your argument would be immensely helped if you posted science instead of corporate marketing brochures

Damn, the fever is down and the cough is easing up, but my nose feels like it’s lined with sandpaper

probably an allergic preaction to what you were about to find

I found the other day that the fruit site is once again going on semi reliable hosting and I nearly punched my computer as a result

absolutely fucked that it persists

in which karpathy goes "eh, fuckit":

skipping past the implicit assumption of "well, just have a bunch of money to be able to keep throwing the autoplag at the wall until something sticks", the admissions of not giving a single fuck about anything, and the straight and plain "well, it often just doesn't work like we keep promising it does", imagine being this fucking incurious and void of joy

I'm left wondering if this bastard is running through the stages of grief (at being thrown out), because this sure as fuck reads like despair to me

I’m sorry, do you trust junior engineers blindly?

as a starting position, fucking YES. you know why I hired that person? because I believe they can do the job and grow in it. you know what happens if they make a mistake? I give them all the goddamn backup they need to handle it and grow.

"this is why code review is so important" jfc. you're one of those "I've worked here for 4 years and I'm a senior" types, aren't you

this "view" (of schmidt's) is probably the kind of shit that Really Expensive Analysts espouse at davos and in Private Advisory sessions to the kinds of people who go in for that; I've also heard it about GRT and "the collapse" and more

would be nice if we could know who all those dipshits are, and who they've preached to

not only are the DCs burning water and harming ears, we’re on to the stage of taiwan not farming rice in service of making more chips

She shows us one of her rice paddies. It used to hold enough water to raise ducks. Now it's nothing but cracked earth and a few crispy flowers.

I’m neither a climate nor agriculture scientist so I can’t guess the longer term impact of this; I immediately wonder whether the soil could get harmed by disuse over years, along with other warming-related problems

I’m too angry to even sneer properly at this. it’s so fucking obviously nuts, but perverse incentives roll right ahead unchecked.

(but seriously, "why?" - you really don't get why? maybe go have a good think on it. on why people might not be in a position to do the thing you suggest them to do. you may become enlightened.)

subheading: A love story

opener: Note: I am closer to this story than to many of my others

@dgerard "congratulations" on your new stalker

irunno, that photographer deserves a goddamn fucking bonus imo

(as a shooter of random moments) it is extremely hard to catch things/moments like that. it's helped along by gear (faster capture time, lenses that suit distance ootb, etc etc), but it's still no fucking around

and that photo is a goddamned masterpiece of capturing a probably-quite-rarely-seen moment of derpitude from that fuckwit

Because it’s not an intelligence, it’s a machine being provided a template to operate from

all I'm reading here (admittedly between the lines) is that they have a whole bucketload of new PE/life-extending/... compounds they wish to test en masse but not on themselves

I wonder how right that guess will turn out to be