Kleanthes

Physicist

[Kleanthes @kgk]

@DanielLurie Your "Family Zoning Plan" is even worse for my view than SB 79, per the maps that I have studied, as you'll block it at 105 feet. And don't forget we have our own elected representative, Scott Wiener, to "thank" for SB 79. SF endlessly just harms itself, I suppose; it's sad.

[Kleanthes @kgk]

The term "refactoring" in software is fraudulent. The appropriate term should be "remodeling," e.g., the equivalent of a home remodel, where one applies the reciprocating saw, crowbar, and more.

[Kleanthes @kgk]

I find the Cracker Barrel logo to be so ugly — both before and after their rebranding — that I spent about three minutes with a LLM and offer them the following.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Euler's Disk is just a toy, but it shows you what is considered an interesting theoretical physical singularity.

[📹 oxford.mathematics]

[Kleanthes @kgk]

@luiswenus The firearms are nice, and the rifle, for example, has a sound suppressor and a holographic sight.

[Kleanthes @kgk]

Nuclear clocks! Amazing! https://t.co/DFVTmubOUe

[Unitree @UnitreeRobotics]

Daily Training of Robots Driven by RL
Segments of daily training for robots driven by reinforcement learning.
Multiple tests done in advance for friendly service humans.😊
The training includes some extreme tests, please do not imitate.
#AI #Unitree #AGI #EmbodiedIntelligence #RobotDog #QuadrupedRobot #IndustrialRobot

[Kleanthes @kgk]

@SFPD @SFBART How many arrests? Zero? 🤔

[Kleanthes @kgk]

@HallvardHolte @robkhenderson No, Walmart feels very unhappy compared to Costco, I think Costco has better salaries and benefits. Costco stock also ebbs and flows, so it can be hard to predict exactly what one can buy on a given day.

[Kleanthes @kgk]

@thomashawk @BreedsSf @MarkFarrellSF Would you put Breed third to avoid Peskin?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨ELON: LARGE PROJECTS ARE BASICALLY ILLEGAL IN THE WEST

"You know, in the West, I think we have created regulatory gridlock where just almost everything is illegal.

This is why they can't build a high speed rail in California.

They spent $7 billion and there's 1600 ft section, it's all they have to show for it and it doesn't even have rails on it.

It's really too absurd for parity.

Large projects are essentially illegal in California and much of Europe and other countries.

So there has to be some garbage collection process for removing rules and regulations in order for society to function and not to get hardening of the arteries to the point where you can't do anything."

Source: The Rebirth of Liberty in Argentina and Beyond, by the Cato Institute and Libertad y Progreso. June 12, 2024

[Kleanthes @kgk]

@SFPD I am fearful that you’re encouraging this behavior; arresting zero people and impounding zero vehicles sends a message that SFPD is weak or apathetic, and everyone will take note and act accordingly.

[Kleanthes @kgk]

@ylecun @beaudjango I view science as proposing theoretical models and then brutally testing them via experiment. While Dr Fauci is sometimes a scientist, much of his work was actually political. However, he pretended to be a scientist in both cases; that’s unfair to science.

[Kleanthes @kgk]

@satpugnet Imagine that you run country X and are the first to develop AGI; would you share with others or keep it for yourself and use it to control your adversaries? If a private firm in your country developed AGI, would you seize it for reasons of national security?

[Kleanthes @kgk]

@bennyjohnson This is not accurate, as the books are not locked up, for example (at least last time I was there).

[Unitree @UnitreeRobotics]

More and More 🤖

[Kleanthes @kgk]

@corbtt @jeremyphoward Well, it is likely best in the world for the moment; going twice as fast likely enables the training time to be cut in half, reducing cost and reducing time to market.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

We think of China as being the place for cheap cars but they can do luxury too.

Lots of crazy features - it actually can float for 30 mins and has 1200 HP!

Costs $150k, we prob won’t see these in the US anytime soon.

[Kleanthes @kgk]

@emollick A phone will be in one’s pocket and unable to get a lot of surrounding visual context: this is why smart glasses will likely be an important phone accessory.

[Jarek Wilkiewicz @wjarek]

If you're looking to learn about how Transformers "ate" other architectures here's a great overview by Lucas Beyer (@giffmana) from @GoogleDeepMind. The slides are available at https://t.co/qi81G26pM6.

https://t.co/QLPu8RE79u