Lucas Ives

@MarioNawfal cs.brown.edu/news/2000/04/1… 🤷‍♂️

MIT students got bored on a Saturday night and turned an entire building into a playable game of Tetris, rigging every window with LEDs at midnight. These kids are going to run the world and we should let them.

@k_thos @erfahrung @cory @BrownUniversity i also have a memory of a klezmer band showing up to play the theme song on loop … truth, or did i fabricate that?

@lri @erfahrung @cory @BrownUniversity lol i was there too. the student who did it was... borris yeltsin

this is pretty cool some MIT students turned a building into a giant playable game of Tetris on Saturday at midnight rigged each window with LEDs MIT students are on a diff level

@erfahrung @cory @BrownUniversity no, it’s not. but @BrownUniversity did do this when I was there in 2000 with the SciLi.

@cory This is @BrownUniversity library

do we .. do we think his handlers told him to … tell people.. the photo was … i can’t.

@henrydaubrez assuming it’s any good, $1k for six minutes of footage is shockingly cheap.

Oh also. Don’t get me wrong, model is great and surprising in a good way for a lot of reasons but I also hallucinates a lot, pricing makes it rough sometimes to re-roll, consistency is still harsh and 1000 dollars bought me around 6 min of short film

Spent about $1000 in credits on Seedance 2.0 over the last few weeks,and here are a few thoughts: First, the main thing that strikes me using a state-of-the-art model from this new generation is how hard it still is to scale beyond short form. Getting great animation is fast. Getting multi-cut sequences that make sense is possible. Consistency with Omnireference is actually very good. But the moment you move into real narrative work, things change. Multi-character exchanges, long sequences, maintaining visual continuity across shots, keeping tone, pacing, and staging consistent… it’s not impossible, but it is still a lot of work. And with generation costing somewhere between $2 and $7 per ~15 seconds, it adds up very quickly. As models improve, producing good looking short content is becoming trivial. Building something that holds together as a story is still not. Continue Video in Seedance is clearly trying to address part of this, but in my case it has been broken for the last couple of weeks, so none of my longer attempts would go through. In theory, you could imagine a small team of 5–10 people generating all day from the same storyboard, using a shared visual reference as a single source of truth. That alone shows how close we are to something that starts looking like a real production pipeline. But we are not fully there yet. Right now it still feels like we can touch the future with the tip of our fingers, while at the same time struggling to precisely steer a model using mostly words, references, and iterations when the narrative becomes complex. Short clips are easy. Worldbuilding is not. And storytelling is still the hardest part.

@BrianRoemmele is this @WarrenMillerEnt ‘s Ski Country?

In the 1980s many were certain summer skiing would become a thing.

@guilhermesacco bobson dugnutt

Instagram sugeriu pra mim um post de uma página da Sérvia sobre o Jokic ser o segundo com mais triplos duplos da história da NBA e eles "traduzem" todos os nomes dos americanos e essa talvez seja a imagem mais incrível que eu já vi. LEBRON DZEJMS

@WarrenInTheBuff assuming seriousness 😂: ideally? an internship or work study. failing that, i like to go deep with them on something they’ve actually built on their résumé. if my BS detector trips, “dictionary-style data types don’t exist. how would you build one?” is a pretty good weeder.

What's your favorite technical interview question as an interviewer?

@Super70sSports michael mcdonald, winner hands down

Who’s the top “Joined the band after it was already popular and just fucking owned it” guy? I’ll start:

@theDBZgod47 @minombrejonas @moultano you’d take win32 over bsd unix? interesting choice. or: you’re not a developer?

@minombrejonas @moultano Okay you’re talking chargers idiot . The actual PC is always better

This alone justifies switching away from a MacBook. You do not want a giant heavy transformer torquing your outlets, blocking your outlets, or being a trip hazard. They should have dropped this design a decade ago.

@bendreyfuss this has strong Deep Thoughts energy, bravo

A great recurring movie bit is when the humans are walking through a radioactive site and one of them gets a feeling and starts removing their mask and the others are like “no!” but he does and it’s fine and he says “there is no radiation” and they all take off their masks

@ChrisJBakke yowza

AI companies trying to find their first customer who won’t churn after raising $700M at a $9B valuation:

@zebulgar multiple arrows seems the smart play … the whole game is looking for outsized return on investments orders of magnitude smaller, no?

sorry can someone explain to me why we're on this if we only have one arrow doesn't that mean we're NOT spraying and praying? *cough* unlike the rest of the VC industry *cough*

Because making medicine more expensive is a top priority.

@esthercrawford ah yes, when he was just “terrible boss” nuts, but not quite yet “destroying the fabric of the government” nuts 😂

I had to.

@Acyn google turing complete, we’ll wait.

O’Leary: The FAA. It's not the people. The code is cobalt. It's from the 60s…

@orenjacob @SouthwestAir I was going to say, Emilia, don’t worry, this is all about the C seat. @orenjacob and I used to race each other for A1 on business trips.

@SouthwestAir Oh yeah, that’s all cool. But having to publicly admit that I lost AList status by raising my hand is truly horrifying... :-)

and now… apparently somebody exited the @SouthwestAir aircraft and we can’t leave because seat count doesn’t match passengers. So we’re doing roll call, A1 -> C42, one at a time, over the loudspeaker. I had to publicly raise my hand at C9. Omg. The horror. #TheStruggleIsReal

@RealTrucker24 @thePandaHandler @seperatorlurker @katrosh @TheLongThreader @atvenomspicy @JUSTMlGH @sjs856 @Ayachuco1 sorry if i gave that impression. i may be conflating threads here, but i’m saying that, anecdotally, it feels like there’s been a societal shift away from trust in expertise. as tech accelerates and specializes further, that’s going to be a big problem.

Explain a mechanism by which a vaccine would cause autism. I’m curious