Jason Packer

has anyone suggested the acronym FAT MANG for the "magnificent 7"?
facebook, apple, tesla, microsoft, amazon, nvidia, google

(wakes up) "Hmm... I wonder how MechaHitler did on Humanity's Last Exam".
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The Duality of ChatGPT - Quantable Analytics by Jason Packer with help from Juliana Jackson “.. the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function...

Can AI be both a grift and a revolution at the same time?
My latest article (and tbh probably the last thing I'll write about AI for a while, I feel burnt out on the topic).
www.quantable.com/ai/the-duali...

webperformance.slack.com is good.

Why do AI boosters dream of the $1B solo person company? The odds are not in your favor. A $1B company with 1,000 people means $1M per person. In the former .1% get crazy rich and 99.9% get nothing.
Yea the economy isn't a zero-sum game, but I'd take the latter every time.

Cool, yea I think Logan Square is a good choice and you can get the blue line down to the venue. (though fair warning it's been like 15 years since I lived in Chicago).

Yea sadly is gonna be expensive.. Did you look in Pilsen (lower west side) at all? Looks like your search area is just above that area, which does have pretty easy access to downtown. Also you could check Priceline, which usually has some deals if you're ok with rolling the dice on hotel quality.

Great record! here in the US I only ever saw the Back To Basics compilation, which is what I had.

I wonder if part of why AI bros overestimate the capabilities of LLMs so much is that they (the bros) consider writing code to be one of the strongest indicators of intelligence, and that happens to be one of the things that LLMs are best at.

Sweet hoodie Fosca!

Also that LP looks sweet!

Congrats on selling yours!! I definitely would have done the same if I'd been smart enough to buy one in 97.. Pretty sure the only dirt pedal I have from 1997 still is a vox valvetone, lol. On the klone front I have a tumnus that I think sounds great.

Where can I get some? mine are worn out and have turtles and walruses on them rather than ducks.

Linus Torvalds offers to build free guitar effects pedal ‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7

Linus offering to build a guitar pedal for a kernel contributor makes me wish I'd contributed something last year.. or ever. Any linux kernel contributors who want to ask for a King of Tone from Linus on my behalf please go ahead.

www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/l...

Would scarf joints help? I've never really understood the benefits of a set neck either. Honestly was just in the market for an LP but ended up buying a tele deluxe instead because I guess I have something against Gibson.

Unless someone moved Columbus a lot closer to the lake I feel like that number probably isn’t right

I feel you, my wife doesn't allow tilt-back headstocks in the house either.

I’ve figured it out.. The Big “1G” is in base 17, so they are actually only at 18 of the eventual 33 (decimal) schools.

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A newly built Klon Centaur on ebay, currently $7,048 and sure to go higher. I guess people still believe in magic diodes... I really doubt whoever buys this could tell the difference between this and a $50 klone. Positive I could not.
www.ebay.com/itm/38775728...

Looks like the speaker lineup from last year's ReasonablyOKWeek if that's what you're implying.

heck yea that makes way more sense.

I'm 100% here for more guitar content, though I'm not sure I should be thanking you for putting more ideas about custom guitars in my head. My strat is pretty old and maybe isn't good to keep beating on it.

I'm sorry I didn't get your message, but I have a procmail rule that sends everything with the subject "quick question" to the trash.

such a bad name, it's like I named it.

@marcinp.bsky.social -- what should we be calling someone who is a Piwik PRO professional anyways? A Piwik PRO²?

Happy Unsubscribe From Marketing Newsletters day for those who celebrate.

Orcas bringing back fashion trends from 1980s (wearing dead salmon as hats) is definitely the story of the week. www.livescience.com/animals/orca...

Nice, and props for recording yourself doing it!

16K of pure... something.