Nick 🏳️🌈
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Interested in lots of things. I write for a living and code for fun. Traveller who has settled down with husband and two cats. This is the private me, my professional presence is elsewhere. (Usual disclaimers.) GenX. 🧢👨🏽💻📺🚅 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇩🇪🇳🇱
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New blog post: "If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?" stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-c...
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
New blog post: "If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?" stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-c...
Zach Helfand writes about photographs from the series “Local Newsrooms,” by Ann Hermes, which depict American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis. beta.digg.com/photography/...
Digg
Digg is where people go to look at cool things while they eat a big bowl of cereal.
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November 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Zach Helfand writes about photographs from the series “Local Newsrooms,” by Ann Hermes, which depict American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis. beta.digg.com/photography/...
Switching costs... I got a bit fed up with Apple's premium pricing strategy and bought a Pixel 9a which seems more than adequate for my needs. I knew it would be painful. I can already tell this is going to be a monthslong project.
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Switching costs... I got a bit fed up with Apple's premium pricing strategy and bought a Pixel 9a which seems more than adequate for my needs. I knew it would be painful. I can already tell this is going to be a monthslong project.
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AI Mode with Gemini 3 gets past the hedging to a welcome specificity - Mike Caulfield mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/ai-mode-with… #AI #Gemini3 #AIprogress
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
AI Mode with Gemini 3 gets past the hedging to a welcome specificity - Mike Caulfield mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/ai-mode-with… #AI #Gemini3 #AIprogress
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How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought on.ft.com/43qoQ2L
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
on.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought on.ft.com/43qoQ2L
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Een minderheidskabinet. Het klinkt best aantrekkelijk en het werkt heel goed in bijvoorbeeld Denemarken.
Maar het kan niet zomaar.
In NRC wordt een lans gebroken voor een minderheidskabinet in Nederland maar ik zie toch aardig wat uitdagingen #tk2025
Maar het kan niet zomaar.
In NRC wordt een lans gebroken voor een minderheidskabinet in Nederland maar ik zie toch aardig wat uitdagingen #tk2025
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Een minderheidskabinet. Het klinkt best aantrekkelijk en het werkt heel goed in bijvoorbeeld Denemarken.
Maar het kan niet zomaar.
In NRC wordt een lans gebroken voor een minderheidskabinet in Nederland maar ik zie toch aardig wat uitdagingen #tk2025
Maar het kan niet zomaar.
In NRC wordt een lans gebroken voor een minderheidskabinet in Nederland maar ik zie toch aardig wat uitdagingen #tk2025
Dutch elections marginally strengthened the far right; the seats are just more distributed over different parties.
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Dutch elections marginally strengthened the far right; the seats are just more distributed over different parties.
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Airline buffs might enjoy the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives' collection of Airline Luggage labels, back from the golden age of airplane travel.
CW: some stereotypical imagery of local people and one tiny swastika on a blimp
#airplanes #Lufthansa #airbus
www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...
CW: some stereotypical imagery of local people and one tiny swastika on a blimp
#airplanes #Lufthansa #airbus
www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Airline buffs might enjoy the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives' collection of Airline Luggage labels, back from the golden age of airplane travel.
CW: some stereotypical imagery of local people and one tiny swastika on a blimp
#airplanes #Lufthansa #airbus
www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...
CW: some stereotypical imagery of local people and one tiny swastika on a blimp
#airplanes #Lufthansa #airbus
www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...
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No jokes about this one. It's like laying off all of Adobe. And bigger than almost all companies. Just a massive scale.
Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate staff, or ~30,000 people, its largest layoffs since 2022, to reduce costs and address pandemic overhiring (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
October 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
No jokes about this one. It's like laying off all of Adobe. And bigger than almost all companies. Just a massive scale.
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Karpathy starts by saying human supervision is needed only because models aren't yet capable enough. But if you look closely at the obstacle ("I want to learn... and become better as a programmer, not just get served mountains of code that I'm told works"), it doesn't go away "when we reach AGI." +
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Karpathy starts by saying human supervision is needed only because models aren't yet capable enough. But if you look closely at the obstacle ("I want to learn... and become better as a programmer, not just get served mountains of code that I'm told works"), it doesn't go away "when we reach AGI." +
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What we die from vs. what we hear in the news.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
October 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
What we die from vs. what we hear in the news.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
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btw what I did here was I took a data set of ChatGPT interactions collected in the wild and reversed the "assistant" and "user" tags. fine-tuned llama 8B on some of that data and gave it the ability to message you first. 😊
October 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
btw what I did here was I took a data set of ChatGPT interactions collected in the wild and reversed the "assistant" and "user" tags. fine-tuned llama 8B on some of that data and gave it the ability to message you first. 😊
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Check out TildeOpen LLM: Europe’s Sovereign Multilingual AI
An open-source, foundational LLM (Large Language Model) for European languages – secure, adaptable, and ready for governments, institutions, and enterprises.
tilde.ai/tildeopen-llm/
An open-source, foundational LLM (Large Language Model) for European languages – secure, adaptable, and ready for governments, institutions, and enterprises.
tilde.ai/tildeopen-llm/
TildeOpen LLM Applications | AI for Every Sector
Discover how TildeOpen LLM powers customer support, legal workflows, content creation, and more across governments and enterprises.
tilde.ai
October 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Check out TildeOpen LLM: Europe’s Sovereign Multilingual AI
An open-source, foundational LLM (Large Language Model) for European languages – secure, adaptable, and ready for governments, institutions, and enterprises.
tilde.ai/tildeopen-llm/
An open-source, foundational LLM (Large Language Model) for European languages – secure, adaptable, and ready for governments, institutions, and enterprises.
tilde.ai/tildeopen-llm/
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I waited a day, but I regret to inform you that Sora remains just a ton of fun. So much so that it's hard to see how it's tenable in a few ways...
Sora Soars
Another viral product hit for OpenAI, this time in video...
spyglass.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I waited a day, but I regret to inform you that Sora remains just a ton of fun. So much so that it's hard to see how it's tenable in a few ways...
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this is an exceedingly cool tool for the for you feed
You can see before/after in For You playground. With the popularity penalty=0.2 the first uspol post for you appears at position 18:
linklonk.com/bluesky?user...
With popularity penalty=0.0 it appears at position 6: linklonk.com/bluesky?user...
linklonk.com/bluesky?user...
With popularity penalty=0.0 it appears at position 6: linklonk.com/bluesky?user...
Bluesky "For You" feed playground
linklonk.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:21 AM
this is an exceedingly cool tool for the for you feed
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there needs to be some way to use bsky with discover feed and not be bombarded by impersonal uspol. absolutely don't mind people i follow posting about it but just random posts from popular characters here despite many "show less" are annoying and i don't think annoying me alone
September 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
there needs to be some way to use bsky with discover feed and not be bombarded by impersonal uspol. absolutely don't mind people i follow posting about it but just random posts from popular characters here despite many "show less" are annoying and i don't think annoying me alone
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Forget vendor financing, let's do vendor INVESTING.
www.reuters.com/business/nvi...
www.reuters.com/business/nvi...
Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI
Chipmaker Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion in artificial intelligence startup OpenAI under a new agreement, the companies said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Forget vendor financing, let's do vendor INVESTING.
www.reuters.com/business/nvi...
www.reuters.com/business/nvi...
Say hello to the ‘Bonk Income Blast ETF’
Every day we stray further from God’s light
www.ft.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Every crypto story these days reads something like this
September 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Every crypto story these days reads something like this
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Art history in western Europe:
Medieval: can't draw people, only side perspectives, maybe as it was Too Dark?
Renaissance: can draw people, can't draw baibes
Enlightenment: Can draw people and babies
Modernity: Why draw baby when you can draw cube?
Medieval: can't draw people, only side perspectives, maybe as it was Too Dark?
Renaissance: can draw people, can't draw baibes
Enlightenment: Can draw people and babies
Modernity: Why draw baby when you can draw cube?
I love how Renaissance painters are doing so well until they get to the babies and then it's like, "I have never seen a baby. Presumably they look like tiny, creepy old men?"
Renaissance painters:
September 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Art history in western Europe:
Medieval: can't draw people, only side perspectives, maybe as it was Too Dark?
Renaissance: can draw people, can't draw baibes
Enlightenment: Can draw people and babies
Modernity: Why draw baby when you can draw cube?
Medieval: can't draw people, only side perspectives, maybe as it was Too Dark?
Renaissance: can draw people, can't draw baibes
Enlightenment: Can draw people and babies
Modernity: Why draw baby when you can draw cube?
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The international tram driving championships are live on YouTube right now! www.youtube.com/embed/smp0vo...
One of the events is "tram curling" where the tram gives a little cart a shove and tries to get it to stop at the right point
One of the events is "tram curling" where the tram gives a little cart a shove and tries to get it to stop at the right point
September 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The international tram driving championships are live on YouTube right now! www.youtube.com/embed/smp0vo...
One of the events is "tram curling" where the tram gives a little cart a shove and tries to get it to stop at the right point
One of the events is "tram curling" where the tram gives a little cart a shove and tries to get it to stop at the right point
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August 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Super interesting thread
Not at all close. Novel-length plots are very hard. There has been a consistent, odd, overreaction on this.
note the date — 2019
this is a reply to OpenAI’s announcement of GPT-1
six years later, how close are we to novelist being an extinct profession?
this is a reply to OpenAI’s announcement of GPT-1
six years later, how close are we to novelist being an extinct profession?
August 15, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Super interesting thread