Eliza

Ex-Physicist, ex-Uber, ex-Data Scientist. The world is big.

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

@DellAnnaLuca Oh!! That explains some of the bike lanes in Barcelona. Some of the bike lanes I took were more dangerous than absence of a lane, as they gave a false feeling of security.

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

@getur @JNS__77 @skdh Yeah… I thought the nightmarish penguinos were the only option for the portable one. €1300 is quite pricey though, but nice to know they exist

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Ashley Percival
Marvellous Birds

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

Experiments on the topic of love

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

@nicholascarrigg I have a small garden on my balcony — and even this is enough. Like a clock around midday I get a big bzzzing guest or two flying into my living room, making a circle and disappointingly leaving.

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

@Wacchi_Art Full belly ☺️

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

@simonsarris I developed the same belief with age. It is easy to come with reasonable arguments and you cannot double blind test everything. So you either cannot decide at all, or you go with what sounds more logical, but could be an utter nonsense.

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

@GergelyOrosz He _was_ software engineer. Now he counts profit

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

@simonsarris This might bring US tech closer to EU tech. What separates an immigrant from a local imo often times is a mixture of ambition and desperation. A local imo is more likely to be laidback due to a higher sense of security (not a bad thing).

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

Seems fair. The only posts about dystopian AI ways should naturally be AI free

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

By the way, public service announcement: if you're one of the numerous people posting about Anthropic's dystopian ways and you're thinking about getting Claude to help you write that post... don't!

Another one of their terms is that you may not use Claude to do anything that "exposes [Anthropic to] reputational harms" 👇

And, if you do, under the - extremely unusual - clause 13 of their terms (https://t.co/z43rJNkvZu), you have PRE-AGREED, by using Anthropic (and accepted their terms), that the harm you've done is irreparable, that you won't oppose Anthropic injunction, and they don't need to prove actual damage.

They can simply go to a judge in a friendly jurisdiction (and of course, their terms precise that any dispute "will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco, California") and:
a) file an injunction that shuts you down
b) make you pay for everything since under section 11 of their terms you agree to indemnify Anthropic for "any and all liabilities, claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs), and other losses arising out of or related to your breach or alleged breach of these Terms."

In other words, if you use Claude to help you talk shit about Anthropic publicly, their terms say you pay their lawyers to go after you and you've already pre-agreed you've lost the case.

Oh, and cherry on the cake: in the odd case the judge were like "are you crazy, this is insanely abusive, you Anthropic are the ones at fault here," according to their terms Anthropic's maximum liability is... $100.

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

Recent Spanish corruption scandal. It seems to me all corrupt politicians of the world have near identical taste.

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

@GergelyOrosz @vaibhavrsharma I wonder sometimes if after reading so much LLM output I begin producing it without realizing. The dude’s response felt hollow/boring to me, but it took me time to see the signs. Like, it begins feeling normal :/

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

Masterpiece 😂

[Mo @atmoio]

Rich people who were too stupid to code before are now superstars. And actually brilliant engineers are made to feel stupid and redundant. Meanwhile coding has been synthesized into beige gooey calorie dense bars made from cockroaches and engineers have to line up with a small plate begging for their share from the token barons who, fortunately, at any given moment can feel generous enough to press a button that makes the tokens fly out like projectile vomit. Engineers at these companies, who sit mere inches from the spigot, frequently bless us with thinkpieces that we too should be doing what they do, and it’s actually quite unfashionable not to do so. Of course none of this is so much engineering advice as it is financial advice.

But sure, “wHy dO pEoPle hATe Ai?”

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

@juliana_ardila3 @opencode ¡¡¡Codi obert!!!

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

This has existed for many, many years, it’s called graduate school.

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

The Spanish just don’t bother counting imo

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Gotta love the Dutch 🚲🇳🇱

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

I love it. It is about tragedy of human condition. Every person who holds a thing that can take a life was but a cute baby.

In our building there was a young (almost a girl) female guard and she had this club — the one to beat the sht out of people… She seemed so innocent. Till this day I think sometimes about her: if she ever learnt how yo use that thing properly.

[Theo Jaffee @theojaffee]

@mickeyxfriedman At least you don’t have this god awful dogshit mural the size of an entire building right next to where you live

[Norman López @LopezNorman44]

❌el tutuki splash
✅El Llobregat al seu pas per Sallent

[Eliza @eliza_doesstuff]

@paulg @nntaleb I am not entirely sure the photography is at fault. It also became abstract and “weird” just like paintings. Literally tried to experiment with form similarly, esp poesy - just harder there.
Maybe it was just a response to times overall.

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

Do you remember the times when the biggest controversy was spaces vs tabs?