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@hopes_revenge it's ok because the FAA banned parallel landings at SFO
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@BarDarlingLocal i mean i was sort of moving in a pinch after some roommates had to all move out of old place. i got lucky because it was right before the big rent spike recently
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Stanford University is also running a pilot for allowing the invigilation (proctoring, to the Americans) of exams as well. A lot of the old world is passing, or perhaps has long passed, and we are only now recognising it.

nxthompson@nxthompson
Since 1893, Princeton professors have left the room when students take their final exams. The idea was that if you treat students honorably, they would behave honorably. In response to AI-fueled academic dishonesty, the university just ended that system. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…
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last fall, I read Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy twice and on my 40k step walks from Potrero Hill to the Presidio, I couldn't stop thinking about the "Some psychodynamics of orality" section:
- additive rather than subordinate
- aggregating rather than analytic
- close to the human lifeworld
- agonistically toned
- empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced
- homeostatic
- situational rather than abstract
then I had about 4 months of When We Cease to Understand the World level psychosis, where I repeatedly accused anybody I could of not being responsive enough and not being collaborative and being too objective and not touching the world in a high frequency high fidelity way, lost in their modern plato's cave of literary sauce.
in January, I explained my job as the guy that makes the sous vide machine do weird things it wasn't meant to do so that the chefs I work with can make the best dish of their lives and that someone told me actually that role exists at Lazy Bear and it was what created their asparagus dish:
turns out sous vide machines are designed assuming they would only ever be used with water:
- the motor expects certain viscosity
- no way to clean insides
this tool design constrains the chef; he cannot sous vide asparagus in asparagus juice
historically
- immersion blenders, vitamix -> era of purees
- cheap nitro -> foams
in the same way training runtimes are designed shapes the path of AI:
- chat is turn based, now training is turn based, there's no synchronicity, there is no time, reality freezes
- chat is turn based, what can you scale? ok scale the model turn -> cot -> o1
- and now here we are, sitting on our thumbs, waiting for claude
the shape of a tool is what it enables a creator do
an intelligence transcends those limitations
so in a desperate attempt to end my psychosis, we went katabatic, wrote a bunch of rust, argued a lot with @_alex_kirillov_
and saw a bunch of the best chefs in the world begin eliciting flavors and textures I have never experienced before
here are some
Thinking Machines@thinkymachines
People talk, listen, watch, think, and collaborate at the same time, in real time. We've designed an AI that works with people the same way. We share our approach, early results, and a quick look at our model in action. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interacti…
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That's a Chinese cultural quirk.
"Four great inventions"
"Four books and five classics"
"Three lords and nine ministers"
etc.
florence 🦐🪻@morallawwithin
Sincere question, but why did Mao like counting things so much? Everything is named after a number
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