Aaron

This shows there isn’t a big market for GPUs outside of the big players. The long tail isn’t going to make up for an OpenAI or Anthropic leaving.

Wow that’s a lot of idle capacity they had just kicking around.

When was the last time New Orleans had a mayor with more management experience than a handful of staffers? Was it Nagin?

A purple table sitting on sawhorses in a paint booth

Having access to a paint booth makes some projects much easier, it’s great to have a workshop like NOLAWorks available!

Today’s college seniors were in COVID lockdowns during high school and early college, lots of development happens in those years when everyone was inside. Because lockdowns were political we couldn’t talk about how to mitigate those problems.

“List have been made” is the real legacy of that guy

10 point split between everyone and 2024 voters. Really drives home that Harris lost to people staying home. Also that we could fix a lot of stuff in this state if people would actually get out and vote

This case is a little different, she is sub tweeting Elon who is apparently on a “can’t trust Signal” rant on the other site. The chefs kiss is that instead of responding on twitter she posted here.

A map image from the Flight Radar 24 service shows the flight track of a NOAA P-3 Orion aircraft flying over the Caribbean Sea, where Hurricane Melissa threatens to bring catastrophic rain and flooding to Jamaica and Haiti. Most other aircraft appear to be steering clear of the area.

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.

The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

And not enough AI users understand the old programer adage that a computer will do what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

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Not nearly enough AGI enthusiasts have played the paperclips game: www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/i...

The “better to ask forgiveness than permission” mentality in action

The parking lot of the Home Depot in Harahan is always full of dudes in half tons buying light bulbs and one grandmother shoving half a yard of mulch into the back of her Subaru.

Or be seen as climbing the ladder à la Vance

And I suspect there is something about how he was not just willing to work for a black woman, but actively sang her praises.

This makes the collective ignoring of Tim Walz so interesting, he checks every single box in this thread. If they actually wanted someone to do outreach to suburban cowboys, he’s your guy.

Especially after getting laughed off of Greenland

I guess this schedule bugs me so much because it’s a cargo cult of imagined success, without any deeper thought about why other companies have succeed or failed.

Yes there are occasional late nights, but planning all of your hours as your standard procedure means there is no room for unplanned work.

"The chances of success increase when everyone is focused on the mission together," said Nandy, 21. Employees don't have to worry about food or housing, just work.

Having been at a dozen startups, some successful and many not, I can assure you this does not mean 996. You can’t exert more effort than a better funded company, 996 means you don’t understand what your leverage is.

LLMs have, for a large portion of the population, crossed the uncanny valley. It’s a machine that seems more human than it actually is.

At a certain size this becomes a feature instead of a bug. The customer support story becomes “oh that thing that took out the big kids got us too”.

A jack-o'-lantern with a wine bottle in it's mouth in front of a door with a metal gate, mardi gras beads are hanging on the gate. Someone has used a sharpie to graffiti the pumpkin with a dingus.

New Orleans Halloween decorations

Re big No Kings New Orleans rally (today Sat 18 Oct 3:30 – 5:30pm CDT Lafitte Greenway Great Lawn between N. Galvez and N. Prieur).

Broad Theater posts: "If you are at the rally on the Greenway today and need to use the restroom or grab some water, feel free to come on in."

#NewOrleans #NoKings

The Aerostich motorcycle suit runs the gortex under the pockets and the manufacturer tells you to fill them with ice at the rest stop of you get too hot!

It gets dangerous if people are not ready for the heat.

All this has happened before, all this will happen again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

I think so. And it was common knowledge with the autocross set that most people would turn faster times with the AC on than off.

It’s better weather than when they tried to run a street circuit in Dallas, in July. That’s the race Nigel Mansell passed out trying to push his car across the finish.

And a Raspberry Pi is a legitimate computer