The Rock turns 30 today, and the urban legends about the film are wild. Connery is an older Bond in The Rock. Fun theory which I like, but the Connery had a cabin built and stayed on Alcatraz story is bull... he slept at the Hyatt Regency. Chem weapons were “verified” by the military. Nope, the opposite happened. Nic Cage “banned from action movies” before making The Rock. No, but there was real scepticism, so he chased roles to prove himself. It was written solely by three people. Not really. It was massively overhauled by Tarantino, Aaron Sorkin, even Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (the writer's of porridge) were pulled in to punch up Connery’s lines. “An actor nearly died”. Wrong again. During the SF balcony stunt, horrified locals called the cops thinking an actual murder was happening in the hotel. What is true is that it’s one of the best action films of the 90s. And Connery’s last line here (and “An act of looneyshe”) is perfect.

Life aboard the colony ship. Work by Syd Mead.

Repairs are done on 1983 Sony WM-10. This was Sony showing off - the size of a tape case & must be expanded to play. Runs off 1 AA batt. The engineering that went into this is crazy. #Walkman #Sony #Cassettes #Tapes #WM10

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

Build some houses. Stop the phone thefts. Tackle the fare dodging. Allow somewhere to open so we can get a drink after 11 pm. Stop your absurd virtue signalling nonsense. DO YOUR JOB

We’ve come a long way baby or at least we thought we had. I found this letter in the house that I bought

Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas." Read the full text of his remarks: anthropic.com/news/chris-ola…

Anthropic onboarding day: Michael Scott introducing Karpathy like he just signed Wemby in free agency.

SHE SAVED MILLIONS IN TAX. HE SET THE TAX RULES. HMRC SAW NO PROBLEM. Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) was running the nation's finances. Raising taxes on working people. Telling the country there was no alternative. His wife, Akshata Murty, was quietly using non-domiciled status to avoid paying UK tax on her overseas earnings, including roughly £11.6 million a year in dividends from her father's company, Infosys. The estimated saving: around £2.1 million per year. Over several years, sources told @Independent that figure could have reached £20 million. Non-dom status is legal. But when the man setting tax policy for 67 million people has a wife saving millions under that same policy, most organisations would want that conflict documented and scrutinised. There is no evidence HMRC (@HMRCgovuk) treated it with any urgency. Then someone inside Whitehall decided the public had a right to know. A source passed details to @Independent in April 2022, right in the middle of Partygate. The story blew up. Sunak was forced to ask for a ministerial interests review. Murty announced she would voluntarily start paying UK tax on worldwide income. What happened to the whistleblower? A leak inquiry was launched. @Channel4 noted it could lead to criminal prosecution, because disclosing someone's personal tax information is illegal in the UK. The source was never publicly identified. No prosecution ever came. So the person who told the truth about a potential conflict of interest at the heart of the Treasury faced a criminal investigation. The conflict of interest itself got a press release and a polite apology. Source: @Independent, @guardian, @BBCNews, @thetimes

We’re reimagining a 50-year-old interface - the mouse pointer - with AI. 🖱️ These experimental demos show how people can intuitively direct Gemini on their screens using motion, speech, and natural shorthand to get things done 🧵

A tricky LLM interview question: Your RAG system scores 90% retrieval accuracy on 5k company docs. But scaling to 500k docs drops the accuracy to just 50%, with the same embedding model and retriever. Why did this happen? The simplest answer is that more documents mean more competition for the top-k retrieval slots. That is true, but it doesn't explain why accuracy drops this dramatically. The answer comes down to how enterprise docs are distributed in the embedding space. Today, a single product decision in a company generates meeting transcripts, Slack threads, Confluence docs, Jira tickets, and email threads. They are related to the same event, so they all land in a similar region of the embedding space. As the company operates over months, this pattern repeats for every project/customer/roadmap, and the embedding space fills up with clusters of closely related documents. But all related docs don't contain the same facts. → Slack thread covers the decision made → Jira has the implementation deadline → Confluence has the technical spec → Email thread has the customer request When a query is about a specific fact (like a deadline), the answer lives in one of those docs. At a 5K corpus size, there might be 3-5 docs touching that topic, and the correct one easily lands in the top-k results. But at a 500K corpus size, there could be 40-60 total docs, and the one containing the actual answer can easily get pushed out of the top-k by other topically relevant docs, degrading retrieval. A recent research paper from Onyx documented this. The researchers used their newly open-sourced EnterpriseRAG-Bench dataset. It has 500k synthetic enterprise documents spread across Slack, Gmail, Jira, GitHub, Confluence, Google Drive, HubSpot, Fireflies, and Linear, with realistic noise like misfiled documents, near-duplicates, and conflicting versions. They ran the same retrievers at five corpus sizes from 5K to 500K. → Vector search accuracy dropped from 90.7% at 5K documents to 50.6% at 500K docs. → BM25 degraded more gracefully, from 85.8% to 68.4%. → At every scale, higher neighborhood density in the embedding space monotonically correlated with lower recall. The practical implication here is that retrieval accuracy on a 5k test set tells you almost nothing about production-scale performance. Always test at a realistic volume to measure the neighborhood density in your embedding space to estimate how much headroom the retriever actually has. The entire EnterpriseRAG-Bench dataset (500K docs with questions, and the whole evaluation harness) is open-source. Run your retriever against it at 5K, then at 500K, and see where your own accuracy curve breaks. I have shared the GitHub repo in the replies.

ニャッキの伊藤有壱さんにお声掛け頂き、コマ撮りの展覧会に一作家として参加しています。私はコマ撮り分野ではない場所から活動をはじめて、デザインの視点でのコマ撮りに取り組んできましたが、今回初めてコマ撮り界の本丸の方々とご一緒でき嬉しいです。今6年目のマッチ撮影素材等を展示しています

I'm a big advocate for the Oxford comma. I'm, also an advocate for, the, Shatner comma. You should, try it sometime. It really, makes your, sentences more, exciting!

360 drones are epic for capturing immaculate 3d gaussian splats. Wait till the virtual camera flies through the tree canopy down to ground level - bloody magnificent !

Splendid! No idea why this popped in the timeline but it's brilliantly delivered 🙂

feels like a good time to seriously rethink how operating systems and user interfaces are designed (also the internet; there should be a protocol that is equally usable by people and agents)

Often ruins the cinema - especially those people who eat noisily during the quiet bits! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c248…

So rare... Wordle 1,767 2/6* 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

Finding alien life wouldn't be terrifying. It would be a profound relief. As Professor Brian Cox explains, the thought that keeps him awake at night is the possibility that complex life is so incredibly rare that Earth might be the only inhabited planet in the entire Milky Way galaxy. If we are truly alone, it means that if humanity destroys our world, we aren't just ending our own story. We could be permanently extinguishing all intelligence and meaning in a galaxy of 400 billion stars; a terrifying cosmic burden that he hopes we do not have to carry by ourselves.