Matt

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Fission on planet is essentially unviable (see solar growth curves, battery tech, current reg and build out times) Fusion is much more interesting but look at Musks M.O for tech build out. He doesn't see it as near term viable so he's not interested. You can also make the argument it's niche for out of solar system long term as well since you just use naturally occuring fusion within solar systems

@Matthewagi yeah mainly meant fission near term and fusion longer term but in either cases "nuclear" seems more logistically appealing than solar over any extended period of time

based on comments, seems like everyone either thinks musk is too lazy to deal with the notorious regulatory headache of nuclear, or that he considers tiling the earth and solar system in panels is more efficient than reproducing fusion wherever the energy is needed. convincing?

@tenderizzation homemade? Looks good

I eyeball portioned two servings of pizza dough and they came out to 285g and… 285g in another life i would have been a german game show contestant

@creet_z Looks like you know the Croix of the problem

Why did my coworker ask if I ever drink water? What does she think all these pamplemousse la croix are for

@mike64_t In code, if it doesn't understand that ends up confusing and degrades capabilities, I'd agree you can't just use bs. More abstractly I think the mirror effect is more than just problem solving and code. I think it'll begin showing up in conversations too.

@Matthewagi Not necessarily if the user is saying bullshit, but if you actually lead it places it wouldn’t have figured out step by step and without reasoning holes, then I think it just yoinks that style.

Codex is widely known to drop coding strategy philosophy bars, but if you dump too much of your thought process into your prompt in cot-like fashion, it starts speaking your language in an uncanny way. It’s smelling your naming process and overall word usage patterns in a way that’s non trivially accurate. It’s like it ICLed your CoT style and therefore starts to think more like you. Alien.

@KeyTryer This was the craziest part lmao such bad choices all around

"What about Sister Sage and her secret plan?" "Well, her secret plan is that she wants to kill everyone and read, for reasons. But actually she's kind of dumb because she doesn't get the power of love or something." "Ah."

The finale is gonna be so bad they're gonna be making up conspiracy theories about there being a Secret Good Finale like with Sherlock.

@mylordcod @simonsarris It appears beans after following the links (but I'm sure pour over helps)

@Matthewagi @simonsarris also curious

Going to bed so I can have coffee sooner

@sonofalli This is the ideal computer configuration. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

why did he put his computer like this it gave me the ick

@MeryemArik9 @vllm_project I'm going to need to try to go to one because that sounds incredible

@Matthewagi @vllm_project It was a chaotic culinary affair of Chinese + macha + macarons

Today in things I didn’t know I needed… @vllm_project macaroons

@ishita_lives oh no

our hacker house is haunted

@ishita_lives nice! i have a BB-8 in my office

Me and R2-D2 against the world

@kamathhrishi hmmm maybe

Reddit was a great training corpus for frontier labs. The next leap of progress will come from completely ignoring Reddit else the labs end up training on synthetic data. Specifically synthetic data for ads.

@kamathhrishi they have a nice setup

There were clear signs :)

@div__vi I feel like these end up not sticking imo

I see so many on device solutions coming up. Like on device LLM? The whole purpose of cloud was to have complex compute done remotely, cheaper and efficiently. What a UNO reverse on business models.

@div__vi there's a number of git variants

Any alternates to GitHub?

@aya_somai_ This was a fun read and reminded me of this: danluu.com/p95-skill/ I'm hoping it won't be too difficult to become 99th

Today I'm sharing an essay that's been in the works for some time. It changed a lot as my thinking progressed, and more evidence started to surface - some reinforcing my thinking, some challenging it. It was such a fun piece to write, as it weaved three things: my passion for technology, my training in economics and statistics, and my fascination with art history. Like most of my thoughts, it's not finished (and probably shouldn't be). I would love your thoughts, comments, critiques and reactions. Lastly: Welcome to the 99th percentile era! ayasomai.me/writing/value-…

@arvindakaraja I've tried similar before and ended up churning but the thought is good

Tech can be for good!

@arvindakaraja you gotta push through it

Sometimes doubt is just the emotional tax of attempting something large.