Brian Larson

This is an amazing resource for anyone that wants to get deeper into inference. Check it out!

Tired: Jevons paradox Wired: Baumol's cost disease

If you need an adrenaline rush to wake up from your post-Thanksgiving stupor… we got you. @deepseek_ai V3.2 dropped this week and is now available on Baseten. It’s so smart your mother will ask why you can't be more like DeepSeek. V3.2 is currently on par with GPT-5 all whilst being multiples cheaper. V3.2 is now live on our Model APIs and on @openrouter and @ArtificialAnlys. Baseten is the fastest provider with 0.22 TTFT and 191 tps (that’s 1.5x faster than the next guy). For a model this size, it’s screaming. Get the brains, without trading off performance.

Wait a minute… The guy trying desperately to usher in superintelligence at Meta is named Roko’s Basilisk-o????

@HerrStuk @santiagopliego @realErikDPrince Probably “Skunk Works” by Ben Rich. It’s excellent.

@santiagopliego @realErikDPrince What book is he talking about with the development of the SR71?

@Noahpinion This is some 12 Galaxies level text

Seen in San Francisco

@mikemovies Blue Ruin

Name a great movie that somehow has stayed somewhat under the radar

@CurlyMcNulty Bad Santa?

Genuine question: has there been a Christmas movie that’s been ingrained into pop culture to the point where people watch it in droves every year since 2003 when Elf and Love Actually came out? I’m wracking my brain trying to think of one.

"it's a game for kids"

Are you kidding me

@kitten_beloved It’s more a part of the setting than a central theme of the book.

@larsonite Interesting, I watched the canceled Amazon show but never read the book

The 60s and 70s produced lots of popular dystopian science fiction obsessed with the dangers of overpopulation, e.g. Stand on Zanzibar, Soylent Green Where is the population collapse sci-fi?

@kellabyte +1

I’m curious, how many of you have worked on a SaaS product that has handled more than 20,000 requests per second? I don’t care if you like me or hate me I’m just curious to learn. I know some of you have worked on more than one. Put a +1 or +2 or whatever in my replies.

@PaulSkallas Have you ever seen Fordite? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordite

👍 youtu.be/uWLX94pzYVk

@vijayp Now they are doing Xxplosive by Dr Dre

@larsonite did you bring your bass guitar?

Coworking space is playing a Muzak instrumental version of Gangsta's Paradise.

@peterrhague I enjoyed everything by William Sleator as a kid, but have not reread them as an adult. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S…

Is there a science fiction equivalent of Harry Potter? My ten year old is very keen on sci fi but a lot of the classics I’d recommend are a bit above his reading level.

You mean most people _don't_ do this??