Sean M

I read a lot. Sometimes I talk. |
MatSci |
PhD student in the Engineered Microstructures and Radiation Effects Lab at SBU |
he/him

[Sean M @HereSeanTalks]

@AndyMasley It’s incredibly frustrating to watch this nonsense metastasizing

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@Impish_Bunny Well you popped up on my feed today so yay?!

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@DanielleFong @DeepDishEnjoyer I feel like “200$ gets me more if I give it to Anthropic than government (but not in a void)” is more logical but less fun to say

[Sean M @HereSeanTalks]

@tracewoodgrains No this is some crossed wires

[dave kasten @David_Kasten]

Uhhh so incidentally, does anyone have a plan to prevent all the non-US citizen AI scientists from going to join foreign labs after they get bored of playing Wordle at work for a month, or are we just sort of planning on having the greatest counterproliferation failure since we deported Qian Xuesen in 1955 and gave Mao a rocket program?

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@JamesSvenAdmas @augustradjoe This is some weird clown cope, I agree. Plenty of people more than able to read and write at high levels. CBSE and ICSE had and still have fairly good standards for language.

[Sean M @HereSeanTalks]

@dilanesper It’s a sharp, bad point. It automatically assumes that the mind in the here and now is going to be correct in its reading of the law. That’s a great way to interpret things however you like AND claim legitimacy from the past.

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@cowboylikecaymi @bifrosty2k Each wrong and bad in a different way. Google was free but you didn’t read them.

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@dilanesper This gives me a little less respect for your legal opinions because you’ve come to the opposite conclusion from the same starting point. No, his excellent intellect does not mean he gets to set aside that past.

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@DeepDishEnjoyer There’s bits of India where you can get a glorious beef mince samosa

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

Everything MPU posts about data centers is complete garbage. They have zero respect for their audience. Literally no one here is losing power. This tweet is a complete lie.

What's actually happening is that a supply contract between two utilities is ending, and the small one is just buying power from elsewhere, and this was all expected to happen since 2009.

The company that serves homes on the California side of Lake Tahoe is a small utility called Liberty. Liberty buys about 75% of its electricity from a much larger utility, NV Energy in Nevada, and generates the other 25% itself from solar farms it owns. Liberty then sells that to 49,000 customers. NV Energy has told Liberty it will stop selling them wholesale power after May 2027.

It's kind of like Liberty's a coffee shop that buys beans and sells coffee to customers. The customers are the homes, and the beans are the electricity it buys from NV Energy or makes itself. This is like your local coffee shop ending a contract with a specific bean company and started buying the beans from somewhere else. It doesn't stop you from buying coffee.

Why is their contract ending with NV Energy? NV Energy selling to Liberty was understood as transitional since it started in 2009. Long story short, NV Energy was basically Liberty's only wholesale option, but a new transmission line opening in May 2027 gives Liberty access to a much wider Western market, with among other things a much larger share of solar and wind and hydro. That's the whole story here. Ending the contract with NV Energy and opening up this much wider pool with much more renewable energy was the plan here completely separate from data center demand.

NV Energy is ending the contract right as the new high-voltage transmission line comes online, and is opting not to extend past that date. In its filing with California regulators, Liberty said NV Energy cited growing data center demand as one of several reasons it would not offer another extension. But the town will have the high-voltage transmission at that point. No one's losing power. This was always the plan.

This is like if a local coffee shop were buying beans from Starbucks, and then started buying beans from somewhere else instead, and the headlines all saying "Nearly 50,000 people have been told that Starbucks will stop providing coffee to them, because it's redirecting it elsewhere."

MPU just chooses to send out these unbelievable lies and gets millions of views every time.

[Sean M @HereSeanTalks]

@lauriewired @DNAutics I think I’ll play off this idea; LLMs can auto-make documentation but even at SOTA it might still have errors. I think it’s possible we can get to a level where the ‘.md’ is instructive for both us and bots. Jury’s still out on if that’s enough to avoid a ‘Mel’ lack of thought.

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@DeepDishEnjoyer @unveilance One day I’m going to get you some malcurad

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@FrameworkPuter I think I want the framework pro more. Gotta up my influence.

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@constans @TheLastNeocon Tumble dry everything on delicate and nothing seems to die

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@DeepDishEnjoyer Yeah. And depending on the moment I like spice & wolf more. Just think that Frieren is still good. I read most of the Frieren manga so I might be biased there. Haven’t read all of S&W.

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@lilchiva @slimepriestess @tenobrus Yeah I think I agree with QC a bit more here. There’s a bit too much self mythologizing in the idea of alignment to begin with and not enough acknowledgement of human inconsequentiality.

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@jwt0625 Metallurgy. Lots of stuff only exists in those really good old papers from the sixties and my own research just barely lets this be extended to some planned materials for fusion.

Or, finding ways to replicate dft for fractions of the computational cost

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@AndyMasley Oh ffs