I have said of billionaires: I hate him so much, I want him to have one hundred million dollars.

We should’ve shattered Apple in 2008.

Marvin Heemeyer was a boomer terrorist asshole.

Dipshit got a great land deal, illegally lived out of a shop with no plumbing, agreed to sell his shit-filled ditch at immense profit, reneged on that sale, and then lost his goddamn mind and embarked on a suicidal rampage through a mixed residential area with earth-moving equipment covered in mounted weaponry. Stop even pretending to idolize this bastard.

The fuck does this protectionist broadcasting-era rule even mean, for streamers? You gotta play Baldur’s Gate 2 but not Baldur’s Gate 3?

The Motion Picture Association, the U.S. group representing streamers

Ohhh, you mean video streaming services, not like Twitch randos. Okay. That’s still sort of horrible, versus just replacing the old setup with a flat tax on anything television-esque, to fund domestic programming. A slim percent of everything is a lot, and people can just deal with it.

A community ruined by cunts who think they own it.

how sideloading apps work on iOS

Short answer being ‘it doesn’t.’

And now Android is inching toward the same abusive restrictions, because we didn’t chop Apple in half the moment they pulled that shit. It is genuinely one of the worst events in the history of computer and I am counting the death of Turing.

Obviously well-motivated in this case, but it’s still intolerable for any company to restrict what software you can install. If removal from one store means total censorship, that store’s petit monopoly needs to be shattered.

It’s not their platform. It’s your phone. That’s what the money is for.

The first pride was a riot.

Heartbreaking:

Putting aside how absolutely terrifying this will be when it’s not the good guys blowing up an invading army - I’m surprised there’s no directional filtering solution, for radio waves. You have a pretty good idea which direction adversarial signals will come from.

Alternately, given sudden overwhelming signal strength, the drone could fly toward the source with malicious intent.

It does sound like someone clicks the right blob onscreen, so in the absence of further instruction, the drone will go give it a hug. That’s missile lock-on via webcam, not a flying landmine.

So much for your timing and my reading comprehension.

I’m enjoying the descent from clever structure to just… trusting backpropagation. The Bitter Lesson is being learned at every level. Make the training process better and faster because humans understand that part.

Priviblur link (alternate frontend like xcancel) because Tumblr is often bad at being a website.

The mechanism behind why this all happened is the part of her work that nobody quotes.

Because that suggests solutions, and the loudest voices quoting these problems do not want them solved. They want the last six years to unhappen.

Don’t forget to double-dip on Monday by posting about its arrival.

They’re just doing academic research! Specifically, answering the question, how many whales can you catch in a year.

Just mug them on the way in, you cowards.

If you’re not doing pig-butchering scams on your customers you might as well run a charity!

Qwen’s 27B model from April outperforms its 397B model from February.

Local and small were always going to win.

All of this is to say that the Dot Com Bubble happened due to irrational exuberance and growth lust, and what was recovered at the end came not from scientific breakthroughs but the fact that the useful infrastructure existed and could be adapted and used to make things cheaper and more efficient.

Last year some guy recreated GPT2 for twenty bucks. From a corpus to a model, from scratch, in an hour. Same performance as that 2019 chatbot that was ‘too dangerous to release.’

Spending going up is different from how costs have come down. The craze does not reflect what is necessary. There’s people modifying and distilling image and video models on home computers. Mostly for porn. Let’s be real, it is driven by, just, so much porn. Back when TensorFlow was new, I dabbled with a greyscale-to-color filter that didn’t work out, and I had to write all my own Python. Yesterday fucking PewDiePie released a turn-key offline sandbox. Software infrastructure keeps getting simpler and more powerful.

But of course Ed is saying these companies are fucked, despite constantly phrasing it like this tech is fucked. The weirdos training LORAs for every fetish imaginable don’t have custom chips. They have consumer GPUs, or maybe an AWS account. When this bubble bursts, they’re gonna keep a-going, very much the same way websites as a concept survived underpants-gnome business plans. Y’know, ‘1. Make a website 2. ??? 3. Profit!’ Writing a novella every month to explain why that’s dumb seems needlessly verbose.

Nobody’s making back the trillion dollars spent giving away all the R&D and its fruits. But the genie’s not going back in the bottle, for chatbots that code at least as well as any script kiddie, or CGI that renders by describing it. A program the size of a Netflix movie, with system requirements like a video game, can now do black magic fuckery. People will be paid to make use of it in accordance with how it actually works. It’s not an oracle. It’s not sentient. But it’s not going anywhere.

Abolish consoles.

The war is over. Software has won. Everything’s a computer now, and some of them act stupid. We should tell them to stop.