this, but there is a secret third direction stocks can go

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 4d

The real takeaway from this is that golf courses are really water intensive

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 5d

Born too late to invent perceptrons

Born too early to witness AGI

Born just in time to see ChatGPT get a roulette addiction

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 6d

It's a research project that went out of hand

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 6d

Bluesky Premium accounts

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 7d

Tried it. Everything was a hallucination

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 7d

I see what you mean, and have experienced this at various companies.

This is a little bit surprising to hear from Uber though, given their entire business model is based on mobile apps.

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 11d

Too many arguments out there only work if you believe that the human brain is somehow immune to the laws of physics and computation

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 11d

The emotional levers that can be pushed and prodded to override our rational mind are still present in all of us.

All the internet did was to give people direct access to each other's levers.

yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 12d

Bluesky bookmarks!

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 16d

It's probably "probably"

yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 17d

TIL I've been using the Soviet inch all this while 😅

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 17d

TIL we have 4 different types of horsepower, including a metric horsepower.

There are many different standards and types of horsepower. Two common definitions used today are the imperial horsepower as in "hp" or "bhp" which is about 745.7 watts, and the metric horsepower also represented as "cv" or "PS" which is approximately 735.5 watts. The electric horsepower "hpE" is exactly 746 watts, while the boiler horsepower is 9809.5 or 9811 watts, depending on the exact year.

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 20d

There's nothing more cursed than all-caps Python

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 22d

bsky.app/profile/weiy...

yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · Jun 16

My favourite piece of Rust-lang trivia: The bit of code in the Rust compiler that unescapes '\n' into the newline character does it by mapping '\n' to itself!

Nowhere in the rust compiler is it explicitly defined that '\n' maps to the newline character 0x0A.

github.com/rust-lang/ru...

$fn scan_escape<T: From<char> + From<u8>>( chars: &mut Chars<'_>, mode: Mode, ) -> Result<T, EscapeError> { // Previous character was '\\', unescape what follows. let res: char = match chars.next().ok_or(EscapeError::LoneSlash)? { '"' => '"', 'n' => '\n', 'r' => '\r', 't' => '\t', '\\' => '\\', '\'' => '\'', '0' => '\0', ... Screenshot taken from https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/17067e9ac6d7ecb70e50f92c1944e545188d2359/compiler/rustc_lexer/src/unescape.rs#L240$

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