George O’Neill

That’s two Superbowls on the bounce where a Drake has been humiliated in public.

Watching the Winter Olympic luge heats and they’ve now got drones chasing the riders down the track. Proper WipEout vibes.

I am trying hard to not finish the sentence.

Look, we've all been overlooked for positions at the University of Nottingham, but you don't see me becoming an ethno-nationalist in response.

This is a really cool resource, thanks Rik!

Turns out the response was “New phone, who dis?”

Yeah the Bears clearly have the big man on speed dial.

Locked out of my work's Google services as I didn't respond to the email sent at 11.40 pm on New Years Eve to enroll in something before New Years Day. Love it. 🙃

Stray is an excellent choice.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

Paging @actualnames.bsky.social

Berghain by Roaslía is screaming for someone to make an ABBA version of it.

YouTube video by KATU News The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon

Happy 55th Anniversary of the time in Oregon they tried to use dynamite to dispose a beached whale.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...

SCORIGAMI!

Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

That Broncos game has aged me considerably.

Lenticular clouds over a parking lot.

Saw my first lenticular clouds in person today. The lamination!

Bleed by Meshuggah, everyone things is trivial to play, but its actually really hard. *stares at reviewer 2*

A yellow box for LaMar’s Donuts and Coffee. Top line reads “Celebrating 90+ Years” but the plus sign is superscript, the notation for a pseudo-inverse.

I think I’ve spent too long looking at linear algebra that I thought this donut shop was celebrating the pseudo-inverse of 90 years.

Well don't I feel stupid

Do it for the job security, or the mountain view. I’m not judging!

a big hamburger

Just saw Mario turned 40 this week and so, once again, I present to you: the first level of Super Mario but all the sound effects are farts.

At some point either cause VC funders or other realise this is a complete waste of money or AI growth falters in another way, its going to make the dot-com crash look like a picnic in comparison?

Spending on AI data centers is so massive that it’s taken a bigger chunk of GDP growth than shopping—and it could crash the American economy As Rusty Foster, author of the widely read media blog Today in Tabs, puts it: “Our economy might just be three AI data centers in a trench coat.”

Why do I point this out? Well in the US, the dogma of hyperscaling to make the next big leap in model performance means capital expenditure on AI was larger than all consumer spending this year.

finance.yahoo.com/news/spendin...

DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning - Nature A new artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek-R1, is introduced, demonstrating that the reasoning abilities of large language models can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning, removing t...

I wouldn't normally link to an AI paper but the DeepSeek paper in Nature has one astonishing stat in the supplementary. The cost to train on top of the base LLM was below $300k. I think the cost of the original model was only 10x more.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

RIP CTF system, ur wiv the angles now.

You can tell SPM is uncomfortable about turning 30, it’s spent all year telling everyone it’s 25!