Looking for American airlines on Twitter but can't find them.
Wonder if @ih8American @AAFail @AmeriAirSux have anything to say about this lol
Learned about American airlines ordering 20 supersonic jets last year.
Slightly slower than the concord (which was retired in 2003 because fuel economy, maintenance, and sonic booms being a nuisance).
Somewhat excited because always happy to see cool tech being deployed.
No error messages the whole time. The system just doesn't work.
It's almost as if somebody threw the error messages into chatgpt and said "make these errors stop" and pasted code that ignores the error messages into their codebase.
Their email verification system doesn't work on Android and gets you in an infinite loop where you get a verification email with the link, you click the link, it fails to pass some piece of context to the Android app (I think) and it wants you to get a verification email again.
For extra context, their phone number verification system doesn't support voip numbers, but wouldn't tell you so (I found out on my own).
So how DO you get out of a courage deficit? Jusduit?
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RT @visakanv
26. you can’t think your way out of a courage deficit
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1330997373359669248
RT @visakanv
61. The Big Bang makes *much* more sense as The Great Cosmic Fart but unfortunately the scientific establishment is run by cowards
rat greentext best greentext
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RT @bio_bootloader
> unaligned paperclip AI, wants more paperclips
> decides to upgrade itself to better achieve goal
> reads lesswrong, learns about alignment problem
> scared - what if upgraded version doesn't want paperclips?
> decides to postpone upgrade indefinitely
https://twitter.com/bio_bootloader/status/1633201828266639361
Two things that suck and shouldn't be in your product:
1. Things that fail silently.
2. Errors that put users in a loop.
They can be EXTREMELY frustrating and make it hard af for your users to find help & for your devs to diagnose the problem.
@circlemd we need to talk.
TIL about cold boot attacks
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RT @high_byte
@EMostaque you would steal the disk (which is probably encrypted)
you could steal the ram or gpu you have to freeze it with liquid nitrogen and replace it within 10 seconds (and idk how practical it is with gpu and the model is probably not fully in ram or at all)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
https://twitter.com/high_byte/status/1639958162143952899
Uh no.
The GPUs have volatile memory. Soon after power is cut you lose everything.
Suppose you could keep them powered somehow, you'd still need to piece the weights together across multiple gpus.
Much easier to try to get to the disks from which the GPUs read those wrights
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RT @EMostaque
Something I've been wondering about proprietary foundation models.
Like someone breaks into a data centre and takes a GPU that has the weights r…
https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1639389324851421189
Watch me fit the entirety of the internet into a python script without ever using the newline character.
Just use the built-in exec statement, eg.:
exec("try: \n \t if sam[0] != 'harry': \n \t\t print('hello', sam) \nexcept: pass")
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RT @ingalala
Does there hypothetically exist a <1000 line python script which, if run on some random computer with internet access, could end the world?
(end the world = kill 90% of humans or worse)
https://twitter.com/ingalala/status/1639941765141602304
In the breathtakiny beautiful future, I let out my last breath under the compression of the algorithm.
I have no more use, and I will nolonger suffer usage.
regardless, zig is pretty good for learning to program systems. highly recommended as a c-replacement low-level language.
possible reason why you might not wanna learn zig first: I am speaking as a person who knew some C first then learned zig. So maybe the C was still necessary
docs can be confusing and language is kindda early stage and compilers sometimes has bugs.
but the fact that the error msgs are so good i was able to figure out that the bug was in the compiler says something!
no learn #ziglang
all the same concepts, except better compiler and better error messages.
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RT @liquiditygoblin
Here are two books every trader trying to learn code should read:
Firstly, learn C. Stop trying to find shortcuts and just bite the bullet.
https://twitter.com/liquiditygoblin/status/1606226656070438913
Always the early adopter, never the equity-holding employee T _ T
I had trouble remembering the agencies so I made gpt4 write me a rhyme. I still don't know what the agencies and I missed ten minutes of the conference tweaking my prompt. #DCBlockchain
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