Chaz Warren

I Bleed Blue, Love the Reds, and watch the Bengals

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[James Rapien @JamesRapien]

Mike Brown: “We aren’t going to sign a linebacker.”

Al Golden:

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.

1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.

The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.

Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.

And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”

This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.

We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.

The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

GENO'S BACK

[Pittsburgh Pirates @Pirates]

Couldn’t make it to visit us at PiratesFest today?

REPOST THIS for a chance to win a SIGNED Paul Skenes jersey!

[Chaz Warren @CGW2]

@JoeGoodberry What do you think Trey will get? Chances he resigns?

[Mason Ballard @maseballard]

I keep it positive on here, but it continues to blow my mind that the Enquirer has a Reds beat writer who hosts a Cubs podcast & thinks Reds fans care what *checks notes* Javy Baez thinks about EDLC.

[Dr. Michael F. Bird @mbird12]

25 March is the date that J.R.R. Tolkien chose for the day when the One Ring was destroyed. It is the traditional date of both the Annunciation to Mary and Jesus's crucifixion. It is the date which marks the triumph of life over the forces of evil and death.

[PGA TOUR Champions @ChampionsTour]

Happy birthday, Jack Nicklaus!

This moment with Johnny Miller will never get old.

[Cincinnati Bengals @Bengals]

RT for some 1️⃣ of 1️⃣ signed cleats from UNO 😏

#ProBowlVote + @Real10jayy__

[Cincinnati Bengals @Bengals]

GAME WORN @JoeyB CLEATS!!!
RT to win 👀

#ProBowlVote + Joe Burrow

[Chaz Warren @CGW2]

@dotsonc Why? He’s almost certainly going to turn it down and reds get comp pick

[Atlanta Falcons @AtlantaFalcons]

Tough week to be a Yankees fan

[Chaz Warren @CGW2]

@Nati_Sports Pretty weak holding call there

[Karen Howell @karenehowell]

Saban is me wanting to go to sleep.
McAfee is me choosing to play on my phone anyway.

[Christopher Powers @CPowers14]

Telling the PATRONS to “fuck off” after you hole out for triple might be something you can only get away with if you’ve won one of them green jackets

[Chaz Warren @CGW2]

@KySportsRadio We are officially Indiana

[Chaz Warren @CGW2]

@Nati_Sports I don’t totally disagree with you but our uniforms need an update. Brewers have best merch/branding/uniforms in central, unfortunately

[Alex Pavlovic @PavlovicNBCS]

Tyler Rogers struck a guy out on a slider that hit his shoulder and face 😳

[Ziggy_Sobotka @Ziggys_Duck]

“It's fucking picturesque, is what it is.”