Chris Petersen
@cpetersen-cs.bsky.social
My pronouns are nerd/geek. I hope I'm an ally to many and an enemy to few. I can't believe bsky ran out of more interesting people to invite.
Holy smokes... #GoDores with 10 wins in a season for the first time ever. A wee bit different from my days there for sure. Not sure if we won 10 games in my entire time on campus... 😀
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Holy smokes... #GoDores with 10 wins in a season for the first time ever. A wee bit different from my days there for sure. Not sure if we won 10 games in my entire time on campus... 😀
I don't watch a lot of football, but am I watching football or rugby with this VU/TN game? #SoConfused
November 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I don't watch a lot of football, but am I watching football or rugby with this VU/TN game? #SoConfused
When The Hollywood Reporter is writing about an #AI court case, you know the tech has gone mainstream in a big way. Or, Big AI is an IP theft engine... 🤷♂️
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
When The Hollywood Reporter is writing about an #AI court case, you know the tech has gone mainstream in a big way. Or, Big AI is an IP theft engine... 🤷♂️
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Looking forward to the Vanderbilt / Tennessee game tomorrow afternoon. Black for the color of our capitalist hearts and gold for what it gets us... 😈
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Looking forward to the Vanderbilt / Tennessee game tomorrow afternoon. Black for the color of our capitalist hearts and gold for what it gets us... 😈
Dunking on Oracle is one of my favorite pastimes, but this takes it to a whole new level. Java, MySQL, Solaris, SPARC, and so many other acquisitions they've Oracle-ified would like a word. Can't wait for Ellison's next keynote "explaining" all this...
Oracle has taken on so much debt in order to build out its infrastructure to support the anticipated $300B in usage from OpenAI, that Morgan Stanley has now flagged it as a credit risk and a target for short selling.
I guess this is the closest you can get to shorting OpenAI.
I guess this is the closest you can get to shorting OpenAI.
Morgan Stanley thinks you should short Oracle
Single-name CDS are so hot right now
www.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Dunking on Oracle is one of my favorite pastimes, but this takes it to a whole new level. Java, MySQL, Solaris, SPARC, and so many other acquisitions they've Oracle-ified would like a word. Can't wait for Ellison's next keynote "explaining" all this...
Wow... 🤮 Un-doing my like on a post because the reply thread went in multiple toxic directions almost immediately. Using images from #AI may be even more polarizing than a lot of our societal discourse. The decent points that were made were completely lost in the vitriol being spewed...
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Wow... 🤮 Un-doing my like on a post because the reply thread went in multiple toxic directions almost immediately. Using images from #AI may be even more polarizing than a lot of our societal discourse. The decent points that were made were completely lost in the vitriol being spewed...
Leak, rumor, etc. If true, it's yet another very weak link in the overall supply chain for #GPU hardware. Maybe, that's for consumer products. Maybe, it's broader...
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
Nvidia reportedly no longer supplying VRAM to its GPU board partners in response to memory crunch — rumor claims vendors will only get the die, forced to source memory on their own
Nvidia typically bundles the GPU and VRAM together.
www.tomshardware.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Leak, rumor, etc. If true, it's yet another very weak link in the overall supply chain for #GPU hardware. Maybe, that's for consumer products. Maybe, it's broader...
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
Marcus is Marcus, but when you've lost Sutskever from the "scaling is everything" crowd, that's a sign that #AI has to fundamentally change in order to reach its potential. I know it's confirmation bias of the highest order, but I can't help agreeing... 🤔
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.
garymarcus.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Marcus is Marcus, but when you've lost Sutskever from the "scaling is everything" crowd, that's a sign that #AI has to fundamentally change in order to reach its potential. I know it's confirmation bias of the highest order, but I can't help agreeing... 🤔
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
Happy Thanksgiving, America! It's a tough time to feel thankful, but this community makes my list for sure...
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, America! It's a tough time to feel thankful, but this community makes my list for sure...
Imagine having fast ferries with room for vehicles and people running along the U.S. coasts. We could have that, but just like trains (for most of the country), we don't. We could be so very much cooler than we are... 🤷♂️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9v...
WORLD’S FIRST AND LARGEST HIGH SPEED PASSENGER TRIMARAN FERRY
YouTube video by Elite Tech Zone
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Imagine having fast ferries with room for vehicles and people running along the U.S. coasts. We could have that, but just like trains (for most of the country), we don't. We could be so very much cooler than we are... 🤷♂️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9v...
I thought the headline was common sense, but say what???
"PJM is considering proposing to allow #DataCenter loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require periodic blackouts for data centers and other customers" [hashtag added]
www.utilitydive.com/news/pjm-dat...
"PJM is considering proposing to allow #DataCenter loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require periodic blackouts for data centers and other customers" [hashtag added]
www.utilitydive.com/news/pjm-dat...
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I thought the headline was common sense, but say what???
"PJM is considering proposing to allow #DataCenter loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require periodic blackouts for data centers and other customers" [hashtag added]
www.utilitydive.com/news/pjm-dat...
"PJM is considering proposing to allow #DataCenter loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require periodic blackouts for data centers and other customers" [hashtag added]
www.utilitydive.com/news/pjm-dat...
Gaga or no Gaga, putting in a few thousand quick steps in 10F lower than yesterday was a different experience... Definitely not prepared to go home to lows around 17F / -8C in a few days... #HappyThanksgiving America in a few hours!
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Gaga or no Gaga, putting in a few thousand quick steps in 10F lower than yesterday was a different experience... Definitely not prepared to go home to lows around 17F / -8C in a few days... #HappyThanksgiving America in a few hours!
The usual words just don't apply. It's not un-believable or un-real or in-conceivable, etc. A 40+ minute, rapid-fire recitation of actions that should each probably result in impeachment, conviction, and ouster in less than a year, but ... oh, well!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hybL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hybL...
Every Illegal Act Trump Committed in 2025 (So Far)
YouTube video by LegalEagle
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The usual words just don't apply. It's not un-believable or un-real or in-conceivable, etc. A 40+ minute, rapid-fire recitation of actions that should each probably result in impeachment, conviction, and ouster in less than a year, but ... oh, well!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hybL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hybL...
Interesting take on the situation w/ a couple of potential caveats. Fiber and other things from the dot com era were durable, long-lived, general-purpose items. #AI software, usage, and GPUs aren't. And, the Magnificent 7 have started borrowing heavily... 🤷♂️
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/warning-th...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/warning-th...
Warning: The Fed Can’t Rescue AI
Lessons from the dotcom crash
paulkrugman.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Interesting take on the situation w/ a couple of potential caveats. Fiber and other things from the dot com era were durable, long-lived, general-purpose items. #AI software, usage, and GPUs aren't. And, the Magnificent 7 have started borrowing heavily... 🤷♂️
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/warning-th...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/warning-th...
Not sure what made me click on some old school Lady Gaga for workout music this evening, but it added some spice for sure... 😇
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Not sure what made me click on some old school Lady Gaga for workout music this evening, but it added some spice for sure... 😇
One of those headlines... I have no MBA. I have spent no time on Wall Street. I disagree with an awful lot of what the WSJ publishes. And yet... No kidding! You noticed!
How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
One of those headlines... I have no MBA. I have spent no time on Wall Street. I disagree with an awful lot of what the WSJ publishes. And yet... No kidding! You noticed!
I know they keep shifting the goalposts, but we really are living in the dumbest and most corrupt possible timeline. If this was a one leg of a fully integrated plan, it might not look quite so ... abysmal. With everything else this regime is doing? 🤷♂️
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I know they keep shifting the goalposts, but we really are living in the dumbest and most corrupt possible timeline. If this was a one leg of a fully integrated plan, it might not look quite so ... abysmal. With everything else this regime is doing? 🤷♂️
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
"Lower materialization rates, project cancellations, and delays" is an interesting place to be as #AI and #DataCenter spending is exploding country-wide. Speculators exiting? I have to wonder how far those projects got and what they did to their environments...
www.utilitydive.com/news/georgia...
www.utilitydive.com/news/georgia...
Georgia Power’s large load pipeline shrinks by 6 GW
Georgia Public Service Commission staff testimony noted data centers are “underperforming expectations” due to lower materialization rates, project cancellations and delays.
www.utilitydive.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"Lower materialization rates, project cancellations, and delays" is an interesting place to be as #AI and #DataCenter spending is exploding country-wide. Speculators exiting? I have to wonder how far those projects got and what they did to their environments...
www.utilitydive.com/news/georgia...
www.utilitydive.com/news/georgia...
This is the kind of thing that just screams "the wrong tool for the job". We need yet another markup language ... wait for it ... because #LLM tokenizers and #AI models require more tokens to represent the same data (in some cases) and charge per token? #NoThanks
www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
New Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) Hopes to Cut LLM Costs by Reducing Token Consumption
The recently released Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) aims to be a schema-aware alternative to JSON that significantly reduces token consumption at a similar level of accuracy. While the existen...
www.infoq.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is the kind of thing that just screams "the wrong tool for the job". We need yet another markup language ... wait for it ... because #LLM tokenizers and #AI models require more tokens to represent the same data (in some cases) and charge per token? #NoThanks
www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Well, that's a fascinating assertion. Not sure if it totally holds legal water, but one has to wonder if it's not yet another "but we deserve special treatment" plea from the #AI crowd. Copyright? ❌️ Anti-trust? ❌️ What's next?
fortune.com/2025/11/23/a...
fortune.com/2025/11/23/a...
AI rivals like OpenAI, Nvidia, and Oracle are collaborating to build ‘Stargate’—but a Yale expert says it violates 135 years of antitrust law | Fortune
Six AI leaders are uniting to form a single company. How is this possibly legal, asks Madhavi Singh of Yale’s Thurman Arnold Project, an initiative dedicated to antitrust issues.
fortune.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Well, that's a fascinating assertion. Not sure if it totally holds legal water, but one has to wonder if it's not yet another "but we deserve special treatment" plea from the #AI crowd. Copyright? ❌️ Anti-trust? ❌️ What's next?
fortune.com/2025/11/23/a...
fortune.com/2025/11/23/a...
I think we've found a new definition of "perverse incentives" for the #LLM era, not the age of #AI. Celebrating how much I can spend on your services? #NoThanks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=91OX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=91OX...
AI Token Addiction: Are We Celebrating the Wrong AI Champions?
YouTube video by Cloud Computing Insider
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I think we've found a new definition of "perverse incentives" for the #LLM era, not the age of #AI. Celebrating how much I can spend on your services? #NoThanks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=91OX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=91OX...
I... I... I definitely wouldn't want to pick up some folks with my mouth, but heaving them into the pool to stop their yapping about certain subjects would feel so good. 👿
www.youtube.com/shorts/oaRQ4...
www.youtube.com/shorts/oaRQ4...
Rottweiler Gets Tired of the Chihuahua and Tosses Him Into the Pool 🐕🦺😑🐶💦😂
YouTube video by Tiny Paws Garden
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November 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I... I... I definitely wouldn't want to pick up some folks with my mouth, but heaving them into the pool to stop their yapping about certain subjects would feel so good. 👿
www.youtube.com/shorts/oaRQ4...
www.youtube.com/shorts/oaRQ4...
Charlie Brown killed three men in a bar with a pencil.
That rug really tied the room together, Charlie Brown.
I’m not the guy you kill, Charlie Brown. I’m the guy you buy!
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Charlie Brown killed three men in a bar with a pencil.
The real question is whether that made the 911 dispatcher's top 10 weirdest calls list even for that day... 🤔
A motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when the carcass of a cat crashed into the passenger side of her front windshield along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. https://cnn.it/3JQU8cB
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The real question is whether that made the 911 dispatcher's top 10 weirdest calls list even for that day... 🤔
Well, the folks at the #AI related presentation I was just watching from #msIgnite are really lucky I'm not there in person. What a bunch of horseshit and irrational boosterism. "Just ask the model what it got wrong. You may have to push it a little." And trust what it makes up??????? 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM