Jeff Lonsdale
@JeffLonsdale
Views belong to no one, they evolve and spread on their own.
So it wasn't that I decided that I needed more incentives to think in 140 characters, but its prevalence is making me try it out anyway.
This is what happens when you put an American in a high profile support role. He starts to spec DPS.
When threatened, the pope can spray holy venom up to fifteen feet.
The confusing thing about the Late Show cancelation drama is why CBS didn’t try to recruit an up and coming comedian/writer/podcaster to host it for 1/10th to 1/20th of what they were paying Colbert and cut other costs similarly. It’s still a well known brand that should attract…
The stereotype of a powerful figure getting surrounded by yes-men and becoming incapacitated by them is a common one. Now LLMs have taken on some of the worst aspects of yes-men and people don’t yet have the counter-memes to mitigate these risks.
I am at a conveyor belt sushi place in Tokyo. There is an American family near us and they somehow have fried chicken and french fries coming to them on the conveyor belt. I don’t even see those things on the menu. It’s amazing.
The whole Coldplay debacle could have been avoided if the HR manager and her boss knew how to Lean In.
I’ve spoken to multiple university scientists and researchers who are worried about the impact of cuts to research. But Marc has a great point below. And you know what, let’s be honest: for most universities, the research is a hostage puppy. Top universities TRIPLED their…
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It’s crazy that we live in an era where everyone has digital maps on their phones but government agencies giving flash flood warnings are incapable of giving useful emergency flash flood warnings.
One of the social niceties of the past was people downplaying how awesome having kids was because they knew there were infertile couples or lonely people who were unlucky. It’s one of the many social niceties that people today ended up believing wholeheartedly.
Honestly, I feel sad for people who deliberately choose not to have kids, especially because they think it’ll ruin their lives. It’s incredibly hard but it’s also by far the most incredible life experience. Nothing comes close to raising your own kids and watching them turn into…
“This song was made by a strange AI.” -What people who never heard of Weird Al will think when they see him displayed as the artist.
Fascinating high resolution load data for an AI training data center (50 MW block) Periodic idling & surges - 6MW to 30MW spike in 290ms(!) - fluctuating demand followed by drop then spikes again Why does AI training load vary so much? - GPUs process data in batches, so power…
Even before the federal government cracks down on this, no red state should tolerate this open racism from their state funded and controlled institutions.
In one email—acquired via a records request—UT Austin professor Carma Gorman asked diversity-dean John Yancey whether her search committee’s pool was sufficiently diverse to advance. The dean said yes, but if the numbers dropped “then things don’t look good anymore.”