Sean Laverty

Which is harder, a rectangle or a secant line?

Monday?

Happy March, today’s current ‘feels like’ is 33°F and tomorrow’s high is 81°F.

What if companies spent their ad budget, or at least their celebrity endorsement budget, making better products instead?

The “kombucha girl” meme. The text above a grimacing or disgusted face reads “Before 2025; These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA.” The text above a curios or intrigued face reads “Since 2025; These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA.”

Something I was thinking of yesterday, which now seems so small.

“Peace guy, bored of blowing up small fishing ships, starts war”

All of the angry hip-hop I listened to in college is relevant again (still).

I guess a FIFA Peace Prize means nothing these days.

This isn’t even a joke, I just don’t know how else to say it.

Do You Feel Invisible? Podcast Episode · Hidden Brain · February 23 · 1h 28m

This one is sponsored by Claude while talking about topics that AI is known to offer bad advice about. The ad mentions using AI as a collaborator while the story talks about the fatal consequences of loneliness. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

665. Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ... Podcast Episode · Freakonomics Radio · February 27 · 50m

I won’t name the little guys, but Freakanomics opening with an ad about how Claude doesn’t have ads, then asking a question about AI filmmaking which gets completely thrashed is great.

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People are posting all of these threads about ‘my bot won’t listen to me what should I do?’ And there is one easy solution to all of the problems.

🤢

Otherwise admirable podcasts advertising AI or having “AI characters” is really disappointing.

An uprooted crepe myrtle, previously cut to about 2 feet.

Like this. The optimal pruning height for crepe myrtles is under ground.

One of the few nonnative plants I naively planted and haven’t removed.

Advancing Science with AI Lab Notebooks Advertisement By Sapio Sciences Artificial intelligence has the potential to make the electronic lab notebook into an intelligent research partner.

This is perhaps currently not the best way to make friends.

Tired? Yes!

Is it worth it? No!

Did you know there are only 24 hours in a day and most of the time more than 24 hours’ worth of stuff to do?

It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Wait a minute, those captchas are real-time?!? Ahhhh!!!

Make it STOP.

A jagged line graph showing a skyrocketing, but still low, chance that the ‘US’ confirms aliens by the end of year. From @wehavethedata on Instagram.

Teaching data visualization is tough in contemporary times because all of the examples are just line graphs of absurd gambling options.

A tattered paper sign that says in all-caps, red font: Please do not put food down the sink

Anybody know what font this is?

How do you use the internet to search for stuff without fear that the internet will steal your good idea?

As data centers boom in Oklahoma, so does water demand From Pryor to Stillwater and Muskogee, local officials say supplies are sufficient, even as Google alone used more than 1.1 billion gallons in a single year.

Instead of trusting thieves and liars to reduce water use, we should reduce data center use.

“don’t action until I tell you to”?

“action”?

Looks like I better go buy more compute so that I can action.

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

In trying to make things better (teaching), how much worse have I made them? Hmmm…