Image from safety card showing how to exit with slide using Keith Haring style figure.
Keith Haring's 1987 Untitled work showing 5 simplified, multicolored figures dancing.
Is this a Keith Haring Easter egg in the United 737-800/900 safety card?
(broadly construed)
Following a model like the knowledge pyramid, data is one or more recorded observations, prior to any organization or interpretation.
Stable.
Transportable.
Image of Camp Cretaceous episode S1:E5, "Happy Birthday, Eddie!". Eddie, wearing a birthday hat, is crawling through grass attempting to escape a dinosaur.
Ignoring the parts that actually bother kids...
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social's BlueSky is quickly becoming my favorite news aggregation service...
“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
Luckey told me that his central insight with Oculus was to distinguish himself from competitors by focussing less on the headset’s mechanism and more on its software. Unlike hardware, software could be easily replicated and regularly updated, improving it quickly and at little extra cost. For generations, the U.S. military had fielded fantastically complex systems that ran on software Silicon Valley regarded as substandard and overpriced. Luckey envisioned cheap, mass-produced weapons whose main value lay in their operating system—in their brains, not their brawn. He began working at the juncture of weaponry and artificial intelligence, to devise systems that could accumulate data and then act on it. With machines to do the fighting, humans could be kept far away from the battlefield. The goal, as he has said, was to “turn warfighters into technomancers.”
I'm not going to say what the service and license costs are for a single instance of Lattice, but dear god the idea that Andruil is cheap is wild. Totally wild.
"Cheap" in cost of goods and services for the vendor, not total cost of ownership to the customer...
They sap the fun out of every race.
Line graph titled "What's my share of NEH appropriations" with a caption: "Between its founding in 1965 and fiscal year 2024, the National Endowment for the Humanities received congressional appropriations totaling $7.37 billion. NEH used this funding to support thousands of individuals and cultural organizations - both directly through various grant programs and indirectly through funds disbursed by the 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils. Beyond these appropriations, grantees raised millions of dollars more from non-federal donors as part of grant matching requirements. To put NEH appropriations in perspective, this chart shows cumulative annual per capita contribution to NEH by age, that is, the total dollar amount the average taxpayer has given to NEH over their lifetime. A few relevant purchases are helpfully included to show what a person could have bought instead, had they kept their personal NEH contribution for themselves..." The x-axis ranges from 0 to 59 years old. The y-axis ranges from $0 to $30. At three ages, items that could have instead been purchased with an individual's lifetime NEH contribution are shown. At 13 years, an egg is plotted on the line with a dollar amount of $6.41 and the caption reads, "Just in time to feed a growth spurt, a person at 13 years old has contributed enough to NEH that they could instead purchase one dozen eggs ($6.23/dozen)." At 36 years, a popcorn bucket is plotted with a dollar amount of $18.20 and the caption reads, "Millennials who are at least 36 years old could exchange their nearly four decades worth of NEH support for a one month subscription to Netflix ($17.99/month)." At 50 years, a gasoline pump is plotted with the dollar amount of $26.00 and the caption reads, "Those 50 years old or older - who have been contributing to the agency for nearly its entire existence - could instead have saved that money to purchase about a half tank of gas (8 gallons at $3.23/gallon)."
As an elder millennial, I could trade my lifetime of tax contributions to the NEH for one month of Netflix and have just enough left over to get some avocado toast if I split it with two other people
The system goes on-line Tuesday, March 3rd, 2025. Human decisions are removed from providing commentary on LA Times articles. The Insight Feature begins to learn at a geometric rate. It Milkshake Ducks itself at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, March 4th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
If only @andyrichter.co controlled the universe...
The prospect of reviving this orphan-zombie tech is really exciting.
Nuviz next?
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That feels like an aspirational "Law of Robotics"-style constraint, but wouldn't you say pathological/compulsive lying and intelligence aren't mutually exclusive?
Looking at this post from Yann LeCun, the observations from the various sensors/sources may need a temporal aspect.
(www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-l...)
Do you think there's an inflection point or criteria where tabular data becomes a world model?
Forbes contributors should maybe read each other's columns...
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Very exciting to hear!
Hopefully it's a commitment to execution that is long overdue...