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just went to the aquarium and saw an epaulette shark and my mom said “oh my god are those its eyes?!” duped, i fear, by quite literally one of the oldest tricks in the book
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Me 4 months ago: "Make these video files as small as possible, I'm only using them for audio and vMix is a butt"
LLM: "Ok, here's how to minimize all settings."
Me: "Already did, barely helps"
Me today: "Same question"
LLM: "I bet if you feed it a uniform black field for the video portion it will compress down to basically nothing, freeing you nearly .8GB/minute."
Me: 😮
Pelham Groom retweeted
One of the major difficulties I have with AI conversations is that I naturally communicate using examples but whenever I do that the AI lockjaws onto the example and stops thinking.
Me: "I want a dinner recipe that is something a serious cyclist would eat, like they would eat oats and blueberries and things like that"
AI: "Great, after burning through a new math proof worth of compute here is a recipe for blueberry oats"
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One aspect of Nvidia’s continued dominance that remains underrated is their ability to do the obvious things to optimize their product while other compute manufacturers bumble around trying to jam their product into legacy systems
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It is unambiguously true that the international perception of the UK being particularly broken or in decline compared to the rest of Europe is almost exclusively down to countries like France or Germany cunningly disguising their insanity by writing the news in French or German
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British journalists can be the scum of the earth but they would’ve had this administration for dessert by mid-2025
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Pope Leo had surgery this week, received a cancer diagnosis, and is already back to work? He really is the first American pontiff
Pelham Groom retweeted
The problem of our time is not merely information overload. It is that the time required to construct a coherent understanding of reality is becoming longer than the time during which that understanding remains valid.
