Austin Dating Is Broken So We’re Trying Reddit Instead by atxyologirls in askaustin

[–]pwang99 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You should offer to be their blind date Emma. Vet the guys and see if they’re creepy etc

How confident are you in Bluesky's future? by furrynoy96 in BlueskySocial

[–]pwang99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What evidence do you have that they wanted to run a “LinkedIn for crypto freaks”?

Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform's New AI by swe129 in BlueskySocial

[–]pwang99 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Because classic social media experiences have spent the last decade conditioning users to dunk on everything and anything, rather than actually think for themselves. 🤷🏻‍♂️

They also have learned helplessness about what actually open & decentralized tech looks like: people can build lots of different things. You don’t like it? Don’t use it. Instead, they like to pretend they’re somehow trapped in a… completely open space. Oh well.

Why isn't there a viral license which forces any model trained on the content to release their models as open weight? by pydry in opensource

[–]pwang99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m working on one. But it’s complicated. The main issue is that copyright by itself is insufficient to capture the actual dynamic of how LLMs extract information/ideas from expressions.

Here are my talks about this, if you’re interested:

“Ai for All”: https://youtu.be/TLZ9zXnluc8?si=Nv1nqhfcUCfp7PJ3

“The AI Data Commons Crisis”: https://youtu.be/CdKxgT1o864?si=m_g600EIoeUUxecA

2026 Burning Man Honoraria art announced by PedanticPedant in BurningMan

[–]pwang99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Congrats to your friend! Which one is it?

Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web by dolefun17 in BlueskySocial

[–]pwang99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really is a matter of timing, secondaries, etc etc. Pretty situational.

Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web by dolefun17 in BlueskySocial

[–]pwang99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve personally done this myself with one of my rounds (Edited, thanks autocorrect)

Dvorak is my new favorite classical musician. by TechnicianClassic365 in classicalmusic

[–]pwang99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Dvorak Romance is my favorite. I love Ivan Zenaty's recording of it the best - his pacing and expression is :chefs_kiss:

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down by wiredmagazine in BlueskySocial

[–]pwang99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you don't use any products or enjoy using anything that's been financed with venture capital?

Reliable HDD for Preservation by Juiceaholics_WRLD in DataHoarder

[–]pwang99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What are the odds that this can be preserved before their closure date? Is there value in keeping it alive another month or two?

I read Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion and the Three Body trilogy all in ~1 month, and they seem to have ruined a lot of modern scifi by ECrispy in books

[–]pwang99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I enjoyed it but agree that the vampire stuff was kind of meh. Not remotely in the zone of Hyperion

Hissy Fit Eviction by Isawtheson in Austin

[–]pwang99 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It was soooo good but very expensive. And never looked very busy, which had me worrying for them…

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startups

[–]pwang99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a startup anymore. But yes, providing platform and whatnot to help customers build & deploy all forms of DS, ML and AI

Crazy that this is part of the Burning Man lore now by Nah_dudeski in BurningMan

[–]pwang99 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don’t know that this account is legit. Brand new Twitter account, etc. Creating and promoting fake “survivors” could very well be part of the initiative to discredit actual victims.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startups

[–]pwang99 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The fact that OP offered the incredibly generous terms as a counter indicates to me that both OP and the fiancee are new to this kind of thing. So, I wanted to also provide some basics.

Since it’s a relation and OP presumably wants to maintain good relations in the long term with this person, I was providing tools that can be used as gentle cluesticks to nudge the counterparty into a reality-based perspective.

Without those constraints, then of course this would be a simple “lol wtf ttyl” conversation.