I cannot wait to perform a throw in a non-agonistic way with the target being a cooperating agent--my son--who will perform a somewhat opposite action.

From an obscure Will Durant interview: Interviewer: “What is the function or the role of heroes?” Durant: “They perform the function of meeting a situation whose demands arouse all his potential abilities.”

One of my still-standing evals is naming words that can be pronounced as a combination of letters and numbers (N-V => "envy"; N-I-L-8 => "annihilate") It's very easy for humans to do and evaluate, but all LLMs hallucinate at it. o3 and o4-mini-high also fail at it.

Anyone have a mexico government connection? A project I’m supporting to LIDAR the jungle there just got rejected by some bureaucrat. Please DM if you can help. Thanks!

This scan will massively increase our understanding of the Maya by revealing lost settlements hidden under the canopy Please reach out if you know anyone!

i hooked ai up to this new york sidewalk camera - it's always counting umbrellas, pants vs shorts, long vs short sleeves. it's people watching for weather

Lidar scanning some forests (Mehran for reference)

From the Peter Thiel interview:

Going to find out whether these trees are hiding a lost civilization or not today

There are civilizations everywhere for those with the specialized optical equipment to see.

Tune in at 1:30pm to hear me talking about lidar scanning forests in search of lost civilizations!

We asked Mehran Jalali about finding ancient civilizations in rainforests. "When the Mayans vacated their cities, trees grew back over them. So from the satellite, it's just green, but beneath are pyramids, roads, buildings." "Using LiDAR scanners, we're discovering pyramids

I spent a week in the Belizean forest at this dig. Remarkable to see archaeologists at work. The smallest details in new finds have extreme significance to experts who have decades of context. Very important findings that will change our understanding of the region's history.

I've been processing a lidar scan for the past 15 hours, and discovering at least one not-seen-in-1000-years structure every minute on average