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Ted Herman

Ted Herman

@tedherman.bsky.social

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Collector of fine minerals. Gardener. Bike rider. Influencée: please try to influence me!

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Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 21h

Could be a portrait of taking a selfie.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 21h

100% Korean cotton (Please note that Korean Cotton is specially processed polyester fiber).

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 4d

top-down imposition of gilded rococo, l'empire, or regency style, preferring marble to wood - known for its decadence

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 5d

High-end artificial trees can cost several thousand dollars.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 5d

I think the long-term plan to add more information and buttons to the interface. It's just those pesky fonts that get in the way.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, but I didn't know LMEs could mediate cockroaches.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 5d

terres rares vs terroir

(French) mean completely different things, but really close in pronunciation.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 6d

Continuing this analogy, what is the NVDA equivalent of crop rotation (e.g. soy->corn->soy->...).

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 6d

Not long ago it was silver. Or maybe copper. Make up your mind. (And technically, lithium is a metal.)

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 6d

Equity analyst: "Pfizer has wanted to get into obesity for a long time"

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 6d

Expletive, expletive, expletive.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 6d

Gresham's Law says bad money drives out good. The real danger with artificial intelligence is that it will drive out the natural intelligence.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 7d

the answer is friction reduction. that is the only vision in the bad tech space. less friction, lower quality (80/20) for the win.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 7d

Probably, however the novelty of change can boost performance initially, whereas long-term productivity gains depend on deeper factors. Slop is real.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 7d

Fantastic alliteration found in the wild: "The increasing opacity of these financing structures has led to a corollary collapse in collateral verification."

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 7d

I asked an AI to define slop. None of the offered meanings referred to the [Wikipedia's AI slop] sense -- variously defined as "digital clutter", "filler content [prioritizing] speed and quantity over substance and quality".

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 8d

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 8d

Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit.

Climate Extremes Are a Hallmark of the Age of Animals | Quanta Magazine

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is.

www.quantamagazine.org

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 8d

"The billionaire hedge fund manager says that U.S. economic strength now rests on high-productivity workers, with the bottom 60% unproductive"

What is the meaning of life?

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 8d

"The main reason beef has become painfully expensive comes down to economics and climate: As global temperatures rise, shrinking cattle herds are straining the nation's beef supply even as demand remains strong."

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 8d

"The Last of the Nuba"

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 8d

I don't think teachers and trainers know when to stop verifying the results of their prompting and feel confident in the result.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 9d

If you get a chance to ask Bessent a question, please ask how he chooses the planting date and matching the soybean maturity group to that date to maximize yield potential.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 10d

In time, generative AI artifacts of today will be seen much as we look at fonts and typefaces of previous times. A genre and style of an era.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 10d

Reminder: it is possible to hedge too many bets - that is also a risk.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 10d

@rodneyabrooks.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/the-han...

The ‘Hands Problem’ Holding Back the Humanoid Revolution

Researchers face challenges in creating robotic hands equal to the real thing, but they’re getting closer.