>flying $200 million aircraft >malfunction >radio base, no help >frantically call tech support >trying to keep it airborne >"this call is recorded for quality assurance purposes" >losing control of plane >"por espanol numero dos" >about to eject from plane >indian voice answers

That gorgeous #Seattle #sunset tonight! (08-29 Friday).

By March 2005, I'd already spent years trying to figure out how a solar array could track the Sun without the use of slip rings, while attached to a spinning space tether. Very late one rainy night the answer came into my mind all at once, and it reminded me of a fan dancer.

Did we ever figure out why the ghibli slop is yellow? None of the anime training data is yellow!! What is the cause?

“We are children only once, and then only for a few brief years. But these are the most impressionable years of a lifetime. Never again will the world and everything in it be so eternally new, so filled with wonder. Never again will physical, mental, spiritual growth be so

Backroad driving today with stunning views #wawx #pnw #nature

Who’s selling consumer hardware for running local models? I want a GPU box I can plug into my MacBook and run local LLMs

the last time the internet truly felt like it wasnt just a trough full of slop, computers looked like this

This still clears as one of the greatest moments ever caught on film. I actually can’t fathom it sometimes.

Hard to explain to the young'ins how fukcen cool, optimistic and fun the 80's were, man oh man, amaaaazing

Every time I see a picture of Cairo I think that’s the closest image of hell i can imagine

Regardless of whether current AI Labs fail (and there is no indication they are at risk) & even if AI development stops (more unlikely), things will keep getting weirder: today's models are good enough for long-term disruption, and the weights & infrastructure aren't going away.

Three thoughts on what really matters: 1. Fuck cancer 2. Friends are irreplaceable 3. The new "Marcus test" for AI is when AI makes a significant dent on cancer May that happen sooner, much sooner, rather than later. In memory of my childhood friend Paul.

you live long enough to see fitness trends come and go now its protein, creatine and walking previously it was keto, zone 2 and HIIT

Yes.

Writing new tracks. Music is the glue that keeps me sane.