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Jon Apr 3, 2025

Andrea Junker

Apr 3, 2025

The 7 largest Dow Jones drops in American history:

1. Trump, 3/16/20
-2,997.10

2. Trump, 3/12/20
-2,352.60

3. Trump, 3/9/20
-2,013.76

4. Trump, 6/11/20
-1,861.82

5. Trump, 4/3/25
-1,679.39

6. Trump, 3/11/20
-1,464.94

7. Trump, 03/18/20
-1,338.46

Tired of winning yet?

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Jon Apr 3, 2025

@Some_Emo_Chick sadly, all of Wikipedia is available as a convenient single file download in a compressed format from multiple sites. Crawling the site is unnecessary.

Jon Mar 12, 2024

The Apollo 11 crew, and likely other astronauts on other missions, wrote their notes on the walls and near the instruments. NASA has a web page documenting and explaining the notes. https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap11fj/cm-107_graffiti.html

CM-107 Graffiti

Jon Jan 5, 2024

rob pike Jan 4, 2024

My talk "Go: What we got right, what we got wrong" at GopherConAU is now available to all.

VIdeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE5Tpp2BSGw

Blog: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-we-got-right-what-we-got-wrong.html

The content is the same except for the Q&A being unique to the video.

19. Rob Pike - What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong | GopherConAU 2023

YouTube

Jon Jan 5, 2024

Fedi.Tips Jan 4, 2024

In case you missed the boost yesterday, there's now a way to follow #RSS newsfeeds from your Mastodon account. It's called RSS Parrot, and you can find out how it works at:

➡️ https://rss-parrot.net

In short:

1. Toot @birb and include address of the feed you want to follow (or address of website where the feed is from)

2. RSS Parrot will create an account mirroring the feed, and will reply to you with the address of the account

3. Follow the mirror account

RSS Parrot is by @twilliability

RSS Parrot

Home of RSS Parrot, a free Fediverse service that lets you turn Mastodon into an RSS or Atom feed reader.

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Jon Dec 29, 2023

@gclef @davidgerard There is a big difference between using a set of prompts and responses (ala https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.10544.pdf) to train a student model and having a reverse engineered copy of a model like GPT.

Jon Dec 27, 2023

Church of Jeff Dec 27, 2023

This 1961 photo is called “The Mob”, and was shot by professional cat photographer Walter Chandoha. Originally a WW II combat photographer, his signature style was filming cats at their eye level. He collected nearly 100,000 cat photographs and it’s pretty cool that someone made a career out of this.
#catsofmastodon

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Jon Dec 27, 2023

@davidgerard Sorry, I think you are confusing the available to download models, like on HuggingFace, where your argument has some value with the proprietary and not downloadable models like GPT 4. Good luck trying to reverse engineer GPT 4 from typing in prompts and recording responses. The valuable intellectual property models don’t depend on copyright law to retain their value, they depend on secrecy and security - like the recipe for Coke.

Jon Dec 22, 2023

BirdiBirdson Dec 21, 2023

some new visual effects:
- wind lines
- air particles, brighter in sunrays
- smoke from spout

#GameDev #IndieDev #PixelArt

Jon Dec 22, 2023

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Dec 21, 2023

From the Orlando Sentinel today. What it’s like in DeSantistan.