Sam Fazakerley

Finished making Super Symmetry 2x bigger and 2x lighter. Looking for galleries and venues that would like to display it. DM if interested.

Is he a chaos marine? Is that significant?

Everybody please keep taking about baseball. This is really good for my social media habit.

@gilesyb.bsky.social what's the difference between investment and VC here? Nvidia invests in OpenAI, but VC's with Mistral.

The Tariff Exemption Behind the AI Boom Data Centers get Tariff-Free Imports. Why Shouldn't we All?

NEW from me:

In his 2nd term, Trump has pursued the largest trade war in modern US history—with 1 glaring omission. Computer imports are almost entirely exempt from tariffs

It's a special carveout that AI companies are now reliant on for their data center buildout🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

None of these are built yet, right? We're still in the, announcing things to the press stage? I mean this new scale, where we measure their output by how much power they consume, because TFLOPS loses all meaning when it has 'x10^23' after it.

I'm sure they'd be good at bitcoin mining.

It's tricky to think of a use for that much parallel processing.

I believe the GB200 (if that is what we're talking about?) are so damn hard to cool, they are too expensive to run for anything else. The VRs coming down the pipe; even crazier.

Comparing this to an AWS compute cluster would be insane.

The Manhattan project was setup primarily as an arms race with the Nazis. The first thing the Nazis did was go down a theoretical cull de sac. LLMs are a cull de sac.

Looking into this, there doesn't seem to be anyway to remove a share from an external organisation. So this malicious link is stuck there, forever?

Ok, realise the mistake, let's undo this. Update passwords, check for rules that have been added, any files added. Warn people involved. Phew.

But the 'share' has come from someone outside your organisation and the link persists on the shared files list on #ondrive...

Pretty odd phishing attack has shown up in #onedrive. Someone sends you a 'shared' file via #sharepoint, the link asks you to log into oneDrive - oops, you just enetered your details into something you shouldn't.

I think 'megatech' is the appropriate term. Step back a few decades to 'forums' and 'forum administrators' and the problem can't persist. It's automated account creation that facilitates the problem.

I have been asked twice to fix AI coded web projects (mostly UX and style bugs), but the price isn't right. If you start-off paying [next to] nothing for a product, how much are you willing to spend to fix it?

Thanks, will give it a try!

I should have been specific. I was referring to BTC and the massive injection the recent ETFs brought. That was institutional (tradfi) money and it was the first [new] exit liquidity of any scale. *If* they collateralise it, @tomashirstecon.bsky.social is right. Tradfi money, Tradfi rules.

I think tomas' point certainly gives pause for thought. Even small amounts of collateralised crypto could make rises smaller at the same time as making falls much worse.

Subcontractors are a big bill in many UK firms. It's also pro-rata, so you can ration it, meter-it, prohibit it. If you believe you can move some of that to an internal AI tool, then you believe you can turn a liability into an asset. That is alchemy.

Yes... And yes.

Adobe have been doing this for years to the creative industry. Everyone knows they have 'pretend' to quit, in order to get a better price.

Thanks!

How do you get to 5.5%? 2061 UK GILT, 0.5%. Asking because I don't understand, not because I think you are wrong.

Why would I pay MRR for your vibe-coded SaaS tool, when your vibe-coding marketing says I can vibe-code my own?

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"My button finger aches"

Ed, you made me read the whole article because I thought Antonio Guterres called someone a c*nt.

Are there companies producing frontier models with large work forces? That is, can you produce frontier models with a handle full of galaxy-brains and 8 squillion graphics cards?

Or are these layoffs mostly in 'wrapper' SaaS companes, trying to make tools out of this stuff?

Manchester United

Love seeing the commercial work too!

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge riskTrusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

This essay by @baldurbjarnason.com on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.

Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH: