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Every man thinks he can land a 737 and every woman thinks she can perfectly fold a fitted sheet. These are important emotional support delusions in my culture.

He makes a good point. Even if AI art didn’t often look “off” (and it won’t look weird for very long), it still feels like fundamentally a different thing. The time and experience and suffering and passion people put into their art is a huge part of the value we place on it. An interesting experiment it to find an item you cherish that was hand made. Imagine how you’d feel if you discovered that it actually was NOT hand made. It was manufactured using automated machinery. The item maintains its utility and its aesthetics. So why are you sad about this revelation? Why does it feel less?

We need a better class of problems for this new class of tool. Two of these are solved already and people avoid budgeting for psychological reasons, not technical reasons.

Normal thing that has been happening for thousands of years BUT NOW WE CALL IT AI. reuters.com/business/inside-…

How much money someone has in their checking account at a given moment doesn’t provide a lot of information, until it’s less than $1k (bad) or more than $20k (inefficient and/or bad).

Delete this post before my wife sees it or I will sue you for extreme damages

What if the word was just “moist” and he snapped

Having toddlers is hard but not surprising. They’ll poop their pants or draw on the wall. But this is a real “having teens” example that you just can’t prepare for. “Guess what I found in [teen]’s room” “Uh, a bag of chicken?” It was a medical glove filled with chicken water.

“Sovereign citizen” has one of the biggest gaps between how cool it sounds and how dumb it is. “I’m not driving; I’m 𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰” 😐😐😐

Hey babe we need a code phrase. Some combination of words so random and insane that they couldn’t accidentally mean anything else.

This is another example of the “we saw you just ordered a vacuum; here are ads for vacuums” phenomenon.

I love this handwriting. It has the aesthetics of Naskh, which for my money is the most beautiful functional script.

Software engineers should think more about optimizing for string searches. This isn’t getting less important as LLMs do the busywork. LLMs have a higher tolerance for repetition and their searches can still get foiled because you got cute with dynamic string building.

In so any ways I feel like I caught the last chopper out of Saigon.

- MacBooks Pro - “Ask” is not a noun - “Begs the question” doesn’t mean “raises the question” — it means “assumes the answer” - It is never correct to say “honing in”

If the Times can do “True Detective (Season 1)” they can do “Westworld (Season 1)” and “Fargo (Except for Season 4)”

an intermittent long-term friendship with a crow might heal me

Squirrel is learning to climb

The following, I maintain, is true: 1. Breaking Bad is the best TV show of the 21st Century 2. Better Call Saul is not the best TV show of the 21st Century. BUT 3. Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad.

I feel like that German World Cup fan guy has been in America for four months. Europeans really do be like “und now for a little holiday” and leave work for two seasons