Burke
@burke.su
Hey, I'm Burke, an undergrad student in CS, AI, and Math with a passion for exploring how we can make machines think.
https://burke.su <- NOT optimized for mobile yet, apologies lol
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Wonder how Luigi is Doing.......
August 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Wonder how Luigi is Doing.......
Wear your goddamn helmets guys.
Longboard, scooter, bike, it doesn't matter. One month ago today I was in the hospital with an uncomfortably large chance of dying from a brain bleed (epidural hemotoma) and a basilar skull fracture while dealing with a TBI - because I didn't wear a fucking helmet.
Longboard, scooter, bike, it doesn't matter. One month ago today I was in the hospital with an uncomfortably large chance of dying from a brain bleed (epidural hemotoma) and a basilar skull fracture while dealing with a TBI - because I didn't wear a fucking helmet.
August 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Wear your goddamn helmets guys.
Longboard, scooter, bike, it doesn't matter. One month ago today I was in the hospital with an uncomfortably large chance of dying from a brain bleed (epidural hemotoma) and a basilar skull fracture while dealing with a TBI - because I didn't wear a fucking helmet.
Longboard, scooter, bike, it doesn't matter. One month ago today I was in the hospital with an uncomfortably large chance of dying from a brain bleed (epidural hemotoma) and a basilar skull fracture while dealing with a TBI - because I didn't wear a fucking helmet.
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Just watched veritasium's video on the history of PFAS chemicals, how their danger was covered up by DuPont and others, and the risk they pose for literally everyone in the world.
*Highly* recommend a watch
Just watched veritasium's video on the history of PFAS chemicals, how their danger was covered up by DuPont and others, and the risk they pose for literally everyone in the world.
*Highly* recommend a watch
How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
YouTube video by Veritasium
www.youtube.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2e...
Just watched veritasium's video on the history of PFAS chemicals, how their danger was covered up by DuPont and others, and the risk they pose for literally everyone in the world.
*Highly* recommend a watch
Just watched veritasium's video on the history of PFAS chemicals, how their danger was covered up by DuPont and others, and the risk they pose for literally everyone in the world.
*Highly* recommend a watch
More of this, please
🔋 #Librec opens a Swiss battery recycling plant with over 97% recovery rate using renewable energy. The facility processes up to 12,000 tons of EV batteries a year and aims to close the material loop sustainably. buff.ly/dYVgxrC
#batteryrecycling #sustainability #energystorage
#batteryrecycling #sustainability #energystorage
Librec Launches Sustainable Battery Recycling Plant in Switzerland - Battery-Tech Network
Librec launches Switzerland's first sustainable battery recycling plant in Biberist, achieving over 97% recovery and using renewable energy for EV battery management.
buff.ly
May 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
More of this, please
The new slate EV truck looks fucking awesome.
7/8 the size of a Maverick, RWD, 120kw charging, and 150/240mi range (two batt size options). Oh yeah, and its a no frills single cab with hand crank windows.
They say with the EV tax credit, it'll be $20k for the base model. I will 100% get one.
7/8 the size of a Maverick, RWD, 120kw charging, and 150/240mi range (two batt size options). Oh yeah, and its a no frills single cab with hand crank windows.
They say with the EV tax credit, it'll be $20k for the base model. I will 100% get one.
April 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The new slate EV truck looks fucking awesome.
7/8 the size of a Maverick, RWD, 120kw charging, and 150/240mi range (two batt size options). Oh yeah, and its a no frills single cab with hand crank windows.
They say with the EV tax credit, it'll be $20k for the base model. I will 100% get one.
7/8 the size of a Maverick, RWD, 120kw charging, and 150/240mi range (two batt size options). Oh yeah, and its a no frills single cab with hand crank windows.
They say with the EV tax credit, it'll be $20k for the base model. I will 100% get one.
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When photography came out, painters thought it couldn't be art.
When Photoshop came out, lab based photographers thought it couldn't be art.
Humans driving new tools will always be artists, and humans shunning new tools will fade away.
When Photoshop came out, lab based photographers thought it couldn't be art.
Humans driving new tools will always be artists, and humans shunning new tools will fade away.
March 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
When photography came out, painters thought it couldn't be art.
When Photoshop came out, lab based photographers thought it couldn't be art.
Humans driving new tools will always be artists, and humans shunning new tools will fade away.
When Photoshop came out, lab based photographers thought it couldn't be art.
Humans driving new tools will always be artists, and humans shunning new tools will fade away.
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Darth Vader Accidentally Texts Death Star Plans to Bothan Spy
hard-drive.net/hd/entertain...
hard-drive.net/hd/entertain...
Darth Vader Accidentally Texts Death Star Plans to Bothan Spy
CORUSCANT, GALACTIC CORE — Wide-spread turmoil rocked the galaxy today, as an anonymous Bothan spy revealed he had been accidentally added to the Empire’s comm…
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March 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Darth Vader Accidentally Texts Death Star Plans to Bothan Spy
hard-drive.net/hd/entertain...
hard-drive.net/hd/entertain...
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We spent all this time talking about artificial intelligence when we should have been worrying about natural stupidity
March 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We spent all this time talking about artificial intelligence when we should have been worrying about natural stupidity
PETG-CF really prints beautifully, despite the monstrous 0.4mm layers laid with a 0.6mm nozzle.
#3dprinting
#3dprinting
March 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
PETG-CF really prints beautifully, despite the monstrous 0.4mm layers laid with a 0.6mm nozzle.
#3dprinting
#3dprinting
This is really cool. I gather, kind of like how we would use context from surrounding words to make out something that's smudged. This does the same.
🚀 We just dropped SmolDocling: a 256M open-source vision LM for complete document OCR! 📄✨
Lightning fast, process a page in 0.35 sec on consumer GPU using < 500MB VRAM ⚡
SOTA in document conversion, beating every competing model we tested (including models 27x more params) 🤯
But how? 🧶⬇️
Lightning fast, process a page in 0.35 sec on consumer GPU using < 500MB VRAM ⚡
SOTA in document conversion, beating every competing model we tested (including models 27x more params) 🤯
But how? 🧶⬇️
March 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is really cool. I gather, kind of like how we would use context from surrounding words to make out something that's smudged. This does the same.
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why tf is playboi carti selling yubikeys shop.playboicarti.com/products/iam...
IAM PA Yubikey - Playboi Carti | Shop
Two-Factor authentication (2FA) Security Key, Connect via USB - Protect Your Online Accounts
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March 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
why tf is playboi carti selling yubikeys shop.playboicarti.com/products/iam...
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Anything that requires a perfect rational actor fails.
March 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Anything that requires a perfect rational actor fails.
Very interesting (or existentially horrifying) sci-fi short story:
qntm.org/mmacevedo
With our large language models it's easy to imagine the similarities our timeline might pose to this fictional one, given enough advances in AI.
qntm.org/mmacevedo
With our large language models it's easy to imagine the similarities our timeline might pose to this fictional one, given enough advances in AI.
Lena
You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled "Driver".
Russian translation
French transla...
qntm.org
March 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Very interesting (or existentially horrifying) sci-fi short story:
qntm.org/mmacevedo
With our large language models it's easy to imagine the similarities our timeline might pose to this fictional one, given enough advances in AI.
qntm.org/mmacevedo
With our large language models it's easy to imagine the similarities our timeline might pose to this fictional one, given enough advances in AI.
#3dprinting
I'm printing with TPU for the first time, after the PETG version of this part snapped. Wish me luck.
I'm printing with TPU for the first time, after the PETG version of this part snapped. Wish me luck.
March 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
#3dprinting
I'm printing with TPU for the first time, after the PETG version of this part snapped. Wish me luck.
I'm printing with TPU for the first time, after the PETG version of this part snapped. Wish me luck.
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C-style strings in Rust should come with a disclaimer:
"This string has been handled in a facility that also processes uninitialized memory."
"This string has been handled in a facility that also processes uninitialized memory."
March 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
C-style strings in Rust should come with a disclaimer:
"This string has been handled in a facility that also processes uninitialized memory."
"This string has been handled in a facility that also processes uninitialized memory."
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In 2010, Aaron Swartz faced 35 years in prison for downloading 70GB of JSTOR articles. He died by suicide in 2013.
Meanwhile, Meta illegally downloaded 80+ TERABYTES of books to train AI models with zero consequences. The law doesn't punish corporations—only idealists fighting for open knowledge.
Meanwhile, Meta illegally downloaded 80+ TERABYTES of books to train AI models with zero consequences. The law doesn't punish corporations—only idealists fighting for open knowledge.
March 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In 2010, Aaron Swartz faced 35 years in prison for downloading 70GB of JSTOR articles. He died by suicide in 2013.
Meanwhile, Meta illegally downloaded 80+ TERABYTES of books to train AI models with zero consequences. The law doesn't punish corporations—only idealists fighting for open knowledge.
Meanwhile, Meta illegally downloaded 80+ TERABYTES of books to train AI models with zero consequences. The law doesn't punish corporations—only idealists fighting for open knowledge.
I was just taking stock of my graphing calculator collection and was thinking "wow, I really don't have as many as I used to". I used to have 10. Then I counted what I had in front of me and realized I still have 9.
March 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I was just taking stock of my graphing calculator collection and was thinking "wow, I really don't have as many as I used to". I used to have 10. Then I counted what I had in front of me and realized I still have 9.
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Bring back the Super Woofer.
February 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Bring back the Super Woofer.
This looks really cool! I've tried Mistral's 'Le Chat' (chat.mistral.ai), and it's also really fast, but this looks like it can achieve similarly fast inference with standard hardware. (Le Chat rums inference on hardware from Cerebras)
February 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This looks really cool! I've tried Mistral's 'Le Chat' (chat.mistral.ai), and it's also really fast, but this looks like it can achieve similarly fast inference with standard hardware. (Le Chat rums inference on hardware from Cerebras)
Thank god for power outage recovery on my @sovol.bsky.social sv06.
11 hours into a print, and I accidentally tripped a breaker, killing the printer. It was able to recover and save me the time and filament.
11 hours into a print, and I accidentally tripped a breaker, killing the printer. It was able to recover and save me the time and filament.
February 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Thank god for power outage recovery on my @sovol.bsky.social sv06.
11 hours into a print, and I accidentally tripped a breaker, killing the printer. It was able to recover and save me the time and filament.
11 hours into a print, and I accidentally tripped a breaker, killing the printer. It was able to recover and save me the time and filament.