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Nyla Worker retweeted
konnichiwa!
we are launching muse in japan today! 🇯🇵
it is now available—download it from your favorite app store!
(i hope you're ready for the anime memes 😇)
Nyla Worker retweeted
Live footage inside Walmart today
🤖 Made with AI
As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.
spr.ly/6019BHXyoW
Nyla Worker retweeted
The Glimmer team wrote a really comprehensive report ⬇️
Today we published a technical report on Muse Glimmer, our 30B open-weight model built for agentic tasks on consumer hardware.
It runs at practical speeds on a Mac or PC with a single consumer GPU at 4-bit precision, and leads comparably-sized open models on tool use and multi-step planning.
Read about the model architecture, distillation recipe, quantization and more: go.meta.me/4Bcvxol
Nyla Worker retweeted
we should let ppl walk under the golden gate bridge.
there is a chain link fence under the bridge at Fort Point. Remove it.
if it was removed, you could have a 5.75 mile walk entirely along the water.
From Marina Green all the way to Baker Beach.
Marina Green -> Crissy Field -> Ft Point -> Marshall Beach -> batteries to bluffs -> dutch sand ladder -> baker beach.
that would be awesome and cost almost nothing. need to remove a single fence...
right now you can walk only 2 miles before the fence stops you :(
Nyla Worker retweeted
TIL that the Weeping Women on SF’s Palace of Fine Arts actually bow their heads into giant planter boxes.
The boxes were originally supposed to overflow with vines and flowers, but the planting budget was cut.
Would be cool to bring the original idea to life.
Nyla Worker retweeted
Did you know if you tried to open a Trader Joe's, Grocery Outlet, or soon even a Mollie Stone's in San Francisco - you can't?
That's because SF has a rule that formula retail chain stores that have more than 11 stores (worldwide!) can not open in commercial districts without a conditional use permit.
With grocery stores and pharmacies closing across our city, these permits can delay opening new stores by 6-9 months - delaying much needed affordable food in our neighborhoods.
So today I announced legislation to fix it.
Going forward, any parcel already designated as a formula retail chain can convert to a grocery store or pharmacy without an additional conditional use permit. This will save them months on opening.
For any new grocery store that opens, we will also allow them to include a bank, pharmacy, or restaurant without the need for another conditional use permit. As grocery stores consolidate and get smaller, this will help them occupy larger spaces while also bring more needed services to neighborhoods in need.
And lastly, we will add grocery stores and pharmacies to the city's priority processing list.
Importantly, this legislation isn't going to change the character of your neighborhood. It only regulates parcels that are already designated for formula retail chains. Because amidst an affordability crisis restricting access to food and medicine, we need to make it easier to open needed services. Not bury them in red tape.
Thank you Supervisors Sherrill and Melgar for your early cosponsorship of our legislation. We will introduce it at the Board of Supervisors in the weeks ahead, and expect it to pass before the end of the year.
Nyla Worker retweeted
The next few years in SF will be incredible.
Many big lab employees will leave . The idea of sailing into the sunset is temporal and will quickly subside. Inevitably, they will start their own companies and absorb a tremendous amount of venture capital. This will lead to an abundance of innovation.
On the negative side, a lot of this innovation will be in the largely overlapping homogenous areas where their skillets lie. We see this already: many companies doing AI for quant trading, drug discovery, material discovery, robotics, new AI architectures, hardware. Competition in such disciplines will be severe.
Yet on the positive side, never in history could you raise this quantum ($100M+) of risk capital out of the gate and the space of invention that begets is unprecedented. People will take swings that were once not viewed as VC backable businesses. And yes, beyond just buying loads of compute to train models. Moonshot ideas which usually only worked under the comfort of a big company. Instead of 100, there may be 1000 startups dubbed “neolabs”.
Many will invest capital of their own. They will all pay top dollar to attract talent. They will poach large swathes of academia out of their labs to help.
Many will not find the hunger to succeed and get lazy from their riches. The more successful ones will acquire them if they are colleagues they liked.
The amazing ones will succeed immeasurably. And this will beckon a new renaissance we won’t be able to fathom from where we are now.
Nyla Worker retweeted
the sf tennis reservation system will become one of the most hardened softwares on the planet of earth
Nyla Worker retweeted
it's only automation if you don't have to think about it
otherwise it's sparkling manual labor
