noted! The dub was so bad i didn’t even think about whether or not it was autodubbed. Fortunately, through the combination of my rapidly fading japanese language skills, experience in code switching between english and other languages, and the spirit of aku-soku-zan, I managed to understand a lot of it beyond the premise itself.

NAS: Found out just now that Simone Veil’s pictures for sad children is back online, and has been for a while now. Her art meant a lot to me when I was reading it. Just letting you all know in case it meant something to you too.

The dub on that video is truly something, lmao. I counter with this:

毎日牙突、どれの式、ラララ〜

(to the tune of the mameshiba jingle)

second take from me. Here’s the full tweet:

one of Earth’s top scientists on sex and gender has published her latest work, open for all to read in a widely read venue on that science topic, where it will receive far more peer scrutiny than any lesser forum provides

I’m going to read this as a joke because he didn’t end it with a period, and he is secretly beefing with aella

Yeah, fair. Wasn’t so much sneering at the idea of data storage, but the “data lakehouse” jumped out at me as a possible fun term to bring up.

I’m pretty sure a data lakehouse is a database where if you insert data in it, it only appears two years later/earlier, and if you try to read from it, all the entries come from two years in the future/past. It’s very prone to predestination issues but can help with finding love

yeah and I’m a brain surgeon because sometimes when I pick my nose I go a little too deep

i hear sodium batteries are emerging as an alternative to lithium, but note that I also don’t know shit about this domain

I looked it up.

Sneer answer: 100% LLM feces. Databricks puts the anal in analytics

Yeah SMRs rule. They are so easy to build. You just move the map over to where you want them to be built, press the Building button or hotkey (B) and then choose the SMR (hotkey: S). Then you move the mouse over to where you want to place the SMR; a silhouette will appear at the target location. You click to start the build. It’s 150 minerals, 50 gas, and takes 15 seconds to construct. Just a few keypresses and you have green, clean energy anywhere you want it :) Crazy that nuclear power is so easy to get but governments treat it like it’s so scary.

Little late but just found out that Google has partnered with Movember to push Gemini.

I saw this, so now you all get to: Alex Karp performs a stationary Gatotsu with a sabre, don’t ask me why.

Databricks CEO: “we’ve already achieved AGI fam, the haters just keep moving the goalposts”

Part of me wants an Ito-created body-horror metaphor for LLMs. The rest of me knows that LLMs are so mundane that the metaphor would probably still be shite.

I think I’ve heard Rationalism described as a cult incubator

Aside from the fact that rationalism is a cult in and of itself, this is true, no matter how you slice it. You can mean it with absolute glowing praise or total shade and either way it’s still true. Adhering to rationalist principles is pretty much reprogramming yourself to be susceptible to the subset of cults already associated with Rationalism.

In the last couple of years I have noticed that people have been using single purpose phone holders/straps (as opposed to a multipurpose thing holder like a handbag etc.), so I understand this as apple coming in a little late trying to cash in on a trend. That being said: Apple don’t try to make their soft material products to last, so I expect this to be hot garbage.

tangent: I’ve seen people using this Bubblegum Slop (BS for short) in their social media stories. My guess is that fb/insta has started suggesting you use their slop instead of using music licensed from spotify, or something.

Brb gonna go collect a trillion dollars for my startup idea that makes babies grow a malignant style parasitic twin that is actually a compute farm

this has increased the comedy

Either they’re right, and the bubble pops soon, or they’re too early and it’s another hilarious Softbank L