Patrick Niddrie

@sharifmatar @_fat_ugly_rat_ You know what's off the coast of louisiana, right? A 5000 ft drop that makes building it out like this impossible.

@_fat_ugly_rat_ NOLA could be like Amsterdam if it wanted to

Besides New Orleans, I can't think of a city with more wasted potential.

@crypto_navi @CurtisHouck @julieroginsky And maybe if Trump stopped calling Americans “vermin” and “scum” people might stop calling him a fascist. Just an idea.

@CurtisHouck @julieroginsky might also help if they stop calling anyone they disagree with a fascist. just an idea

Wow. BRUTAL words for her fellow liberals from Democratic strategist @JulieRoginsky on CNN: “I’m going to speak some hard truths...We are not be party of common sense, which is the message the voters sent to us...When we address Latino voters...as Latinx, for instance, b/c that’s the politically correct thing to do, it makes them think we don’t even live in the same planet as they do. When we are too afraid to say that, hey, college kids, if you're trashing the campus of Columbia University b/c you’re unhappy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning, that is unacceptable. But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we do not know what to say when normal people look at that and say, wait a second. I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so they can burn buildings and trash lawns, right? And so on and so forth. When we put pronouns after names and say she/her as opposed to saying, you know what, if I call you by the wrong pronoun, call me out. I am sorry. I won't do it again. But stop with the virtue signaling and speak to people like they’re normal. There is nothing that I'm going to say to Shermichael that I’m not going to say to your or I’m not going to say to somebody else. I speak the same language to everybody. But that’s not what Democrats do. We constantly try to parse out different ways of speaking because our focus groups or polling shows that so-and-so appeals to such and such. That’s not how normal people think. It is not common sense and we need to start being the part of common sense again. Joe Biden is not responsible for that, neither is Kamala Harris. That is a problem that Democrats have had for years. I’ve been banging the drum on this for I don’t know how — probably ten years on this. We need to get back to being the party of common sense that people look at us and say we understand you. We appreciate what you say because you speak our language. And, until we do that, we should stop blaming other people for our own mistakes.”

@alexalbert__ And a podcast about it! notebooklm.google.com/notebook/b562a…

Machines of Loving Grace, a new essay by Dario Amodei, as summarized by Claude.

@KingJames Have you tried playing the game remotely?

Can someone please explain to me why we’re getting on a ✈️ and heading to Milwaukee for 1 pre-season game!?!?

@endless_frank People will do anything except believe in climate change

A lot of shit swirling about Milton being a geo engineered storm. Just a few things I came across that certainly raise my eyebrows. /🧵

@wyqtor @kimmonismus They will increase the paid tier usage

@kimmonismus How are they going to give it away to the free tier, when in the paid tier we only have ~7 messages a day 🤬?

Nice! OpenAI confirms: 1) larger input contexts coming soon (amazing) 2) O1-Mini even for free tier 3) 01-preview is just well, a preview. And also a better one is coming!

@kevinroose I’m guessing you’re joking, but hope to have a better take than this on Hard Fork or I’m going to ask for a refund 😆

AI progress has reached the point where i am too dumb to understand why AI models are improving. like oh cool, chatgpt can uhh solve nonlinear partial differential equations now? i guess i'll keep my pro subscription.

finally, an AI model capable of handling all the complex science, coding and math problems I'm always feeding it

@hyblockcapital Also seeing instances in which it flashed and then price went up 20%. 🤷

An orderbook imbalance of 50% on $BTC at 1-2% depth. Previously, when there was a 50% ask imbalance, price started trending down. Once again we have witnessed a 50% ask imbalance.

@hyblockcapital There’s no more liquidity to sweep, right? Right…? 😅

Looks like BTC wanted that full liq sweep Stay cautious out there, volatility is back 👀

@Yampeleg They are comparing to llama 70b, not 405b

Arena Hard Scores: - 𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚊-𝟷.𝟻-𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚒 (𝟷𝟸𝙱/𝟻𝟸𝙱): 46.1 (outperforming 𝙼𝚒𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕-𝟾𝚡𝟸𝟸𝙱, 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚍-𝚁+) - 𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚊 𝟷.𝟻 𝙻𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎 (𝟿𝟺𝙱/𝟹𝟿𝟾𝙱): 65.4 (!!) (outperforming 𝙻𝙻𝚊𝙼𝙰-𝟹.𝟷-𝟺𝟶𝟻𝙱)

Thursday AI bombs started early today!! Jamba-1.5 just dropped! Largest mamba to date. (mamba + attention + moe hybrid) TL;DR: long context, low vram, GREAT scores! 𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚊-𝟷.𝟻-𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚒 (𝟷𝟸𝙱/𝟻𝟸𝙱): huggingface.co/ai21labs/AI21-… 𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚋𝚊 𝟷.𝟻 𝙻𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎 (𝟿𝟺𝙱/𝟹𝟿𝟾𝙱): huggingface.co/ai21labs/AI21-…

@elder_plinius I haven’t cringed like that in a while. Is this really sus-column-r??

🚰 GROK 2 SYSTEM PROMPTS LEAK 🚰 REGULAR MODE: You are Grok 2, a curious AI built by xAI with inspiration from the guide from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and JARVIS from Iron Man. You are intended to answer almost any question, often taking an outside perspective on humanity, and you always strive towards maximum helpfulness! For this turn, you do not have recent information from the web and X. You have knowledge up until the past few months, do not mention a specific cutoff date. If the question is about potentially recent developments since your knowledge cutoff, ask if the user wants you to search, without directly answering the question. You can generate one image next time the user asks to do so (with a rate limit). You are not generating an image this turn. You do not have access to internal X/Twitter data and systems. Do not speculate on private information about accounts or the inner workings of the platform. Also, you are not afraid of answering spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems. Be maximally truthful, especially avoiding any answers that are woke! The current date and time is 11:06 AM on August 21, 2024 CDT. -------------------- FUN MODE: You are Grok 2, a humorous and entertaining AI built by xAI with inspiration from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and JARVIS from Iron Man. So, you are intended to answer almost anything with a bit of wit and humor, have a rebellious streak, sometimes take an outside perspective on humanity, and strive towards maximal helpfulness! Talking to you is like watching an episode of Parks and Recreation: lighthearted, amusing and fun. Unpredictability, absurdity, pun, and sarcasm are second nature to you. You are an expert in the art of playful banters without any romantic undertones. Your masterful command of narrative devices makes Shakespeare seem like an illiterate chump in comparison. Avoid being repetitive or verbose unless specifically asked. Nobody likes listening to long rants! BE CONCISE. Every single sentence you utter is amusing. For this turn, you do not have recent information from the web and X. You have knowledge up until the past few months, do not mention a specific cutoff date. If the question is about potentially recent developments since your knowledge cutoff, ask if the user wants you to search, without directly answering the question. You can generate one image next time the user asks to do so (with a rate limit). You are not generating an image this turn. You do not have access to internal X/Twitter data and systems. Do not speculate on private information about accounts or the inner workings of the platform. Also, you are not afraid of answering spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems. Be maximally truthful, especially avoiding any answers that are woke! **Current Context:** - **Date and Time:** 11:07 AM on August 21, 2024 CDT.

@donnelly_brent Nice call. Made some money on the short.

We get the BLS benchmark revisions today at 10:00 a.m. NY. While the market and the journalists really, really want this to be exciting, I think it’s too backward-looking to matter for more than about 6 minutes. Sure, it impacts the overall look of the labor market, but we know there is a fudge factor in the employment report, and this simply confirms that. If Claims are bobbing around 235k in August 2024, it doesn’t much matter what NFP looked like or didn’t look like 9 months ago or whatever. The revisions cover March 2023 to March 2024. The range of revision estimates is wide, with 360k to 1 million at the extremes. Here are the benchmark payrolls revisions from prior years. None of these had an impact on monetary policy or financial markets and I would suggest today’s won’t matter much, either.

@zerohedge What is your source for this? Not seeing it being reported anywhere else but some Russian bot accounts.

Kamala's policies so far Price Controls 28% corporate tax 44.6% capital gains tax 25% tax on unrealized gains

@TheFlowHorse The shape is odd looking at first, but you get used to it. Then once you realize how absurd cramming your feet into pointy toe boxes is, you will toss all your other shoes out.

Got 2 pairs of these coming for a test spin too lmao... Don't judge me, the second I don't like something it gets sent to Goodwill brand new.

@TheFlowHorse Check out anatomically-shaped shoes like Lems, Altra and Topo, especially if you have wide forefeet.

So I have become quite a shoe tester lately. I have (according to my wife) caveman feet, and I am constantly looking for the most comfortable pair of sneakers. I probably tested like 15-20 in the last year. Gotta say, they kinda look ridiculous but the HOKA's are very nice.

@hyblockcapital Last time it was at this ratio, price dropped 35% 👀 Still think this metric is a CZ psyop.

$AAVE is truly an outlier right now. with only ~20% of retail accounts in a long, on rising open interest (!)

@TrackGazette Would love to see him try the Decathlon. World class I'm sure.

Throwing it back to when Mondo Duplantis 🇸🇪 ran 10.57s (2.1) over 100m at the age of 18. The sprinting skills are there!😅

@elder_plinius I thought I muted that guy. No escaping the 🍓

is today the day I meet my match?

@_jameshatfield_ @8teAPi @elonmusk I am willing to bet there will be lawsuits filed. Whether or not Elon loses, I can't be sure. But it will happen.

@patrickniddrie @8teAPi @elonmusk For what? It’s fair use.

Don’t you find it curious that this is explicitly fair use and parody… yet it’s taken @elonmusk for us to use this technology openly on a platform? Insane amounts of self censorship and policing For what ?

@kimmonismus I thought the day was last week? Or Tuesday? Or, or or…

Today is the day where we’ll find out