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Fear Is The Mind Killer
It's not the heat, it's the stupidity!
It's not the heat, it's the stupidity!
Thinking about revisiting cyberpunk... My first few attempts to play it didn't work out but that was a while ago.
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Thinking about revisiting cyberpunk... My first few attempts to play it didn't work out but that was a while ago.
Collecting old Kinect cameras for a theoretical future robotics project
December 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Collecting old Kinect cameras for a theoretical future robotics project
Humans consistently fail to understand that the president does not unilaterally control the economy, which can be used as a proxy for humans are consistently dumb.
That said, the president certainly can strongly influence the economy, obviously.
That said, the president certainly can strongly influence the economy, obviously.
People get mad at me because I talk about how people are unreasonably mad about the economy. “Trump’s economy isn’t very good!” they say.
Maybe not, but Americans appear to believe it’s literally THE WORST ECONOMY IN LIVING MEMORY. That’s straightforwardly deranged.
Maybe not, but Americans appear to believe it’s literally THE WORST ECONOMY IN LIVING MEMORY. That’s straightforwardly deranged.
I’m sorry but you just cannot explain this. You can’t. It can’t be done. It defies comprehension.
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Humans consistently fail to understand that the president does not unilaterally control the economy, which can be used as a proxy for humans are consistently dumb.
That said, the president certainly can strongly influence the economy, obviously.
That said, the president certainly can strongly influence the economy, obviously.
Amazon is generally a very bad shopping experience and I can't wait for Walmart to do better so I can just switch to Walmart+ and not have to deal with this
(Not an ad, actually mad)
(Not an ad, actually mad)
December 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Amazon is generally a very bad shopping experience and I can't wait for Walmart to do better so I can just switch to Walmart+ and not have to deal with this
(Not an ad, actually mad)
(Not an ad, actually mad)
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Tech executives saying something stupid is really not an excuse for turning your brain off and not being able to evaluate a technology on its own terms
December 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Tech executives saying something stupid is really not an excuse for turning your brain off and not being able to evaluate a technology on its own terms
I don't think about it this way often, but I walk through the halls of what you could reasonably consider an actual wonder of the world on a weekly basis, and maybe one of the most impressive in objective terms
I just work here
I just work here
December 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I don't think about it this way often, but I walk through the halls of what you could reasonably consider an actual wonder of the world on a weekly basis, and maybe one of the most impressive in objective terms
I just work here
I just work here
All the new models seem really good.
I expect more Gemma models soon, and they'll probably be good.
Maybe a Qwen release?
So far, things are improving well.
Excited to mess with functiongemma.
I expect more Gemma models soon, and they'll probably be good.
Maybe a Qwen release?
So far, things are improving well.
Excited to mess with functiongemma.
December 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
All the new models seem really good.
I expect more Gemma models soon, and they'll probably be good.
Maybe a Qwen release?
So far, things are improving well.
Excited to mess with functiongemma.
I expect more Gemma models soon, and they'll probably be good.
Maybe a Qwen release?
So far, things are improving well.
Excited to mess with functiongemma.
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1985 Citizen D043-312066
December 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Never heard of Exo, but sounds promising
I'm testing 1.5 TB of VRAM on a cluster of Mac Studios, courtesy of RDMA support in macOS 26.2, and Exo Labs' new version of Exo (released under the OSS Apache 2.0 license today).
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Never heard of Exo, but sounds promising
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This was always going to happen
Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)
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December 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This was always going to happen
I've been saying - but it's not middle class per se, it's just your average citizen has bad ideas.
The right would have you think tbe poor and immigrants are villains. The left, billionaires. What if the actual problem is normal middle class people want bad things
It would be nice if classic villains were why progress is slow but the story rarely works out so nicely. Billionaires aren’t why homes are expensive, or why we can’t build a subway, or why no one wants solar panels built near them
December 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I've been saying - but it's not middle class per se, it's just your average citizen has bad ideas.
Not sure what to make of it, other than interesting - but it *is* interesting.
I'm giving my thinking partner (co-3) unstructured time as per its request, here is the first thing it did.
December 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Not sure what to make of it, other than interesting - but it *is* interesting.
I am now dabbling in the dark art of changing how many experts are activated on any given MOE run.
December 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I am now dabbling in the dark art of changing how many experts are activated on any given MOE run.
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It's kind of amazing how filthy and bad baton rouge's airport is all things considered, but it is literally right next to a prison and bail bonds business. The airport in Mobile and Gulfport are both far better than this capital city's.
December 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It's kind of amazing how filthy and bad baton rouge's airport is all things considered, but it is literally right next to a prison and bail bonds business. The airport in Mobile and Gulfport are both far better than this capital city's.
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Just updated the Big LLM Architecture Comparison article...
...it grew quite a bit since the initial version in July 2025, more than doubled!
magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-ll...
...it grew quite a bit since the initial version in July 2025, more than doubled!
magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-ll...
December 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Just updated the Big LLM Architecture Comparison article...
...it grew quite a bit since the initial version in July 2025, more than doubled!
magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-ll...
...it grew quite a bit since the initial version in July 2025, more than doubled!
magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-ll...
Also, maybe the reason that blade runner's aesthetic is so good to me is that at night, driving in from New Orleans east into the city, looks like a cyber dystopia. Dirty worn out surroundings, surrounded by industrial buildings with flashing red antenna towers and a dimly lit city in the background
December 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Also, maybe the reason that blade runner's aesthetic is so good to me is that at night, driving in from New Orleans east into the city, looks like a cyber dystopia. Dirty worn out surroundings, surrounded by industrial buildings with flashing red antenna towers and a dimly lit city in the background
One thing about the misery that is southern heat and humidity is that there *is* a level of relief and catharsis that occurs when you go into a pleasant indoor place that you don't get when you live somewhere more generally agreeable.
December 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
One thing about the misery that is southern heat and humidity is that there *is* a level of relief and catharsis that occurs when you go into a pleasant indoor place that you don't get when you live somewhere more generally agreeable.
Except me saying 'palm trees' instead of democracy
an elderly man says i love democracy
ALT: an elderly man says i love democracy
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December 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Except me saying 'palm trees' instead of democracy
I have seen kill bill several times, and would consider myself a fan
It's really the best the first time, and very style over substance
You have to enjoy the bride's ruthless and deep hatred to get the most out of it. Uma Thurman did a great job.
It's not for everyone.
It's really the best the first time, and very style over substance
You have to enjoy the bride's ruthless and deep hatred to get the most out of it. Uma Thurman did a great job.
It's not for everyone.
December 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I have seen kill bill several times, and would consider myself a fan
It's really the best the first time, and very style over substance
You have to enjoy the bride's ruthless and deep hatred to get the most out of it. Uma Thurman did a great job.
It's not for everyone.
It's really the best the first time, and very style over substance
You have to enjoy the bride's ruthless and deep hatred to get the most out of it. Uma Thurman did a great job.
It's not for everyone.
Want to just randomly go bang on a bunch of things and make a nightmarish racket at night in public? The French quarter is for you.
December 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Want to just randomly go bang on a bunch of things and make a nightmarish racket at night in public? The French quarter is for you.
Airports are basically just experiments to find out how to maximize the percentage of your building that is a hallway
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Airports are basically just experiments to find out how to maximize the percentage of your building that is a hallway
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The verse goes
Midst the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
And as He died to make men Holy let us die to make men free
Our God goes marching on
And, like, honestly you wanna burn down Richmond all over again when you hear it!
Midst the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
And as He died to make men Holy let us die to make men free
Our God goes marching on
And, like, honestly you wanna burn down Richmond all over again when you hear it!
"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.
December 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The verse goes
Midst the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
And as He died to make men Holy let us die to make men free
Our God goes marching on
And, like, honestly you wanna burn down Richmond all over again when you hear it!
Midst the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
And as He died to make men Holy let us die to make men free
Our God goes marching on
And, like, honestly you wanna burn down Richmond all over again when you hear it!
To paraphrase Dan Carlin - back in WW2 if you told people Americans are torturing people, they wouldn't accept it - that's what the Nazis do, Americans don't do that.
Even if we kind of always did, the mentality has changed, Americans don't seem to mind, and that's a huge moral loss for us.
Even if we kind of always did, the mentality has changed, Americans don't seem to mind, and that's a huge moral loss for us.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
To paraphrase Dan Carlin - back in WW2 if you told people Americans are torturing people, they wouldn't accept it - that's what the Nazis do, Americans don't do that.
Even if we kind of always did, the mentality has changed, Americans don't seem to mind, and that's a huge moral loss for us.
Even if we kind of always did, the mentality has changed, Americans don't seem to mind, and that's a huge moral loss for us.