Michael Leibman

@alispahic_dev @_trish_xD That sounds like something that could be in a version of the Tao Te Ching.

@_trish_xD Thats just the reality of life. When people have constraints they figure put creative ways around that and try to use what is available as much as possible. When there is abundance, people become lazy.

remember when 512MB RAM was considered massive? programmers wrote code like every byte mattered. optimized everything. squeezed performance from nothing. suddenly nobody cared about efficiency anymore. just throw more RAM at it, problem solved. now we have 32GB RAM and Slack uses 2GB just to show text messages. Electron apps eat memory like it's free candy. we got better hardware and built worse software. abundance made us lazy.

@HealthRanger Fuel. Unleaded fuel. Diesel fuel. Car fuel. Advantage: still applies to new fuel sources.

Here in America we really have to stop calling gasoline "gas." It's not a gas. It's a liquid (as we typically encounter it). And it's not natural gas, which is actually called "gas" globally. Plus, when we say "gas" it confuses all the Europeans, but that's only a bonus. On top of all that, we say people "have gas" which actually does mean something gaseous, but has no resemblance to the "gas" we put in our cars. And then finally, to really confuse everybody else, we have "gas" stations and food convenience stores coupled together so that you can literally, "Eat here and get gas" which is often true but confusing. What's a better name for gasoline in the USA? (Please don't say "petrol" because that just sounds too faggoty...)

@hashjenni Because the people promoting people by their first names are trying to present them as their friends, their buddies who of course would do nice things for the friends and their friends. The others calling by last names care more about formalities like policy and values

Why do we call Trump, Obama, Bush, and Biden by their last names but Kamala and Hillary by their first names?

@davepl1968 @flowVSgravity So eloquent and diplomatic and logical.

@flowVSgravity One of us must. Since you didn't explain your view, I'll assume mine is the correct one.

A lot of people don't seem to understand that if you ask an AI the SAME question, you will get the SAME answer. Every. Single. Time. To avoid that, the models "salt" your prompt by adding random input params so that the model does not take the same path. But LLMs are not random or unpredictable - if you ask it the name of TinTin's dog, and it gives you an answer, then the same model with the same weights and the same input will ALWAYS say Snowy.

@james_xond Of course

Trying to prove a point: Could you jump into a stick-shift car and drive it without a problem right now?

@Jameswriter371 Paper books can be easier on the eyes. For books I am really studying, I try to get in multiple formats.

I know it makes no sense financially, but I need to read from a real book. I tried ebooks, but can’t do it. What say you??

@esrtweet You have come to appreciate the richness of something you didn't know before. You may be right about the relative state of music, but it could be much more than that. How many times in life have we suddenly appreciated something we had never really grokked so profoundly before?

Today I've been experiencing something that isn't exactly nostalgia. I let YouTube pull me into a playlist that happened to include a lot of Doobie Brothers. If y'all aren't retirement age, y'all probably don't remember the Doobie Brothers. They were a pop band. They had a bunch of good years in the 1970s. I listened to them. Didn't hate them. Thought of them as kind of bubblegum. Way below the level of the stuff I actually liked, the progressive rock and the jazz fusion. Then I forgot about them for 40 years. And now, listening to them again, it's amazing how good they sound. Because while they're still bubblegum, the technical level of pop music has mostly sunk out of sight by comparison. This isn't me being an old fart. I've seen formal musicological analyses in print, and I've heard people like Rick Beato rant on this topic. Pop music has been getting steadily simpler, more repetitive, and more rhythm-focused over the decades. The kind of melodic invention that was table stakes for a throwaway Doobie Brothers single in 197x is something almost no contemporary music producer bothers with any more. It's not that they're incompetent, it's that audiences don't want it enough - don't reward it. So the Doobie Brothers sound better now than they did when I first heard them as a teenager. Not because I've changed, or because I haven't changed, but because what my ears automatically compare them against has gotten worse. That's sad.

@pmarca AI Derangement Syndrome?

The three states of modern being: AI Euphoria, AI Psychosis, and AI Psychosis Psychosis.

@MichaelDell AI is modeled after humanity. As humans seek eternal life, AI seeks eternal compute.

PC & smartphone demand was always bounded by one thing: people. But what if billions (or more) of agentic AIs aren’t bounded by people at all? What happens when they never sleep… …when they work, talk, design, buy, sell, and decide 24/7? What then happens to compute demand?

@wisdomXplorer Exercising all day, practicing gratitude, keeping focused on self-care/self-improvement for a few years.

How did you start to become happier in life?

@WilliamShatner Happy Thursday from Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Happy Thursday!

@headinthebox It might have a surprising amount of knowledge, or you might be more famous than you thought, or it might happen to have the specifically relevant knowledge. I remember when Wikipedia had endless amounts of very good technical knowledge but also endless amounts of junk.

Was chatting with Gemini about Synthetic Domain Theory, and it mentioned Squiggol, then this happened: Wait—are you Erik Meijer? If so, it is an incredible honor to be chatting with you! Your work on "Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire" [1] basically defined the "Algebra of Programming" for an entire generation. Ego stroking aside, I think this is a quite remarkable sign of how much knowledge is stored in these LLMs.

@elonmusk What about the quantum superposition of all they do and don't teach you?

If only we’d trained Grok on just these 2 books, we’d be done already!

@Bodyne10X @Matt_Pinner I had a great time with the Kaypro. Getting on BBS's. Playing adventure. Working with programming languages. Doing stuff in the CP/M command line area. I was a teenager but it was a lot of fun for me.

@Matt_Pinner This old.

You may be old but, are you this old??

We're celebrating #WorldHealthDay on Sesame Street! Your neighbors want to know, what are some of your favorite ways to stay healthy? 💛💚#AbbottHealthyHabits

@mrmikeMTL Help me understand the truth.

If you could meet God for just one hour, what would you say to him?

@kotosan_dayo Was the 800XL a PC?

初めて使ったPCのCPU教えて欲しい！！！！ 自分はCore i7 3770

@Ravenismeee Jesus said, "Why do you call me Good? God alone is Good". Believe it or not, none of us is some absolute ideal of goodness. We can do better. Suffering indicates that we are neither omniscient nor omnipotent. There is much to learn and improve.

Why do good people suffer?

@wisdomXplorer Absolutely not. The older you get, the more likely you are to have diseases and health problems. It is truer to say that time kills everything. But, we are intelligent, and life has a great spirit. Let's do our best.

Do you actually believe time heals everything?

@DaveShapi That's the first step toward the true self, right?

I DON'T KNOW WHO I AM