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It is kinda wild that one essentially needs ~11k of compute a month (an 8xH100 box) to perform any form of useful experimentation, and that's the lower bar. Never in my life have I felt similarly compute-constrained.

So I guess we’ve entered the era where people just say unhinged things with no source or citation and just make things up. Ok.

It's concerning to me how many of my friends, all vaguely healthy good jobs etc, require melatonin to sleep. I just took 3 mg

if you had to get rid of one permanently

is it just me or is anyone else avoiding phone calls they don’t expect for fear of giving your voice signatures away to bad actors

Saying “build affordable housing” is like saying “build used cars”

The conspiracy theory no one is talking about is apparently massive secret Chinese refined petroleum product reserves and a corresponding market intervention that should be but is not leaving evidence you can see from space

I realized chess was boring without wasting too much time on it, lucky me.

Fun game to play Open up a maps app and see how long it takes you to find dozens of sqkm of solar panels in China’s western deserts

We’re literally living through hyperinflation and no one talks about it lol Things are literally 3x more expensive than in 2020 and it’s not going to slow down

We're partnering with @huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident. Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation. Sharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks: openai.com/index/hugging-fac…

Yessss The house voted 308-117 to make daylight savings time permanent. Winter sunsets will be an hour later, making more daylight at the end of the day in winter. It goes to the Senate now but Tom Cotton and some others want to block it because of dark mornings.

One rule of thumb I have for great data engineers is how obsessed they are with strategy games but in particular factorio. I managed to stop myself once after 48 hours and deleted the game. If I see you play it or have been obsessed by it I will hire you.

There is ink in my printer, but I can't use it. Because apparently I cancelled my subscription to "HP Instant Ink." Insanely dystopic

> the java chip daily reminder that intel's 32-bit iAPX 432 (1981) had integrated garbage collection & OO support, the 8086 was supposed to be a temporary stopgap en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_… if only you knew how good things could really be

Like I’m genuinely so baffled that e.g. Renaissance Faires & viking music festivals are full of Redditoids instead of right-wing extremists