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Earth is 4.5 billion years old, not 6000. You need to watch this.

I can't unsee it. 🤣

@CivicOSInstitut @__tinygrad__ @sama @AnthropicAI @xai So did OpenAI with GPT OSS.

@bobstrogg @__tinygrad__ @sama @AnthropicAI @xai xAI already open-sourced Grok-1. The real question is whether they will open-source newer Grok models too. ⏱️

@sama "The only solution I can come up with is to orient towards sharing the technology with people broadly, and for no one to have the ring." Thank you. Can OpenAI go back to open source?

@LamarMK Still happy with my 2018 3 LR RWD + FSD after 157k miles. Drives me to work and back (60 miles) every day with no issues 🤷🏻‍♂️

Current Tesla owners, how pleased are you with your Tesla and would you purchase another one? If you're thinking about making the switch, hear it from real owners instead of people who have never driven one.

@28delayslater What a tit.

@sama Glad you did. Stay safe @sama 👍🏻

I wrote this early this morning and I wasn't sure if I would actually publish it, but here it is: blog.samaltman.com/2279512

MUST READ: Mariia Berlinska encountered a Russian taxi driver in Kyiv. It’s late at night; I’m running late for the subway, so I call a taxi. The driver’s profile pops up in the app—high rating, 17,000 rides. I get in, and we’re off. The driver asks for the address again, in Russian. That same Russian I wouldn’t mistake for anything else. Not the Russified Kharkiv, not Dnipro or Donbas. Russian from Russia. He tries to throw in some Ukrainian words, but I understand everything from the very first notes. We’re driving through a deserted, dark city; his GPS isn’t working because of the air raid alert. “I see you’re driving without a GPS. How long have you been in Kyiv?” “Since August 2014.” “Why did you decide to move?” “For political reasons.” “From Russia?” I ask bluntly. “Yes, Samara. The Volga region. But I understand Ukrainian perfectly.” -Didn’t you want to live under Putin? And then he blurts out in one breath: -I figured out everything about Putin back in 2004. That he’s a ghoul and will drink a lot of blood. We went to protests. I went for years, tried not to stay silent. But there were only one hundredth of a percent of us there. They don’t need freedom there. They need a tsar to decide everything for them. I knew Nemtsov personally. All our protests back then were sabotaged. And that jerk Navalny sabotaged them too. They wanted to negotiate with the authorities. But what is there to negotiate with cannibals? Freedom isn’t given for free; you have to pay for freedom with blood. Only you Ukrainians were able to show us all what freedom really is. And in the Khabarovsk region, there were rallies for Furgal only because of the Green Wedge—again, it was Ukrainians who took to the streets in protest. But the vast majority in Russia are just slaves. They don’t understand what freedom is. You have your own problems here. But you have freedom here—real freedom. Compared to Putin’s Russia, it’s like heaven and earth. You can’t imagine what a blessing it is to step out into freedom after being in that huge prison. - Did you expect a full-scale invasion? - No. I have no illusions about the Russian government. But even I couldn’t have imagined it. Simply because it’s illogical. No sane person would ever go for that. Plus, for a front like that, he would have had to muster three times as many forces. And in general, you had a chance to win quickly in the early years if the West had supplied weapons on time. And if your partners hadn’t so aggressively pushed your entire leadership to charge headlong toward Crimea. But the fact that you held your ground, that you kept the country together initially with almost no help, no weapons—that’s a miracle. I see God’s providence in this. And in general, the old world order is crumbling; the wars are only just beginning. I’m very glad that Ukraine has learned to fight. It’s a great pity that it came at such a cost; the ghoul has drunk rivers of blood. And it will drink much more. But now you have one of the strongest armies in the world. If they put white slippers on Putin, I hope no one else will mess with you. And in general, Ukrainians are a special people. - What do you mean, in what way are they special? - Well, do you see how many trips I’ve taken? I’ve seen thirty thousand Ukrainians over the years and talked to many of them. You are a very kind people. Sometimes even too kind, too trusting. And freedom-loving. You’re just insanely brave. Many nations are afraid to even think about what you do every day. You won’t let anyone tell you how to live here—we’ll figure it out ourselves. You won’t let a stranger rule over you. Especially not a Muscovite, right?! With those words, he laughs. And I give him a high rating, tip him generously, and tell him his navigation is spot on. Even when there’s an air raid alert all over the world.

One of Elon’s baby mamas wants you to know how Republican pay-for-play influence gigs work

@davepl1968 The real question is did you do all that by hand, or the proper way with AI? 🫠

I wanted to make an episode about training a neural network (complete with transformers, no less) on my PDP-11/44. From 1979. The code I started with is MACRO-11 assembly, but requires the MACRO11 cross-assembler, which runs on Windows. I didn't want Windows involved in this retro project, so spent the rest of the day back-porting the Windows assembler, written in C, to 211BSD UNIX. That meant a few big changes - pre-ANSI C for one. No inline declarations, all of that. And I had to split my code/data to expand the usable RAM to 128K. In the end, though, I got it running! It assembles, builds, makes a paper tape image, loads the code, runs it, trains the model, and learns!

@davepl1968 As long as you’ve never needed to store it up your ass, that’s great 👍🏻 youtu.be/kWp6hZ-5ndc?si…

My Dad died some 30 years ago. I still have his wallet and watch in a drawer. I'm fifth generation family hardware store, and my grandfather gave my father this watch in about 1960, I would guess. It's a full automatic (self-winding) movement by Hyde. I've heard of Hyde Park, but never just "Hyde". It's got an Incabloc, 21 jewels, but that's all I know. If anyone's ever heard of one of these, or knows anything about the brand, let me know. Even Grok was stumped. After 30-some years in a hardware store, it's pretty rough, but I'd never restore it... wouldn't be "his" anymore.

@GerberKawasaki My 2018 HW3 car drives better than any Waymo I’ve been in… 🧐 What you talkin about Ross 🙃

I take Waymo and just marvel at how much better it is the Tesla FSD. I wish my Tesla drove like a waymo but it doesn’t. No question we’ve hit a wall. What will it take for it to actually move from level 2 to 3-4? I want it to work but I think Tesla has to rethink the approach. $TSLA

If the United States truly thinks about withdrawing from NATO, then European security will be based solely on the European Union. But not in its current form. I think that the EU is in a situation where it needs more countries. The UK, Ukraine, Türkiye, and Norway. These are four strong countries, which are part of Europe. Together, the UK, Ukraine, and Türkiye have armies that are stronger than Russia's army. Without Ukraine and Türkiye, Europe can’t match Russia. With the four countries on board you can wrest control of the seas, have secure skies and the largest land forces. It’s not about offense, because when Russia makes the decision to have an army of 2.5 million people by 2030, Europe has to think about security and how to preserve its independence. The UK once was a member of the EU. There are concerns about agriculture when it comes to Türkiye. But you can manage all of this if you have a really great economy. But security comes first, economy second. Not vice versa. From an interview on The Rest Is Politics podcast (5/5).

Having @grok in a @Tesla is cool, but it would be WAY cooler if it could use the cameras as input to the multimodal model. "Hey grok, what's that weird British car in front of me?" "Hey grok, what kind of dog is that in the car next to me?"

@Jonas_Ceika @DoctorVive In fairness, it’s art with an f.

I sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects and asked what it thinks of "my music" and this is what it said

If sanctions on Russian oil have been lifted because of the war in the Middle East, will the U.S. sanctions be reimposed now that there is a ceasefire? I think that an answer to this question will expose the reason for lifting sanctions in the first place. We just need to wait and see. In my view, Russia played the Americans again – played the President of the United States. The Russians lied about the role their oil supplies played in keeping oil markets stable. If the U.S. reimposes sanctions, that would be fair. But if it doesn’t… We heard that Russia wanted Americans to buy certain energy assets in Europe belonging to Lukoil. I ask myself, “If I want to sell sanctioned energy assets, what do I do?” I come up with a scheme to lift sanctions. How else could I sell it? From an interview with Rai Radio 1 (3/3).

Iran is trolling the bejeezus out of the pedo that was promised.

@Scobleizer @Drew_Church @elonmusk @Tesla @Starlink I agree with all your points about Elon. My view of *him* has been diminished by some of his statements. This is independent of my world view, which is pretty basic. What am I failing to see here?

It isn't that you are wrong. It's that you are only presenting one side of the coin. Elon is the innovator of our age. You didn't present that. His technology will eventually save millions of lives. You didn't present that. So you are talked into your world view which isn't holistic. I don't argue with people like you. You have to have a spiritual awakening on your own. Politics ALWAYS has two sides.

@bobstrogg @elonmusk Not with me.

Republicans should start their own Amish-style community — except instead of living like it’s the 1800s, they live forever in the 1980s: big hair, shoulder pads, and all the VHS tapes their hearts desire.