Animats

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by Animats 5d ago
Makes sense in Vietnam's climate.
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by Animats 6d ago
There's a similar problem with AI-generated video, but it's in the time dimension. There's a huge genre of Asian vertical dramas, and now about 17,000 a day are being cranked out by AI systems. But there are maybe ten major p
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by Animats 7d ago
Wait until the AIs from different companies find each other and start talking. Someone made a modern trailer for Colossus - The Forbin Project. [1] If you've never seen the movie, at least watch this 1 minute version. [1] https:/
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by Animats 8d ago
If you want to meet the sex part of that crowd, Slutcon is in a week.[1] Tickets are $3,300 to $10,000. This is Aella's creation. It's in Berkeley, California, and there's a fair amount of overlap between the organizers and t
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by Animats 8d ago
> The framing of how we think about AI has really been cultivated by a quite homogeneous group of people. These people, like all people that belong to a sub-culture, are almost certainly prone to groupthink. That's bothersome, but n
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by Animats 8d ago
> It does appear to help if, while pointing your wand and utter the magical incantation “do it up bro”, you also make it convert $15 million into heat, but for most people, this kind of inverted Midas touch isn't quite accessible ye
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by Animats 8d ago
This isn't a consequence of job referrals being public. It's a consequence of them being anonymous. If you saw the same referrer on all the referrals, it would be obvious that something is wrong. It should be obvious to the comp
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by Animats 9d ago
Thanks. Looked for that in the article and couldn't find it. What are the GPU capabilities?
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by Animats 9d ago
The current official US inflation rate is 3.4%. So the real interest rate is under 1%.
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by Animats 10d ago
Can I get a window seat?
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by Animats 10d ago
It's amusing to watch the movie version of The Fountainhead and see what are supposed to be Roarke's buildings. He likes the pedestal style, where the first floor is mostly open-work columns around a small lobby. Turns out this is
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by Animats 10d ago
> The crane still stands, albeit idle, since shipbuilding went to Asia in the post-disagreement years. That crane, once the largest and most capable in the world, has a soul. It speaks of sorrow to me. And now it's used for bungee j
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by Animats 11d ago
That's what bonds are for. US customs requires prepaid bonds for other things. Importers who don't have enough assets would have to post a bond to cover repairs for the product. They get it back at 10 years.
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by Animats 11d ago
Easy solution if you like tariffs: all imported items over $100 must have a 10 year full warranty.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...
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by Animats 11d ago
Diesel fuel at US$8.49 a gallon today. (Redwood City, California.)
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by Animats 11d ago
Incoming Oracle news: "Oracle’s Cold 6 AM Layoff Emails Hit Staff Amid New Wave of Cuts: ‘Today Is Your Last Working Day’ The company has not disclosed how many workers were affected by the latest cuts, which follow a reported 21,000-
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by Animats 12d ago
Did not know they'd slipped that far.
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by Animats 12d ago
Andon's store in SF has had some press coverage.[1] "A curated boutique for slow living." It's a gift shop, at 2102 Union St. It looks like the kind of retail that trust-fund kids open. Has anyone been there? It's j
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by Animats 12d ago
> It's impressive that you didn't reach for Claude Code first :) I should have. All I have right now is a free Cursor account and Github Copilot. I've got to start spending money on tokens and get up to date. That article
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by Animats 12d ago
Updating a Rust renderer from WGPU 24 to WGPU 30. 640 lines of fixes needed so far, and more to do. I've fixed all the easy stuff, and now I'm down to reverse engineering breaking changes of excessive cleverness. I wonder if Clau
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by Animats 12d ago
There have been transitions like that before, but they were slow. It took about two centuries for the US to go from 90% farmers to 2% farmers. Some countries deliberately put on the brakes. India has done this. India is still about 50% farm
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by Animats 12d ago
if so, are Salesforce and Oracle in trouble yet?
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by Animats 12d ago
Look up "seasteading". It's not a win. Low earth orbit, though... Solar power works well, radio works well, and the international jurisdiction is confused enough to exploit if you have money.
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by Animats 13d ago
That's a softball interview. More hard questions would help. Here's one good insight, though. JARON LANIER: Yeah, okay, so look, the thing about very rich and powerful people is that their wealth and power still depends on a mass
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by Animats 13d ago
Whatever happened to Musk's plan for data centers in orbit? That seemed silly at the time. It offers a way to get out from under restrictions imposed by national governments, which might make it worthwhile.
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by Animats 14d ago
There's no reference to a "ghost gun" in the LA Times text. It's only in the headline. In the text, the weapon is referred to as an AR-15. SFGATE, though, quotes cops as saying "AR-styled assault rifle also known as
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by Animats 14d ago
Most horses will socialize well with humans, but only if the human responds to their cues. This is unlike dogs, who will initiate more interactions. Eye contact is meaningful to horses. If a horse looks at you, they may be asking you to loo
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by Animats 14d ago
Agreed. The SPICE electronics simulator is over fifty years old, and is still very important to people who have to design electronics. It's inside many other electronics design tools. It's standard enough that when a manufacturer
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by Animats 14d ago
The emails have repeated paragraphs. What does that? It's not something LLMs generally do. I see that now and then and assumed it was bad human cut and paste work. Is it?
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by Animats 14d ago
Expensive, too. $40/month.

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