DarkAdapted

Analogies help. Particularly if you have various sets of them for various ‘gap widths’ you are trying to fill. Try the more advanced ones, if they don’t follow then fall back to the baby steps ones. And yes, it is an iterative process that requires patience (or in my case, patients).

When you talk to someone at a different level than you, the first thing you do is find a common place where both minds can meet. The idea is simple but assessing the other person's mind is the hard part. Most underestimate or overestimate. It's very difficult to land at the right spot. And most don't have the patience to figure it out.

Ironically, parables are a great way to pack a massive amount of information into simple paragraphs that you can unpack to the limit of your intellect. Fractal truths with as many iterations and complexities as your experience and mind will allow. Parables have meanings you miss until your life experiences give you the ability to understand them.

@Heavenly_Race_ Isn’t that why we were instructed “do not throw you pearls before swine”? On the other side of the token, we are taught to sharpen each other - as iron sharpens iron. But, one speaks to futile interactions, whereas the other, a brother. …Try not to get them confused.

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.

I think that might be a Theory of Mind thing. Taking intuitive leaps from A to E is all well and good, teaching requires being able to look ‘back’ and reconstruct A-B, B-C, C-D and D-E in steps that everyone else can follow. Math teachers in my experience fell broadly into 2 groups: math geniuses for whom math was an easy career path, and math sloggers who are actually better teachers. They aren’t very common. Rarer still are math geniuses who were also great teachers because they could reconstruct the intermediate steps that mere mortals require.

@Heavenly_Race_ There's s skill in being able to communicate to people with lower IQs in a way they can understand. I used to think that it was something that most higher IQ people possessed but realized it's very rare. It's the same skill that allows adults to effectively teach children.

@SarahAHoyt Ironically, we give LLMs the education that we say we want for our kids, then fail to insist upon.

Precisely this.

In med school I was originally interested in surgery, I practiced tying knots with string and got to where I could tie one-handed knots pretty well. Then I found out that tying knots with string doesn’t teach you anything useful about tying knots with 5-0 Prolene. Surgery seemed a lot less interesting at that point. Later I figured out that medicine is a sliding combination of diagnosis and therapy depending on specialty, and I really liked diagnosis. Therapy depends on patients, and patients are not dependable. So I put together my diagnostic skills, my generalist disposition and visualization skills and ended up in radiology. It’s been a good field for me. It’s not boring, it’s intellectually challenging, I get to help people and occasionally make a difference. Every day I am reminded that a) I am not having the worst day, and b) there is a ‘right’ side of the PACS workstation and a ‘wrong’ side, and that some day it will be my turn to be on the ‘wrong’ side. Glad you found a field you enjoy. Ironically, there are a lot of engineering undergrads who go to med school and find their way to radiology.

when I was 16 I could look at complex spinal imaging and understand how thecal sac compression ,foraminal stenosis, cord displacement, or nerve root impingement translated into surgical decisions before the first incision was ever made further more during the handful of skull base operations I observed, I could mentally reconstruct the surgical field in 3D and, more often than not, identify the major vessels and describe their anatomical relationships on command so why am i not a surgeon today you may ask because seeing the american healthcare system up close and personal for that 3-4 years made me hate the mediccal system and i pivoted back to engineering pissed off a lot of people in this decision and some still despise me for it but it turns out im not the biggest people person, and admittedly wanted the scalpel to be the solution to every problem *to be clear you don’t want a doctor like this* so i would not have actually been a good doctor anyway i would have been a decent surgeon but a shit physician i don’t need to have good bedside manner while my turbine watches me beat a press fit bearing into place 😌

@ThrillaRilla369 Thunderstruck by AC DC. Appropriate for all occasions.

The planet has 5 minutes left. You're in charge of the final classic song played worldwide. What do you pick? 🎵 🎤

@drsuffy 5% of caloric intake is 1/20th of caloric intake. There are typically 3 meals a day, 7 days a week, or 21 meals a week. This fits with “a few times a month”.

Retards will literally tell McDonald's that no, the average family did not eat McDonald's a few times a month, Even tho the actual hard numbers say so and McDonald's used that to justify their massive expansion in the golden era. The reason it was only 5% of caloric intake was because the food was way healthier and didn't come in as large a portions as it was today. They didn't have half a gallon coke drinks yet. They literally made combo meals during this time for "bustling families" because boomers were young adults in this time. Boomer coded retards exist I see.

Hang in there. Glad you are still moving forward, resilience is a character trait that is the equivalent of compound interest in that the value increases over time. It is also something you are displaying. Gallows humor is fine. Learning opportunities are rarely welcomed at the time but typically become invaluable over time. Good on you for trying and good on you for not giving up.

My robotics company of 20 years closed down at the end of 2024. It was a very hard time for me. I had to sell off most of my equipment, my 30k sq ft building, and dismantle by myself what I built piece by piece. I lost my identity, and went through some very dark times. I am still struggling, but I am coming out the other side. I kept my small 8k sq ft building, my Okuma CNC Machine, added a Haas TL2, still have my Omax 55100 waterjet, still making a patented product that I developed at my old company. Tesla is one of my customers. This is something I am doing on the side, I am now also the General Manager of Robotics at an integrator as a full-time job. I kept my head up the best I could, I kept moving forward. That was the most important part - keep moving forward, no matter what, even if it doesn't make any sense as to why. Here's a pic of my current setup...I call it "The Garage of Broken Dreams" lol. I am making the best of it and moving forward.

They did not ban their engineers from using AI. They moved them to their in-house coding system, Copilot CLI. The supported statement based on what happened is “Claude was costing more than Copilot CLI.” One of a few things will happen: 1. Copilot CLI is good enough and they will keep using AI. 2. Copilot CLI is not good enough and Microsoft/OpenAI will have to make it better. 3. Copilot CLI is not good enough, cannot be made good enough and Microsoft will end up going back to Claude.

Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI. The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace. They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up: Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it. Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived. Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead. The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much. Uber's story is even worse... Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April. Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems. Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session. The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money. Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote: "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees." This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans. Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative. Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing: AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs. The stock market rewarded every company that said it. Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up. But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill. Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools. Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible. Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone. And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control. The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP. This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in. $725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work. What do you think?

It is very hard for China to get ahead in AI if our data center buildout continues apace. It is very easy to nudge the domestic NIMBY/BANANA (Build Absolute Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) crowd into a tizzy. Water-use estimations touted by opponents are based on the worst possible assumptions for water use, not the actual cooling system design. There is just a formula for X megawatts = Y water consumption, which is not true in all cases and sometimes overestimates water use by 4-5 orders of magnitude, in the case of closed-loop systems. As an example, look at the Starbase project in Abilene, Texas. I spent 4 years in Abilene as an undergrad, Abilene is not and never will be known for excess water. There are plenty of wind farms and they are building an on-site natural gas powerplant, but water seemed to be the real rate-limiting factor. The actual water costs for 8 buildings and 800MW of computing power: *1 million gallons per building to fill the closed-loop system. *12,500-50,000 gallons per building per year. Total: *8 million gallons to fill (one-time cost) *Annual: 100,000-400,000 gallons per year. Abilene’s daily water consumption averages out at 22 million gallons per day, before the data center. The data center will consume 36% of one day’s normal water use to fill, and up to 1.8% of one day’s water use per year to replace losses. People are right to raise the issue of water use. They should also be prepared to listen to the answer as to why their back-of-the-envelope math is wrong, in the event that it is. Plus, getting antsy about every announced project is pointless. We don’t generate enough power nationally to even turn on all of the announced data centers. Some of these things are tulip-craze/Pets.com levels of overhyped investment announcements. The rate limiting steps are: *electrical power *GPU production *high-bandwidth memory production Water is way down the list. But if AOC is using water as a prop, you can tell it is the one they are trying to get across to the public. The other thing that people don’t factor in is that over time the trend will be toward systems that are more electrically efficient, which means they use less power, which means they require less cooling. The current generation of data centers will be the least efficient ones ever built. And because not all of the announced projects will be completed on time, they will benefit from the efficiency gains even more than those that are operating now.

I’ve looked into this very minimally, so I’m genuinely asking. Why are people opposing data centers so hard? My gut feeling is it’s hippies opposing nuclear power 2.0, but I’m willing to be convinced otherwise.

First sentence in point #4, glad we agree. The booster engines did not do the full boost-back burn, one of them appeared to explode, then they all went out and it slammed into the Gulf down range with great authority. They did not intend to catch the booster, it was going in the drink either way. But they did intend to fly in back within a couple miles of shore and then have the booster simulate a chopstick catch landing. Because ITAR, they have to fish their stuff out of the water, likely presuming it is above some depth. Engines and guidance systems represent a theoretical technical boon to potential WMD states, it can’t sit out in the water waiting to be salvaged. Much easier if you park your rocket in shallow water a few miles offshore.

@DarkAdapted @jmhagerman @elonmusk They did relight for the controlled landing.

What if aliens have been among us for years and all they wanted from Earth was 10mm socket heads? It would explain a few things.

@cljack @tred67007744

before you waste a lot of time in therapy trying to understand men, consider that Napoleon got volunteers to man a battery position with an almost 100% casualty rate by simply renaming it "the battery of not being a little bitch"

They had some issues, for sure. 1. Looked like one of the booster engines exploded on relight and the FCS shut down the rest, they may have been damaged. Booster landing was kinetic but nobody got hurt and they have the telemetry to hopefully reconstruct the error. 2. One of the Starship vacuum engines failed. We don’t know why but, again, they have the data. 3. They did not do an on-orbit relight of the remaining Starship engines. That was a data point they did not complete. 4. The engines did relight after entry, they flew an approach exactly as they would if they were going to land at a tower and then soft-landed in the water. QED. For a first flight of new engines, booster, Starship, heat shield and satellite release system, it seemed to go very well. Although unintended they demonstrated that Starship could get to orbit on 2 vacuum engines and the software and other 3 gimbaling engines were fully able to correct (as far as we know).

@elonmusk I just don’t understand how this is a success? Sure, you captured lots of inflight data but you are still landing the starship in the ocean and it blew up afterward. How does that rate a standing ovation and celebration?

@BowieFan2024 @MatrixMysteries You might want to check out the townhouse at the physical address in Apple Valley on Google Maps or similar. Does not look like a busy medical transport operation.

@MatrixMysteries These liars went to their MAILING address instead of their PHYSICAL address where they would have vehicles for the nonemergency transport.

“Minnesota sent taxpayer money to a ‘healthcare company’ for 26 YEARS." Nick Shirley went to the address on file. IT DOESN’T EXIST. 26 years of funding. No office. No staff. No operation. If fraud this obvious goes unnoticed for decades, CORRUPTION is incentivized.

The ticks that are being developed (in Scotland, by a company called Flyttr) under a grant from the Gates Foundation are of a species that is extinct in the United States, except for occasional outbreaks along the US-Mexico border. Those ticks, Rhipicephalus microplus, are a major pest in the tropics (and Mexico). There is no reason to release genetically sterile ticks of that species in the US, the whole point of that type of insect control program is to reduce the number of that particular species. There aren’t any R. microplus ticks in the US, and thus no population to control. Sterile insect release is the way that New World Screwworm has been controlled for decades north of the Panama Canal. This is the same principle applied to a species of ticks, R. microplus, that — again — are not found in the United States. Their intended use is in the tropics around the world, as insecticides are increasingly ineffective against R. microplus. The ones that spread alpha-gal syndrome are a different species, Amblyomma americanum. They are not being bred by Flyttr, or under a grant from the Gates Foundation.

@epaleezeldin What about Bill Gates' ticks?

ENTIRELY fake news! At no point since President Trump was sworn back into office has the Trump EPA authorized the release of ANY genetically modified mosquitoes into Florida or anywhere else for that matter. So much fake news BS being peddled on social media for RTs, Likes, and engagement.

@wallytreats @inkyswill @pmarca Until the servers are in and running it’s not a data center, it’s just a construction site — to your point.

@pmarca This is a construction sight mistake and accident that caused this at nearby wells, this could happen on any type of building construction. Connecting this to the fact it just happened to be a data center is crazy. No matter what they were building this is a construction error.

AI turns water brown. You might disagree. You might even have some evidence to the contrary. But you have to ask yourself: is this really worth losing my job over? AI turns water brown.

@ClarkKe49569692 @Aviation_Intel Ah, thank you. I don’t think my nuclear medicine attending got into that one. :)

@DarkAdapted @Aviation_Intel It’s not what you think it is, it’s a VVIP Pod which was a roll on SCIF for C-17, serving various US government officials.

They got the silver bullet!

@KhanKrumGaming @mnsibley The star has eight points, so…

@mnsibley I think we should on purpose "mustake" this dream catcher for a nazi rune like the left did with Hegseth's cross.

Who cast Chaka for this role?

@VERBAL_CHANCLA @NicHulscher @naomirwolf And yes, this is FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt).

The ticks bred under the Gates Foundation contract aren’t the species spreading alpha-gal. They are ‘self-limited’ in that they do not produce more ticks. They are sterile but they will mate anyway, if they do they take a female out of the breeding pool for that season — and then they die.

@DarkAdapted @NicHulscher @naomirwolf So if it’s the Alpha-gal, why is it self limiting ? Why are they spreading ? Ngl, hate Gates but I’ve only seen the one video of the tick box and I’m too squeamish to look at the videos of the animals covered in them. But is this the RW version of hanta virus panic in the LW?