Link. They call it a “custom feed” but it’s basically a tool for building modified algorithms for what you see and when.

Link. “Google’s new robotics model, RT-2 incorporates movement tokens … “into the same training data as the language model … RT-2 can learn to guess how a robot’s arm should move to pick up a ball or throw an empty soda can into the recycling bin.”

Link. Very notorious.

Link. I suspect the standards are not as bad as presented in my social media feeds — clumsy, desperately trying to make the US look less bad than it actually was and is, but not quite as bad as my team makes them out to be.

Link. The Curse of the Valley. It’s not enough to deliver a good product that generates a reasonable profit.

Link. Not common but not rare; some/many get better. It’s such a weird disorder; there’s got to be more bizarre immune dysfunctions like this that we haven’t begun to name.

Link. Reading this I did the same. Previously I’d been checking my feed there every 2-3 weeks.

Link. Only idiots buy Tesla.

Link. Esther Crawford via Gruber. I was a bit shocked when I learned Xi didn’t know about the lost Chinese spy balloon that meandered across the US. The kind of monomania that gave Musk his wealth is not conducive to tracking reality.

Link. It’s been poked at since the 50s.

Link. Useful reference.

Link. “…Last week we were filling everyone’s timeline with ads for discount boner pill chewing gum, the punchline of which ads is that you’ll bang your lady so hard she’ll need the aid of a walker afterward…”

Link. I can’t imagine how hard it was to draw this. New Delhi by Miami.

Link. Industrial Revolution made sobriety profitable.

Link. Remember Cold Fusion? We should know shortly. Boiling point superconductor.

Link. I wonder if they will do bicycle routes.

Link. Cheap replacement batteries are dangerous. I suspect also mods that bypass scooter anti-theft.

Link. Among white Christian’s religious intensity is correlated with non-college but is an even better predictor of voting GOP.

Link. Apple doesn’t pay him very much. (In reality he presumably hit a fraud screen when he entered his salary.)

Link. Rampant fraud.

Link. “China isn’t likely to be the next Japan, economically speaking. It’s probably going to be worse.”

Link. A Polish scholar responds to Pro-Putin Americans.

Link. It doesn’t stick, they’d prefer you use the algo. I had to update and force quit to see it.

Link. He doesn’t know of course, but he favors wet market crossover. Lab leak is the public default: “Notwithstanding the Débarre group’s revelations, the lab-leak idea has remained strongly preferred by public opinion”

It is long!

Link. Idiot is the wrong word but I don’t have a better word.

Link. Take America’s prison culture and turn the dial to 10.

Link. The perfect Twitter eulogy.

Link. He likes Bluesky. Unfortunately.

Link. El Nino is giving us a preview of 2030.

Link. Fire and writing were likely invented many times and forgotten. If we can collapse civilization we could reset AI. Until the next time.

Link. Team Dem is totally wrong on this one. I know of similar issues with mountain bike trails in Michigan. Colorado voters should punish these legislators.

Link. I suspect Apple doesn’t document when it’s embarrassed by product issues.

Link. His presidential primary strategy led him to deprecate vaccination.

Link. The best cyclists most of us know are about half as fast as the best in the world.

Link. I think remote work will reverse more than it has.

Link. 2004 NASA modeling. Data for that time is very limited and we don’t know why the ocean temps shifted differently.

Link. In reality only a subset of metadata is preserved. Resource forks are stripped. Large xattr are lost. 3rd party can be lost, which implies they should not be relied on.

No documentation.

Link. The dystopian mirror of the AI guardian persons with cognitive disability need to live independently.

Link. Fast Times.

Link. Streaming and efficiency. The job isn’t very appealing now. Coding changed in similar ways.

Link. Nvidia’s valuation is a warning.

Link. Russia’s favorite topic.

Link. Canadians get most of both. Noah’s main point is we should be learning domain-specific lessons on things like disability, homelessness, and criminal justice.

Link. The ingredients on the labels do not match the contents of the bottle. Banned stimulants, a Russian nootropic, minuscule levels of “active” ingredients. It’s all very American.

Link. “We will eventually find out if these drugs can actually help patients in the real world, or whether they do more harm than (any) good. In a more rational world, we might try finding all this out before we approve them and sell them to patients, but we’re clearly going to do it the other way.”

Link. I’m sure progress will slow before the end.

Link. That’s insane. Small part of Gruber post on “Apple AI”.

Link. Gruber describes two ways to automatically relaunch an app that’s crashing in the background.

Link. Presumably they use their phones. In some ways similar to gov computers.

Link. Probably ended earlier due to lag between infection and death.