This is such a great summary of what makes LLMs feel like they understand concepts - and in under three minutes! The encoding portion is so incredibly important to understand since many people pass it off a sentience.
I said what I said.
We're not ready to push forward into the renewable future. We still want to cling to This old silly fossil fuel world that is killing the planet.
If you had an EV that costs under $20K, and subsidized solar cells on your roof, you'd be partially insulated from gas price hikes.
Next make your own filament out of your reusable plastics. Then join the black market. Sell bootleg action figures from your take out containers.
A post for a kids' summer day camp titled "Camp - Dystopian Days." The description is "step into a world where survival, strategy, and stewardship intertwine. You’ll embark on a dystopian adventure that tests your courage, creativity, and connection to the natural world. Each day brings new missions to build shelters, forage for food, and decode messages hidden in the landscape. Through teamwork and imagination, you’ll learn to see nature as both a challenge and a guide, discovering that the true goal isn’t just to survive, but to reimagine and rebuild a brighter world."
"Ah, to be a kid again, during those carefree summer days!"
Summer days in 2026:
Prologue: Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks. Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics - and they are mostly clever fools - seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way. Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.
I had to venture into LinkedIn today and was reminded of this passage from the prologue of "Calculus Made Easy" in 1910, casting asunder the techbros of the era:
The legacy of the x0xb0x returns! An open-source, Arduino-compatible processor (as powered 303, 606, and 909), plus an upcoming DIY 303 kit, from @michigansynthworks.bsky.social
#303day and some @adafruit.com memories...
GitHub's status page, showing all systems being operational. They are, in fact, not. Not to mention there are several historical outages listed that show 99.82% uptime in February.
The GitHub 500 page which is, unhelpfully, asking me to refresh the page because of an HTTP 500 response.
A tale of two GitHubs.
Seriously... does anyone's status page actually report current status anymore? Or automate status updates? It seems like it's always shows green and then is manually updated hours after recovery...
#github #outage #statuspage
This court specifically avoided bringing up challenges on bans for gender affirming care for trans youth on parental rights grounds so they can weaponize parental rights against trans youth while stripping them from the supportive parents of trans youth. It's obscene.
Bear in mind, this guarantee of sledgehammering food safety is coming at the exact same time they have already shot food safety in the face via DOGE cuts and such.
Like, last *April* they killed tracing salmonella levels in poultry. Last *August* the CDC stopped tracking 6 foodbourne pathogens.
Just got my January electric bill & compared it to my Jan 2025 bill - base rates up 40%, rate above base was up 30%. The reason given is usually costs increasing for "infrastructure upgrades," such as those for datacenter expansion (but also industrial expansion).
The entire anti trans side is basically a few billionaires in a trench coat. It's insane how much money and influence they all have. If you stacked them up it would be trillions in net worth opposing the existence of trans people.
Katie Mack, Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute, spoke with ScienceNewsExplores about her journey to becoming a cosmologist, misconceptions about her work, and challenges in her field.
Read the full interview: www.snexplores.org/article/cosm...
crontab(5), although I'm not 100% sure it remains in the form I remember. It had practical examples of cron lines when I couldn't exactly remember which field got an asterisk.
This is a really cool post that exhaustively demonstrates how @jamshidi3d.bsky.social managed to demonstrate mesh deformation from raw observational data & explain things like Doppler effects when mapping. Great mix of Blender and the birth of the universe...
This is a great series to wallpaper your office with - this is an especially good visualization for a facet of RAGAI that is often misunderstood
Catch up on the latest episode of The CircuitPython Show with guest @deckerego.net. Learn about one of my favorite projects, the MacroPad Hotkeys II project. #CircuitPython
Enjoyed talking with @paulcutler.org on this ep! Learn how I planned to get the drop on Happy Meal toys, the Isle of Misfit Boards, rising to the top of the charts with a four chord song, what would happen if Freud played Shadowrun, and the Macropad Hotkeys II.
#circuitpython #macropad #4chord #obs
That's all? It seems reasonable. I'll thought it was gonna be a Cray supercomputer living room set, but giving some ears to our dulcet tones is far easier to ship.
A quick explainer on the TallyOBS project for building network-enabled preview/live/offline tally lights for cameras streamed & recorded through OBS. It's a mashup of different Python platforms...
youtu.be/eRcYikv5V9U
#circuitpython #rpi #tallylight #streaming #obs #neopixel
A "decker" from the Sega Genesis title Shadowrun. A long computer, or "deck," is wired directly into a dude's forehead.
Coming Monday on a new episode of The CircuitPython Show with guest John Ellis, Paul asks the hard hitting questions like "How did you get your handle, @deckerego.net?"
The CircuitPython Show returns this Monday, February 9th with guest @deckerego.net!
A sneak peek at season 7 of The CircuitPython Show - coming this Monday, February 9th!
A good ep! I’m glad we talked about Benn’s investigation into these Flock “AI” cameras that stalk us daily and are on the open Net. If nothing else watch his summary video youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...
He also has good videos on defeating LRAD and other useful tools
Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
Among the many holes in the "LLMs can do anything" claims, this is definitely the biggest. Unless you know what good looks like, they WILL give you bad. Inevitably. And they aren't really improving in this respect; they're mostly just getting more convincing. And convincingly wrong is worse.
Gandalf had a Palantír for an extended period of time and was careful not to use it, because he knew it would lie to him with the truth.
But Middle Earth's greatest dipshits decided "RIP to Elendil but I'm built different."
Drawing explaining and depicting MCP, going into the purpose, host, protocol, and server.
✍️ Just finished another code drawing in my AI series, this one's about MCP in practice. Enjoy!
Doing some prep work and sending out invites for season 7 of The CircuitPython Show. New episodes will be in your earholes before you know it!
Assigning myself more work but I see lots of folks in my tech networks talking about self-regulation and self-monitoring with a LOT of common misconceptions about it. Folks! Your brain is not a punching bag you need to beat up all the time. We should do a Change, Technically on this
