For those on BlueSky unfamiliar with this modern British tradition:
During times of high winds, we all jump on YouTube and watch planes trying to land at Heathrow, with excited commentary from the UK's premier plane nerd channel.
Currently live here!
www.youtube.com/live/egvoBvc...
Is it already time to go back to to crypto again then?
Having your mum to defend you as a grown adult is just surely embarrassing!
Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress.
Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
Did you know that 99% of email today is spam? Your inbox isn’t 99% spam because AI is used to filter it.
The same 99% will happen here too, but if AI researchers continue to get perma-banned for making available the datasets needed to filter it, it’s going to make this platform unusable.
Amazing free resource for the DL interested…
Releasing SmolVLM, a small 2 billion parameters Vision+Language Model (VLM) built for on-device/in-browser inference with images/videos.
Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs
Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
If this advert was personalised to me, then I dread to think what my digital profile must look like!
Horseshoe crab bleeding station, with several of the crabs strapped in and their bright blue hemolymph gathered in bottles
whenever someone says something about "it's so crazy that people think xyz natural remedy actually works" well some of it is always going to be scams and snake oil, that's human nature, but don't forget in 2024 we still have to harvest blood from live horseshoe crabs to make our vaccines
I wrote about Substack, Nazis, free speech, private property, and reputation. Not exactly in that order, but kinda. www.techdirt.com/2023/12/26/s...
You’ll know the AI hasachieved consciousness when it dumps them.
A new meaning for the popular phrase „going apeshit“….
Trump shows himself to be surprisingly quite well read…
Image of a heart on a set of weighing scales. Caption "🎶 But the very next day…🎶"
I guess there is a lot of adventure to be found in academic cum 🤷♂️
chainsaw man is the heartwarming story that dares to ask the question "what if Beavis was a superhero"
If Jesus could quote post this, he would simply write “WTF”
TPUSA might be one of the shittiest acronyms of all time..
Tech Won't Save Us presents The Worst Person In Tech 2023: Round 1
💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS! 💥
2023 is winding down, so it’s time to choose the WORST PERSON IN TECH!
🗳️ ROUND 1 VOTING OPEN NOW: forms.gle/xqcDPSXB98gA...