Sir William
21.9K posts
@erikphoel An elementary school child who had read Shakespeare and calculus and programming manuals but had no eyes or ears or sense of touch.
English
What's funny is how wrong all the analogies are here. I would consider the chart already falsified. GPT-3 was *nothing* like an elementary schooler. It was a completely different form of intelligence than an elementary schooler.
Haider.@slow_developer
openai has a 2028 target to develop a fully automated AI researcher and that is exactly aligned with ex-openai researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's (situational awareness) forecast: he made many predictions, but i think this is the most important one: "automated AI research could compress a decade of human algorithmic progress into less than a year"
English
@SurrealistShip @deepfates @Pvelkovsky Also in Seattle, my old apartment on Western. It’s doing well after 45 years
English
@deepfates @Pvelkovsky It's easier in Seattle where the hard part is normally stopping things growing
English
It's called "brutalism with plants", everybody loves it but it's actually very hard to maintain. because plants don't like concrete and concrete doesn't like plants 🤷
⊹ ࣪ pam ˖✦@pamvonhadder
how do you call this architecture design style?
English
@CUDAHandbook @AndrewButchart1 We were independent but had hardware on loan
English
@willigula @AndrewButchart1 Amazing! I did not know Visio was Microsoft’s that early.
I think computing history would be quite different if Microsoft and DEC had refined the x86 emulation tech instead of cancelling it.
English
I worked in Microsoft’s Systems Division in the mid to late 1990s, when Windows NT was winning market share from the clown car of UNIX variants offered by various workstation and server vendors. Linux was in ascendancy, but not soon enough to forestall the migration of 1/x
Joe@josephradhik
Ridiculous. To witness a perfectly usable operating system nosedive in quality over the past 5 years, has been painful. W11 is pathetic in so many ways, the fact that you have to debloat, "winhance", and more, just to make the damn thing work. W11 is a mirror of everything that has gone wrong in the software side recently. And yes, I'm a daily power user.
English
@CUDAHandbook @AndrewButchart1 Not DEC Alpha, but I worked on a PowerPC port of Visio for Windows NT. We got it up & running but the market share was never big enough to bring it to market. Early NT was a great OS.
English
@AndrewButchart1 I’m pretty sure I worked on one of the only software applications that shipped natively for DEC Alpha: Microsoft’s Softimage port.
English
@rob_heighton The maps in Mary Stewart’s Merlin books were load bearing for me as a child in the early 80s
English
@alancornett I recently read a great book about his life
kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a…
English
By the time the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Squanto had crossed the Atlantic, lived in England for 9 years, went back to America, then was captured and taken to Spain. He lived in Malaga for 4 years. He went back to America and was there when the Pilgrims landed. Squanto knew English, certainly knew Spanish, likely knew a good bit of Latin, and was a baptized and confirmed Catholic. The Virginia settlers had been in America so long already that Squanto may very well have met Pocahontas in London (they were there at the same time). American mythologized history acts like the Plymouth Pilgrims practically beat Columbus to the New World.
Gavin Bledsoe 🏴@gwbled
English
@ModeledBehavior We did a sneak attack and killed hundreds of little girls in support of Israel, it’s not comparable.
English
Watch how poorly this war goes down with voters and really ask yourself whether we would have the public support to withstand the economic shock of a war with China for the sake of the people of Taiwan.
Hold aside good or bad, I really don't think we are remotely willing
English
Companies should include chess puzzles in their interview process, like imagine you make it to the final round only to get hit with this
English
@PhillipsPOBrien Trump being a useful idiot for the left that finally destroys the American Empire is certainly a bit.
English
Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.
English
@paranoiacs "Ghetto Defendant" with Ginsberg a close second
English
Four hundred years of colonial misery condensed into five mesmerizing minutes,The Clash’s “Straight To Hell” intuitively connects the cruelty inflicted upon 19th century Congo, 20th century Vietnam and the dispossessed working poor of everyplace. Maybe Strummer’s greatest lyric.
English
@BrianSConverse Truly. There needs to be a word that represents something more catastrophic
English
the shit is hitting the fan.
Trump blundered into what he thought would be a few day “excursion” as he calls it, maybe Venezuela 2.0. That is not what Israel had in mind, the military has hit all of its targets. He has no idea what he is doing, his intelligence and other aides were appointed not to tell him anything he does not want to hear; not a single one of them can explain what the goal is. Congressional Republicans have their heads deep in the sand, and now talk of $200 billion Pentagon supplemental and sending more potential ground troops
English
[MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ] It flows smoothly and easily, creating the illusion that we are simply listening in on the dinnertime conversation...It has a beautiful structure, and the two men have turned themselves into perfect foils. (1982)
English
Wish you were here.
Coq d'Or, Drake Hotel, Chicago. c. 1958.
English
@MattZeitlin Not US troops but the British made an amphibious landing under fire in the Falklands.
English
i looked up when the last time US troops made an amphibious landing under fire...it was not what i thought
Phil Stewart@phildstewart
SCOOP!!! Trump administration considering deploying thousands of additional troops to the Middle East as the military prepares options for the possible next phase of the Iran war. One option for securing the Strait of Hormuz includes deploying troops to Iranian shores. w/@idreesali114
English
@majamediaco It’s possible that some humans are cursed with a personal style that just happens to resemble AI. Looking back at my old writing I used a lot of m-dashes!
English
“Hełło sir yes I am łegitimate Czech businessman in needing of 120,000 military grade drones capabłe of fighting over the eastern płains of … of the Czech Repubłic of course.”
Chris Painter@ChrisPainterYup
Seems like Taiwan is seriously ramping its Chinese-input-free domestic drone production, from producing 10,000 in 2024 to exporting 123,000 in 2025. This feels like a small subplot today that could become a huge deal down the road.
Polski
@plasmarob smart person who hasn’t achieved anything: wow, everyone here is an idiot
English
I just realized there are corollaries:
smart person: wow everyone here is so respectful
rich person: wow everyone here is so social
critter@BecomingCritter
hot person: wow everyone here is so nice
English