FAR part 103 has a max speed requirement but it's only for level flight

ultralight motor glider powered by cryogenic hydrogen. cryogenic hydrogen has incredible energy density, but not for long; it boils off while it's sitting in the tank. so you use most of it to take off and climb to as high an altitude as you can and store that energy as gravitational potential

right now I'm building on top of soulseek because bootstrapping a p2p protocol from zero users is really hard, but that would be a cool thing to layer on top I think

if you have a representation of your preferences in terms of what kind of content you like (eg a probability distribution over an embedding space where more similar content is closer together) then that dovetails really well with a gossip protocol. you connect to some bootstrap peers, you send […]

huge banquet, everyones having a nice time, everything looks extremely normal, and then a thousand people bust in and hang a massive banner from the rafters saying "Racist Mensa"

I think it's because I like watching videos on machine learning and dynamical systems and there must be a very tightly connected cohort of people who are watching the same stuff but just for twitter posting boosterism

youtube is kind of useless to me for anything but music now. the recommended videos are all extremely dumb AI takes. is it gell-mann amnesia if the next page is always more of the same wrong information?

one of the most annoying things about AI hype is people hand-wringing about labor economics things that have been true for 30 years and attributing them to magical AI. production is already automated! clerical work is already automated! jobs don't exist because they produce things and haven't […]

holy shit I got a free NordVPN subscription and their macOS client installs an endpoint kernel extension that just hangs around after an uninstall. There was a constant com.nordvpn.macos.Shield process. I had to boot into recovery and disable SIP to get rid of it. Part of that is on macOS that […]

writing LLM dialog is really hard because it doesn't have a voice per se, so you have to think of what would be in the pretraining data that starts with the previous thing that was just said

why does it make any sense for your button-clicking bot to be able to recall the entire contents of ao3?

one bizarre thing about AI agent discourse is everyone seems to be assuming that agent = LLM, when using an LLM as an RL agent is a real hack. LLMs weren't designed for that and people are only using them for it because a) they're LLM companies and their goal is to find applications for LLMs […]