I only moved here recently and I really struggle to imagine living here before the rail network. I would not like this city nearly as much as I do without it, I think

much like Elon Musk and his belief that he could balance the budget by removing a billion dollars without touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc.

anyone serious about rationing electricity needs to be talking basically exclusively about cutting off air conditioning

we have invented a method of generating electricity that only requires standing up cheap panels in the middle of nowhere and occasionally brushing the dirt off of them

and people still think "ration electricity" is a better solution

i was across the street from the anthropic office today and was very tempted to walk in and ask to meet him

the Steam Frame will not be able to run Quest apps because they use a proprietary API. this feature, as far as I can tell, is because Linux Arm toolchains for VR project exports are relatively uncommon while generic Android is universally supported

to the extent that social media presence is a good signal for hiring at all (imo it's a decent way to find talented people who slip through the cracks of normal hiring processes) you have to avoid people who hype themselves up like the plague

tbf I have gotten work out of social media posting before but it's mostly taken the form of vaguely complaining about a project for 3 months, proving that I really did spend 3 months on the project

even among the more repulsive elements of SF engineering culture I rarely see any of the actual Computer Touchers among them engaging positively with that startup culture version of LinkedIn Slop

llama 3.1 405B base is on OpenRouter with support for the antiquated OpenAI Text Completions API

the whole point of RLVR is to force generalization from verifiable tasks to unverifiable ones in adjacent domains

the whole pass@k thing stops making sense if you don't have a trivial way to judge the correctness of an answer

I've never really understood this line of thinking, honestly. Definitionally the model can do anything with high enough pass@k - proofs for millenium prize questions can be generated by a 300M model given enough time.

really sort of a neutral statement on unions themselves. they sure are organizations that pursue the interests of their members

last time like the other day

wasn't this fake last time

there are all of these weird little features that would be extremely charming in a game that wasn't Like That. you can actually play all of the instruments! the base building and decoration system is pretty nice! but everyone is forced to build minmaxxed fortresses that get wiped every two weeks

the memory system is opaque and designed to create a model that is super overfamiliar towards you

combine that with OpenAI's aggressive integration of user feedback data and you get the most buddy-buddy model in the industry with persistent memory about your preferences. nightmare

future devil would be having a field day in our world tbh