Nathan J. Williams @[email protected]

Professional computer nerd; parent; homebrewer and award-winning amateur cidermaker. Pre-pandemic baker. Home automation dilettante. MIT class of 1998. He/him.

[Nathan J. Williams @[email protected] @nathanjw]

.@TalonAndroid FYI, For some reason the app kept working for me and loading new tweets until this Monday (2023-06-19). Thanks for the years of linear timelines!

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

If it runs into itself, game over.

[Adam Roberts @arrroberts]

Flintstones
Meet the flintstones
An example of tautology
Flint is
Stone by nature
It is stony definitionally

[Nathan J. Williams @[email protected] @nathanjw]

@sqs @willnorris @GergelyOrosz Dunno, ditching the $12/year retail users and their associated support costs, and only dealing with anyone who can bother to/pay for GCP might be the point. Not wanting to deal with large-scale retail support is very Google.

[Cory 🦢 Real Bitcoin @ Swan.com @CorySwan]

You’re either the person in the relationship who believes food has gone bad or the person who doesn’t believe expiration dates are real

[Jeremy Bowers @jeremybowers]

Reminded by several examples this week that pre-2022 web scrapes will be the last of the non-synthetic human-generated content for LLMs, meaning that pre-2022 training data will be valuable like non-radioactive steel.

[Nathan J. Williams @[email protected] @nathanjw]

@AshleyGWinter Steel wool pads - SOS or similar - and elbow grease.

[Michael Roston @michaelroston]

The air quality is so bad in NYC right now that all the electronic billboards in Times Sq are saying that a new life awaits me in the off-world colonies

[Jay Bauman @JayBauman1]

NOT A SINGLE PERSON AT THAT TABLE GOT HIS JOKE

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Butlerian Jihad now

[Peacock @peacock]

I know you’re all very disappointed, but I will *not* be dropping the first half of my name any time soon 👀

[Tom Gara @tomgara]

Young people might not believe me but 15 years ago that there were like, 8 different cold drinks, total. Maybe 12 if you were somewhere fancy. Anyone over the age of 35 walking in the beverage aisle these days is like Boris Yeltsin when he first visited an American supermarket

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

Mathematicians: there would be no physics without mathematics.
Physicists: there would be no mathematics without physics.
Data scientists: I make a lot of money.

[Nathan J. Williams @[email protected] @nathanjw]

Sigh. They were never as useful as one might have hoped, anyway.

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

video games have declined in quality (as evidenced by the higher labor force participation) but now I can confidently predict the labor market is about to slow (zelda is coming out next week)

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

This piece is a good example of how decent reporting can be undone by ludicrous framing.

“A small group of non-experts say caffeine is bad and should be regulated, while basically all experts think they’re nuts” should not be framed as a open question about health.

[Nathan J. Williams @[email protected] @nathanjw]

@jfruh Nitpick: not benzos (valium, etc), I think you mean "bennies", Benzedrine, a brand name amphetamine.

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren't as biological or innate as you think they are