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Dad, IAM Developer, coffee intake machine, hipster music connoisseur. #RollTide

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Mint Shows @mintshows]

@codyL Especially if you use the larger commercial models for planning and then offload the actual work to your local model, you can get pretty great results

Obviously, it’s not cheap getting good enough hardware to run a local model, but in the long run it could save a good bit!

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@codyL I’ve been getting decent results running local LLMs here.

A local LLM will never compete with a huge commercial model on a lot of of the more complex tasks, but it’s still pretty crazy what you can get away with.

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No lie, one of the great Americans.

Live long Van Dyke

[adieu or die 🥂 @smileysesh]

van dyke a few days ago 🪕

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@notherPllanet Yeah! ‘72 Carnegie show is epic too, but the album you posted there is AMAZING

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Like I said, PEAK. Them boys were COOKIN!

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Like I said, PEAK. Them boys were COOKIN!

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Wife’s out of town so I’m jumping hard into the bachelor life.

Slammin some sweet teas, having an outside pizza, and zoning to some Radiohead bootlegs

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Mike Love smashing the electro-theremin

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Now on to The Beach Boys at Carnegie Hall 1972.

PEAK

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Trying to feed a robin some pizza crust. I’m gonna be so hung over now

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@velvetbluemusic Woah! Go Lydia!

The blood runs strong

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@funkentechno Heck yeah! Walked the dogs to that one the other day. 👌

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@drbarnard Congrats!!! Very well deserved.

What was the last WWDC you attended?

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@sbiernacki This guy in the golden shirt has seen some things…

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Just remembered that google archived old Usenet posts. Does anyone remember usenet? Spent a fun 30 minutes revisiting 16 year old me.

Here's 16 year old Mint advertising my Steve Taylor website redesign with new web technology called "frames" in 1998 😂

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Don’t let them tell you all I do is bash this administration.

They definitely picked a good NASA administrator.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

We go where we need to be, and today that was @NASAKennedy.

Some of my senior engineers and I spent time at @blueorigin with @JeffBezos and @davill, speaking with the workforce and seeing the damage at LC-36 firsthand. I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from those working through the aftermath and better understand the challenges ahead.

There is a lot of work to do, but this is exactly why people choose careers in aerospace, whether at NASA, Blue Origin, or across the industry. The talent in this field thrives under pressure and performs at its best when solving the toughest problems.

We have been saying for months at NASA that we are not going to sit on our hands and wait for the capabilities necessary to achieve the nation’s most pressing objectives. We are going to take an active role alongside our partners, just as we did in the 1960s, to overcome setbacks, remove obstacles, and deliver the intended outcomes.

@NASA is committed to helping the Blue team recover, continue to advance their lunar lander and get New Glenn back to launching as soon as safely possible.

America’s greatest achievements in space were never the result of avoiding setbacks. They came from overcoming them. We have done it before, and we will do it again🇺🇸

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“electronic albums that offer a glimpse into the metaphysical chasm”

SAY NO MORE

[Philip Sherburne @PhilipSherburne]

Speaking of engrossing electronic albums that offer a glimpse into the metaphysical chasm: Today my label, Balmat, releases Laurence Pike's (PVT, Szun Waves, Liars, Triosk, et. al.) Possible Utopias for Jazz Quintet, and while I'm hardly impartial here, I think it's stunning

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@funkentechno @J_Anderson__ You’re the first person I thought of when I saw this news!!

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Oh, so you’ve got Pet Sounds on 8-track you say?

I bet you don’t have Foxglove Hunt on Floppy Disk!

@ronniejmartin @finechinajam