Dave Schumaker

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I make things for the Internet machine. Baseball, engineering (#ReactJS), space. Former geologist. LA roots / Oakland pride. (Previously seen on gdgt and Engadget)
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I’m sorry, Benson. We’re definitely not going to let you out right now.

I was so, so, so looking forward to seeing these guys at the Fillmore this week. Alas, my knee had some other ideas. No punk rock shows for me for the foreseeable future.

(Last time I saw them was 2017 in Berkeley — pre-COVID time doesn’t seem real)

Alibaba released their QwQ advanced reasoning LLM that you can run on your own devices. Like OpenAI’s o1 model, it uses chain-of-thought reasoning to solve complex questions.

It’s pretty impressive! However, if you ask it about… oh, let’s say the Tiananmen Square Massacre, it shuts you down cold.

Been traveling for work this week — to the mothership (9 years as of today! 🙀). The views from the office are neat.

Meta released Llama 3. Let's download it and see the result using my yet-to-be-patented Feline Calibration Prompt (FCP):

"Tell me your finest joke about cats".

Okay, we're getting somewhere, now. (Screenshots are Llama 3 vs Llama 2).

Surely, if I keep reporting the issue that causes my computer to kernel panic and reboot on the daily, Apple will fix it... right?

Maybe I need to say that I'm John Mayer.

https://gizmodo.com/john-mayer-gets-apple-reply-after-bug-report-jibba-jabb-374630

John Mayer Gets Apple Reply after Bug Report Jibba-Jabba

It looks like writing "John Mayer here" really works to get Apple's attention when you report a problem. According to Steve Jobs' fab guitarist, they got back to him directly only four days after he sent the bug report ramblings:

Gizmodo

The moon's shadow as the eclipse starts to cross over North America. Via GOES-West.

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12&dim=0

GOES-West Full Disk - GeoColor - NOAA / NESDIS / STAR

Near real-time publication of GOES-East and GOES-West images from NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

GOES Image Viewer - NOAA/NESDIS/STAR website
Wing pooch
Our neighbor’s fence seems a bit suspicious.
We got a “porch goose” for Christmas. I have mixed feelings, because my mom had a flock of geese in our backyard when I was a kid and I have very distinct memories…