A bit of silliness I made for my class:
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FORTRAN 77 running in a Javascript interpreter. (The c bridge feels like a cheat, but I was in a hurry.)
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Grant Sanderson is such a next level presenter. We all need to step up our game.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsLh...
I can do the 10 miles now. With a lot of training I *think* I could do the tacos. The beers, no thanks.
At the peak of my fitness in College, I could maybe pull this off. 10 miles is easy. The beers would have made me sad, but doable. Iβm most uncertain about the tacos.
Good luck in Mannheim. Iβm not a travel-warrior, so Iβm in the dark too, but Iβd like to see if anyone has anything.
Yup. Paul is also a deeply unserious person. Which is weird, because back in the early 2000s he actually did seem like a serious person.
Makes me wonder if he secretly died and was replaced by a pre-GPT1 chatbot long ago.
Yes, yes, I know he has good genes, but good genetics only gets your career so far. When he finally retires, he should pivot to giving lifetime conditioning advice. Competing at that level, for that long in the NBA without career ending injuries is wild.
Oh, hi LeBron. π
Iβve never really cared for the Bluesky zeitgeist, and up until recently Iβve always looked upon Anthropicβs whole AI safety schtick as a bit silly and self aggrandizing. But when you just prove youβre serious by making the best stuff, you kind of earn the right to talk big.
Over the past few months, well before this whole DOJ blowup, I came to have enormous respect for Anthropic. (And yes, I know Iβm late to this realization.) They are serious, hard core people doing actual hard core work building the future. Godspeed.
I just configured Claude Code to report the elapsed time completing a full set of tasks with that stupid Spongebob Squarepants meme:
π𧽠ππ°ππ»π¬π¬π΅ π΄π°π΅πΌπ»π¬πΊ π³π¨π»π¬πΉ π§½π
I am a ridiculous person.
Dan Toomey and the folks at Good Work are absolutely killing it lately.
m.youtube.com/@goodworkmb
Political comedy does seems to have undergone a negative productivity shock.
Corrections arenβt market failures; theyβre efficient responses to adverse productivity realizations.
-Prescott (1982)
Not enough βhey, read this poem you forgot about and probably never readβ posts on this site. π
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We should really just give up and live with periodically being hacked. Return to monke, i.e. the internet of the early 90s.
It does appear that there is will in Senate will stand up and do its Article 1 job.
This was usually from Americans in the States. I always figured the rationale for LAH-tech was that it is sorta pronounced like Lamport.
Though if my recollection is correct, Leslie Lamport had no guidance one way or another on how to pronounce it.
Weird. I feel like I used to encounter lah-tech a lot, and I couldnβt tell if it was a shibboleth.
Iβve heard βlahβ-tech many times, but Iβve never heard βstahβ-ta. Does anyone actually say it that way?
I was confused this morning, but Iβm reassured now that I know this.
But in any case, you are right that the companies that did make LiDAR part of the whole suite are getting a big win from the costs coming down. 4/4
The SLAM maximalists did have a point, even if they were annoyingly overzealous. LiDAR is fine, but itβs not some newfangled magic. If your solution was βLiDAR firstβ without a comprehensive high-res camera mapping solution, you were gonna have a bad time. 3/4
Alternatives like SLAM were a breath of fresh air because the resolution was orders of magnitude better. Everyone I spoke to back then seemed to think that LiDAR was still valuable as part of a comprehensive system. 2/4
I find the whole LiDAR debate to be very strange. I knew someone who participated in the 2005 DARPA challenge, and the argument then was that LiDAR was easy, old (βprovenβ), simple to implement, and *profoundly* failure prone. 1/4
Thatβs scorigami!
youtu.be/9l5C8cGMueY?...
nflscorigami.com
Eh. This exact same idea got floated during Reagan's second term and it went nowhere.
Yes, norms about the Constitution were stronger then, but also remember that second term Reagan was *super* popular, while Trump has never been all that popular.
