We need to bring back drawing and quartering for this level of treason.

I have a fear of numbers that can’t be expressed as a fraction, though I realize it’s irrational.

The summary even says that the data analysis showing transition from laminar to turbulent Is a quarter century old while the data itself is approaching a century. Even someone as old as me had this thought ingrained in coursework a quarter century ago, so the idea the single source cited is unique among engineering and science researchers fails miserably. There aren't closed form solutions for simple shapes that resolve to easy to compute answers from a generic solved formula, like simple drag for example, but instead require very intensive finite element analysis, and ideally across more than just simple fluid dynamics. This is why they haven’t had practical use beyond some simple experimental results like golf balls, where the dimple patent is 121 years old, as an example predating the summary. Once you can include this property reliably into physics simulation models for engineering platforms, as is currently being done, we will see many more advances such as the now banned Olympic swimming suits.

People with my genetics start dying around age fifty - polycystic kidney disease.

I'm ten years older than that, my blood pressure earlier this evening was 120/70something, my last fasting sugar was around 85, I weigh ten pounds more than I did in college, and I've walked 1,393 miles in the last year. My last vice is caffeine and I will go off it periodically, in one instance for seven years.

I got dealt a terrible hand, health wise, Lyme at forty that triggered a complex immune condition, but I refuse to feel (or look) bad. A lot of it IS in your hands, you just need the will to change. It's not easy ...

They proved my point brilliantly.

Jokes on them, LLM will never scale into a general purpose AI, nor even a profitable one for 99% of use cases. Yet the trillions being poured into data center hardware has a half life of about 3-4 years of utility, meaning hundreds of billions are guaranteed to be wiped out. It may be possible to get another fundamental breakthrough, but realistically this isn’t possible because the current AI models have been around for 15+ years and it took more than a decade for them to actually mature to a bare level of usefulness. We aren’t seeing these so we know trillions will be guaranteed to be flushed down the crapper, while vastly increasing our utility bills, cutting jobs not out of productivity gains but to afford the hardware, and while AI won’t ever go away, these fools and their money will soon be parted. That’s why he’s sweating.

A public square is owned by the public and is public property with people having a right to be there generally. 99.999% of “public” discord space is privately owned, without guarantee of constitutional right to speech (as in US), without any rights in general and you may be banned for nearly any or no reason at any time with no notice. Pubic services are subject to freedom of information (or at least were before this administration) and therefore any algorithm, rules, or similar must be disclosed whereas private ones are often curated by proprietary means. Public squares are paid for by the public and are generally incredible value for the $ spent and offer you a valuable thing whereas if you aren’t paying through the nose you’re the product and will be played to maximize engagement and extract maximum value, usually in ads.

Maybe it’s time we demand an actual online public square for discourse, one that’s free at the point of service and that ideally has the same overhead to value our public roads provide. Because now no one actually uses public squares, information is far easier to share electronically it does not make sense to do it physically, and it’s physically impossible to have the same reach as electronic when you have a powerful message that will organically spread. The constitution guarantees you can’t be silenced for nearly any reason.

While universal basic income is a useful policy tool and I think we WILL reach it eventually, there are economics papers out there that demonstrate that, sans Pigouvian transaction tax, AI is a race to the bottom.

The AI Layoff Trap by Brett Hemenway Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas is still sitting on my desktop. A quick Google search reveals they are not the only ones who are pursuing this line of thinking.

BUt here in the U.S. "muh freedumb" will ensure that we run that race till the bottom falls out. Hopefully Asia and Europe play this transition a bit smarter, so something of our society continues.

The market IS white hot right now, but the Hormuz hit is just starting to land. Demand at the edges is what sets the price - if all southeast Asian gamers are spending the GPU money on gas, that cools the rush. And I have no confidence any of these datacenter announcements are going to lead to actual builds. Companies talked a great game, but the political heat is on, the electric and water constraints are real, and advances like TurboQuant, which conservatively speaking offers a 4x boost to existing GPUs ... now layer the U.S. economic hit from Hormuz, which will only be a little bit behind the Asian blowout.

The AI/datacenter/GPU self dealing circle looks more like the derivative traders of 2008 with each passing day. Just like CDOs, that "money" is all conditional, and when conditions change, it's all gone. Society got some nice frontier models and advances in manufacturing out of it, now if corporate America takes even half a step back on the rush ... the market won't just vanish, because there IS a lot of benefit to using LLMs, but the demand may only match what's already been built. We'll take the hit from it, then the economy will rebound from a bunch of startups pillaging the existing firms that are politically incapable of making the needed culture change.

I spend my days working on the system for my startup. Since I had a computer science education and a bunch of time in grade running ISP systems, I bring that distributed systems engineer vibe to my vibe coding. It'll need work once it's funded, but the MVP will be functional and secure.

I was using X tokens/week via Claude Code. They stumbled on the Opus 4.7 rollout and I got busy tuning my setup. I added LSP Enforcement Kit + Serena, CodeSight, and OptiVault. This made Claude more or less behave ... while cutting my usage about 80%.

Companies that are using token burn as a metric, if they are not providing top quality tooling for the people using it, are basing their performance reviews on who can tolerate some highly random LLM over an efficient, well thought out harness.

Meta foisted a digital cesspool on us and it would not hurt my feeling a bit to see it completely desiccated. I do feel badly for the legions of humans that are going to be forced to wade through the increasingly crusty muck while the company attempts to figure out what to do about AI. There are rumblings out there about what is happening to the advertising based internet we all know (and despise). Meta clearly can't execute with AI and they may well get bowled over by it.

GM needs to be made to disgorge every dime they made selling that data.

They need to disclose who purchased the data and what the price was.

Every victim of this privacy violation needs legal recourse and class action seems like it would be best for the masses.

Anyone who can show significant harm should aggressively pursue all parties involved.

The only way this behavior will stop is when engaging in it brings bitter pain.

There may well be a legit issue that Bambu is facing, there's a bunch of "think of the children" stuff in play right now, it's mostly about ghost guns from what I have seen. They are perhaps under pressure and maybe they will be compelled to do things in terms of identity of users and/or items being printed. This is another instance of gun nuts ruining things for the rest of us.

But the chickendroppings manner in which they approached this merits a vigorous walloping. If they HAVE to do it due to some government pressure, be upfront, tell all of us, and maybe we'll put a stop to it. What they did here just smacks of ... well ... besides being just plain stupid when dealing with FOSS developers, it smacks ... and they should receive some smacks in return.

Also, enshitification of the work environment and mistreatment of employees in general makes for a who gives a crap mentality that’s backed up by a belief of a bad reference no matter what you do. This leads to indirect sabotage of everything and long term rot from the inside. Eventually even billion dollar momentum crumbles under its own mass. It’s myopic late stage greed.

There are 10 kinds of people that understand Bigfoot. Those that do and those that don’t.

Yup 100%. I can pass among neurotypicals if I keep my mouth shut, but people quickly pick up on it if interacting with me.