At best, he is a carnival barker for the engineers. His legacy will be complicated by his being one of the most loathsome personalities in American public life, a very racist mass murderer (USAID), and a cruel and vindictive father.
Amazing quote from Stephen Miller's high school classmate in this new Jazeera documentary on him:
"Having grown up with him, it makes you realize that it isn't the smartest person you went to high school with who's running the country. It's the most shameless person."
@GaryMarcus bet you the banks have noticed the surge in fraud and overcharges etc associated with companies that implemented AI account management and customer support.
We’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program matching people early in their careers with US nonprofits.
We'll teach 1,000 people to use Claude, and pay them to use AI to advance their hosts’ missions.
https://t.co/QI6JmlAdSr
SOMEONE VIBE CODED A VIDEO STREAM THAT IS SECRETLY 100% TEXT SO IT CANT BE BLOCKED
it plays 360p video at 30fps, but theres no actual video on the page. every frame is just colored text characters being repainted on a canvas
to the browser its not media at all, its javascript updating some text
its called asciline, and here's the trick:
> the server decodes the real video and streams it as binary packed text over websockets
> the browser paints thousands of colored block characters fast enough to look like 360p
> ad blockers and autoplay blockers cant catch it because theres no video element to catch
> it streams in kilobytes since its just strings, so it runs on trash internet
since the video is literally text, you can apply css glows to it, let people copy paste a moving frame, or feed it straight to a local llm
however, an unblockable stream is also an unblockable ad as well
@om_patel5 The idea is of course hundred years old.
Well not hundred, but ascii videos in the console were a thing at least in 1990s.
Takes an imperial shitton of space, because no compression, and CPU dies, because there is no optimized decoder.
Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.
Today is the birthday of two dead people who both caused me tremendous psychological harm. Rest in Peace you fuckers. (Sorry dad, you weren’t a nice man and you deserve a Darwin Award for dying of covid after voting for Trump and planning to do so again.
So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
I hereby decree that all Galactic Emperor characters should be played by Lee Pace. The man really looks the part, especially given that his main competition is a decrepit space wizard who literally cackles.