deaf (very hard of hearing, not currently in the Deaf community). I like to build.
Sacramento, CA
Joined June 2011
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Irony is that this is weaponization of open weights models; the very thing that could lead to disaster.
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NorCal starts where Monterey Cypress dominates the coastal landscape and Redwood trees grow in the Mountains. End of discussion
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It’s insane that we have this masked paramilitary doing this regularly all over the country.
Cellphone video captured an ICE agent pointing a gun at a bystander walking two dogs during an immigration enforcement operation in North Hollywood on Friday.
The footage shows masked officers detaining another man before two agents rush toward the dog walker after he appears to pick something up from the ground. One agent pushes him into bushes while pointing a gun at the bystander's face.
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In fact, he acknowledged her with a nod and placing his right hand over his heart, a widely accepted correct way to greet anyone dressed in a way that signals maybe their practice is not to shake hands with the opposite sex.
As Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed took the stage in Dearborn today, he dapped up and shook the guys’ hands while just walking by the one woman on stage, who was wearing a hijab.
This clip shows who Abdul truly is.
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Federal interference in state-run elections is a big deal that should concern all Americans.
The Constitution clearly says the states run elections, not the federal government.
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🙌 Gemini 4 Carbon for knowledge work, and for complex tasks (especially scientific tasks) – at Manhattan, NY
Sharing early evals on Gemini 4 Carbon. Strongest model that we've seen so far for long-form research and answer quality, with a new SoTA on the Wide-And-Deep-Research (WANDR) benchmark. Coming soon to all Perplexity Pro and Max users inside Computer, once we have sufficient token capacity. Congrats @GoogleDeepMind!
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FC Augsburg believes it's quite terrible to have 17 other Bundesliga clubs sitting on a bunch of the league's limited supply of points.
Meh. I have mixed opinions on this.
Good for the demo but real world is likely to be error prone like STT had been for many years. Given pace of tech, might be 6 months for polished open source.
Learn American Sign Language. Lots of problems solved.
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"New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million.
One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million.
The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal." kare11.com/article/news/inve…
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Patrick Stewart. Turned up so early and so unobtrusively to be a star in the reasonably priced car, we mistook him for a delivery driver and asked him to go round the back. Took his hat off and said, “But I’m the captain of the Enterprise”. Fucking nice guy.
my 6-year old checked out a book from the library.
"Medical Robots".
Published in 2018.
My. the Advancements we've had since then. Can't wait to show him the cool stuff the medical field has access to now. Should build a local web viewer for him.
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Change a robot’s mind mid-move 🤖
New blog: Prompting Robots with LeRobot. Send a new instruction to a running policy and watch it change course, no reset needed. You can also use it with steerable policies trained on multiple tasks.
lerobot-rollout --interactive=true
huggingface.co/spaces/lerobo…
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EL-SAYED: RFK JR. was in town this week. He said that the 500 million Arabs in the world had never contributed anything to science. But to be fair, he is an expert on people who never contributed anything to science.
He didn't bother to show up when 8000 people were infected by the shit lettuce. But he wants to come here and lecture you about potentially electing and arab-american to the U.S. Senate
My guy has zero doctorates. I have two of them
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Okay I read it.
Will and Joe present an investment thesis for a proposed inevitable future world.
I deeply hope the world they propose as a given never happens. The world is a dystopia where intelligence is abundant while ordinary people see no stable, optimistic future for themselves or their children.
I do not want my kids or your kids to live in that world. Let's make a different world.
The benefits of abundant intelligence will accrue far outside of San Fransisco.
Spent the last year writing about capital, sovereignty, and the coming reordering of economic power.
THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS
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