One of my favorite scientific figures is this one of the entropy levels of 100 world cities by the orientation of streets. The cities with most ordered streets: Chicago, Miami, & Minneapolis. Most disordered: Charlotte, Sao Paulo, Rome & Singapore. Paper: appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.10…

Birds are real.

When I am saying I personally am not promoting or benefitting from crypto - PoW of any kind - I mean it. Updated my job board terms to reflect this. Said no to a fiat-to-crypto company wanting to post several ads. I personally do not support the environmental impact of PoW.

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

Due to supply chain issues, Seattle had to order their fog in "Smoke" flavor this week I hope "Autumn Fir" is back in stock soon.

Breathtaking view from a November afternoon hike 🥰

I wonder if I wait twice as long before my next order if Postmates will double the discount offer to -2% off?!

Software engineers on their knees, crying, throwing up

I am so excited to share that Trusted Signing (aka Azure Code Signing) is now in Public Preview! #codesigning #Authenticode #Windows techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-co…

The hard parts of software are what come next. when you scope, integrate, scale, upgrade, instrument... when you extend it, understand it, and maintain it. Over the entirety of its lifetime. Generative AI isn't making this easier. If anything, it's making the real work harder.

Pragmatically, we can say that AGI is reached when it's no longer easy to come up with problems that regular people can solve (with no prior training) and that are infeasible for AI models. Right now it's still easy to come up with such problems, so we don't have AGI.