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John Backus
@john.bsky.social
in Miami there are two season:

summer
double summer

https://bsky.app/profile/mandel.bsky.social/post/3jovo2sqezc2j
Post by Manuel de la Peña
New England
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February 17, 2023 at 4:22 PM
the shame of downloading the bing app on iOS just so I can get on a waiting list to try out GPT-4 😖
February 9, 2023 at 3:48 PM
Just spent 4 hours deepfaking friends voices using https://beta.elevenlabs.io/speech-synthesis

Insanely fun. Highly recommend
ElevenLabs || Prime Voice AI
beta.elevenlabs.io
February 9, 2023 at 2:25 AM
One funny aspect of Mastodon's federation model is that the most confusing and user hostile part is front loaded: picking a server.

Like once you're on it feels like Twitter but it's a weird big hurdle for normal people.

Curious what the Blue Sky take is
February 5, 2023 at 6:04 PM
I took a quick look at the networking under the hood of the app and it I'm impressed by how formalized everything is! Seems like everything goes through the spec'd out ATP XRPC?

Was able to make a node.js API client and fetch my feed which is cool.
February 5, 2023 at 5:50 PM
AT Protocol by OpenAI
February 5, 2023 at 4:18 PM
Today I spent the day learning more about neural nets (via Andrej Karpathy's amazing YouTube https://bit.ly/3Hw9qOF). Whenever I had questions I would talk to Anthropic's chatbot.

Most futuristic experience I've had in a long time. AI tutoring is amazing.
February 5, 2023 at 3:16 AM
Reddit famously bootstrapped their site by creating tons of fake users (all comments actually from founders) to make it look alive.

BlueSky timing could be perfect for doing this but w GPT. Bonus points with Elon randomly kicking the good bots off twitter
February 5, 2023 at 3:09 AM
just setting up my bsky
February 5, 2023 at 2:57 AM