Christopher Penn
@cspenn.com
Co-founder & #AI #DataScience @TrustInsights , ninja, @mktgovercoffee cohost, keynote speaker, #IBMChampion. #FullyVaxxed. #lgbtq ally. He/him. 🇺🇸🇰🇷🇺🇦🏳️🌈
Company: https://www.trustinsights.ai
Newsletter: https://almosttimely.substack.com
Company: https://www.trustinsights.ai
Newsletter: https://almosttimely.substack.com
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE
September 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE
System wide Google outage as of 1433 EDT.
June 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
System wide Google outage as of 1433 EDT.
Headed for #smmw25 first thing. I always take the first flight out - less turbulence (because cooler air has fewer turbulent currents) and fewer delays and cancellations since cascades of errors haven’t piled up yet. Does it mean getting up punishingly early? Yes. Is it worth it? Also yes.
March 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Headed for #smmw25 first thing. I always take the first flight out - less turbulence (because cooler air has fewer turbulent currents) and fewer delays and cancellations since cascades of errors haven’t piled up yet. Does it mean getting up punishingly early? Yes. Is it worth it? Also yes.
My weekly groceries for a family of four. Normally between 160-180. This week, without much difference in what I buy week to week: 220.
Tariffs in effect. Are we great again yet?
Tariffs in effect. Are we great again yet?
March 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
My weekly groceries for a family of four. Normally between 160-180. This week, without much difference in what I buy week to week: 220.
Tariffs in effect. Are we great again yet?
Tariffs in effect. Are we great again yet?
OpenAI likely to announce GPT-4.5 today. Expect everything to break! (they're notorious for completely underestimating demand, so ChatGPT is highly likely to be utterly useless for the next couple of days because OpenAI never learns its lesson.)
February 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
OpenAI likely to announce GPT-4.5 today. Expect everything to break! (they're notorious for completely underestimating demand, so ChatGPT is highly likely to be utterly useless for the next couple of days because OpenAI never learns its lesson.)
Also, for people who are so anti-trans, anti-gender fluidity, anti-everything cis/het, clearly no one QAd the actual video.
February 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Also, for people who are so anti-trans, anti-gender fluidity, anti-everything cis/het, clearly no one QAd the actual video.
Goodness, I wonder what institutional investors see? Oh wait, the same thing as everyone else. President Musk and VP Trump are burning everything down and the smart money is bailing out.
February 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Goodness, I wonder what institutional investors see? Oh wait, the same thing as everyone else. President Musk and VP Trump are burning everything down and the smart money is bailing out.
How safe is flying? Here's a chart of aviation crashes and accidents since 2020. On average, there are 0.0022% accidents per month. You are three times as likely to get in an accident on the way to the airport.
Data source: AVHerald.com filtered to crashes and accidents.
#Aviation #Safety #Flying
Data source: AVHerald.com filtered to crashes and accidents.
#Aviation #Safety #Flying
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
How safe is flying? Here's a chart of aviation crashes and accidents since 2020. On average, there are 0.0022% accidents per month. You are three times as likely to get in an accident on the way to the airport.
Data source: AVHerald.com filtered to crashes and accidents.
#Aviation #Safety #Flying
Data source: AVHerald.com filtered to crashes and accidents.
#Aviation #Safety #Flying
Everything makes more sense when you view it through the lens of greed and grift.
February 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Everything makes more sense when you view it through the lens of greed and grift.
The Gen Xers will understand.
February 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The Gen Xers will understand.
From Threads. Pandemic 2.0 is underway. Prepare accordingly.
February 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
From Threads. Pandemic 2.0 is underway. Prepare accordingly.
Disobey however you can.
February 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Disobey however you can.
Archive.org also has a Torrent set up for this. If you have the bandwidth, consider joining in to help others download it faster by seeding it.
February 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Archive.org also has a Torrent set up for this. If you have the bandwidth, consider joining in to help others download it faster by seeding it.
HR722 introduced in the House: national abortion ban. Source: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
January 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
HR722 introduced in the House: national abortion ban. Source: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Google Vertex AI supports it natively if you're willing to pay the Google tax.
January 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Google Vertex AI supports it natively if you're willing to pay the Google tax.
5 year anniversary of these posts and… we’re back here again, except this time it’s H5N1 instead of SARS-CoV-2 and we’re working really hard to pretend it’s not there.
January 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
5 year anniversary of these posts and… we’re back here again, except this time it’s H5N1 instead of SARS-CoV-2 and we’re working really hard to pretend it’s not there.
Finished setting up automated content in the other places. People are training AI on content from X/Meta, so best to give it good content to train on rather than leave entirely, else our AI models will slowly become Nazi hellholes too.
January 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Finished setting up automated content in the other places. People are training AI on content from X/Meta, so best to give it good content to train on rather than leave entirely, else our AI models will slowly become Nazi hellholes too.
YouTube now lets you decide which companies can use your YouTube videos for AI models and you can choose individual ones, or none at all.
A121 Labs
Adobe
Amazon
Anthropic
Apple
ByteDance
Cohere
IBM
Meta
Microsoft
Midjourney
Nvidia
OpenAI
Perplexity
Pika Labs
Runway
Stability AI
xAI
A121 Labs
Adobe
Amazon
Anthropic
Apple
ByteDance
Cohere
IBM
Meta
Microsoft
Midjourney
Nvidia
OpenAI
Perplexity
Pika Labs
Runway
Stability AI
xAI
December 20, 2024 at 10:14 PM
YouTube now lets you decide which companies can use your YouTube videos for AI models and you can choose individual ones, or none at all.
A121 Labs
Adobe
Amazon
Anthropic
Apple
ByteDance
Cohere
IBM
Meta
Microsoft
Midjourney
Nvidia
OpenAI
Perplexity
Pika Labs
Runway
Stability AI
xAI
A121 Labs
Adobe
Amazon
Anthropic
Apple
ByteDance
Cohere
IBM
Meta
Microsoft
Midjourney
Nvidia
OpenAI
Perplexity
Pika Labs
Runway
Stability AI
xAI
Gemini rolls out its own o1-like model with reflection, reward functions, and automatic chain of thought in AI Studio
December 19, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Gemini rolls out its own o1-like model with reflection, reward functions, and automatic chain of thought in AI Studio
Something #AI image and video generation has a remarkably hard time with despite TONS of reference material: making espresso. The portafilters are never correct, and the logical flow is always wrong. I don't know why.
December 12, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Something #AI image and video generation has a remarkably hard time with despite TONS of reference material: making espresso. The portafilters are never correct, and the logical flow is always wrong. I don't know why.
ChatGPT Pro launches at $200/month for unlimited access to o1. This is unsurprising given how costly o1 is to operate. o1 Preview is way more costly than anything else OpenAI costs. I can only imaging what o1 will cost in fully operational mode.
openai.com/index/introd...
openai.com/index/introd...
December 5, 2024 at 6:52 PM
ChatGPT Pro launches at $200/month for unlimited access to o1. This is unsurprising given how costly o1 is to operate. o1 Preview is way more costly than anything else OpenAI costs. I can only imaging what o1 will cost in fully operational mode.
openai.com/index/introd...
openai.com/index/introd...
I just use the built in voice memos app on the iPhone. It dumps out m4a files that sync to my desktop, and then I toss those to the Whisper.cpp model using distil-whisper v3 Large. There's a one-click zsh script that processes it all.
December 4, 2024 at 4:55 PM
I just use the built in voice memos app on the iPhone. It dumps out m4a files that sync to my desktop, and then I toss those to the Whisper.cpp model using distil-whisper v3 Large. There's a one-click zsh script that processes it all.
Every retail email I get these days.
December 4, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Every retail email I get these days.