Grant Slatton

@kendrictonn the venerable fuji-chan

Me: I want to visit Mt Fuji 😣 Mom: we have Mt Fuji at home Mt Fuji at home:

@eastdakota @Cloudflare Stop by Wright's BBQ in downtown, you will not regret

Sitting at a bar in Bentonville, Arkansas sending offers to new @Cloudflare employees. So incredible and inspiring to read all their backgrounds. #thefuture

you are trying to solve the wrong problem using the wrong methods based on a wrong model of the world derived from poor thinking and....wait a second...no way....does this shit all cancel out?

@Duderichy As a tiny-handed small phone enjoyer still stuck on the 13 Mini I wish I could experience this

I don't think we spend enough time talking about how good smartphone batteries are these days. I walked into an emergency room in europe with <50% on my battery and still had enough left after spending 5 hours there on my phone the entire time. (iPhone 17 Pro Max)

@OXHarryH1 @YottaMindset Yes my initial post (now deleted) was just about timeline; i drive under this thing twice a year for holidays and am shocked by the slow progress re: cost tho, i still feel 2x the Hearn overpass (which is half the size) is a decent comp and this is much beyond that

@GrantSlatton @YottaMindset The best expert opinion on the cost of the project suggests it's about right given the size, location, etc. There are no comparables today (size, location, scope, timing). Like most infrastructure in the US in major cities, costs are insane. But this one is not uniquely so.

@bfioca @johnawahba this kind of ontological elegance is something that is really hard to come up with a good eval for the closest mechanical thing is probably just lines of code tbh would love to use a model that was RL'd hard for code golfing

@bfioca @johnawahba like it could come up with ontologies that involved 20 classes that fit together loosely in some places and overlappingly in others, i.e. a very sloppy and bad ontology xhigh can at least be prodded to the right place, high could not get there with prodding

had managed to get myself down to less than 10% of my codex weekly rations with 3 days remaining had to make do with gpt-5.4-medium for the last few days to subsist but today we're back baby

@bfioca @johnawahba today's work was coming up with this batch optimization system that has a whole associated ontology the minimum representation is probably like 12 classes that interlock in a complex way 5.4-high just struggled and failed to find the right factoring x.com/GrantSlatton/s…

@GrantSlatton @johnawahba super interesting! I'll pay more attention to this in my evals

algo has recently been showing my posts not to my simcluster, but instead the group of randos most likely to get ragebaited by the post not good for my cortisol levels must only post boring happy thoughts for a while

@bfioca @johnawahba i tried high all today and i'm switching back to xhigh… high is just not thoughtful enough for my work and i found myself just wasting time trying to get it to understand and frustrated

@GrantSlatton @johnawahba And mostly I use medium while iterating

@xeophon the masculine urge to overstay your visa

i don’t wanna leave sf the people were right

@OXHarryH1 @YottaMindset You've made me reconsider my opinion I no longer think this thing is 5x too expensive, I think it's 2x too expensive but also 2-4x too slow Still egregious but not as egregious as initially thought

@OXHarryH1 @YottaMindset I see what you're saying about a 2nd structure, presumably to the right side of this photo That still doesn't really account for why it took 4 years to build what is shown here This is not some giant overpass, we build overpasses across the country like this all the time

@OXHarryH1 @YottaMindset I'm just reading from the Caltrans website, feel free to link a source with better information than Caltrans

@GrantSlatton @YottaMindset The California crossing is two large structures not just the one 🤷‍♂️ -urban -earthquake engineering -significant utilities -bigger freeway Not comparable unless you're desperate to chase a narrative.

@OXHarryH1 @YottaMindset The Colorado bridge is 200 feet wide and 209 feet long The California bridge is 174 feet wide and 210 feet long

@GrantSlatton @YottaMindset At this point I can only assume that you're not serious. The Annenberg one is two large structures over a larger and busier freeway in an earthquake zone that's urban. The Colorado is a single structure over a smaller freeway in a rural setting. 🤷‍♂️

@OXHarryH1 @YottaMindset The one in Colorado is the same length, and wider

@GrantSlatton @YottaMindset Weird that a smaller structure in a completely different environment would not cost the same amount. Wild!

@OXHarryH1 @YottaMindset The Interstate 25 Greenland Wildlife Overpass in Colorado is bigger than this one in California, only cost $15 million, and less than 1 year to build

@YottaMindset @GrantSlatton Much bigger in fact.

@rmkmny Glad you agree!

@GrantSlatton Hell yea! Totally comparable! Excellent point 👏🏼

@rmkmny x.com/GrantSlatton/s…

@GrantSlatton You gotta be too smart to play this dumb but enjoy the rage bait slop. I’m sure you’re an authoritative figure on proper costs to build a structure of this nature over one of America’s busiest highways while keeping it open the whole time. Keep shaking those fists at FOX News 🥴