I was on Valencia Street feeling nope about paying $20/30 for a single dish (lots of restaurants on that street) then just popped over to my preferred side of that neighborhood for the delicious tacos and tamales. Which are the only things I eat these days anyway. $15 for 2 tacos and a huge tamale con mole e pollo (still a lot, but good for SF)
@Daojoan what a depressing disappointment that guy has turned out to be. At least Trump has never pretended to be anything but the sleazebag that he is.
@ai6yr I was in south Florida after hurricane Andrew, and the funniest thing I saw was a red lobster where they the “R” had fallen off the front of the sign, and I always thought Ed Lobster would be an excellent name for a competing restaurant. Now I have my chance.
The slowly deflating #CommercialRealEstate bubble continues. People are just not that interested to go back to the office.
This building in a suburban #SanJose office park was occupied by Nio, the Chinese carmaker, who did not renew their lease in October 2023. Without a new tenant, the building went into foreclosure with $25M of outstanding debt.
@stux I can ship you several boxes of superfluous squirrels. I call my house “The Squirrelery” because I have such an absurd abundance of the creatures. They really are delightful, though.
#Thrift find of the day. A still-working Michael Graves teapot. I love Graves’s whimsical postmodern style and have been in several of his buildings. The little whirligig spins when it boils.
WTF is up with people talking on their phones on speaker at my coffee shop today?!? Don’t do it, go outside, or use the phone like a phone. Drives me nuts, if you can’t tell, lol.
Every Cabbage Patch Kid is "born" in Babyland General Hospital, Cleveland Ga. Thrillist's Joshua Rigsby took his family there, persuaded by his two daughters who saw billboards advertising the hospital. "We were not prepared for what was next," he writes.
There once was a douche from Nantucket, saw a beach in his Cybertruck and said “fuck it”, he sank in the muck, while people yelled, “you suck”, now he’s digging it out with a bucket.
I’m more certain than ever that the first quarter of 2024 will see a grand reckoning for companies that have bet big on #AI. As I said before, I predict a lot of CFOs getting sticker shock at their compute bills, and we will see pivots and downscaling of expectations across the industry. By the middle of the year, there will likely be a general cool-down as users and investors come to grips with what “AI” can realistically do at reasonable cost (hint: not as much as the hype claims). Strategically deploying smaller models will become quite attractive, rather than monolithic solutions.
I also think 2024 is the year of the legal reckoning for the industry. Creators whose work have been used for training (i.e. plagiarized) will likely make big inroads into establishing legal frameworks for compensation, and some models will become poisoned because they were trained with unvetted data. Hopefully this also means that model-makers who have been meticulous about their training data’s providence will reap rewards.
