@spicyvegblend @JeremiahDJohns yeah cobbling is probably not the perfect example here, but you get the idea
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Zhihao Lou
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@zhlou @JeremiahDJohns Is it? Cobbling a shoe requires a higher level of specialized skill than making a sandwich
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"Why do I have to buy a full loaf of bread 😡💢😡💢😡???"
We're replaying the hits from DoorDash Discourse two full years ago. Everything old is new again.
Rusty Shackleford@Gr33nOnions
Shit like this is so dumb because you're not buying one sandwich at a time. It doesn't matter how many $2 sandwiches I can make, I'm still buying $100 worth of groceries. That's not insignificant
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Zhihao Lou retweetledi
The man just wants to build. He’s like a beaver, no matter where you put him he’s going to start drawing up plans “wow this will be so beautiful it’s going to be the biggest the best look how incredible”
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
🚨 NOW: President Trump reveals the roof of the ballroom was designed to have a DRONE PORT to "protect all of Washington" "[The roof] is developed in such a way that we can have military there. The ENTIRE roof is developed for military. It's very high. It's higher than just about anything else. It'll have a 360 degree vision of Washington DC. They have a massive drone capacity. Not only is it drone proof. If a drone hits it, it bounces off. It won't have any impact. But it's also meant as a drone port, so it protects all of Washington, the roof of the building."
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@mcuban This will disincentivize per token energy reduction, and put a rather high lower bound on how cheaply you can scale the generation.
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We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level.
Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens.
It will accomplish 4 things (at least )
1. It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization
Which will
2. Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax and reducing strain created by the growth in energy consumption
Which will
3. Generate maybe 10 billion dollars a year to start, but over the next ten years could grow 30x to 100x
Which will
4. Create a source of funding to pay down the federal debt or deploy, in response to the things AI brings that we don’t expect or don’t like
At some point the models will pass it on to customers. Of course. That’s ok. Customers will have the ability to choose between providers. Or to do everything using open source models locally.
Thoughts ?
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@Lina_Hoshino well, since they are sinusoidal waves, and they are small and localized, you may even call them wavelets🤫
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It's actually really amusing if you browse around OP's link. A bunch of the kernels are literally identical to a low frequency DCT kernel across the whole input image, while most others are like a DCT of a small region (which is again like JPEG, since it works on 8x8 blocks).
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TIL AI image models are basically cursed versions of the DCT basis functions (which are how JPEG compression works).
Which makes sense when you consider that genAI is basically an extremely lossy, nondeterministic compression algorithm...
Roland Memisevic@RolandMemisevic
Relics from the prehistoric era of AI
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@petapixel People working in computational photography need to understand photography
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The new AI Camera Assistant in the Sony Xperia VIII smartphone doesn't look helpful at all. In fact, it looks like a real jerk.
petapixel.com/2026/05/15/son…
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Zhihao Lou retweetledi
Transparency in political spending, independent arbitration for pensions, and ending the conflict of interest where unions negotiate with politicians they funded.
Strong unions AND accountability aren't mutually exclusive.
Unions aren't bad. State capture by bad actors is.
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@AndyMasley @Pinboard That’s a real and solvable problem. Any why is a data center sit in a residential neighborhood? Shouldn’t it be in commercial / industrial area?
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This one's a completely real problem, the data center is technically under the noise threshold where the county acts but produces enough constant annoying low level hum that it's lowering quality of life for the homes nearby. A lot of the noise is coming from temporary gas turbines that will be gone once it's fully connected to the grid, but that timeline's been extended way back and could be as much as 7 years now. This is a ridiculous situation that imo a lot of places don't have good rules to govern well right now.
Merissa Hansen@merissahansen17
This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. The video below was recorded at midnight, and the data center is situated next to 100s of residential homes.
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Financial Times perfectly illustrates our possible futures
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@DanCollins2011 Looks like US never recovered from the great financial crisis
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What’s crazy about 🇨🇳 having a higher life expectancy than 🇺🇸 is as follows: China age cohort >65 yrs experienced the following:
- black skies from home heating with those old coal bricks
- Worlds worst environmental
contaimination during the Econ rise
- Malnutrition in the 1960’s
- Poor healthcare in 1960’s , 1970’s
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Zhihao Lou retweetledi
Two months into his pontificate, a man named Robert Prevost picked up the phone from the Vatican and called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account.
The teller asked the standard security questions, and he answered every one of them. Then her screen flagged his file: any further changes had to be made in person, at the branch, with a photo ID.
Coming in person would not be possible, he told her, in the polite tone of a man who knew the answer before he asked the question. The teller apologized.
He paused, then asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?”
She hung up on him. thelettersfromleo.com/p/would-it-mat…
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i haven’t been to la since 2018. but i do know that neighborhoods on google maps are written in ALL CAPS while municipalities are written in Title Case
lej@_lej44
Greater LA boundaries can be mad confusing. I tested some family/friends I grew up with here on if a few well-known places are the City of LA, an independent city, or neither and NOBODY got above 50%. Just made a 25 locations quiz - test your knowledge! forms.gle/dE8JaiCEeCm9sJ…
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Zhihao Lou retweetledi
Techno-anxiety is a remarkably consistent and repetitive pattern:
1482 book by Johannes Trithemius: "In Praise of Scribes: De Laude Scriptorum": williamwolff.org/wp-content/upl…
1858 New York Times editorial on the epistemic risks of the telegraph: nytimes.com/1858/10/25/arc…
1986 WaPo article on the use of calculators in school: washingtonpost.com/archive/local/…
2008 Atlantic piece on whether 'Google is making us stupid': theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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Interesting article on treating agent output like compiler output (and why)
skiplabs.io/blog/codegen_a…
Zack Korman@ZackKorman
Mandatory human-in-the-loop is a cybersecurity cop-out. People are giving agents more and more autonomy. We need solutions that accept that world because there is no stopping it. It's like telling people in the 90s to not use the internet to avoid getting hacked. Good luck.
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@north0fnorth Hard disagree on Pacific Northwest. Especially Portland. That place feels more like a movie set than a real city.
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LET’S DITCH THOSE FLOPPY DISKS ❌
As a part of our air traffic control modernization, we are getting RID of old floppy disks and implementing STATE OF THE ART technology to help keep our skies moving SAFER and FASTER than ever before ✈️
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@pmarca The current situation reminiscent to the WWI but not exactly the same. In 1914, the defense is favored, until the invention of the tanks. Right now both sides can launch raids, but can’t really advance. Maybe just the technologist in me, but it really calls for a new weapon.
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