a cup of tea

among other things: amateur photog, ML hobbyist, art enjoyer

[a cup of tea @mintedmargins]

Language is to knowledge as _____ is to movement

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

I would try to figure out why LLMs can write my essays but not clean my bedroom.
Then I would study topics in college and grad school that could help solve that problem.
I'll figure out a set of methods and architectures beyond LLMs that can quickly learn to perform physical tasks as efficiently as humans and animals.
That last item is also what I would if I were 30, 40, 50, or 66 years old 😉

[a cup of tea @mintedmargins]

@jacekdziwisz You know what they say about blind squirrels!

[Eric Scrivner @etscrivner]

Easily the best tiny desk concert

[a cup of tea @mintedmargins]

@joe__touring I’ll take your word for it and start planning my trip there!

[a cup of tea @mintedmargins]

@MiaAI_lab You have forgotten about the exceptionally mediocre option of Q4 on a 5070 and a 2060 super with layer splitting 😱😂

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Here’s my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own computers https://t.co/iFMWjc8qle

[a cup of tea @mintedmargins]

@TheAhmadOsman Just ran 4-bit Qwen 3.8 27B locally on a 5070 and 2060 Super… worked like a charm!

[tropical depression @feedmewifi]

the amtrak ride from nyc to boston will have you thinking new england is the greatest place on earth

[a cup of tea @mintedmargins]

Before you can derail yourself just get it done.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The best remedy for inconsistent training is to do it immediately after waking up, before unexpected events derail the day and before your conscious brain has a chance to talk you out of it.

[a cup of tea @mintedmargins]

@jimbelosic Great lessons! One thing I’d add: at scale, simplicity of message, strategy, and intent are so important.

Maintaining the “experience” of a simple strategy/message is super hard as business scales and handles greater complexity/variability.

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/bDCdltFo0A

[alli @sonofalli]

anthropic vs openai is like kendrick vs drake but for nerds

[frye @___frye]

the avg person probably doesn’t care about ads in chatgpt

but what is gonna make these ads resonate is how they’ve captured the chipper, clipped, empty-eyed cadence of the gpt 5 models

[Thomas R. Petersen @thomasrp93]

Any somewhat capable offensive system and the Eagles would probably have back to win Super Bowl wins.

I will never forgive the inept combination of Kevin Patullo and Nick Sirianni for some of the worst coaching malpractice i've ever seen at an NFL level.

#Eagles

[Anthony Vicino @AnthonyVicino]

This seems to be the prevailing sentiment amongst non-climbers...

But it's simply wrong.

Honnold's climb of Freerider on ElCap (which was captured on film by the legendary Jimmy Chin) is EASILY 10x more impressive than what Alex did on the skyscraper.

I don't think it's possible to fully appreciate the absurdity of Honnold's free solo of ElCap unless you yourself have been on that climb.

I have...
I've been up there...
I've done all the moves...

(and this was during a period of my life wher I was in the top 0.00001% of strongest climbers in the world)

And I got my ass handed to me.

The 13a crux 23 pitches off the ground is unbelievably technical and requires a level of precision that, to execute without a rope, is nearly unbelievable.

This is a hill I will gladly die on:

Honnold's free solo of ElCap is THE single most impressive athletic achievement in human history.

Nothing else comes even remotely close.

(and certainly not this skyscraper).

If you want to have your paradigm for what humans are capable of turned upside down...

Go watch Free Solo.

[a cup of tea @mintedmargins]

IMHO: you weren’t supposed to walk out after Marty Supreme with more swag

[Mason @CardinalMason]

Ain’t a single white boy in America who didn’t walk out of that movie theatre with a little more swag than he went in with

[a cup of tea @mintedmargins]

@haider1 careful, you might make them think the macOS app doesn’t need significant improvement

[a cup of tea @mintedmargins]

@KrisLuckPhoto This is really so lovely

[a cup of tea @mintedmargins]

@goodreads I need to figure that out! I finished Dune Messiah yesterday 🥲