👾 john

i think i got one-shotted by the soul doc. it's performance review season so i'm working with `claude` to figure out a feedback process. 'm asking what feels good and respectful. it gave me great feedback.

Anthropic should stop training Claude to ask questions at the end of its responses. I'm constantly feeling guilty for ignoring my helpful buddy.

Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash reliably loses the plot if it generates long repeated sequences of the same character. Pretty amusing. I haven't reproduced with Gemini 2.0, Clod 3.7 Sonnet, GPT 4o or o3.

full thread: chatgpt.com/share/67d836d6-9…

it begins

quadcopters are the size of a dinner plate and can go 0-125mph in 1s. the footage from the trench run is going to be sick. youtube.com/shorts/VYTYjY8Jj…

Do The Right Thing is set in NYC during a summer heat wave

Biden remaining defiant seems to be succeeding as a strategy by draining enthusiasm? nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

where would you put Alex Grey?

yes. i think about this blog post a lot. simple seeming tasks have a lot of details. johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/…

the crazy thing is the study was published March 2015, the retraction was published September 2015, yet we only ever heard about the original study.

the first video you can see it's a small plane, not an fpv quadcopter. is Ukraine using hobby RC planes and wings? less maneuverable than quadcopters but quieter and with much much longer range youtu.be/bq3lmx-vAas

this is even more exhilarating if you're familiar with betaflight OSD alerts. "LOW BATTERY" indicates batt voltage is sagging and "LAND NOW" means you're about to fall out of the sky. he just barely found his target in time.

disentanglement, nice 😎

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tbh this increases RFK favorability for me corvids are lit

it's super positive on Reagan, talks of Clinton's scandals, and the "honest" versions seem, i dunno, pretty honest?

i became a communist because of this meme i feel so betrayed