Aaron McCurry

Father, husband, programmer, geek, problem solver

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

My God. Stop what you're doing and watch this.

[Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 @gamingonlinux]

Linus, creator of Linux, being “woke” as heck. Win. 🤟

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM https://t.co/XeOWBfManE Curious, I searched for how much the new "NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip" costs. It costs around USD 200K. No wonder NVIDIA is a 1 Trillion dollar company.

[Non-Ironically T.V.'s B. Dave Walters - EVERYWHERE @BDaveWalters]

Y'all, I found it: The single greatest post EVER

[Sorcha Ní Nia @Luiseach]

oh my fucking CHRIST

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨 OUTRAGEOUS: Justice Neil Gorsuch FAILED to properly report a real estate sale to the CEO of law firm with cases before Supreme Court.

After nearly two years of finding no buyers, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch found a buyer for his 40-acre co-owned tract of property in rural Colorado just NINE DAYS after he was confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Who bought it? The chief executive of Greenberg Traurig, one of the nation’s biggest law firms with cases before the Supreme Court.

Gorsuch reported making between $250,001 and $500,000 from the sale but DID NOT disclose the identity of the purchaser. He left the box BLANK.

Politico reports Greenberg Traurig “has been involved in at least 22 cases before or presented to the court.”

We MUST hold the Supreme Court accountable if our system is to have any legitimacy.

Enough with the corruption.

Neil Gorsuch should be INVESTIGATED and face CONSEQUENCES!

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

HARRISON FORD with a great joke on The David Letterman Show.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

ICYMI — video of Coach Pop‘s message to Marsha Blackburn, Governor Lee, and others

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

This is Kansas House Speaker Daniel Hawkins (R). He just passed a new anti-LGBTQ bill that allows for forced genital inspections of children in order for them to play sports.

Republicans are currently working to pass these types of bills across the country.

[Peter Nixey @peternixey]

I'm in the top 2% of users on StackOverflow. My content there has been viewed by over 1.7M people. And it's unlikely I'll ever write anything there again.

Which may be a much bigger problem than it seems. Because it may be the canary in the mine of our collective knowledge.

A canary that signals a change in the airflow of knowledge: from human-human via machine, to human-machine only. Don’t pass human, don’t collect 200 virtual internet points along the way.

StackOverflow is *the* repository for programming Q&A. It has 100M users & saves man-years of time & wig-factories-worth of grey hair every single day.

It is driven by people like me who ask questions that other developers answer. Or vice-versa. Over 10 years I've asked 217 questions & answered 77. Those questions have been read by millions of developers & had tens of millions of views.

But since GPT4 it looks less & less likely any of that will happen; at least for me. Which will be bad for StackOverflow. But if I'm representative of other knowledge-workers then it presents a larger & more alarming problem for us as humans.

What happens when we stop pooling our knowledge with each other & instead pour it straight into The Machine? Where will our libraries be? How can we avoid total dependency on The Machine? What content do we even feed the next version of The Machine to train on?

When it comes time to train GPTx it risks drinking from a dry riverbed. Because programmers won't be asking many questions on StackOverflow. GPT4 will have answered them in private. So while GPT4 was trained on all of the questions asked before 2021 what will GPT6 train on?

This raises a more profound question. If this pattern replicates elsewhere & the direction of our collective knowledge alters from outward to humanity to inward into the machine then we are dependent on it in a way that supercedes all of our prior machine-dependencies.

Whether or not it "wants" to take over, the change in the nature of where information goes will mean that it takes over by default.

Like a fast-growing Covid variant, AI will become the dominant source of knowledge simply by virtue of growth. If we take the example of StackOverflow, that pool of human knowledge that used to belong to us - may be reduced down to a mere weighting inside the transformer.

Or, perhaps even more alarmingly, if we trust that the current GPT doesn't learn from its inputs, it may be lost altogether. Because if it doesn't remember what we talk about & we don't share it then where does the knowledge even go?

We already have an irreversible dependency on machines to store our knowledge. But at least we control it. We can extract it, duplicate it, go & store it in a vault in the Arctic (as Github has done).

So what happens next? I don't know, I only have questions.

None of which you'll find on StackOverflow.

(I write on AI from a technical and product perspective. If you find that interesting then please do follow me for more)

[Matt Binder @MattBinder]

the conservative mindset perfectly distilled in a single tweet

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Perhaps the greatest celebrity story ever here, about ROGER MOORE. Give yourself a treat if you've not read it.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear Media,

Um...cover this!

GOP senators pushed to keep banking rules loose one week before SVB collapse

https://t.co/gveUsrBo49 via @Yahoo

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

1776-1933 - major bank crisis every 10 years

1930s - FDR bank rules enacted

1930s-1980s - no major crisis

1980s - rules rolled back

1980s-2010 - major crisis every 10 years

2010 - Dodd-Frank rules enacted

2010-2018 - no major crisis

2018 - rules rolled back

2023 - crisis?

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

GOP removed housing regulations —housing collapsed

GOP removed railroad regulations—trains derailed

GOP removed banking regulations —banks went under

It’s almost like society needs rules to function?🤔 Stop deregulating billionaires. Start prosecuting those who commit fraud.

[Lindy Li @lindyli]

Lauren Boebert didn’t know Alaska & Hawaii are part of the US

Passed her GED only months before entering Congress

Believes in QAnon conspiracies & pushes the Big Lie

Brags about carrying a Glock around Congress

THIS IS THE IDIOT trying to destroy the Education Department 🤦🏻‍♀️

[🇦🇺 Pink Heretic 🌻 @pinkheretic]

Do you believe in God? ...and unicorns? #atheist

[Ryan Shead @RyanShead]

Bryan Cranston breaks down MAGA and racism in 60 seconds.

My African American wife served this country for 21 years, and she said “I feel seen” hearing that video clip. ❤️

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

The Florida Department of Education releasing a list of approved books, but spelling “ninth” and “twelfth” wrong on the document, is the most Florida thing I have seen…