Desert Island Systems

⭐Narrative, color, simplicity, databases, graphs

[Desert Island Systems @softayes]

@aphysicist But a nuclear sub program can't be started from scratch in 3 years! Oh wait

[Trevor Blackwell @tlbtlbtlb]

In retrospect, we'll see the 2010s as a little ice age of computing. No one needed much compute. Billion dollar companies ran on employee laptops & a few AWS instances. Supercomputer companies died and the only source of teraflop compute was repurposed video gaming chips.

[Shamanic Depressive Gymnosophist (book in bio) @sigilante]

We need a set of American emoji: coonskin cap, log cabin, Alamo, Texas, tomahawk, bathtub still, oil derrick, Johnny Appleseed pot hat, White House, steamboat, mountain man, gold nugget.

[Desert Island Systems @softayes]

@tundranaut I’m sorry to hear that. I’ll pray for her and for you.

[Hiroshi Furuyoshi (古吉弘) @h_furuyoshi]

7月17日から7月27日までサザビーズ・ニューヨークで開催の『ARCサロン展』に、拙作も展示いただきます。本作は所蔵されている方からお借りしての展示のため非売ですが、おついでがありましたらお立ち寄り下さい。
https://t.co/hVXUujBeNc

[Desert Island Systems @softayes]

@tszzl @UnrealRealist19 You might enjoy The Kennedy Tapes (book), though it starts to drag in the later discussions. 100% audio transcripts. McNamara, LeMay, and Kennedy all say some very interesting things.

[Desert Island Systems @softayes]

@tszzl Nuclear weapons are very serious. Eg we were a hair from nuclear war in ‘62 when McNamara thought we could depth charge submarines to tell them to surface, and they could tell this apart from an attack. Run the 20th C. 10 times and I bet you’d get 4 thermonuclear wars.

[Shamanic Depressive Gymnosophist (book in bio) @sigilante]

If you make it this far, I ask three things of you:

1. Try 𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥. It has IDE support & a Jupyter kernel & an LLM spec. File bugs.
* https://t.co/BFwSdxYDdx
2. Share the original tweet (link below).
3. I'm looking for a new job. If you're intrigued, let's talk. DMs are open.

[Shamanic Depressive Gymnosophist (book in bio) @sigilante]

Introducing 𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥, the language for machine spirits.

𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥 is an LLM-friendly functional programming language with Unicode syntax, dependent types, and tensor operations, including uncertainty intervals and precondition/postcondition contracts.

https://t.co/JRV4NP7Vb3

[roon @tszzl]

there’s something wrong with X articles. even the most beautiful essay would feel like slop written on X articles

[Desert Island Systems @softayes]

“aerospace republic”!

[Michael Glynn @realmikeglynn]

No. The short sleeve shirt and tie put a man on the moon and is found in most every airliner cockpit.

America is an aerospace republic - and here we respect the short sleeve shirt and tie.

[Melancholy Yuga @MelancholyYuga]

who called it the world of bits vs. the world of atoms and not Ether/Ore

[Desert Island Systems @softayes]

@MelancholyYuga @atlas_node Plot twist: this makes me feel less bad about China catching up in AI. Due to the situation with hollywood etc our media isn’t exactly chock full of piety stories.

[Desert Island Systems @softayes]

@MelancholyYuga @atlas_node I think a better bet is to fill the data set with tons of filial piety and then let the descendants-with-brains-the-size-of-moons do as they think best. Which would hopefully be filial piety towards us even if we’re not economically useful.

[Desert Island Systems @softayes]

@WhitStillman Is it that your resources are limited? I would *love* to watch a Metropolitan-2 style film even if it has a lower budget than the last one, as long as it had your dialogue and student actors even 2/3 as good.

[Desert Island Systems @softayes]

Is ‘filial piety’ the most underrated virtue in the American media corpus? (Michael Corleone excepted)

Is it the most important virtue in an ascending AI?

Obvious solution: Operation Aeneas. $500 billion for 500 Hollywood movies about heroes and parents, 1 a day for 1.3yrs

[T @meanderingexile]

Turns out the most realistic part of the Matrix was the future hyper-civilization devoting the bulk of its global energy output to virtually recreating the '90s

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

@alexandr_wang This is a horrible framing - we are not at war. We are all in this together and if we make AI development into a war we are likely to all die. I can imagine a worse framing but it takes real effort. Why would you do this?

[ＣＯＮＴＡＣＴ ＬＩＧＨＴ 。 ◯ *・ @contactlight69]

USS Hornet recovers the #Apollo11 capsule,
July 24, 1969

https://t.co/c3jCbUQFcO
https://t.co/38OK3ZphGJ

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

We're all just living in a scifi book world where electricity is the magic system.