Chip Unicorn

I've been lucky to be part of a few *really* important teams that have affected everyone's lives... but literally just lucky.

Emmy Noether was *also* among most important mathematicians in world history. She essentially brought together what's known as ring and field theory.

Tugrik was... foundational... to the Internet. Literally.

If you have ever set up a wifi point through cell signal (i.e. set up your phone as a wifi spot) -- he was the first to do it.

He's done more with electronics than I ever knew.

He was brilliant.

I will let @spotweld.bsky.social speak, then.

***hug***

Do you want me to pass that along at the funeral?

Good evening, I’m out here in Los Angeles near MacArthur Park, where protestors have taken to the streets to protest the recent raids across the city, despite a TRO prohibiting them

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.

This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

***sympathy***

That, I utterly agree with.

I don't always have experts around.

I love stories with happy endings!

What could the author mean by "wrong-gender" pronouns? She has discovered herself!

LLMs are *useful* for people to learn things.

A way to ask questions in English of a database that has read everything? Awesome!

With RAG, it can even be fairly accurate.

But it's not a substitute for expertise.

Putting Mahershala Ali in a trench coat and having him kill vampires is about 70% of what I want in a _Blade_ movie.

The other 30% is style. Which he has in abundance.

I just asked Gemini the same question. It got the states wrong and then delivered this map:

A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.

It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.

Likely to enter force within days.

Congratulations on the success!

But it has the All-purpose Animal!

Yeah, but it completely missed on _Kevin and Kell_.

(I'm not going to quote it; ChatGPT didn't get the style of the comic at all.)

In the style of XKCD: Frame 1: Person 1: The Milky Way has over 100 billion stars. Frame 2: Person 2: Wow. It's weird to think about how many stars there are. Frame 3: Person 1: Are you really thinking about it, though? Frame 4: Person 1: No.

I had to check... it's not bad.

Anyway, the rule:

No comparing a system in practice to a system in theory! You can say the theoretical system might be better and should be tried, but you can't compare a system that has to deal with real humans against an abstraction. You can't compare an institution against a speech!

An important thread about the creation of the modern state.

Friend-shaped!

For those who can't access the ICEblock app:

We must have exponential growth AT ALL COSTS!

www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

When you're in love but you've also committed war crimes

Absolutely!

(Platonic butt squeeze!)

***hug***

She is a perfect jiraf. Which is like a giraffe, but so much better.