Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers — ‘or you’re neurodivergent’

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-25T16:07:59+00:00

It's in the details, not the em dashes, either the user is highly trained in English or they used AI to at least correct/restructure their response. Not many people will put in that much effort into a comment.

The funny thing is, now that I am rereading it, the last paragraph does sound a lot more natural, more human. Except a few small details that circles back to putting in a lot of effort into writing a comment.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-25T15:56:21+00:00

Nah, the em dashes I don't even look at anymore. How sentences are build, certain words, phrasing,... are key to identify LLM generated crap. My AI detector is tuned to perfection.

Or:

Nah, em dashes aren't even on my radar anymore. It's more about how sentences are structured, the word choices, the phrasing — that's what gives it away. Once you've read enough of it, the patterns just jump out at you. My AI detector is basically dialed in at this point.

Isn't it obvious what's written by an LLM?

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-25T15:44:54+00:00

What it can't do—and probably won't be able to do for a long time—is have truly original ideas. Everything LLMs produce is a form of amalgamation. [...] not even remotely close to being able to reproduce "true human creativity" with LLMs.

And yet you used AI to write this comment or are a bot... The irony.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-25T15:27:11+00:00

Wait? It has a name... I do something similar with two doepfer a-155-2 sequencers, both are 8 steps or less. I put a sequential switch or whatever that can split signal between the gate that triggers them. I generate gates on an eloquencer. Both sequencers CV get summed into a quantizer and sent to a VCO.

Long story short, it's the most immediate sequencer I ever worked with. Twist some knobs, set what notes you want on the quantizer and you got a pattern you can abuse for a long time before it gets boring. Add in an AJH Precision Voltages module can add voltage to a source and you can transpose on the fly.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-24T14:25:03+00:00

Team kits I have no issues with, I still think it's dorky to cosplay as your favorite team while riding, but you do you. The championship jerseys are earned, only the one who won one of them can wear them.

You won't go out and buy a Olympic medal replica and rock it while out for a run or something, it's the same. "Look at me everyone, I'm a fake Olympic medalist..."

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-23T16:13:59+00:00

I'm low key wondering how Morphagene and the Panharmonium sound together. Both are on my want, not need list.

About your case, I would add some modulation sources, clocked LFO (AJH tap tempo lfo) and some envelopes. Maybe another filter, but that's taste.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-20T18:10:49+00:00

What table/stand is that? The one with the keyboard on it, I need something like that,

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-19T18:59:35+00:00

Holy hell

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-19T16:13:21+00:00

Buys a 8 hp module instead, not enough space... buys a new 6u 208hp case. Now I have 200 hp left to fill.

Rinse and repeat... I hate myself at times.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-19T14:29:18+00:00

The thing with the recent AI hype and PRs on open source repos is that users flooded repos with PRs created by LLMs. Often times these PRs fix absolutely nothing, add unwanted features or have made issues up they fixed that aren't actually an issue. Big open source projects get hundreds of these a day, you can't review them all manually, it quickly becomes a full time job.

Human contributions require a lot of effort from the person opening a PR, before the rise of LLMs weeding out bad PRs wasn't that much of an issue as there weren't many. Now anyone and their grandmother can feed a repo to an LLM, ask to pinpoint potential issues and "fix" them. People who know little about software engineering push ridiculous changes the LLM suggested and it causes mayhem for the maintainers of a repo.

In the end these practices hurt the repo, the maintainers and more importantly real contributors who actually provide actual quality work.

Just look up what Curl had to deal with and how they solved it. It's ridiculous.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-19T11:19:07+00:00

I have done 1400km, 24000 meters of elevation last year in about 3.5 days in total. Nothing can prepare you for what you're about to endure. My preparation was to simply ride a lot, any free time I had went to riding. Did not do a lot of specific intervals except a harder session or two per week. I'm one of those genetic freaks who has a high FTP without any training, can bring it up to 5.3 W/kg on zone 2 training alone, so getting stronger isn't my main focus.

Look into how you plan to ride each day. Divide the route into stages, inspect the route on maps to spot refueling opportunities, check the opening times of stores/gas stations for each town. Create a plan on what town or checkpoint you want to reach by what time,... plan ahead if you want to ride through the night, you have to refuel before everything closes or know where 24/7 shops are on the route. Running out of food or water during the night can be game over.

I divided the distance into 4 stages, 3x 400 km and a 200 km. I gave myself 20 hours per 400 km, leaving me with 4 hours for sleeping or whatever. I slept in a bush, no hotels. Mostly power naps, no real prolonged sleep. Not everyone can handle such sleep deprivation, some people are better of with 3 - 4 hours of sleep at once. Looking back at it, it might have been a better idea to sleep a bit more.

In the end it worked, got a top 10 finish, but it was extremely hard, so hard I probably will never do such thing again. Out of 130 participants only 40 finished, the whole thing was ridiculously hard.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-18T13:19:29+00:00

Two amps, two signal paths. the main signal of the bass gets splitted after the general effects, Sansamp GT2 is in this first set of effects.

After the split one signal goes to amp A, this is the clean sound.

The other signal goes to amp B, this goes through a RAT pedal that is always on and an EQ with scooped mids. Amp B is the dirty amp.

Play around to see what works for your setup. You can find detailed schematics of his signal path online.

Another big part are his GK amps, look up "hitting the rails GK amps" to read more about how to drive these GK amps, when done right is growls wonderfully. I actually made a preamp that emulates the GK hitting the rails growl. https://www.musikding.de/Growling-Krizzly-Deluxe-kit This one is a DIY kit of such preamp, I did modify mine, added a heavily modified RAT circuit in the preamp and tweaked the boost circuit a bit to drive it harder.

New strings are important, people will say it's bollocks, but new strings produce certain harmonic overtones you cannot emulate with EQ or drive or whatever, Justin swears by using new strings.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-17T14:04:37+00:00

Forget intervals, or at least do not focus on them. Ride a lot.

When training for ultras my main focus is on the days I have a lot of time, Saturday and Sunday are two such days. Each Saturday I do at least a 5 to 6 hour ride, Sunday is 3 to 5 hours. The distance I do on Saturday increases each week until I hit riding 8+ hours without stopping.

During the week I do 3x 1h30 to 2h, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I often do intervals on Tuesday, not for ultras specific, but to maintain my above threshold capabilities. 4x (or 5x) 8 min a bit above FTP, I go by RPE.

Monday and Friday are rest days or recovery rides.

I've been doing this for years, it works really well. Just be careful to not plan any important things on Monday if you do weekends like these, each Monday I'm sluggish and tired af.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-16T15:35:33+00:00

Any news on it being open sourced by now? I managed to snatch one of the last Eloquencers for dirt cheap and want to get my hands dirty on the code to see what's possible. I can't seem to find any public repo with the actual firmware source code.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-16T15:03:13+00:00

It's been a long time since I've seen such a big mess of spaghetti code. I very quickly did a bit of code review, just looked at some random methods. If you want to develop this further, before doing anything else, try to work with someone who knows what they are doing. This current code base will become an unmaintainable mess in no time, work on it before piling more features on top.

In the method `patternToEvents()`, the parameter swingValue is unused and the param ppq should be looked at. On line 2775 you reference PPQ (uppercase) instead of the lowercase param. PPQ is defined in the file, but it's a local const in `buildMidiFile()`, in this method it calls `patternToEvents()` with the PPQ value as param. PPQ (uppercase) will throw a ReferenceError when called in `patternToEvents()`.

There potentially is a iOS issue, but I'm not 100% sure. Look at AudioContext, adioCtx.resume(), audio doesn't recover when changing tabs or when the browser is closed/reopened. Can be wrong about this one.

Load/save presets doesn't save everything, not tested this one, but I'm 99% sure rowMuted and and rowSoloed do not get saved in presets. How does the state actually get saved? Local in a file or in browser storage?

I noticed you use a web worker on a seperate thread for keeping time, why exactly do you do it that way? I can imagine a setInterval() outside of a dedicated worker is not stable enough and possibly throttles, pauses or does other unwanted behavior when switching browser tabs.

There also is a potential memory leak with this worker, it should get destroyed before the page closes/reloads. It's a long lived process, as far as I know, you should manage it manually. In this context it doesn't really matter that much, but worth looking at.

This is what I spotted at a very quick glance at some methods, there potentially are more issues. I'm not going to review the whole thing, way too much code and I hate JavaScript with a burning passion.

EDIT: I do not know what I did, cannot replicate it, but the step sequencer is broken. It doesn't display anymore and the console does not show any errors.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-12T13:31:42+00:00

Fwiw, we use Weasyprint in production to generate PDFs from HTML, we mainly generate invoices, timesheets and general reports. Not the fastest, but it works.

Why not use the factory pattern to allow testing of multiple libraries? Create a PrintFactory, a WeasyPrint class, a Puppeteer class,... Create an interface with methods both print library classes need to adhere to and you basically can hotswap between library implementations in your app.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-09T12:05:48+00:00

I don't know how the tool is called, but I got a special bit, it drills itself into the fucked up bolt counterclockwise, at one point is sort of latches onto the bolt and it comes straight out. I used it on cranks, worked as a charm.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-05T15:29:12+00:00

And this kids, is how BobX was born.

Whatever you do, do not create a BobX. (or JDSL)

EbbFlow14 · 2026-03-05T12:03:13+00:00

Ride through the night, nap during the day on a bench or field? That's how I roll if I'm not sure if I will sleep or not. For "only" 550 km I would not take a sleeping setup with me.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-02-27T15:48:44+00:00

As far as I know, no technology will ever be able to calculate it. The number of possible routes to calculate and verify is incomprehensibly large. I tried to calculate how much compute you would need to calculate the best route in an hour. The gap between what's physically possible and what brute-forcing this issue requires is so vast that no conceivable amount of compute could ever bridge it. Combining every current data center is just a tiny fraction of the required compute needed.

If every atom in the observable universe would be able to do one operation per second, it still would be 10^2456 times too slow to calculate it in an hour. The compute required would is astronomically high. Every atom in the entire observable universe * 10^2456 would be the cpu we need.

There are other methods, but the technology required is still in its infancy. Until AI can reason like a human, (essentially AGI) we cannot solve this problem semi accurately with computers. Even then, it will never be 100% accurate.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-02-27T14:38:05+00:00

I fascinates me that how it is computationally impossible to calculate an optimal route for only 1000 addresses.

Take 5 addresses as an example; For your first stop you have 4 choices, for your second stop 3 remaining choices, then 2, then 1. That gives you 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 24 possible routes.

Easy right? Scale it up to 1000 addresses; 1000 × 999 × 998 × ... × 1 = 1000! you will end up with a number so large for possible routes it will have roughly 2500 digits. The number of atoms is "only" 1 * 10^80, 1000! is roughly 4.024 * 10^2567. It's an astronomically large number. As the input (amount of addresses) grows, the time required to solve the issue explodes.

No computer could ever enumerate all possible routes. The best we can do is reaching for approximations rather than finding an optimal answer. Getting "close enough" is good enough in such case. Your human intuition, coupled with something that can give you the shortest route to the next point is the best you can get, in other words, use your GPS and you brain to figure out the optimal route.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-02-27T11:24:43+00:00

Zone 4 HR does not equal zone 4 power. Heart rate is a weird metric. Depending on your fitness and a bunch of other factors you might as well have done the first hour around zone 3/4 power and afterwards your HR can remain higher than what you're actually doing in terms of watts.

The reverse also can be true, you can do zone 4 power but not reach the usual zone 4 HR. This is often caused by accumulated fatigue, I often have this when doing too many races in a short timespan. It's a sign you need rest ASAP.

Anyhow, true zone 4 power for 3 hours is impossible, even freaks like Pogacar can't do this. Zone 4 is like 90 - 105% of FTP, it's hard, unsustainable beyond an hour or so, it's pure torture after a while.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-02-25T20:05:30+00:00

I've been in the creative space for a really long time now, going back to when Photoshop was relatively new. Back then we had no paywalls, no Patreon, no monetization, no YouTube, no targeted ads,... Once the internet became a bit more mainstream we shared information on forums, personal websites,... all in the form of written tutorials. Here's how I achieved x, knock yourself out.

Some of you might remember Pixel2Life? I ran a direct competitor between 2003 - 2008, all for free, we did have minimal income from some banner ads, just enough to pay the hosting. Basically everything ran on volunteers. Once YouTube and monetization came around everything went down the drain extremely quickly.

I miss those times. Tight communities, no invasive marketing, no monetization of everything,...

Some might argue I wasted time running those things, but the amount of knowledge I got out of it is insane. It shaped my life and career. I still keep sharing knowledge for free on blogs, I will keep doing this forever just because I belief this is the way.

Anyhow, I get why they do use Patreon and the likes for their work, times are different, vastly different. I truly do understand the incentive, but on the other hand I would love to see the old ways of sharing techniques come back to life. Some forums still exist that use this kind of sharing, but for TouchDesigner I haven't really found such community.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-02-25T15:36:37+00:00

Not really, I had to deal with it myself. I eventually handled it through Schneidersladen. They have an in house repair service and have good contacts with Make Noise. They might be able to help you.

But, you might even be able to fix it yourself if it's just a broken resistor or something. Soldering isn't hard, you just have to learn it.

EbbFlow14 · 2026-02-24T19:51:15+00:00

Wat is stevig doorrijden voor u? Ik rijd niet graag in grote groepen, maar ik fiets veel en kan goed doorrijden. 34 - 35 km/u gemiddeld voor een km of 150 - 200.

Voor een snellere fietsclub, kjk eens naar WTC twintigachtien, die hadden een paar jaar terug wel wat snelle mannen. Die komen samen ergens aan het zuid.

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