This weekend in Ucluelet, we showcased the Caterpillar 3208 210HP we took out of Nootka Princess, beside the 300HP-continuous electric motor we're replacing it with. Turned out to be an incredibly effective and surprising visual comparison.
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Avi Bryant
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I can’t resist venting about the open call for oligarchy here. How does Tobi look his friends and colleagues in the eyes and say that he should get more votes than them? I used to know and respect him. What an incredible demonstration of the corrupting effects of extreme wealth.
We're starting to put up some short videos about progress on the Nootka Princess repower: https://www.risingtideboatworks.com/project/nootka-princess
Also available as a youtube playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9HrDQCGwtE&list=PLUATKdkhPqeE
I ordered some batteries.
DEPLOY THE VIBROHAMMER
Signage, in progress.
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@lzg@mastodon.social “Avi, why did my request to clean the kitchen use 10 million input tokens?”
“You’re absolutely right. I found an interesting book to read and forgot about the kitchen. Would you like a summary of the book?”
Knock knock
Looking forward to this new development in Canadian federal politics leading to significant improvements in people’s pronunciation of my first name.
I read this immediately after reading a blog post claiming that Go was the perfect language to target with LLMs.
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@timbray I’ve been doing Research on how to prevent this for the several hundred feet of dock we’re putting in at Ukee.
The answer seems to be haha good luck the sea lions always win.
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Seems like this *might* have been the boatyard confusing two similar names rather than deliberate impersonation. I’m going to go with that for now.
Modeling the big machine.
I didn’t ask.
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@boris@cosocial.ca I think the best known Canadian assembler is https://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/PAL.TXT but it’s a little out of date now.
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@timbray@cosocial.ca flashback to getting this message from a much younger and more Irish-idiomed Patrick Collison 20 years ago: “rgh keybord bnjxed”
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@Flux@wandering.shop for me personally and a lot of the people I’ve worked with, the tradeoffs it makes - most especially the lack of generics - cause a ton of friction. They’re good, thoughtful, thoroughly considered engineering tradeoffs, but haven’t been the right ones for the contexts where I’ve worked.
That said, and deeply ironically: having assistance from LLMs can smooth over a lot of that friction…
Yesterday, for convoluted reasons, I had coffee aboard a 110’ sailboat with a single liveaboard resident.
I cannot conceive of why someone would think it’s appropriate to dedicate such a giant machine to one person.
I suggested that he compare liveaboard notes with his neighbors @neauoire@merveilles.town and @rek@merveilles.town but he didn’t seem interested.
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@d6 the github arctic vault snapshot of pre-LLM open source is feeling very prescient all of a sudden
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@mcc@mastodon.social I maintain, unironically, that I’m fine with *any* of these systems but if I have to rank them, I would put approval voting first.
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@rek Finn and Em, obviously.
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@nnethercote@mas.to I’d be interested in chatting. @graydon@types.pl can vouch that I’m not a crazy person, or at least only the good kind of crazy.
Roughly speaking, I’d consider funding you to work half time on the Rust compiler, and half time on compiler-shaped problems in some CAD research I’m leading.
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@kboyd@phpc.social yeah, not intentional. The imagery makes no sense without my post it was replying to.