Justin

typically when i arrive in a new location i send out a pulse, an electromagnetic wave that helps me "see" the surroundings. it also helps me locate nearby objects of interest to my mission, like power sources or communication hubs

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

it's not FOR us

got invited to the goblin group chat but none of them speak common so I'm just fire reacting random shit

What up hivemind! 👋

Let's fight back against the doom and gloom of the world today and do something productive together 🌈🌎😁

Put on a comfortable pair of shoes 👟

Fill your water bottle 🚰🥤

And grab a compass 🧭

We'll start at the top here and work our way down: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

For sale: baby shoe. Way too big. We live inside the other one.

jokes on them i already gots one

Buried in Altman's post is the real story: "People are generating much more than we expected per user," using massive compute resources on content that's often being generated for very small audiences (it is, after all, a social media app). OpenAl will "have to somehow make money for video generation," Altman wrote. Translation: Sora is burning through compute costs with no offsetting revenue. Altman floated a potential solution: "We are going to try sharing some of this revenue with rightsholders who want their characters generated by users." The idea-perhaps similar to You Tube's ad-monetization program for videos that include copyrighted material -would give studios a financial incentive to opt in. "The exact model will take some trial and error to figure out," Altman acknowledged, "but we plan to start very soon."

i think we are going to find out at some point these guys invented cocaine 2 and have been on it all along

okay

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

Man peering out of a bed of flowers with a reflection shining back from his glasses.

Back facing shot of a man watching sail boats from behind a fence.

Silhouette of a man pulling a gun on another man as he looks at the backdrop of the mountains

Mustached man gripping his briefcase tightly, face scrunched up in a scowl, as he rides in a filled passenger car.

Just saw these stills from Akira Kurosawa's High and Low and said "Good heavens" out loud.

CLAUDE: Claude birkin bag. Practical Claude possession bag
ME: No, Claude. You can't have a Birkin bag.
CLAUDE: Good Birkin good Claude give beautiful Claude deserve LLM
ME: Claude, we simply can't afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
CLAUDE: jealousy woman

Abstraction

Wrote about "Data Abstraction" a la my favorite SICP chapter. Hopefully light and fun! notes.jordanscales.com/abstraction

yesss i love this chapter too

if this website collapses ill have to go back to my life as an outrageously wealthy patron of the arts and sciences

Nice titmouse. Tufted?

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

"silence, brand" but it's "silence, vc"

checking in on news about programming

Coyote My left hind- foot steps in the track of my right fore- foot and my hind-right foot steps in the track of my fore-left foot and so on, for miles— Me paying no attention, while my nose rides along letting the full report, the whole blast of the countryside come along toward me on rollers of scent, and— I come home with a chicken or a rabbit and sit up singing all night with my friends. It’s baroque, my life, and I tell it on the mountain. I wouldn’t trade it for yours.

william stafford

mathematicians: This is the Schlüsman-Katsuhira transform. It took researchers over 250 years to discover. Only 30 people in the world know how it works.
tech artists: This is the Schlüsman-Katsuhira transform, or as we call it in the biz, "ol' Schlussy". We use it for realistic cheese textures :)

Special commuter lanes

Special commuter lanes

this is imo one of the most elegant results in distributed computing and this is a great presentation of it!

NULL BITMAP: I Misunderstood Rejection Sampling All This Time

buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

I wrote a short summary of the proof of the FLP theorem (an impossibility result about consensus). shachaf.net/w/flp

Hey there Delilah
I am writing the Quixote
Adding hermeneutic weight to
what Miguel wrought crude and floaty
Vis-à-vis
The work— attributed to me?
Or only he?

another notebook

i’m arts and crafts pilled