Craig Merry (@CraigMerry) profile picture

deaf (very hard of hearing, not currently in the Deaf community). I like to build.

Sacramento, CA
Joined June 2011
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NorCal starts where Monterey Cypress dominates the coastal landscape and Redwood trees grow in the Mountains. End of discussion
Where Californians think Northern California actually begins.
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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.
Replying to @ElizLanders
Oregon’s Secretary of State responding with this letter, which says at the end: “… my name is spelled R-E-A-D, as in ‘read the Constitution’… thank you for your attention to this matter”
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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.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead. "From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."
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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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How we deploy multi-trillion parameter models at scale Today, let's break down the math for how @cerebras: 1. Fits the full model into on-chip memory 2. Maps the model across multiple chips 3. Handles a high # of concurrent requests
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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.
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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 Commanding-Heights.com
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Less security vulnerabilities and more curing cancer.
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Decisions affecting human life, freedom, and the use of force must always remain subject to effective, informed, and responsible human oversight. For this reason, artificial intelligence must be “disarmed”, and I encourage the States meeting in Geneva in November to take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons.
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Notebook has just unlocked over 700 textbooks from the world’s leading publishers. Every single one is available to you, completely free of charge! @Gemini_Notebook
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund    alzresearch.org/giving/ Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources     alzfdn.org/donate/ Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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The ranking members of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees have written a letter to President Trump asking whether he has been soliciting advice from Grok in order to help carry out his official duties as President of the United States. They also demanded that he preserve any prompts sent to Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, as well as outputs in response to those prompts, that were 'submitted to AI chatbots in carrying out your constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties.' The letter was provided by Politico.
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Congratulations to the Brewers — now everyone should go visit Milwaukee because it’s truly a great American city. Eat a fish fry, check out the incredible Milwaukee Art Museum, go to Ally Boy’s bagels, walk along the lakefront, visit Foundations tiki bar in River West.
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Obama 🔥: "The president wasn't even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison! That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory comments. He took great umbrage. The mobilized a whole of government response to that joke! They told the Treasury Secretary to hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory. This really happened."
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Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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