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BryanLegend··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
Helping to prevent a possible skynet scenario probably makes those checks easier to write.

There's a lot more than money at stake.

BryanLegend··on An Interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg About Turnarounds
It's not just you. Was a waste of time.
BryanLegend··on A Challenge to Roboticists: My Humanoid Olympics
If he was wearing colored gloves for hand pose detection, these videos would be suitable for a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model training set. The robotic companies are making and labeling many such videos.
BryanLegend··on How to Enter a City Like a King
Source: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/richard-ii...
BryanLegend··on To AI or not to AI
I've recently been misled by ChatGPT a lot as well. I think it's the router. I'm on the free plan so I assume they're just being tight with the GPU cycles.
BryanLegend··on Evolving the Multi-User Spaceport
To infinity, and beyond!
BryanLegend··on The obstacles to scaling up humanoids
Forklifts do pretty great
BryanLegend··on The elegance of movement in Silksong
Silksong is really about BDSM
BryanLegend··on Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction
So in this case is North Korea more free than South Korea?
BryanLegend··on Remote hosting for your telescope
Factories & Food Delivery Kitchens
BryanLegend··on Show HN: NaturalCron – Human-Readable Scheduling for .NET (With Fluent Builder)
How flexible is the syntax? Can I write whatever and have a chance it parses correctly?
BryanLegend··on It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)
Seriously, nobody cares!
BryanLegend··on X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform
True. It's a misleading headline.
BryanLegend··on The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish
Did George RR Martin write it?
BryanLegend··on BYU study: Why some people choose not to use artificial intelligence
Sounds like the answer is FUD.
BryanLegend··on James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image of an Exoplanet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_Antliae https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09150-4
BryanLegend··on Gemini CLI
Some of my code is so bad I'm sure it will damage their models!
BryanLegend··on AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness
Alexa can do calls. We usually only use that to find a lost phone.
BryanLegend··on AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness
We easily use Alexa 20x a day at my house. Announcements, kitchen timers, lights & music. Even checking store hours or weather.

Replaces a phone in many cases.

BryanLegend··on AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness
There used to be second or two between finishing a command and it getting executed. We easily use Alexa 20x a day at my house. Announcements, kitchen timers, lights & music.

I think the voice recognition is async now. It's streaming the data to a model. Before it would wait until the command was finished then send the .wav file off to a model.

BryanLegend··on AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness
It is. It will make up a story if you ask it to. Answers questions with it's own knowledge now instead of using the amazon answers site.
BryanLegend··on AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness
The new Alexa+ is super great, if you've been invited to it.

The voice recognition is at a whole nother level, much much faster. Controlling lights is easily an entire second faster.

The TTS upgrade is a trip. She sounds younger and speaks faster.

BryanLegend··on A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts
We ain't stupid
BryanLegend··on What you need to know about EMP weapons
I read it and it's completely biased to a worst imaginable scenario. Not likely to reflect any real world at all.
BryanLegend··on Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)
Yean, a lot has happened in two years
BryanLegend··on Making video games (without an engine) in 2025
Of course it was relevant. If they had a better game engine it would have been further along.
BryanLegend··on Making video games (without an engine) in 2025
Hate to be mean, but this guys last game was a complete failure after multiple years of development: https://www.exok.com/posts/2025-01-22-earthblade-final-updat...
BryanLegend··on The Japanese method of creating forests comes to Mexico
https://archive.is/ByuWu
BryanLegend··on X X^t can be faster
So if an AI company spends $5B on a cluster, is this optimization worth $250m?
BryanLegend··on Clearly Incorrect
I just watched that video and that grilled cheese looked amazing!
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