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@DefenderOfBasic Sneaky

If you can read this, you are in egregore B

@__tinygrad__ That'd solve the problem that modular data centers have (not enough room for maintenance and airflow, water ingress)

ok ok hear me out. what if we did space datacenters but on earth? like we build them all rugged and good, ready to withstand temperatures, low maintenance, fits on the back of a truck, all ready to go to space, but then we ... don't send them to space. sending things to space is expensive. if we keep them on earth, we can send them to places by truck, which is a lot cheaper than space. i don't know what i was thinking about buying land and building a building. that's so modernist. we have $5M and I thought we needed to raise to amortize the fixed costs of operating a site. it was stressing me out. but then i remembered space datacenters. where we're going, we don't need a site. i mean, yea, we do, and we have to lease it, but we'll lease anything where it's cool, has cheap power, and has fiber. if the public utility decides to rug us and raise prices, no lawyers needed, just fire the gas thrusters! actually we don't even need gas thrusters, we'll put it on a truck and go to the next leased site. the minimum quantity we can do this at is one, and one should only cost like $3M. we have $5M, we don't even need to raise, just build the one, watch it print money, then build the next one with the money. self replicating space datacenters on earth. so yea there's a lot of software work to do to make tinygrad run LLMs at really high tok/s and be ready to deploy for the RDNA5 launch. gotta focus on that. raising money, buying land, and reading utility contracts are rabbit holes. got out just in time. i'm telling you guys, it's the next big thing. space datacenters, but on earth. you heard it here first.

@DefenderOfBasic @samsenchal But the same logic applies to our context. The internet is so saturated with noise that it's forcing us to build our own space. It's an opportunity! We're going to need our own version of mixtapes, regional radio, and local audiences

@trangquest If you haven't already seen @samsenchal 's fiction/non fiction about this, "the grey out". It's planted this flag in my vocabulary x.com/i/status/20268…

@DefenderOfBasic this is a good illustration of the diverse latent space point

@DefenderOfBasic @samsenchal "The descriptions were diverse in the way that fourteen shades of grey are diverse." lol — that's a great line! @samsenchal

@DefenderOfBasic @samsenchal oh yeah, i saw that one! sam's fiction was a 'U' to me the first time I read it, but now it has become an A

@DefenderOfBasic are any ways you can measure this mathematically? or is it more of a vibe thing?

are there any AI labs capable of answering this question? (or independent researchers)

@christineist I highly recommend Caroline Winkler's youtube channel. she has great taste in interior design imho youtu.be/0l1ZBdO9P3k

I am furnishing my apartment! what are your favorite brands for furniture, home products, etc? also open to general tips/tricks/advice

@visakanv been tinkering for 3 months. Haven't shipped a finished product though. but every small tool was the same attempt: extend the boundary of what i could think. Log here: trangtinkers.github.io/jekyll/update/…

so what’s everyone working on these days? whatcha up to?

@kepano I see. You prioritise making the tool accessible to new users or beginners

@trangquest because it's not intuitive to most people

very old tip, but still true

@obsdmd actually this looks promising github.com/brianpetro/obs…

I noticed that using Claude Code to summarize notes in my @obsdmd vault wastes a lot of tokens. Is there anyway I can reduce the number of tokens it uses? I considered indexing the vault with ChromaDB and using semantic search

... I structure my work around a 'vector', some pointed remark that can set off a conversation, possibly going on for hours and hours without losing steam and momentum. You don't know where it goes, which makes it so exciting and nerve-racking.

I think this is why I learned about myself that I can't make plans and follow them step by step. I also don't like setting and achieving specific goals. My creative process works differently... x.com/visakanv/statu…

I'm starting to realize that 4-5 key people will change the trajectory of your entire career or business. Some archetypes this can look like: - A fantastic boss/manager - A champion at a first customer that opens doors for you - A colleague that vouches for you to get a job that's out of your league - A mentor that gives you honest feedback of your current business and what you need to change Finding those 4-5 people is way more important than being popular, having followers, etc. Find whatever spaces that will have the highest likelihood of those 4-5 people being there.

It reminds me of how @HelsingAI built an OS for warefare showing how events unfold in realtime on a battlefield

A carefully chosen statement/prompt/meme/question dropped into the network acts like a diagnostic probe, similar to sending a sonar ping, shining an X-ray, or running a stress test ...and the pattern of echoes tells you things that were previously invisible or only guessed at