Terry Thomas
@TheTerryThomas
It feels like I've seen the entirety of 30 Rock through Twitter clips in the last week. How are there so many clips of it ready to upload? Does everyone just have clips of 30 Rock on their phones? Are people going and finding video editors and making 40 second-clips?
I just heard payasam being described as "bubble tea, but soup" and the Malayali in me has never been more offended.
We will probably only realize in retrospect how much of the world we live in was being shaped by the niche preferences and compromised human understanding of essentially weird and unpleasant people.
Zuckerberg explaining how Meta is creating personalized AI friends to supplement your real ones: “The average American has 3 friends, but has demand for 15.”
ANDOR is great because it knows the coolest shit in STAR WARS isn’t the force or lightsabers… it’s switches, plugs, and knobs.
Rice in Japan is getting so pricey, I might have to start stretching meals with extra chicken.
English is full of “lexical gaps,” words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin but not other, related words. Somebody made a chart to show it↓
The idea that you can own an idea is really strange. It's so strange in fact that for the first 5000 years of written history, no one thought of it. Back then, there was no incentive to invent anything. Built a better plow? Great, sell one and then anyone copy it. And so the…
delete all IP law
Deja vu from the months after Modi carried out a similarly ill-advised (un-advised?) demonetization, and his supporters found trivial things to shift the goal posts towards.
Should edgy heterodox centrists accept some of the blame for Trump? Slate Star Codex:
LLMs are good at the things that computers are bad at, and bad at the things that computers are good at. ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…
Had fun with this. It can be as strenuous as you want, and the time limit is just right. 🟩 🟩🟥 🟩🟧🟧 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟧🟩🟩 🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Percentile: 98.09 datcreativity.com
LLMs are not a "shortcut." You're not using LLMs correctly if your head isn't hurting from hours of overthinking through multiple layers of nested thoughts that expand and contract between exploratory and confirmatory lenses of analysis <.001% of people are using LLMs correctly
"Are today’s drama-makers right to think that viewers will happily go along with any old nonsense if the results are entertaining enough?" "the always enjoyable sight of David Mitchell doing his David Mitchell" spectator.co.uk/article/have-t…
"The more voters see of Harris, the less they hear." spectator.co.uk/article/kamala…
I still can't get over how bad AI has become. And this is coming from a computer scientist who spent over a decade studying and programming AI. I fucking LOVE AI, but here are 10 reasons I absolutely fucking hate it now, a 🧵 ...