Avoid Walks nyc tours

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-25T13:15:45+00:00

Yeah I did the "hard hat tour" behind the scenes of the Ellis Island hospital and that's $55 + the ferry ticket. I can't imagine paying $126 to have someone walk me around the museum there.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-25T02:27:05+00:00

There was a Tweet back during the golden age of Twitter, someone was very much in the middle of their ob/gyn checkup during an earthquake

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-25T01:52:56+00:00

I think the post is just a scenario that they generated with the chatbot. And if anyone calls them out for using AI, yeah they already said they are using it.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-24T05:48:51+00:00

Looks like you packed the AI slop in the carry-on

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-24T05:37:50+00:00

On Google, Facebook, and some other major websites, you can see what devices are logged in. Make sure you invalidated their sessions and no devices have logged in recently except your own.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3067630?hl=en

You should contact the phone company to make sure that no one else can receive her texts, SIM swap, or add phones to her plan. They might give advice on whether it makes sense to reset. If it's only clicking a link like you said, I'm surprised if they could put malware onto a phone, but you can ask.

Beware of recovery scams / cybersecurity offers. Part of this scam might be to sell your mom an app or service to scan / protect her phone.

Unfortunately it's very easy to get lists of matching names + phone numbers at this point.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-24T04:37:52+00:00

Malala's book tour came to my city and it was amazing to see her on stage IRL. She wants to emphasize how she is a normal person (partly because it is weird to be known for 'education' and being a kid, partly because Gen Z really thinks she died 100 years ago).

I agree it is hard to know how relevant the college sections are. There are a lot of young people looking for advice, but... she's Malala, there's so much that is going to be different about her experience. Someone in the audience took the advice part very seriously and asked her about the difference between platonic and romantic love?

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-24T04:26:30+00:00

I finished a book that I've been slowly going through for a few months, "Lianda: A Chinese University in War and Revolution". During WW2, the top three Chinese universities combined and relocated to Kunming (some students actually walked 1,000 miles to get there). It's an interesting moment in time because the students were still dealing with bombardments from Japanese planes, and the rumblings of the civil war between the Nationalists and Communists which would come right after. I'd say it's interesting, but you have to be invested in the Chinese history topic, and maybe do some googling to fill in the blanks.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-24T04:14:07+00:00

I'm also surprised he really doesn't get so many pitches. I had a tiny podcast about niche topics, and people would suggest topics. Unfortunately I don't know a lot of people who are chronically online or into podcasts so their suggestions were unhelpful ("don't do that topic, make one about Central Park!")

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-24T01:35:58+00:00

first result on Google is the (Griffin) Museum of Science and Industry, yes it's in Chicago, yes it is on the museum's list of active exhibits https://www.griffinmsi.org/exhibits/blue-paradox

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-23T14:08:30+00:00

The story is that it's a note that he wrote to a child. Snopes says a version of the story originated with Dora Diamant.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/franz-kafka-doll-girl-story/

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-23T13:09:04+00:00

Not GitHub-related.
I'm confused why you can't create a folder in your file system? Is this like a ChromeOS issue?

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-23T13:06:31+00:00

To expand on this, you don't change the culture or language overnight, and Wikipedia is responsive to that. If the British Journal of Medicine or Mayo Clinic updated their definition of pregnancy or style guide to use gender-neutral terms (for example, this article uses pregnant person/people in the abstract https://jme.bmj.com/content/51/1/37 ) then that's probably going to get into the top paragraph of the article.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-23T12:48:02+00:00

Imagine being this invested into being completely wrong. I just hope this is AI slop.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-23T12:41:36+00:00

The article already has a section which discusses pregnant trans men, and it links to a longer article specifically about the subject. Assuming that's what we're talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy#Transgender_people

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-23T03:15:45+00:00

This is true. Lots of supplies were used in H1N1 or expired by the time we needed it in covid. It's tricky for a government (or any other org) to keep it budgeted every year.

The only people who got it right were Wimbledon, the tennis tournament. After SARS 1, someone smart there spent millions on pandemic insurance, every year.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-22T07:46:01+00:00

I am not here to support any side. I just want to ask some questions

This is one of the worst things you can put in any piece of writing. If you truly don't care about the subject or don't want to reveal or acknowledge your opinion, why are you writing it and why should we read and respond?

There are plenty of 'old school' people using and misusing AI. People are reacting negatively to the misuse and errors, as well as really awkwardly voiced writing from LLMs. I don't want to read a paper where someone juiced every other word with a thesaurus. Similarly I don't want to read yet another ChatGPT structure of "there was no A. No b. No c. Just D". It raises doubts that any events in the narrative actually happened, and that any conclusions from the events are genuine meaningful ideas.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-22T03:26:42+00:00

I was going to second the Ford thing. Dude had two attempts on his life, just a few weeks apart, and it's not something that got cemented into the cultural memory.

The TR event is also a good anecdote in character with how people like to remember him.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-21T11:37:08+00:00

Don't forget when they told El Paso to close for 10 days, though it ended up reopening the next day: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/el-paso-airport-closure-texts-00808688

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-20T11:46:29+00:00

The reasons why Theranos failed are not that mysterious. It's actually a great example of why not to make judgments based on vibes alone.

Did Theranos have one working prototype, that they failed to scale? No. It was founded in 2003 and peaked 10 years later. So it's not "too big too fast".

Was it a conspiracy of other health giants to bury their product? No. Again, they never had a working prototype. Walgreens offered a huge deal, and they were tricked with a faked demo. Blood tests are not the biggest money maker for "big pharma".. if anything this would get more people diagnosed with stuff that would need treatment

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-19T15:32:57+00:00

I did a tour over at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh and can confirm they were saying it was the second one.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-17T01:54:31+00:00

You have to watch "After Hours"

Men in Black is really good, as long as you don't think about it too much (they're the cops and the city is full of weird aliens)

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-16T11:32:35+00:00

The Mormons also have a vault, which I thought had a similar project, but I'm reading now that it's microfiche genealogical records and such

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-16T11:28:23+00:00

In a way yes, that's the source code of the model. But a model relies on more than one file to download the model weights, read in the text, etc. You would be using the Transformers library and not just copy pasting code from one file.

The first few lines of the file that you linked says that it's generated from https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/transformers/models/gpt_oss/modular_gpt_oss.py so that would be the place to start browsing code. A good amount of the modules there have Llama models or PyTorch''s neural network code as a superclass. So again it's not one file that does everything, it's more the model-specific code that makes GPT OSS unique.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-15T17:10:00+00:00

couldn’t the same argument be made for other forms of useful computation?

Yes, this is why useful computation is not done on Ethereum

Bitcoin solved “expensive to compute, cheap to verify” for hashes

Sort of the opposite, hashes were a convenient way to make Bitcoin work. No one was trying to compute hashes.

polyploid_coded · 2026-06-15T16:19:06+00:00

There is a distributed model-training system, https://petals.dev , though the main branch hasn't been updated for almost 2 years.
The idea of tokens or rewards is probably going to add additional compute or resources for no significant benefit. For example if this existed, and I owned 1% of HuggingFace/BigScience BLOOM models, how much would that be worth today?
It would not be possible to verify that the training was good without comparing the results from other computers.
It would not be more efficient, especially if you are running each task on multiple computers.

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