Andrea Lathrop

Reading about GPU depreciation.

This will make me extremely unpopular, but if you cannot do 8th grade math, you should not pass the 8th grade.

I am reading this: publicenterprise.org/wp-content/u...

I like a good title pun.

Also, xAi is (reportedly) spending $1B per month!?!?

An online contact asked me earlier this week to apply for their 'AI Enterprise Architect' job opening, and I am extremely flattered and absolutely not qualified for that role.

<insert rage post about table manners>

My point here is that understanding how these models work, combined with an understanding of the data they are trained upon, can lead to real insight into when they are likely to make errors. Which is why it's so frustrating that AI companies hide the training data they use! Science is impeded.

shiba ennui @TomSchally the secret to work-life balance is inherited wealth

always remember:

What?!

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It's jarring when someone you think is really cool posts a screenshot, and it's in light mode.

On the site of a former coal-fired power plant in FLX (wine country):

Update: 8.8" in the past 24 hours, and a current local snow depth of 4".

Thinking (for some reason) of Cory Booker's record-breaking filibuster, and how that could have been an amazing turning point for Democrats, but wasn't, and was also ruined by Chuck Schumer at the last possible moment.

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Why would someone [with as much gun training as I assume one would need to qualify to carry a gun federally] tilt his gun like a TV gang-banger?

We have had more rain over the past few years. More rain in already-rainy summers, and later winters, with more fall rain. And higher wind. I don't like it.

Apparently, in the US it's Mount Rainier, and in the world, the Japanese Alps, or maybe Chile.

Ok, I looked it up. We've had 7.4" in the past 24 hours, which I maintain is a lot of snow.

Rochester, the actual snowiest place on Earth. (Or was that Buffalo?)

This is interesting, from Ask a Manager, on alumni networking. I had sort of been lamenting that due to small class sizes, my college only has around 30k living alumni at any given time, many are retired, some are recent grads. Of the rest, how many are even in your field? But...

Intuitive Machines—known for its Moon landers—will become a military contractor “They’ve been Ford Aerospace, Space Systems/Loral, Maxar, Lanteris, and now it’ll be Intuitive Machines.”…

An $800 million acquisition has catapulted the one-time startup into the space industry establishment.

This is like snowman snow.

It is late for a first snow, but heavier. I'll guess it's an inch or two, but usually we get a few warning light dustings or flurries that melt quickly before the first heavy one. I could cross country ski on this, and there are already icicles.

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push

Well, it's about time! (JEPA, and world models, I presume.) (And no more reporting to Wang.)
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I mean 'unprepared' psychologically, not physically. I have snow shoes and a space heater.

This is a very weird first snow. Usually, we get some light warning snow, first. I was unprepared for this amount of snow. #vermont

I resent that Silicon Valley has made certain topics in political science relevant.

I resent that Silicon Valley took the joy out of Cognitive Science.

We are so screwed.