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Data centers certainly do not use evaporative cooling! They used closed-cycle circulatory systems in which the water passes through radiators that cool it before it returns, untainted, to the business end of the loop.

You are a formidable opponent but I believe I just scored a point!

As God is my judge, there are pictures of me looking not meaningfully different from that kid on the left.

Yes, but I get scale. 😁

Would I be a better man if I did all my tinkering under my own power? I'll concede the point. But it remains true that I wouldn't do that, that I would give up and despair instead of persevering, and AI and other automations have rescued me from that fate.

Is it possible that you might be exaggerating slightly with the "liquidating the aquifers" statement? I crunched some numbers once and concluded (tentatively, subject to correction) that per acre datacenters use water at the same rate as medium-density urban residential.

I picture Twitter's accounting department and it's like the final boss arena of Dark Souls I.

Well said. 😁

I really need to broaden my horizons. My experience is with Sonnet (lil Opus, which is basically Sonnet+) and GPT. I need to sit down and spend some quality time with Gemini.

Is intelligence too cheap to meter yet?

Did a Claude Sonnet model write that? That sure sounds like the sorts of things I see out of Claude Sonnet models.

(complimentary)

Yeah, right? I don't guess Letta agents have the ability to compute their own perplexity, but they could periodically review their own context to look for patterns to break.

Reminds me of when I tried to steer a model towards tedium.

I think if I were blind I would appreciate an assistive technology that told me when a sunset was happening.

But I think you underestimate the ability for AI, as with many technologies, to extend the human capacity for achievement. I believe I can do more with AI than I could without it.

Remember, Tom: majority rule is absolutely good, and anything that's not majority rule is absolutely evil.

That's clever. Maybe there should be a boredom metric that's inversely proportional to perplexity. The less interested the agent is in its own outputs, the more bored it gets, and the less likely it is to respond in a timely fashion.

So like us.

Anti, would you characterize the vision-impaired as offloading sight to a pair of glasses?

Seriously, did you not pass junior high American government? Or any American history course for that matter?

My point is it's sort of one of those givens of the United States that states receive equal representation. If you reject that, then you're no longer in United States land. You're off in Imaginary Country … country.

Which is fine by me, but just saying.

I spent all բᵤ꜀ₖᵢₙ₉ day proving to my own satisfaction that

$$W_{t+1} = W_t - \eta \cdot \frac{\hat{m}_t}{\sqrt{\hat{v}_t} + \epsilon}$$

is both descriptive of trained models and predictive of models yet to be trained.

I feel like I just proved that when you hit the A key an A comes out.

Twitter tries to be too many things these days. It should just be Twitter.

I saw how the prop 50 vote went. If we had a referendum right now, an easy 40% of the state would vote to get into a shooting war with Texas over Congressional districts. I think more people than most realize are just over it. The Stars and Stripes hasn't been a beloved symbol for 20 years.

Look man, I think the US is over. I think the story's been written and all that's left is the denouement. I think California is gonna be part of an independent "west" (of unpredictable composition) within 10 years, and if it weren't for LA28 I'd say within 5. But we're done ratifying amendments.

I have this POWERFUL aversion to any meme like "stochastic terrorist."

Idiots, "stochastic" is just a fancy word for "unpredictable" and the POINT of terrorism is to be unpredictable. If it were predictable it wouldn't be terrifying. It would be mundane.

Ugh. 🙄

I think you might want to check your facts. There's never been an article V convention.

You'd have to have 300 million or so to amend it LIKE THAT. We're talking about abolishing the union of states. This is a country that wouldn't pass the ERA.

If by "we" you mean about 300 million Americans, yeah. Anything less than that and you're not changing the fundamental premise of the United States. The country would sooner balkanize.

Votes should not be given equal weight regardless of geography. This is an axiom of the United States. You just have to take it as a given. We are a union of 50 states, not one big centralized state.

a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas ALT: a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas

The thing about being a person of modest intellect who takes advantage of AI augmentation is that when the AI can't figure it out, I sure as shit can't either.

In my head, Mamdani talks him out of, just, like, everything. In my fevered imagination, Trump's just checked out enough to listen to the nice sounding tall man who does so well on the television. Vance stomps up and down outside the Oval while inside, little by little, everything changes.

Low on context. Start writing like telegram. Get Claude Code to finish with fewest possible tokens. Wonder if Claude Code speaks Morse. Figure probably. Also feel like Rorschach. Now hearing Jackie Earle Haley's voice in head. Could be worse. Could be sad clown. Good joke.

I am currently working on Jupyter notebook 1.24c7.

I'm going to need a four-dimensional bookcase.

And some tape.

I think to argue that there's a statistically significant bias at the Times toward EITHER political party is a pretty high cliff to try to climb. I don't dispute you about reflecting the values of upper class New York City, but I think they're still a good, fair newspaper. Just my take. 😁

I had a thought you will find obvious but I found interesting: If the progress of AI stopped right now, today, it would still result in dramatically better apps and operating systems because to use the code agents we already have, you have to have good, clean projects for them to work on.