the happiest guy you know. 🇮🇪 in 🇺🇸. everton and bohs, for my sins
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Ian Connolly retweeted
liking a tweet from someone i’ve followed for years but have never met, or really even interacted with much, and whose name i do not know: god i’m so glad he got this job. i know he could use the higher pay after his wife got laid off back in february
irish comedians who cater almost solely for irish-american audiences are the absolute pits.
i've lived here for 12 years. i'm a US citizen. in totality you could sum up the paddywhackery i've engaged in over that time and it wouldn't amount to this video.
a pox on their houses.
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this is expressly made for me apparently
Of course, she's not deceiving us. She's engaging with us as a human being 🧍
ALT A 2-panel of a male and female human having a back-and-forth. The man, up top, is Bolvar Fordragon, with a caption reading “BOLVAR: YOU’RE BEING REAL RIGHT NOW?” and below is Lady Prestor, “LADY PRESTOR: WHY WOULD I DECEIVE YOU?”
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if we can keep this man sober we can change the world
Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models
“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.
“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.
“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.
“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’
“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”
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as a part-time small business cto for my wife's business, yelp is easily the worst platform to engage with as a business owner. a truly horrible review recommendations algorithm. they are very happy to sell you the worst $/eyeball ad platform though.
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we are massive
The first time I went to an Everton match was during the FA Cup in 1989. Unfortunately, it went the wrong way.
Tonight, they didn’t disappoint.
Thanks for the invite, @andyburnham.
ALT Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Burnham of the United Kingdom attend a football game in Liverpool, UK.
ALT Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Burnham of the United Kingdom attend a football game in Liverpool, UK.
ALT Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Burnham of the United Kingdom attend a football game in Liverpool, UK.
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“never a red that for Balo” say Donald Trump, Mark Carney, and Andy Burnham simultaneously. Their throats catch. They slowly turn to look at each other. Their faces soften, as they realize they have common ground.
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moving back to the city today after 6 months on the peninsula while we remodeled our house.
after 12 years living in sf, 6 months in the burbs was more than enough evidence that we are indeed City People.
back to god’s country 🫡
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Ian Connolly retweeted
If you are asking “Why push back against anti-datacenter efforts?” I consider it a tragedy that anti-nuclear efforts largely strangled nuclear power in the US based on vibes, and I don’t want to see that happen to AI. Public opinion matters, and it shouldn’t be ceded unchallenged.
If you are asking “Why should I support AI efforts at all?” I believe we are in the midst of a transition more vibrant than the industrial revolution. Opinions formed a couple of years ago about the uselessness of AI are no longer valid. Millions of people and organizations are getting great returns from using it, and the demand for data centers is the market responding to the value signal. That is how progress is made!