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drahardja

@drahardja@sfba.social

Software since 1998. Ex-Apple. I smushed AppKit and UIKit together and never looked back.

Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. LGBT+ rights are human rights. Healthcare, security, a decent income, and housing with dignity are human rights. Abortion is healthcare. Science is our best hope as a species. Kindness and empathy are the noblest of human traits.

I block assholes and bigots.

He/him.

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I’m looking forward to a day when diamond surfaces can be made as cheaply as Gorilla Glass, and diamond jewelry as cheap as cubic zirconia.

Aluminum was once incredibly expensive to mine too, and now they’re ubiquitous and cheap, thanks to the invention of the Bayer process in the late 1800s.

I hope diamond goes the same way. At least it will stop the inhumane treatment of diamond mine workers.

“Scientists grow diamonds from scratch in 15 minutes thanks to groundbreaking new process”

https://www.livescience.com/chemistry/scientists-grow-diamonds-from-scratch-in-15-minutes-thanks-to-groundbreaking-new-process

drahardja,
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@pjakobs I’m not a diamond expert, but my understanding is that industrial diamonds are still expensive to make, mainly because they need high pressures, and large particles are still very costly.

The breakthrough in this paper is that they can now do the same process at atmospheric pressure, which opens up the process to way more producers at lower prices.

The path to affordable jewelry-sized chunks is still a ways out, I think, but we are moving in that direction.

De Beers can eat shit and die, as far as I’m concerned. The sooner, the better.

drahardja, to ai
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Google search is a bullshitting drunk. https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112485627917497636

thomasfuchs, to random
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USA! USA! USA!

drahardja,
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@thomasfuchs Incredible.

drahardja, to ai
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“I'll cut to the chase: it's time to stop listening to anything that Sam Altman has to say. Sam Altman is full of shit, and his reign at OpenAI has been defined far more by its empty promises than any realized dreams.”

“Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit”

https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/

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Welp https://mastodon.social/@verge/112482582595859709

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It’s hard to convey how impossible these numbers are for a publicly traded company. Alarm bells should be ringing at the SEC.

Imagine if you were running a lemonade stand, and you sold 77 cents worth of lemonade—and to generate that 77 cents in revenue, you spent $327. https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/112479834471695251

drahardja,
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@JamesGleick I think there are two explanations, and they are not necessarily contradictory:

  1. They are in an expansionary stage, and they are spending as much money as possible to gain as much audience as quickly as possible.

  2. They are soaking the investors while the going is good. Funnel money to friendly contractors and suppliers who will route benefits back to them through external means. Launder the money while the going is good, because the going won’t be good for much longer.

drahardja, to random
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I think “mierdificación” is a great word. https://paquita.masto.host/@camilo/112478885060680230

drahardja, to random
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The voters are on to them.

Good. https://journa.host/@gilduran/112457129857283443

drahardja, to random
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I’ve been so tired and forced into constant emergency mode for so long that I’ve forgotten how to make.

This is bad. I need to start making again. Gotta set some time aside every day to MAKE SOMETHING.

drahardja,
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@datarama Exactly! I need to break that cycle. I’m making something right now.

drahardja,
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@datarama I think that’s a thought trap. Nothing is pointless, even if it ends up stolen. You still gain the experience of making it. That’s something nobody can take away.

drahardja, to random
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This has been a very Monday.

drahardja, to random
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🤔

“Making the Ive Hive: Jony Ive’s bold plans to reshape a small slice of San Francisco”

https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/29/jony-ive-buys-up-jackson-square-properties/

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“AI” doesn’t “hallucinate”, it lies.

It’s like OpenAI and others couldn’t solve this problem so they gave it a ‘friendly’ name in order to cover up how bad it is.

drahardja,
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@Aaron I get what you mean, but I think “lies” is also inaccurate, because it imputes intent, which AI doesn’t have.

drahardja,
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@Aaron Yes, and it cuts both ways: the term “answers” from AI is also a sugar-coat. AI neither “answers” nor “hallucinates” anything. An “answer” is what we call useful output, and a “hallucination” is what we call unuseful output. The output itself is qualitatively the same in both cases.

drahardja, to random
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Kid broght home a friend who just tested positive for .

Wife just got out of surgery with complications.

Fan freaking tastic.

drahardja, to VintageComputing
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At a car meet I attended today, I saw a young person wearing a white polo shirt with a large, stylized daisy embroidered on it.

I stopped them and asked them if there was some significance to the daisy on the shirt. They replied, “Oh, it’s a PacSun design.”

I said, “Ah, I see. I thought it was the ICQ logo or something. I must be old!”

They replied, “Oh ha ha, no. You dress nice, though!”

🥲

drahardja, to ai
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D’Youville University featured “Sophia”, a humanoid robot that talks and moves based on , in its commencement ceremony.

It’s pretty insulting when a thoughtless is invited to give “life advice” to actual human students.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9a2ToSgWI8

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When I see this on my oven I want to take it into a field and bash it like Michael Bolton in Office Space

drahardja,
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@dcm Never connect appliances to the Internet, no matter how much they cry.

drahardja, to random
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lol https://mastodon.social/@deadline/112463531978111854

drahardja, to random
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Curb Your Enthusiasm ending music plays https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/112462961255364408

kaia, to random
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which electric car is this? it's cutw

drahardja,
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@kaia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=977cZO0qXEs

drahardja, to TeslaMotors
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Matt Farrah of The Smoking Tire gave an honest and (therefore) devastatingly negative review of the #Cybertruck. Good on him. Every point he makes is spot-on (except maybe the chuckle-inducing post-Apocalypse truck argument).

#cars #carReview #tesla #ev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9a3GR1HJY

drahardja,
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@Vonskinnback I think that’s an insult to DeLorean!

drahardja, to random
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LLMs perpetuate biases that exist in their training data. https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112455826772366983

drahardja,
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@loko I think you’ll end up substituting one form of bias for another. Bias is one of those things that is very contextual, and require thinking through meaning, knowledge, and intent—all things that LLMs are incapable of processing.

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