Gerald de Jong

What shall we call this? What name pops up in your mind? If all goes well it will be built this year in real life ten meters tall.

I asked the AI (Gemini) about an event from quite long ago, a fatal car crash, and it gave me an answer that I knew was not correct. When challenged it doubled down. Later it apologized profusely. Cannot be trusted!!!

@JeremyUnplugged @tedcruz This clip gives me such an appreciation for @TonyLapidus

This laugh is borderline psychotic.

@3blue1brown What would have to be the case for Pi to be just 4 or something? Sure would have made things a lot simpler. 🥴

Happy Pi Day! In a certain sense, π is not a constant, but a variable. Using our usual Euclidean distance, it is 3.14159… but applying other L^p norms on ℝ², half the unit circle's perimeter will give other values. For instance, at p=1 (taxicab geometry), “π” = 2√2. At p ≈ 2.2, it's 3.20. Anyway, the video I was hoping to have out this day will be out closer to the 20th. Some call it “missing your deadline”, but I prefer to think of it as giving the L_{2.2} norm a little love.

I don't think most people realize that there would be no electric cars on the road if not for Elon Musk. Tesla is still the only western auto maker that builds electric cars with a profit. Everyone else is forced to absorb billions of losses, which they don't do voluntarily.

@RaminNasibov only you are

Are we living in a simulation?

@BBCNewsnight @faisalislam Byrne is my biggest musical hero, but this take doesn't resonate with me. He collaborated with Eno on the brilliant My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, but I remember hearing Eno saying he wanted a machine that could create an infinite amount of Eno music. We're there now, David!

“AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us - and charging a price.” Talking Heads founding member David Byrne speaks to @faisalislam about AI and its impact on creativity. #Newsnight

De helft van de overheid moet gewoon naar huis. Zoek werk in de vrije sector, zoals de rest of us.

Strategische olievoorraden op de markt brengen en de gasbel met beton volstorten. Ik wil niets meer met deze gekken te maken hebben. telegraaf.nl/politiek/haags…

Nee, geen verzachten. Belasten van niet gerealiseerd inkomen is geen heffen van inkomstenbelasting, maar ONTEIGENEN. Dat is verboden op grond van het Europese Verdrag voor de Rechten van de Mens. Afschaffen derhalve. De Staat moet met 52% inkrimpen. Dat bespaart 208 miljard Euro. Dan is er geen belasting verhoging nodig, maar kan de belasting aanzienlijk verlaagd worden.

@AstronomyBit @SpaceCoastBTC @Excellion It's deceptive not to mention that this is a sim.

@SpaceCoastBTC @Excellion True!

Location isn’t everything. Hubble discovered a behemoth black hole in a surprisingly sparse NGC 1600 galaxy. It’s 10x larger than anyone predicted. 🌌

Community Notes hits hard 😂

This is a 10/10 album. Agree or disagree???

Maybe matter of time. Hard to second guess what might appear in a month nowadays. But already, we coders are at the bleeding edge of having to rethink our lives, as the first to be hit by the supersonic tsunami. If we're quick about it, what we think/say might be meaningful for the next cohort.

@fluxe idk about outperforms. but it is much faster for quasi-equivalent results

In my last video, I drew an analogy between how slop code + automated test criteria is essentially how evolution with natural selection creates complex life forms. ...which validates vibecoding? Clip from video below.

@atmoio Evolution as vibe-coded DNA is an important insight! It's a shock to us coders that due to the accelerated clock speed and captured experience of these new minds, their blind watchmaking outperforms our deliberate precision.

I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.

@AuthorGFAllen Just did, and for the first time even back to back. Accelerando by Stross. previously totally reread the Culture series.

Have you ever read the same book more than once?

@sciencegirl Monotheism

What's the single worst decision humans have ever made as a species

I still feel that Real Twitter Has Never Been Tried. I wish there was a thought-as-unit-of-exchange platform that did not devolve into screeching, outrage porn and brainworm farming