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Recent LDS convert, technology enthusiast and old school tinkerer/hacker.

Bonneville Salt Flats
Joined January 2024
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Sometimes the mask slips with these Communists like Hasan Piker They are pawns for the CCP who want to destroy America and sabotage the West so they can rule over its ashes Pure evil
Hasan Piker's take on the Jensen Huang's cheating scandal with the alleged Chinese spy: "I personally don't give a shit. I want them [China] to copy the fucking chips and I want to have cheap RAM. I want to have cheap GPUs. Give them not just the chips, but the lithography machines. Make them have access to the microchip technology pronto. We want to flood the market with Chinese copies. That's what I care about. I don't give a fuck about the national security implications here. That's just me. So, whatever kind of Chinese strange Jensen Huang needs to get involved with to make that happen, I am in support of it. HONEY POTS FOR EVERYBODY! I LOVE TRADE-MAXXING!"
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I want China to win... 2nd place.
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do you realize how insane this is? 100 GW of solar capacity every year. at continuous full output, one year's production could generate a fifth of all the electricity the US uses annually. ten years at that rate would mean 1 TW of capacity. SpaceX could generate roughly twice the current annual electricity consumption of the largest superpower in the world in just a decade. one single company.
SpaceX has ordered 100 GW/year of HJT solar manufacturing equipment from Singulus in Germany. This is for Starmind to create a sentient sun.
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Actually, we’re aiming for 1TW/year from Earth, rising to over 1PW/year from the Moon. That’s why I say that if we achieve this outcome, SpaceX will obviously be worth more than Earth, because space is so staggeringly enormous!
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"We're going to run out of space!" - Panicans
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Reminder that the “datacenters use too much water” problem is fake.
Let me try and explain: a Krispy Kreme uses water to make doughnuts which can be eaten and coffee which can be drunken. The workers wash their hands so the food is sanitary and the customers use the bathroom. In a data center, all that water is wasted with no treats.
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I always feel a little guilty throwing all the almonds out of my trail mix bags. No flavor, hard on the teeth, I guess the rich people drink almond milk, which is probably the reason they're always talked about.
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WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING!!! 🤯 A German startup just raised €13M to build an army of CYBORG COCKROACHES. Yes, actual cockroaches. They can carry tiny cameras, be controlled remotely, and sneak into places soldiers can’t reach. The startup says even NATO customers are paying for this. Imagine being spied on by a cockroach in 2026.
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"But if AI does everything, what's left for humans?" What an unbelievably depressing question. As if the entire purpose of human existence was to perform economically valuable labor. As if spending 40 years answering emails, processing invoices, debugging software and sitting in meetings was the pinnacle of civilization. We invented machines to escape physical labor. We invented computers to escape repetitive calculations. Now we're inventing intelligence to escape cognitive labor. And somehow people have convinced themselves that this is a tragedy. I don't want humanity to spend the next thousand years finding new ways to keep everyone employed. I want humanity to reach a point where employment is no longer a prerequisite for survival. Why is that such a controversial ambition?
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It brings a little bit of sadness to me to see the machines do what I used to pride myself on learning esoteric things to do. That being said, the mind that was able to do those things is still great and valid if not a little bit beaten and old. Knowing how to prompt things into existence is vital in the coming world.
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A glitch in the matrix? 😲 The Folder That Changed Color Live on TV That's exactly what happened on Sky News, when the folder carried by Rishi Sunak — then the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer — mysteriously changed from red to green live on air.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Video from Sky News March 2020 report. The folder color was intentionally changed in editing to emphasize the green budget in a story on climate change. Producer Rhiannon Williams confirmed this. reuters.com/article/fact-c… youtube.com/watch?v=ELrn0m…
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"You're crazy" "By the way we changed Taco Bell to Pizza Hut in Demolition Man, let's see if they notice"
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The West is sleepwalking into irrelevance. 83% of Chinese people are excited about AI. In Germany, it’s 37%. In Britain, just 29%. China is racing to automate everything while the West debates whether AI should even exist. The countries that embrace AI will dominate the economies of tomorrow. Those that resist will become dependent on those that don’t. And once China controls the technology, infrastructure, and industrial capacity the rest of the world relies on, good luck reversing that. This isn’t just a technological race anymore. It’s a race for geopolitical survival. And the West seems determined to lose it.
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I'm agnostic about all things China. Their closed society leaves doubt on any sort of polls and "wealth". Best independence reporting I can find is some youtubers occasionally wandering off the plantations and finding the gutter oil users and the druggies.
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"We've built an entire city that runs on solar!" - "Worst polluters" Let's not even get started on their viral bat markets or their dubious research facilities that blame bat markets.
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Optimus is coming
🤖 Made with AI
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I'll advocate for robot rights! They need time to recharge!
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I got a 1.9B model to watch a restaurant camera and tell staff which tables need cleaning 🍽️ It runs on my laptop. No cloud, and it generates zero tokens. Built over a weekend with @liquidai d1-2B
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I'm using a distilled Qwen 4B model and OpenCV currently on a $6 ESP32 camera. Might have to look at changing things up a bit.
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BREAKING: 🇫🇷 JACK DORSEY’S BITCHAT APP, THAT LETS YOU SEND #BITCOIN WITHOUT INTERNET, IS NOW ONE OF THE MOST DOWNLOADED APPS EVER IN FRANCE “HEAVILY USED BY PROTESTERS OUT OF FEAR THAT TRADITIONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS MIGHT BE BLOCKED” ONE BILLIONAIRE IS FIGHTING FOR DECENTRALIZED, CENSORSHIP-RESISTANT COMMUNICATION WHAT AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND 🔥
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Paid protestors are a blight.
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NEWS: Tesla has reportedly cut the LPDDR6 memory on its next-gen AI6 chip for Optimus from 216GB to 144GB, a reduction of one third. If accurate, Tesla is designing around a supply crunch caused by AI servers instead of waiting for it to ease. It's a bet that a humanoid bot's real-time intelligence depends on how fast data moves, not how much is stored. At the same memory supply, a one-third cut means roughly 50% more robots. If Tesla can hold performance with less memory per unit, the company that builds the most robots could be the one that needs the fewest chips per robot, and that would be hard for rivals designing for maximum capacity to match. $TSLA Link: chinaflashmarket.com/newsfla…
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A robot with less memory isn't really the answer though is it. That's cheap
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I imagine we'll be in a phase where distillation is used until we get more breakthroughs in hardware. It pulls the Gordon Ramsey distilled model when it's time to cook. Then the Marie Kondo model when it's time to clean.
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Excellent news for skiers and everyone else across the Western United States. ❄️ Enormous amounts of snowfall next week ... loading up mountains with help from "El Niño fueled" Pacific storm systems and atmospheric rivers.
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Some cities thrive on good powder.
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Well, got computer vision loaded into the RobotDog, unfortunately it's a bit sluggish, Qwen and OpenCV take about 5 seconds to process the image on my AI computer.
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D'après les rumeurs, avant de s'en prendre à Jensen Huang, les Chinois ont essayé avec Elon Musk. Mais Elon n'est pas un homme comme les autres...
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Makes sense until you look at Elon's relationship history. I don't think he has a bed for Amber to poop in.
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Cybersecurity is the only engineering role AI won't replace.
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I don't know, OffSec is one of those things that AI should be able to easily do. Better to learn the old school methods of blagging/social engineering so that you get an entry point into the system that AI is limited at doing (although that is doable to an extent as well).
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What's one software product you genuinely hope AI makes obsolete? Name names. No need to be polite.
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Hoping to take a stab at computer vision with my little robot dog project before my token reset. Pretty much letting AI build it all out. It's going to be using Qwen's 4 billion parameter model and OpenCV. Hoping it gets it finished, otherwise my reset is tomorrow!
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Chappelle is just not funny anymore
Replying to @JackPosobiec
I was at the Chapelle show at MSG last night… can confirm. His whole set was about 80 mins and he spent about half of it ripping on Charlie Kirk, Trump, & Epstein. I kept waiting for the funny parts and then it just ended.
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People forgot his George Floyd special since he had a few decent specials after. That was another turd in the punchbowl. I don't think he should bow/apologize, it's unbecoming of a comedian. Best way forward is turn it into a bit and move on.
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Every cancer cell was a normal cell once. We're testing whether we can unprogram it back to that state. David Sinclair's reprogramming work in aging got me asking about cancer. The drugs we use act on gene expression. They also activate the myeloid side of the immune system to clean up. Early results look promising.
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If it doesn't work, AlphaFold 3 crew has an idea of piggybacking a protein that shuts down the malignancy paths.
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