mattparlmer
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A selection of historical small-world (~0.05-0.3 Earth masses) SSTOs of the far future.
August 9, 2024 at 3:50 AM
A selection of historical small-world (~0.05-0.3 Earth masses) SSTOs of the far future.
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The "dusk chorus" - as evening falls on Mangala, its binary companion's infrastructure belt of orbiting power stations catches the sun, brightening to become a ring of stars circling the little Mars analog. (mocked up in Celestia)
December 14, 2024 at 5:56 AM
The "dusk chorus" - as evening falls on Mangala, its binary companion's infrastructure belt of orbiting power stations catches the sun, brightening to become a ring of stars circling the little Mars analog. (mocked up in Celestia)
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Lunine Beach, a sleepy seaside town on the shores of Kraken Mare - a sea of liquid hydrocarbons at the north pole of Titan, largest of Saturn's retinue of icy moons.
March 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Lunine Beach, a sleepy seaside town on the shores of Kraken Mare - a sea of liquid hydrocarbons at the north pole of Titan, largest of Saturn's retinue of icy moons.
This is silly, the moon is a readily available ball of feedstock for 1000km radius habitat rings, we have every reason to strip mine it as soon as possible
4) It is almost certainly NOT a play to mine the Moon because there is nothing worth mining on the Moon. No, Helium-3 isn't even close to worth mining on the Moon, and likely never will be because there are alternative production methods that work on Earth.
August 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This is silly, the moon is a readily available ball of feedstock for 1000km radius habitat rings, we have every reason to strip mine it as soon as possible
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if you spend enough time away from X all the controversy posts there start looking like this to you
August 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
if you spend enough time away from X all the controversy posts there start looking like this to you
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I think the assumption that AI will always mean something proprietary is shaping attitudes powerfully.
The corollary is: when we do get a competitive mass-market product that runs locally and can be customized, attitudes may shift to a degree that shocks those of us who already expected that. +
The corollary is: when we do get a competitive mass-market product that runs locally and can be customized, attitudes may shift to a degree that shocks those of us who already expected that. +
August 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I think the assumption that AI will always mean something proprietary is shaping attitudes powerfully.
The corollary is: when we do get a competitive mass-market product that runs locally and can be customized, attitudes may shift to a degree that shocks those of us who already expected that. +
The corollary is: when we do get a competitive mass-market product that runs locally and can be customized, attitudes may shift to a degree that shocks those of us who already expected that. +
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To solve this, the key resource threshold is to have multiple open labs with 10000+ GPUs each.
Multiple labs makes it so we are not beholden to big technology co's good graces to want to release models. These institutions increases innovation + derisks this crucial technology.
Multiple labs makes it so we are not beholden to big technology co's good graces to want to release models. These institutions increases innovation + derisks this crucial technology.
August 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
To solve this, the key resource threshold is to have multiple open labs with 10000+ GPUs each.
Multiple labs makes it so we are not beholden to big technology co's good graces to want to release models. These institutions increases innovation + derisks this crucial technology.
Multiple labs makes it so we are not beholden to big technology co's good graces to want to release models. These institutions increases innovation + derisks this crucial technology.
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China's lead is also effecting R&D and those who build with open models. The US and EU used to share the lead, now China has a clear majority in the new finetunes uploaded to huggingface (about 40% come from Qwen models alone, the leading family today)
August 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
China's lead is also effecting R&D and those who build with open models. The US and EU used to share the lead, now China has a clear majority in the new finetunes uploaded to huggingface (about 40% come from Qwen models alone, the leading family today)
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Crucially this "flip" on open model dominance is about more than adoption, its about performance as well. Chinese models have passed and extended their lead on American open counterparts in the last 12 months.
August 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Crucially this "flip" on open model dominance is about more than adoption, its about performance as well. Chinese models have passed and extended their lead on American open counterparts in the last 12 months.
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America needs to take open models more seriously. Just this summer the early lead in open model adoption of Llama & co has been overtaken by Chinese models.
With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.
With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.
August 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
America needs to take open models more seriously. Just this summer the early lead in open model adoption of Llama & co has been overtaken by Chinese models.
With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.
With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.
The purpose of the roomba is what it does
July 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The purpose of the roomba is what it does
Extremely based, congrats to the Oxide team
🎉We raised $100M USD in our Series B financing. Thank you to USIT for leading this round, to our existing investors for their participation, and to our team, customers, and community for getting us to where we are today!
oxide.computer/blog/our-100...
oxide.computer/blog/our-100...
Our $100M Series B / Oxide
Raising our Series B round of financing
oxide.computer
July 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Extremely based, congrats to the Oxide team
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You can't begin to imagine the brutality of the conflict between the pointy-hatted and crumple-hatted gnomes. Gardens soaked in entrails. Trench warfare out of flower beds
June 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
You can't begin to imagine the brutality of the conflict between the pointy-hatted and crumple-hatted gnomes. Gardens soaked in entrails. Trench warfare out of flower beds
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The reason that javascript has semicolons is because newlines are invisible, so the compilers couldn't see the ends of the statements. Then around 2016 computer vision got good enough that we could drop them though.
July 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The reason that javascript has semicolons is because newlines are invisible, so the compilers couldn't see the ends of the statements. Then around 2016 computer vision got good enough that we could drop them though.
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I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen
July 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen
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Puncturing the sky
July 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Puncturing the sky
Total centaur victory
This is the first (small) controlled study I have seen of GenAI on industrial quality control.
Here, engineers commissioning new trains took part in an experiment using a (now very obsolete) GPT-3.5 powered troubleshooting system. Those who used the chatbot had significant increases in work quality
Here, engineers commissioning new trains took part in an experiment using a (now very obsolete) GPT-3.5 powered troubleshooting system. Those who used the chatbot had significant increases in work quality
July 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Total centaur victory
I remember Terry Bolea as a quiet hero of the queer community
He stood up to bullies who outed people with non-normative lifestyles for clicks, and got tangible results
Hulk Hogan, rest in power
He stood up to bullies who outed people with non-normative lifestyles for clicks, and got tangible results
Hulk Hogan, rest in power
July 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I remember Terry Bolea as a quiet hero of the queer community
He stood up to bullies who outed people with non-normative lifestyles for clicks, and got tangible results
Hulk Hogan, rest in power
He stood up to bullies who outed people with non-normative lifestyles for clicks, and got tangible results
Hulk Hogan, rest in power
Ron Wyden best democrat senator
July 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ron Wyden best democrat senator
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oh my god another Balenciaga hat wearing left-NIMBY just dropped
July 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
oh my god another Balenciaga hat wearing left-NIMBY just dropped
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"Social media users are tired of losing their identity and data every time a platform shuts down or pivots. In the ATProto ecosystem, users own their data and identities. Bluesky is the first big example, but a new wave of decentralized social networks is just beginning."
Real-time, decentralized social apps — without running a single server. Here’s how to build and deploy an atproto app on Cloudflare Workers. blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-a...
Serverless Statusphere: a walk through building serverless ATProto applications on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform
Build and deploy real-time, decentralized Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProto) apps on Cloudflare Workers.
blog.cloudflare.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Social media users are tired of losing their identity and data every time a platform shuts down or pivots. In the ATProto ecosystem, users own their data and identities. Bluesky is the first big example, but a new wave of decentralized social networks is just beginning."
This is sick
Real-time, decentralized social apps — without running a single server. Here’s how to build and deploy an atproto app on Cloudflare Workers. blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-a...
Serverless Statusphere: a walk through building serverless ATProto applications on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform
Build and deploy real-time, decentralized Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProto) apps on Cloudflare Workers.
blog.cloudflare.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is sick
Mamdani millennials are interesting bc they got closer to elite status (if not standard of living) than their same age peers of equal or greater merit who stayed in flyover country for one reason or another, the latter definitely regards the former as ladder-pulling elites themselves
The idea of having been promised something based on doing everything you were expected to do and finding the reality doesn't match up with the bill of goods you were sold; the process is likely both expanding and accelerating.
like, as a term it feels honestly pretty great at capturing specific feelings like: 'i took on debt to go to college and chatgpt came out when i was a sophomore and now everyone's telling me there will be no early career jobs now and good luck with that, cool, awesome, thx'
July 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Mamdani millennials are interesting bc they got closer to elite status (if not standard of living) than their same age peers of equal or greater merit who stayed in flyover country for one reason or another, the latter definitely regards the former as ladder-pulling elites themselves