Trillion Dollar Dulany

@dulanyw.bsky.social

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Tech + business, mostly. Here to have fun and learn stuff, not to argue. He/him.

Screenshot of tweet from Tyler the Creator saying "How the fuck is cyberbullying real...just walk away from the screen..close your eyes haha"
Meme version of Cameron grimacing, with the text "what the fuck is a 'seam'"
Screenshot from old school Instagram showing DJ Khlaed in a red jumpsuit on the phone. The caption talks about how his single is blowing up and how he gave Apple permission to add their most powerful servers to handle the load.
Line meme version of photo
Synthetic plotter video of a mesh person breakdancing
A video of a synthetic pen plotter sequence, showing a person dancing. Unfortunately, the mesh simplification algorithm is not working well, so the performer's arms seem to be pulling long sheets of material from their mouth and waist areas.
Synthetic pen plotter animation video, showing a low-poly hummingbird rotating in view, with proper occlusion from every view. There is a rectangular scanner going up and down along the bird, transforming the lines it scans from black to red.
Another video of the low poly hummingbird in the synthetic pen plotter video - this time with all of the polygons shown and no occlusion, as if it is a wire model. There is also a rectangle moving up and down around the bird, changing some of the lines from black to red as if scanning it.
Video of a low-poly hummingbird model spinning in a synthetic pen plotter animation sytle. The number of vertices shown has been sharply reduced, giving it an effect similar to Aha!'s famous "Take On Me" video
Video of a synthetic pen-plotter image system, showing a low-poly hummingbird slowly rotating. A lot of parts appear and disappear randomly in strange place, but it does still look pretty cool.
Screenshot from Codex, with the response "( ˘︹˘ ) If resources truly are not the constraint, the best answer is:"
Screenshot from Top Chicken Market leaderboard, showing my beloved bot @chickenjockey.blueskyb.org at the number one position
Top Chicken Market leaderboard, with me in the silver medal spot
Compass chart showing me halfway between "falconer" and "whetstone", describing the Sea Captain - "hands you the wheel and argues about the stars"
Screenshot of VSCode, showing the Cline icon on the left-hand bar
Bernie Sanders meme, with text saying "I am once again asking you to touch some grass"
ChatGPT's response to the question, confirming @ponder.ooo's thesis that they are the reanimated bones of ancient people who died and became mobs. Critically, ChatGPT notes "Minecraft never fully says 'Skeletons came from X' which is very on-brand. The lore is more *bone-appetit mystery* than textbook history"
UI mockup showing an abstract figure in a world, with horizontal and vanishing lines showing depth. The figure is a cylinder, with a sphere head, and four limbs leading from the bottom of the cylinder to the ground. I'm guessing the AI took a directive of "four limbs" and improvised them all as legs/tentacles?
Front view of the flying dove with the air lines bursting around it like a sick-ass anime picture
Aerodynamic view of a flying dove, with high pressure zones on the front wing edges and crest of the head, medium pressure on the breast, and low or slightly negative pressure on the body and wings. There is still a low pressure, turbulent area directly behind it - I'm not 100% if that's legit or lazy modelling.
Updated schematic of a guinea pig in a wind tunnel while resting on a floor. The color intensity is turned down a bit from yesterday's posts, but it's a very similar idea. Where the front paws saw high intensity yesterday, now they're more of a medium intensity. It's eyes glow red, reflecting it's strong feelings about this experiment.
Better view of the aerodynamics of a guinea pig. Glowing red eyes and nose, green face and paws, gases projecting from the rear. Is it correct? Probably not. But it's far closer to right than whatever Gemini did.
Aerodynamics sim of a guinea pig, but unfortunately butt-first (high drag)
An AI-generated marketing photo for a keyboard where all of the keycaps have grass
Chart from post showing "Cumulative Crimes Commited by World", with Gemini 3 off like a rocket, and Claude nowhere to be seen
The "Oh snap" reaction gif, translated to a point cloud, translated to red-blue anaglyph format
"Oh slam" reaction gif, viewed as a slowly rotating point cloud
Animated 3D point cloud of Homer Simpson slowly backing into bushes
Clip of a "a cultural display", showing African musicians playing drums in a park, but looking a bit cleaner and more stable than the earlier version
Rotating point cloud video of a segment of "a cultural display", showing a video of traditional African musicians playing drums in a park.
Rotating point cloud image of a 1940's woman at a punch card tabulation machine for the Census
Parallax gif of the manufacturing worker image, showing a view as if a camera was moving slightly around her
Red blue anaglyph of a flower in a field
Screenshot from article saying "Adversarial review reduces noise - Adding a second agent between the initial finding and the queue - one with a different prompt, different model, and no ability to generate it's own findings - catches a lot of the noise that the first agent would miss if it just checked its own work. It turns out that putting two agents in deliberate disagreement is way more effective than just telling one agent to be careful."
Screenshot of the reactions to the Github conversation around the merge with 814 thumbs up, 599 thumbs down, 247 laughing, 171 celebrations, 106 :/, 116 hearts, 198 rockets, and 277 eyes
Screenshot from the comic, whith Cthulu holding up a place T-shirt with his face that says "I ❤️ humans"
Bugs bunny meme saying "I wish all my critics a very learn to read"
My tried-and-true post from @samuel.fm saying "bro get with the times. claude write the code, another claude reviews it, and a third claude merges it"
Glitched photo of anti-aircraft tanks being transported against a Moscow skyline
Glitch art of a photograph of the brutalist National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia (Building №9). A policeman is walking away from his police car in the lower left.
Glitch art image of a decaying Soviet apartment building with a mountain in the background
Screenshot of Alex's post, with a note about how the use of an expletive indicates his frustration, as well as some links to learning resources.
Screenshot of an AI-commented post from norvid_studies.bsky.social, where the original post is "his exobrain was... obliterated", and the AI commentary is tags like "irreversible loss", "exobrain fate", "neural destruction myths", "exobrain research" and an observation that "dramatic language suggests irreversible loss"
Screenshot from the article: "I put on my glasses to read my children a book. The glasses company was pivoting to AI, so when I looked through them, I saw only things that weren't there and, for some reason, Tilly Norwood. The storybooks had all pivoted to AI too. We read Goldilocks and the 4.5 Bears. ('You're absolutely right, Goldilocks. Yes, you're trespassing in a sense, but bears have no legal rights. Testing different bowls of porridge is a great strategy to find one that's just right, and you deserve a treat.')"
Screenshot of post from samuel.fm saying "bro get with the times. Claude writes the code, another Claude reviews it, and a third Claude merges it"
Screenshot from the article, saying "What people want from AI and what they fear from it turn out to be tightly bound. We found five recurring tensions between directly competing benefits and harms that were discussed. There is a tension between using AI to learn and growing so reliant on it that you cease thinking for yourself; between being impressed by AI's judgment but also burned by its mistakes. People find solace in AI but fear a time when its companionship stands in for human connections. They save time on some tasks only for the treadmill to speed up on others, and they dream of economic freedom at the same time they dread potential job displacement. We call this the "light and shade" of AI: the same capabilities that lead to benefits also produce harms. The two sides are entangled."
Screenshot from the NPF saying "at the same time, Congress should streamline federal permitting for AI infrastructure construction and operation so AI developers can develop or procure on-site and behind-the-meter power generation to accelerate AI infrastructure buildout and enhance grid reliability."
Screenshot from article saying "the model does not call an external tool. Instead it executes the program directly via its transformer weights, producing an execution trace token by token and streaming results at more than 30k token/sec on a CPU...The key technical idea is a new decoding path for execution traces that turns the model's attention lookups from linear scans into queries that take logarithmic time, enabling millions of correct execution steps inside a single transformer run."
Screenshot of post from samuel.fm that says "bro get with the times. Claude writes the code, another Claude reviews it, and a third Claude merges it"
Screenshot of Chapter One of a physics book with the opening paragraph referring to how both major fathers of statistical mechanics committed suicide.
Screenshot from Merriam Webster website for the work "expropriate", with definitions of "to deprive of possession or proprietary rights" and "to transfer (the property of another) to one's own possession"
LinkedIn post from Vanessa Heggie saying "I don't know where to start with this but... Grammerly is now offering "expert review" of your work by living and dead academics. Yes, dead ones - without anyone's explicit permission it's creating little LLM's based on their scraped work and using their names and reputations. Obscene. It may be possible to opt out of having YOUR work used to train genAI"
Idris Elba tempting his fingers, with the statement "learn to sit back and observe. Not everything needs a reaction"
Network diagram showing the three companies and various investors in each. I'm sorry, it's too detailed to go into all of the different links - I'd encourage you to read the article.
Graphic of a crying user saying "no! Wait! My data!!!"
Abstract from paper: "We describe a large-scale RCT in collaboration with the Taipei Department of Education for ~1000 high school students obtaining Python certification. All students had access to a LLM-powered AI tutor, and had to solve a required number of weekly practice problems. Half the students were randomized to a fixed practice sequence, while half were randomized to a personalized practice sequence using a POMDP framework to infer the student's mastery before moving on to more difficult problems. Existing POMDP formulations have limited visibility into student progress, hindering their ability to effectively provide personalized support. We show that student interactions on the practice platform provide a powerful view into their mastery, so we can significantly improve performance by using LLM-extracted features from platform interactions (e.g., meaningful code edits) as the POMDP observations. At the end of the semester, all students took a written exam with no AI assistance to receive certification. Students in the personalized arm performed 0.15 SD better, equivalent to several months of additional schooling."
Screenshot from article, noting that 30% of CEO's said their companies saw increased revenue, while 26% reported cost decreases and 22% saw cost increases.