Sean M

Idealized science: take walk in the park, think very hard, be struck by brilliant insight. Marvel.
Science frequently: it is week three of being unable to reproduce my experiment from six months ago. Was I wrong then or am I wrong now? Is it just noise? I have not seen the sun.

Oh boy. The ranked competitive racism

I’m just going to have to be happy with the fact that I found some cool accounts there that I won’t see again unless I remember to search for them.

Depends. Many of the tools have lower barriers to entry. Higher prices will also come with expectations that games can’t uphold; paying 60$ for a game you’ll never finish has become normal but paying 100$? 150$? For a thing whose end you’ll never see?

Makes me wonder about Soylent.

Thank you for the details. This went into a lot more depth than anything else I read without including math. Greatly appreciated.

Yea, I was commenting more about them as a sponsor company. I don’t think they are bad like BetterHelp

Oh simply that there are better earphones for the price, though I did see a commentary video on them that I did not watch which might have more to say.

Raycons have a bad rep. Raid shadow legends was a stupid meme. Considering your content maybe you’ll get one of those toy box subscriptions or maybe factor (food prep)? I don’t think those two are bad but I don’t know better.

Reminds me of the ship breaking yards

The AI water issue is fake On the national, local, and personal level

andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

We’re going to see whole new kinds of hitherto unknown loot boxes

Was slightly confused because I thought the es-Verlaus were always in service to the es-Yoht

See all the big accounts claiming Democrats are wooing Musk, with no evidence? See all the accounts bashing Dems for somehow ruining this fight, even though no one’s doing that?

Yeah.

Those accounts are your enemy and you should block them right now.

an accurate description of donald trump's character is per se libel. an accurate description of his policies is a call for revolution. one of his great superpowers is that he generates self-censoring facts.

this is what i mean by decadence. your vote is not a gift you give a person you like. it is a responsibility forced on you by citizenship which implicates you in the actions of the state.

January 2- Battle of Stones River Day January 15- Second Battle of Fort Fisher Day February 16- Battle of Fort Donelson Day March 8- Battle of Pea Ridge Day March 21- Battle of Bentonville Day March 25- Battle of Fort Stedman Day March 26- Battle of Glorieta Pass Day April 1- Battle of Five Forks Day April 2- Third Battle of Five Forks Day April 7- Battle of Shiloh Day April 8- Battle of Island Number Ten Day April 9- Battle of Appomattox Court House Day April 28- Battle of Forts Jackson & St. Philip Day May 16- Battle of Champion Hill Day May 30- Siege of Corinth Day July 1- Battle of Malvern Hill Day July 3- Battle of Gettysburg Day (Make July 4 a week-long holiday celebrating Gettysburg, Vicksburg, & rev war) July 4- Siege of Vicksburg Day July 9- Siege of Port Hudson Day August 23- Battle of Mobile Bay Day ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead") September 1- Battle of Jonesborough Day September 17- Battle of Antietam Day September 19- Battle of Opequon Day October 19- Battle of Cedar Creek Day October 23- Battle of Westport Day November 24- Battle of Lookout Mountain Day November 25- Battle of Missionary Ridge Day November 30- Battle of Franklin Day December 16- Battle of Nashville Day

i guess i never posted about it here before but president's day seems like as good a holiday as any to bring it back up:

we don't have nearly enough federal holidays. that's why i think we should create around 30 more, each anchored to the friday or monday around a significant union army victory

Musk is going to try to make Twitter into the payment system of the USA. Sigh.

Makes sense you’d lose faith in, say, OpenAI. But losing faith in the guys selling everyone compute is… inefficient, yes.

The idea that SOTA, efficient LLMs being able to be run on on-prem compute leads to markets dumping nvidia is very funny to me.

What a depressing ruling. I hope this mistake is rectified in the future.

There is a very bad internet bill out there that has bipartisan support. It’s called KOSA. Elizabeth Warren is a cosponsor.

It is being used as a regulatory trojan horse to punish sites that host LGBTQ voices on the internet.

buttondown.email/charliejane/ar…

Yeah, I think it’s more the upbringing, otherwise he wouldn’t have given that mother otter monologue.

I do think Vetinari cares, though. He cared too much at some point in his childhood, became jaded like no other afterwards, then started being mildly gentle again in the later books.

NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable "At current cost levels the SLS program is unsustainable."

Well, it's a start.

arstechnica.com/space/2023/0...

Time to find all the materials science people here