just another layer of cellophane

Joined October 2020
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The New York City special lobo is sitting in a malfunctioning subway car with the heat on full blast during the middle of a heat wave because you’re so sick of every conversation opening with “it’s so hot outside” from fidi to uws or until you feel it’s done enough brain damage
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> 21 yo new grad from the rust belt > friend says “hey wanna come work at an ai startup for the summer and live in nyc” > sure.jpg > given a hat w Walmart GoPro on it, roll of paper towels, used gloves > goes to random yc apartments to clean all day AGI wasn’t built in a day
Today, we're launching shift. We're starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free. Here's how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing. In exchange, we record the cleaning. Robotics is being built on data about how people do daily tasks, and the value of that recording is what funds the service. Anything personal in it is anonymized before the recording is processed. By now, you have heard about the shift to AI more times than you can count. About the shift toward you, the part where you actually feel it, you have heard almost nothing. Shift is what starts to make it concrete, in specific cities, with specific services. Today, cleaning in New York. Soon, handymen, repairs, and errands across the globe. And this is just one side of shift, with more on the way. Comment “shift” and we’ll send you an early access link.
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fyi we have gpus
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𝒞 is for 𝒞erving 𝒞uda kernels
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That plants are green (bc it’s inefficient to metabolize) and sunsets are not (bc Rayleigh scattering of short wave len) and gold is yellow (bc it’s heavy causing 6s and 5d orbital gap to be small), seems all we can see is residue; light the daily singularities could not absorb
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Punch’s cloth mother is djungelskog from ikea
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Foiled on my morning commute by Po (the red Cantonese teletubby) offering a rose to those willing to “pose with po”. Faintly desperate for a Valentine’s tribute, I looked to Po unsure of whether to make eye contact into the ocelli or with the visible breath from the mesh mouth.
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Afterwards, they pressed into my hand a thin sugar cookie printed with the image of a burnt toast cookie that had a smiley face iced onto it in photorealistic detail. There were even shadows where the icing had once stood. They told me it was a burnt toast smiley.
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They’ll never tell you but this is what peak form looks like
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About to burst into tears as my Waymo (low aggression, 5s grace period on greens before attempting turns) is stuck in a line of 11 other Waymos (also all beta and cannot rise to the challenge that is Stevenson and 6th). Everyone honks at us the second we make the turn.
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This was only slightly better than stopping at a four way stop sign intersection only to have my Waymo YIELD to another Waymo that arrived at the perpendicular stop sign a second after. Please stop assigning me to the low aggression waymos, I can’t take personal attacks atm.
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prophetically named dflash for @_dcw02
Two days since DFlash was released, and @_dcw02 (on @modal research) already shipped support for it in SGLang. Why are we so excited about this? Diffusion speculators let us get *way* higher tok/s than auto-regressive models. E.g. we're seeing a 4.73x boost with H200s FA3 already — with still more improvements to come! Reach out to us if we can help you get this in prod today, and huge thanks to @zhijianliu_ and team for coming up with this technique.
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Sitting blob-like day in day out
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Out: doing cardio for summer abs In: doing cardio so I can keep my hands out of my pockets for more than 10min in the nyc winter so I can respond to slack messages
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Speaking into the void bc if someone hears you it might actually affirm the meaninglessness of your actions
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Self serve beans (black, kidney) in 64oz mason jar, w 7x markup on Goya prices. The real obscenity isn’t cost, it’s the sheer inadequacy of quantity for anyone who actually eats beans. The humble bean is no longer food; it’s a prop in the ideological theater of gentrified virtue
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Snippets of conversation w chatgpt to diagnose film playing in antler > patient in spherical padded interrogation room, Okame masked man attempts lobotomy > mpc wakes up in silk sheets w blonde after dreaming of union induced Pegasus & is targeted by oss firing squad > Santa 🎅
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Even after we reach the hive mind stasis, the bandwidth of thought will still be bottlenecked by the speed of light, creating clusters of localized cognition. This implies that where you live and location will still actually matter, keeping rent prices in nyc high.
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AGI not even real and I’m already a slave to ai 😔
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Few can imagine the fervor with which I am capable of ingesting the purest of substances — A2 milk in this case — unless they have witnessed the corybantic ardor of my water rites or the solemn ceremony of a one-bite egg.
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Imagine, then, my horror upon learning that this object of my private devotion is not only commonplace in China but aggressively marketed to from infancy (my infancy!), souring this seraphic nightly indulgence into something unmistakably vulgar.
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