UConn just detonated Claude's bracket and I couldn't be happier. What a play, what a finish!
https://x.com/SportsCenter/status/2038397224091029758
SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) on X
BRAYLON MULLINS FOR THE WIN 😱
UCONN ELIMINATES DUKE IN THE FINAL SECONDS 👀
(via @MarchMadnessMBB)
welp. halfway through the Elite Eight, Claude's bracket has broken into the top 10,000, which means it's doing better than 99.97% of the brackets in ESPN's tournament challenge. in one year I've gone from ‘lol its funny because the AI is dumb’ to ‘Wow, maybe it's unfair to deploy this in a friendly competition...’
https://fantasy.espn.com/games/tournament-challenge-bracket-2026/entry?id=5122a370-2326-11f1-8336-57ef66b45209“Hey Siri: shut the fuck up.”
“Okay.”
(Thought bubble: at last, Apple has achieved the pinnacle of human computer interaction)
“…at the next stop sign, turn right.”
(Thought bubble: fuck.)
“The Machine develops — but not on our lines. The Machine proceeds — but not to our goal. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die.” - E. M. Forster, ‘The Machine Stops’
“Look. This is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they don't do experiments on one and save the other. This is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they will ask for a third one, plug all three into each other, punch a hole into an alternate universe where humans subscribe to an even more destructive ideological system, then try to turn a nearby star into a torus because that was what their initial scientific experiment was for and they didn't want to waste a trip.”
this feels like the most “humans just *do things*” headline ever. I swear if we tried to pull this off in New York we’d hit a pothole and blow a gigantic hole in Queens.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00950-w
Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck
Physicists have succeeded for the first time in transporting the most expensive and most volatile substance on Earth — antimatter.
I was today years old when I discovered the existence of ~/.config/git/ignore and immediately added .DS_Store as the first line.
while I did see this in Brooklyn, i'm going to assume that none of these problems are canine in nature...
Just a data point in terms of model improvements: as ever, I had AI fill out my March Madness bracket this year. Last year it was a funny joke when ChatGPT hallucinated San Diego winning a game that it wasn't even competing in. This year... uh... not only is Claude winning the pool I have going with my friends, it's also ranked 41,291 out of 26.6 MILLION brackets submitted to ESPN. It even called the High Point upset over Wisconsin with startling conviction.
Oh, Bushwick. Never change.
