Fast Sloth

Dad | Gooner For Life

[Fast Sloth @AllanMugoh]

Very uneventful start of the week, almost lost my life in an accident, I thank God for delivering me to the end.

I can’t thank the strangers and close family and friends that assisted me through all this, am eternally grateful.

Y’all be safe and have a great weekend

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.

it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”

3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.

so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”

4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.

those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.

5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.

6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.

a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.

7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.

the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

[KIJANA WA ATWORI 🔸 @AtworiYa]

Mnakwanga aje ...😂

[Njambi @A_Njambi]

MY POSTS ARE BEING SHADOW-BANNED!! PLEASE RETWEET.

JUSTICE FOR ALBERT OJWANG

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

This wasn't allowed in public incase it offended anyone. So please don't retweet it. Thanks 🙏https://t.co/1stbtsNZG1

[bugdroid @Androdude]

The truth will get you blocked faster than a lie.

[Na1rob1an 🍉🇵🇸🇻🇦🇰🇪☮️✌️ @Na1rob1an]

😅

[Pharaoh👳🏾‍♂️👑 @MrMekzy_]

The older I get, the stayer I home.

[Rita Sunshine @1RitaSunshine]

Plzzz if you're seeing this help me retweet.

[sam @joshdonnapilled]

i have a toxic relationship with twitter. like no matter how shitty it's become, i'm still here and frankly, it's embarrassing

[GameVerse @TheGameVerse]

Gaming as an adult:
> Have a 20+ game backlog
> Launch the same game every night
> Stare at the main menu
> Close the game
> Go to bed

[Fast Sloth @AllanMugoh]

@KenyaPower_Care Done

[Fast Sloth @AllanMugoh]

@KenyaPower_Care No power in Zakawa, Banana

[𝑆𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑎. @pibadeantes]

No puede ser la risa que me da esta foto. todos estan re tatuados y Julian TIENE UNA CURITA😂

[B 🔞 @Moonesch]

90% of the billboards in Nairobi are now pure AI rubbish. Literally false advertising. What do I know though,enjoy the metrics

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Single-player games should work without an internet connection

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

Swiss coach looks like a cocaine dealer from the 70s

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

there’s nothing worse than thinking in 4k but speaking in 144p

[POOJA!!! @PoojaMedia]

England must ask the King to call FIFA President as well on Quansah’s red card.

It's a World Cup of suspended red cards 👋

[lex (pinned!) ❦ @atropalex]

whenever i hear ‘horseradish’ this is what i see in my head

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

I love this quote:

«No one returns home the same person they were when they left. The road changes everyone» - Walt Whitman