Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist, PhD in aviation and climate science, host of /diving /ethfinance /forteantimes /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas
It’s been interesting to watch the online zeitgeist in the context of the Iran war.
I’ve noticed a strong undercurrent of accelerationism / systemic schedenfreude / collapse porn that longs for a failure of the negotiations and sustained closure of the Strait, both as a way to evidence the ineptitude of the planners o...
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Why in the holy name of Steve Jobs do I need to download a 6 GB iOS update for *checks notes* a handful of emojis and app-level music features?
I understand the update also contains security updates, but then just lead with that and cut the bloat.
There is literally nothing in this list that would entice me to downlo...
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Quote cast this cast but change what the skeleton is holding.
(Hint: it’s skeletons all the way down)
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@karpathy endorsing Obsidian for his own research workflow is the coolest thing x.com/karpathy/sta...
Kudos @kepano and team, this feels like another graduation milestone
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy
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LLM Knowledge Bases
Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating
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All the White House needs to do to win over low-information voters ahead of the midterms is to add the Brent crude ticker to the Dow Jones index
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White House allegedly sending a marine expeditionary unit to claw all that fuel back to earth
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Ten years in, crypto on par with the grand bazaar of Isfahan for number of rugs per tourist
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Finally, an 18-cubic meter, 3.5-ton payload, 3,000 km-range cargo drone that unlocks long-range heavy logistics, travel options for your mom
english.news.cn/20260331/942...
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Casting from my MBP freshly downgraded from Tahoe to Sequoia. Nature is healing
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At $100+/barrel, owning the libs is getting expensive for everybody, could my American friends just rent the libs instead?
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That video of a US submarine torpedoing an Iranian frigate was hard to watch.
Yes, this is war and war is hell, and killing a warship from below is perhaps not very different from bombing a command center from above.
But it didn’t sit right with me.
Maybe it’s seeing dozens of unsuspecting sailors being yeeted to th
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I almost miss the days where we’d get lied to about WMDs to fabricate at least some sort of plausible pretense for the way things are
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That video of a US submarine torpedoing an Iranian frigate was hard to watch.
Yes, this is war and war is hell, and killing a warship from below is perhaps not very different from bombing a command center from above.
But it didn’t sit right with me.
Maybe it’s seeing dozens of unsuspecting sailors being yeeted to th...
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I’m just waiting for all this to blow over so I can confidently proclaim whether it was a 4D chess move or a shortsighted miscalculation
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