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Paul Ramsey
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Loving open source software, practicing the piano, moving things around, working @crunchydata.com More at https://blog.cleverelephant.ca
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I had a Chomsky phase. The tattoos are wild.
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My favourite podcasts @TheWarOnCars and Volts by @volts.wtf made a crossover episode. Both podcasts handle the biggest issues I see in the world currently.

The War on Cars https://thewaroncars.org is about our over-reliance on personal cars.

Volts https://www.volts.wtf is all about energy. How […]
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Andrej Karpathy’s take on AI coding agents feels grounded. The industry’s chasing full autonomy when models still hallucinate too much.

Agents that churn out a thousand lines of code leave you either blindly trusting them or slogging through reviews. These tools should embrace their fallibility.
Yep, stay in school, it's cold out there.
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This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem
If, in the brief time it is fulfilling a model search, the LLM is conscious, and at the end of the search the consciousness is extinguished, our every web search is an instance of mass murder.
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I really don’t understand this decision from the Sora team. Why prioritize AI slop videos from my friends? It isn’t videos about them or their lives, why should I care about my high school friend’s deepfaked video of drinking a beer with Tupac & JFK over that of an influencer?
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The province is supporting a high-density student housing build for the University of Victoria, which aims to alleviate affordability and availability challenges for students that often lead to long commutes and less time spent on campus.
510 beds planned for UVic with $178M high-density student housing build
The province is supporting a high-density student housing build for the University of Victoria, which aims to alleviate affordability and availability challenges for students that often lead to long commutes and less time spent on campus.
cheknews.ca
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
“Good news, kids! Mommy and Daddy are getting a divorce,”
Clearly, you get to be Secretary of War. There can be only one.
Was that an earthquake?
1/3 of road space for cars, 1/3 for transit, 1/3 for active modes! Balance!
You are the worst person in the world.
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Bike math is paying virtually nothing and getting a lot in return.

Car math is selling your soul to waste your life in traffic and inhale kilograms of particulate matter.
Yes, yes, 1000 times yes. And it's all flat space so the counter is effectively 6 sq ft larger in terms of places to set things down.
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Cool! New Half Mile of Bike Lane Funnels Cyclists Straight into Portal to Hell: tinyurl.com/79pnj5fu