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Rest in Peace, Sam Neill (1947-2026) 🕊️
“The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto”, a 70s automobile that put the “car” in “exploding car”.
“AI skeptics need to update their priors: Plenty of cause for concern, plenty of room to hit these companies for unethical behavior, resource demands, etc, but we are so, so far past the era of ‘stochastic parrots’”.
LLMs are fundamentally “next-word” predictors. I still think they solidly fall in the “stochastic parrot” category. However, give it a ridiculous amount of training data and couple that with creative training strategies, the ability to incorporate external data (Rag, etc.), innovative architectures (routing and MoE), and the ability to provide its own context (agents and “memory”), then even a next-word predictor produce remarkable results.
Kristen Radtke remembers Alex Pretti. “I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles…was my childhood best friend.”
Remember Alex Pretti.
For his project called Homo Mobilis, Martin Roemers travelled the globe and photographed people with their cars, bikes, scooters, etc. You can see a selection of the photos on Roemers’ website, at The Guardian, or in his forthcoming book, Homo Mobilis (Amazon). (via @steveportigal.bsky.social)
Tags: cars · Martin Roemers · photography
As you watch photos and videos from Minnesota, one thing you need to understand is that normally, the most devastating thing a Minnesotan can bring themselves to say is, “That was…interesting.”
So if we’re screaming, “NAZI SCUM FUCK OFF,” that Nazi scum needs to fuck off.
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