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by echelon 6mo ago
I said "root path". Very few companies do this. Github and Twitter are some of the only ones. And they were certainly incredibly novel at the time. Back in the 90's and 2000s, URLs looked disgusting. Remember this [1] nonsens
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by echelon 6mo ago
> in a field dominated by very cautious scientists (who are great too, but who likely never would have gotten the genome sequenced within 10-20 years of when he did it). I did a bio undergrad and one of my professors was involved. She wa
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by echelon 6mo ago
That's a crime. Your HR/IT are certifiably not fun.
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by echelon 6mo ago
GitHub was one of the first popular places to 1. not use query params for key entities in the URL 2. to stick user identifiers at the root path! totally unheard of to occupy such an important path at that point! Taken together, this was ent
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by echelon 6mo ago
> When we buy an Android device, we should be able to install an alternative OS That's not freedom for the world. That's freedom for you and ten people. The bigger thing to fight for is removing Apple and Android's power o
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by echelon 6mo ago
All AI requires steering as the results begin to decohere and self-enshittify over time. AI in the hands of an expert operator is an exoskeleton. AI left alone is a stooge. Nobody has built an all-AI operator capable of self-direction and c
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by echelon 6mo ago
> Respectfully, I think this is the wrong fight. Respectfully, no. There are no mainstream OS alternatives. You're standing up to fight for 0.000001% of users and leaving everyone else stuck. Fighting to win our phones back is fight
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by echelon 6mo ago
Given the scaling hurdles Claude Code / Opus is having, those Anthropic customers might leave to Codex. I'm _this_ close.
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by echelon 6mo ago
This doesn't mean you have the raw model weights, right? That's still entirely hidden / opaque? You can just run "air gapped" inference? Is this only of interest to enterprise customers already on AWS (who want &quo
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by echelon 6mo ago
This is not bad news. If Blender doesn't grow AI capabilities, its utility in the future will be severely degraded. If you haven't seen 3D mesh, texturing, PBR, and retopo tools, they're getting extremely good.
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by echelon 6mo ago
A lot of 3D artists and VFX artists hate AI. Social media is full of them. Some of them, like the illustrious MrDoob (behind Threejs), love AI and are all-in on it. The VFX folks at Corridor Crew [1] have been leaning into AI for years no
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by echelon 6mo ago
In the limit, would you know the difference? Maybe this is simulated time travel right now and you're experiencing it in an "enhanced realism" state. Totally non-scientific hullabaloo, but fun to daydream about.
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by echelon 6mo ago
That's what I'm talking about! This is going to be so amazing.
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by echelon 6mo ago
Dude, I'm having a blast. I love life. Terminally online doomerism is what needs to be reined in. This tech is legitimately the jet packs we dreamed of as kids. It's better, even.
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by echelon 6mo ago
We're going to be able to simulate any period of time (for which we have or can simulate data) and transport ourselves there. This is going to be amazing. At some point I'm going to data mine all of my old internet AIM and IRC cha
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by echelon 6mo ago
The smartphone is the most important piece of infrastructure in the modern world, yet we have basically two vendors. Unless something dramatically changes, that's the world we're in for. Chinese foundation model providers are rele
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by echelon 6mo ago
> It’s much more likely that performance will plateau and open weights will catch up asymptotically I really don't think so. This almost never structurally happens. I think it'll be more like Linux on the Desktop. Or Ubuntu on
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by echelon 6mo ago
Hopefully nobody in the area was an oncall surgeon, engineer, etc.
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by echelon 6mo ago
Philosophically speaking, does each of us experience "520 nm green" the same way? Is my "520 nm green" actually your "635 nm red"? And vice versa? Are all of our color embeddings different despite the same g-pr
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by echelon 6mo ago
> What are the great phone OSes that aren't Android based? Can you run Android-specific apps on then? Make Google give up Android (which is Linux based) and watch an entire industry pop up. > There definitely isn't a YouTube
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by echelon 6mo ago
> Now 40k people have learned that biometrics aren't passwords. You can't rotate your voice. Voices aren't strong. There just aren't that many unique characteristic parameters behind a voice - it's largely dictat
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by echelon 6mo ago
Early BlueSky was seeded by furries, the trans community, socialist Democrats, and left-wing folks fleeing an overly Republican/MAGA Twitter. The system was invite-based, meaning these people invited their friends. And those people inv
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by echelon 6mo ago
> Google offers an insane amount of value to people for free: YouTube, Android, Google Search, Trends, Scholar, Maps, Chrome, Translate, Gmail. These would all be paid subscription products without adsense (or some equivalent). And as pa
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by echelon 6mo ago
> What have we learned that isn't in my textbook from the 90s? Does it matter? We can do countless things people in the 90's would think was black magic. If I showed the kid version of myself what I can do with Opus or Nano Ban
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by echelon 6mo ago
Google owns 92% of all "URL bars". They turned this into "search". Every brand or product has to competitively bid for its own identity in a monopoly competitive bidding market. It's downright evil. Look at Google&#
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by echelon 6mo ago
> the same thing that prevented Bluesky from ever being good. That's not it at all. Bluesky is simply just too political. X is too political. Bluesky is too political. When you focus on content and sharing and having a good time, th
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by echelon 6mo ago
Exactly. Self-defining all of the semantic grouping metadata was too much onus on the user. Not everybody has the patience to curate and groom their social circle labels and memberships. That feels like a full time job. I spent way too much
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by echelon 6mo ago
You can use k8s on $2/mo digital ocean projects. It probably even works on the free tier of a lot of providers. And there's zero setup. Just a deployment yaml that specifies exactly what you want deployed, which has the benefit of
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by echelon 6mo ago
Now do P vs NP. If/when these things solve our hardest problems, that's going to lead to some very uncomfortable conversations and realizations.
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by echelon 6mo ago
I'm willing to bet that this is the shape of the future. Wanna bet on it?

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