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Just tried vibecoding with ThreeJS again (after more than 6 months) and I have to say that the models have gotten much better at coding with ThreeJS and creating 3D models from scratch.
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OpenAI's new image model GPT-Image-2 has leaked
It seems to have extremely good world knowledge and great text rendering
Possibly better than Nano Banana Pro
It's on @arena under code names:
- maskingtape-alpha
- gaffertape-alpha
- packingtape-alpha
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No one outside other vibe coders care or see this kinda detail. You’re noticing a real thing with no real impact.
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Winter - Vivaldi
Ok, das ist verdammt cool.
Es ist eine großartige Idee, wie man Musik visualisiert.
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LINUX DOESNT EVEN HAVE ACCOUNTS?!?
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup pcgamer.com/software/operati…
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🦔 H100 GPUs that cost $40,000 new are now selling for around $6,000 on eBay, an 85% drop. The math on why is straightforward: it costs about 11x as much to run an H100 for inference as a B300. Anyone running H100s needs to charge dramatically more than competitors on newer hardware.
Upgrading isn't simple either. At a $50,000 price tag for a B200, it takes about 33 months to break even on the upgrade from an H100. And the B300s are already making B200s less attractive.
My Take
I've been covering the depreciation problem in AI infrastructure for a while now. Companies are booking these GPUs on five to six year depreciation schedules when Nvidia releases new generations every two years. Michael Burry flagged Big Tech lengthening depreciation timelines as suspicious because it hides the real losses. A hedge fund manager I wrote about found that industry insiders estimate actual component lifespans at 3-10 years, but the economics don't work at any of those numbers.
The hyperscalers are sitting on hundreds of thousands of GPUs that lose value every time Nvidia announces something new. David McWilliams called them "digital lettuce" because they go stale while you're still installing them. The difference between what the books say these assets are worth and what you could actually sell them for is enormous. At some point that gap has to be reconciled. H100s selling for 85% off on eBay is a preview of the writedowns coming to earnings reports.
Hedgie🤗
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I built my own graphics library and got a whole map of my city onto a device with only 64kb of free RAM using my own rendering method written entirely in C & assembly, and a converter that take GeoJSON files and compresses them - this one went from 5mb to 34kb in my proprietary binary format, uses linedraw vector rendering to keep the entire memory buffer at only 8kb of RAM whilst tiling larger maps
In short
Screw google, aint no reason maps needs to be gigabytes of RAM to use
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This is an excerpt taken from my book The Daily Dad. 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids. You can get a copy here
thepaintedporch.com/products…
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Something I’ve learned from being a professor for two decades is that while many academics fetishize the *idea* of the Worker, they’re deeply uncomfortable with blue collar people, and they have a particular disdain for men who work with their hands.
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We are rapidly losing the ability to communicate and access information anonymously online and leftists aren’t even talking about it. It’s so bad!
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/dis…
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I (embarrassingly) majored in "women's studies" in college and I can tell you firsthand, this is exactly the epistemic emptiness they teach you from day 1
Everything is "rooted in" something "systemic"
Systemic racism. Systemic oppression. Systemic harm
What’s missing (and what you see exposed when Peter starts asking basic questions) is that students are never even taught how to reason about systems. They’re not taught to define what a system is, what its components are, how those components interact, or how causality flows through it
In an actual systems framework, you would be expected to specify mechanisms: inputs, incentives, feedback loops, constraints, failure modes. You’d have to explain how a policy, law, or institution produces a measurable outcome, and why. You’d have to show at least some kind of work!
Instead, students are taught a style of communication that substitutes vocabulary for explanation. “Systemic” becomes a conversation stopper rather than a starting point. It signals moral seriousness while insulating the claim from scrutiny. If someone asks for clarification, that’s treated as hostility rather than curiosity
So when this kid confidently says “America is systemically racist” but cannot answer the simplest follow-up — what is the system, exactly? — it's not even really his fault
It’s the predictable result of a pedagogy that rewards moral fluency over analytical thought
They're really, really good at invoking the word “system” to explain everything, while explaining absolutely nothing
(For what it's worth: teaching myself about systems is how I thought my way out of feminism... and then eventually left the left. I cannot believe "women's studies" is a real academic program. It's bananas)
@peterboghossian encountered one of the most brainwashed students ever captured on camera. This perfectly illustrates the problem at the center of all of this
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i honestly don't know what this is about.
If you're into building stuff - and get a lot of joy out of building and problem solving, AI is a massive - massive boon. It's a gift from Gods.
I think the people that are really depressed about it and have lost identity are the ones that got a lot of joy out of knowing the ins and outs of a certain thing - the go to guy for doing super weird javascript stuff. the guy that crushes regex.
We have these people in finance too - ones that can flip through a 200 page deck and find 2 slides with 2 pixel alignment issues. Ones that can build you a super complex comps table with 0 mistakes.
Absolutely no value judgment if that was your schtick - everyone gets off on different stuff.
But I genuinely don't know how any builder can be dejected by AI.
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The real world is messy and often resembles high school more than college and rewards don't always go to those who deserve them.
Just be a person who gets along well with people and does the job well. Learn from the people who know the job. Respect them.
One day, you will be on the other side of the playground and you will get what you wanted. It takes time, but you'll get there.
Never give up.
I never gave up and I am now telling you to do the same.
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Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online.
That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values.
In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers.
I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection.
In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!
ALT Cloudflare: defender of the Open Internet against the elite European media cabal.