A winter path on a snowy jetty
Unfreeze your mind
Less than 1 hour to the full lunar Eclipse in Helsinki
At least SOME countries recognize the value of NATURE and all its offerings.
After struggling to get an honest answer out of Elmo’s AI, I wrote: “Grok is an occult oracle delivering the religion of its prophet Elon Musk.”
AI is like all technology—never worship it, because eventually someone will try to kill you with it.
www.mind-war.com/p/occult-llm...
Some flowery bounty of Finnish Summer in water bowls
Essences
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
📊 Deep Cogito just dropped models built in 75 days using Iterated Distillation & Amplification (IDA), a new approach that uses extra compute to think better, then bakes those improvements into itself. Rinse & repeat for continuous self-improvement .Could reshape AI development timelines 🔥
On Musk's old-fashioned, backwards-looking futurist/techno-authoritarian ideas, all borrowed from failed thinkers of the 20th century
from Jill Lepore
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance newrepublic.com/article/1931... via @newrepublic.com
Colours of the Finnish flag reflecting on spring ice in Finland
Microsoft's Playwright, that enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps ( playwright.dev ) built a Playwright MCP ( github.com/microsoft/pl... ) that provides browser automation using Playwright. This enables LLMs to interact with web pages through structured accessibility snapshots.
🔥 Mistral-Small-3.1 (24B) is already #3 on @hf.co after just 1 day! Brings SOTA vision + 128k context while fitting on a 32GB MacBook. Crushes benchmarks in reasoning, multilingual & visual tasks. Apache 2.0 licensed 🚀
short sell Tesla stock on Robinhood
A good morning starts with a dip into the Gulf of Finland, not Gulf of Ruzzia. Baltic Sea temperature is 0 degrees. Ice is retreating as spring seems 6 weeks early AD 2025.
This is gud. Thanks
Tavá Kaa-vi in Ute, the Sun Mountain (Pike's Peak) seen through the rock portal at Ho3o’uu Niitko’usi’i (Arapaho), the star listening place.
The 1868 treaty between the Ute and the US is just one of many broken promises by the US. Initially 1/3rd of Colorado was reduced to a small portion.
Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.
I've added schema support to my LLM Python library and a CLI tool: you can now provide a JSON schema - or a new concise schema DSL - and supported models will return data matching that format simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/28/...
The Thiel/Andreessen Dark Englightenment axis is inspired by plenty of libertarianism (which Silicon Valley and entrepreneurs favor), traditionalism, and very dark racial theory. english.elpais.com/usa/2024-11-... - this stuff will spiral out of these guys control
Russia's defeats have initiated reforms. Crimean War resulted in serfs’ emancipation, the World War I led to the February revolution, Afghan War resulted in Perestroika. What should the goal be?
This is true ethical entrepreneurship
He is planning to train an LLM or build a RAG with the PDF:d data
In 2022, Peter Thiel's "house philosopher" envisioned a second Trump administration led by a "CEO" who would be tasked with destroying the government.
He wrote down a blueprint. Welcome to the New Reality.
www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
