Well, times change, not always for the best: masto.ai/@berbie

If you want to build a ship, don't gather men together to get wood, prepare tools, assign tasks, and facilitate the work, but teach the men to long for the endless wide sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Every time someone complains that your software project is late, remember that the ASCII character set was in development for 3800 years, starting with the Canaanites.

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

Ich wähle das Rebhuhn zum Vogel des Jahres 2024! Wer ist dein Favorit bei der #Vogelwahl? Stimme jetzt ab: vogeldesjahres.de/wahl/Rebhuhn/

A matter of perspective

When there is no magic behind LLMs like Bertrand describes. Does this also mean that with enough complexity an AI can become sentient? is it just a function over the euclidian distance between "meaning of life" and a "will to survive"? youtube.com/watch?v=QwtyID…

Brilliant. I'm dead. 😂

This is so fucking great… youtu.be/vYILYILPrXs?fe…

Today received my Ledger Stax #stax — Such a charming device.

DeekSeek’s approach is like the shift from 5GHz Intel Pentiums to 1GHz multicore IBM PowerPCs: smaller specialized models, non-overlapping knowledge, smart caches/pipelines to combine results. Likely trains models sequentially on the same hardware—saves resources, not time.

as of the time of writing, the only way to create consciousness is having children

The most profound human insights often emerge from the intersection of disciplines, where diverse perspectives collide and new ideas are born. This insight highlights the power of blending knowledge from different fields—science, art, technology, or philosophy—to spark innovation

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell around 500,000-300,000 years ago! The shell’s central display has been described as an example of early aesthetic intention by the toolmaker. From West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷

In this remarkable paper, a team at DeepMind and Terence Tao addressed a fundamental challenge in mathematics using an AI system called AlphaEvolve. The challenge is the following: Many practical math problems ask "what's the best possible arrangement?"—like packing the most

The Most Dangerous Animals in the World.