Just a Regular Average Guy

Happy Feast to those who celebrate.

@StatueofIBBertY I agree. It's why I watch the terminal while Claude Code is running. I can see it going in the wrong direction, and I have to redirect it. I even watch the thinking output in the ChatGPT window for simple cognitive tasks because I see it taking shortcuts that I think are wrong

I think this tweet is true, but unsure if I *want* to believe it. On the one hand, one of my customers said this to me this week: "AI is making my smart people smarter and my dumb people dumber" The thing that's missing from AI is systems thinking - Cotera has spent the last year helping businesses automate everything from basic support ticket QA to helping companies develop digital twins of their customers. The thing that I routinely see AI fail at is "creating the system". Take a basic use case where want Claude to tag 5000 support tickets with whether the customer was "happy" or "sad" or "neutral" at the end. The data is too big for context, so chat GPT's answer to this is to write a python script that looks for keywords. It outputs a tagged csv, but when you look closely, 90% of the data is neutral... but it's not actually correct. The real answer is to use a small LLM in parallel to tag each one - running that minimizes the "neutral" tag to around 30% of the data. The thing that worries me about people managing agents "smarter than themselves" is that AI is a shit systems thinker, and it just creates an output that looks right from a 30k foot level, but not when you dive in. At least when you had to do it manually you had to think through the process.

@Mindset4Money_X "Don't bet against Bezos." -Virgin Galactic Chairman

Bro this Chamath clip 😂😂 Watch the whole thing, trust me

@mattshumer_ I signed up. Tell me about how this is different from OpenClaw with a remote desktop connection?

@TheGeorgePu @thest

Mom can you pick me up Why I forgot to close my oil futures contract and now I have 84,000 gallons of crude oil waiting for me in Oklahoma by Sunday

@mattyglesias C̶o̶m̶p̶a̶s̶s̶i̶o̶n̶a̶t̶e̶ conservatism

@TheORCACard Thanks! FYI, I'm planning to switch to iPhone whenever you adopt Apple Wallet, in case my personal smartphone choices are important to your decisionmaking.

@RegularAvgGuy Hey there, good question. The card readers should default to an ORCA card in your digital wallet. If you wish to use a credit card instead in your wallet you can select that card before tapping.

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@TheFigen_ @art

Skiers that look like musical notes… A magnificent photograph by Haukur Sigurdsson.

@MerriamWebster Also boxing and horses.

We're not comfortable throwing out a percentage, but it FEELS like a lot of idioms/words have nautical origins. - three sheets to the wind - by and large - slush fund - bitter end - pipe down - groggy - aloof

@fakedansavage I think the first one is real and the rest are AI. All very funny tho.

@LPDonovan Nixon ran for president, lost badly. Then ran for governor of CA and was humiliated. Spent years in the wilderness. Hell of a flameout until his unexpected return.

Has there been a VP nom flameout quite like Tim Walz? You've had folks leave suddenly (Palin) and people whose reputations suffered blows (Lieberman, Eagleton), but the former did so on her own terms and the latter stuck around. Even Edwards upped his stock before he was exposed.

@djbaskin @chasedownleads

When I was sent to Neighborhood Court for moving a barricade, I was required to write 5 ideas for “street beautification” and I doubt anyone read it, but I wrote “put vending machines on the sidewalk”. Finally (for one night) I put a vending machine outside and it was incredible

@TheStalwart Did you also wait outside in the cold for an hour for the privilege of enjoying the mediocre experience? That was always the best part of brunch imho

I went out to “brunch” recently (some younger relatives were in town) for like the first time in maybe a decade. One of those NYC places with mimosas and eggs Benedict and such. I had forgotten what a mediocre experience that is.

@bluestein Why do the blue arrows point right and red arrows point left???

Georgia Republicans say they’d be foolish not to heed the lessons of the PSC races, when Democrats didn’t just run up the score in liberal strongholds. They outperformed their party’s 2024 presidential vote share in all but two of Georgia’s 159 counties.

@KromanDavid I felt this way too, right up until the Dodgers actually won.

I do think if the M's hadn't lost to the Blue Jays I'd root for them -- I've spent lots of time in Canada and do like that the whole country has one team -- but I'm still butthurt enough that I want the Dodgers to win

@6Dforeverz @arpitrage @SpencerJCox Increasingly data centers are moving to a closed loop cooling system that uses ~0 water. Eventually existing facilities will be retrofitted.

@arpitrage @SpencerJCox I just don’t understand if water is an issue, why isn’t there a push to put them in locations where water is more prevalent?

My views on AI: • water issue is fake • energy issue is real, but scaling solar/batteries should address • a valuable, transformative technology • will rot our brains through slop if we let it • data center built out seems a wee bit excessive but who knows • ?? on doomer

@daveweigel Amazing that a metal band composed of giant aliens who regularly coats their audience in fake blood can "normalize" something. What a world.

GWAR has gone woke westword.com/music/review-g…

@mikesimonsen It penalizes those of us who have been using password managers, like everyone recommends

Man I absolutely hate the trend for sites to "email me a code" rather than use my saved password at login. Everything on the internet just added 4 more steps.

@MerriamWebster Create a word that is actually the opposite of "favorite"

If YOU were in charge of the English language for a day, what is one thing you would absolutely change?

@TheStalwart I own this exact unit and it works incredibly well. Very impressed.

Incredible that this company was founded at the height of the Cultural Revolution, and now it’s such a global powerhouse