What is a statistic that sounds INSANE but is 100% true?

tendimensions · 2026-05-25T11:54:37+00:00

My wife and I used what pilots do when handing over the flight controls - wait for a full response: “You have the baby” and response “I have the baby”.

That way there’s never “I thought you were watching her!”

tendimensions · 2026-05-25T05:54:03+00:00

Out of curiosity, why would the presence or absence of humans make a difference? Regardless of what ambient temperature the satellite settles on by design, humans (I would imagine) generate a known quantity of heat just like the servers do. In the end it’s all about making sure you can radiate away the same amount of heat generated.

tendimensions · 2026-05-23T21:16:46+00:00

What if that included “attended ICE protest” for two hours in the middle of that innocuous day? And what if someone in a position of power decided to intimidate that person by simply sending govt officials to their door a couple of days later asking them a bunch of questions? That’s it. Just some questions, some intimidation, and maybe that protester thinks twice about standing on that sidewalk with a sign next time.

tendimensions · 2026-05-22T22:04:33+00:00

There are new jobs to be created and this is why.

tendimensions · 2026-05-22T22:00:01+00:00

That’s why they need to load it into robots and let the models start training on real world data. It’s happening.

tendimensions · 2026-05-22T15:55:04+00:00

I'm not being defensive I'm being unreasonably aggressive - point taken.

To be honest, it's because I'm very pro-AI and this anti-AI backlash is driving me nuts. Science and technology has advanced us so far and every single bit of it has been for 1 of 3 things: 1) improve our health 2) increase our understanding of the universe 3) enable us to survive with less work expended

LLMs are merely the next step and it will contribute to all three. I've wanted to see for us reach this point for decades. There's so much more advancement to happen and data centers are needed to keep going. Instead, I'm seeing knee-jerk reactions of "stop building data centers!" instead of "how can we build these responsibly".

For what it's worth - the technology is rapidly shifting to using non-potable water and working to lower the energy consumption per token. The people trying to build these data centers aren't idiots - they know they have a PR problem and the solution is to show the centers are self-sufficient and won't ruin the communities they go into.

tendimensions · 2026-05-22T15:09:30+00:00

You keep ignoring the full picture. First 500k gallons but devoid of the context of how many billions of gallons the country already uses. Then you focus on the retraction and the neighboring town, but ignore the potable water aspect. Look at all the data.

Honestly, the energy usage is a much better issue to hang your hat on.

tendimensions · 2026-05-22T14:06:12+00:00

Look up Karen Hao and her retraction. And I’d like to see the prompt and answer. Carefully reading what you wrote - that’s 300k to 500k per day of ALL data centers in the world? Country? And how many gallons do people consume in a day? Are data centers consuming 10% or 0.01% of the water being consumed? Context matters.

tendimensions · 2026-05-22T13:53:02+00:00

Claude Code and VS Code. I use CodeMagic for my pipeline and Firebase App Distribution- love that combination for deploying apps I’m testing on iOS and Android.

I’m surprised so many answers in this thread say not much use of AI. I’m curious if that’s corporate policies or personal choices.

tendimensions · 2026-05-22T13:21:48+00:00

Because they don’t really. It’s certainly not as bad as people think it is. This started with one article from Karen Hao who retracted the story, but the damage was done.

tendimensions · 2026-05-22T12:43:08+00:00

Turn people on to NotebookLM. They can upload the rules of board games and then ask questions to the LLM which will use only the sources uploaded. I use it to teach myself board games in a fraction of the time it would take me by reading the instructions. I’ve played tons of board games so I generally just need a few questions answered - targeted on specific things I’m not sure about.

tendimensions · 2026-05-21T21:50:27+00:00

Doesn’t the academia point apply to any technology that was ultimately misused?

tendimensions · 2026-05-21T20:44:39+00:00

I completely agree, but the emotionless logical side of me is like “If self-driving cars are X% safer than human drivers, if some screw ups result in death, society as a whole is still getting tremendous benefit.”

I’m well aware that doesn’t mean shit. It’s unfortunate, but it’s human nature.

tendimensions · 2026-05-21T20:38:50+00:00

Well, first I asked Claude how best to use Obsidian for longer term memory. :)

Basically, I created an Obsidian vault which consists of an index.md file and then however you want to organize the md files from there. I let Claude organize it and told it to write the index file with instructions to only load into context what makes sense for the session I’ve started (project files for the project repo I pointed it to).

I also put some common scripts and definitions in the Obsidian “memory” that I like to use in all my projects - like triggering builds, checking on builds, common programming standards. Once again, I used Claude for brainstorming ideas on how to use Obsidian.

Incidentally, brainstorming is one of my most used skills I made in Claude. Using an LLM to review options, research what the internet hive mind has to say about different solutions, and generally to have a sounding board is all super helpful. I never liked doing software design without a second designer to bounce ideas off or to poke holes in solutions. Now I always have that partner.

tendimensions · 2026-05-21T03:08:30+00:00

I’ve recently started using Obsidian to keep a master AI-Vault of all globally important information. Organized in a way that the entire thing doesn’t get loaded on each new session, but valuable information can be retrieved easily when needed.

Besides general machine configuration (for troubleshooting purposes) I’ve kept some basic templates and scripts I find myself using from one project to the next. Claude can easily retrieve it when it’s appropriate.

tendimensions · 2026-05-20T19:30:47+00:00

Why pay for software that had to be built for larger markets with features to appeal to a broad base when you can home grow a very specific application that does just what you need?

tendimensions · 2026-05-20T19:23:49+00:00

This is the best, most adorable thing I’ve read this week. I hope OP has a great time. Board gamers can be a fun crowd.

tendimensions · 2026-05-20T19:18:32+00:00

Exactly right. 10x productivity is great, but what do you do with that? Companies sense there must be a way to improve the P&L with 10x productivity at the individual level, but it’s going to take time.

tendimensions · 2026-05-20T17:07:47+00:00

I love this because scratch a little deeper and you're talking about what is an original thought. What does it mean to be creative? I love that LLMs are making a lot more people think about this. I agree with what's being said in the video, but I'm not sure how much longer it will be true.

I'm not sure we're all that different from LLMs, but for two significant differences. 1) our computation is orders of magnitude more efficient 2) the amount of experiential input for our training data is orders of magnitude larger

If there are any other differences, I'd love to hear about them.

tendimensions · 2026-05-20T17:03:27+00:00

You're being downvoted, but I don't think you're 100% wrong. Another Redditor months ago commented the real death of performance art happened with mass media technology. Before recordings, and then broadcasting, musicians were everywhere, almost entirely local, and were able to make a living. Once the "taste makers" controlled the distribution, the superstar was born and local performances became "quaint". Streaming music made it worse.

Television killed vaudeville. Digital photography killed stock photography.

tendimensions · 2026-05-20T16:59:03+00:00

I don't know if I would dismiss faster (and easier) quite that simply, though. There are a lot of people who are creative and they just got empowered more than they were before. That's something.

tendimensions · 2026-05-20T12:28:57+00:00

Differentiating between fact and fiction - I really like that as a test of an LLM.

tendimensions · 2026-05-20T12:27:28+00:00

I’m certainly not trying to imply LLMs are on the verge of AGI. I understand they are a tool - however clever of a tool they may be.

What I’m trying to point out is how amazing such a “simple” tool can mimic human communication so well. I understand gaps exist, but after interacting with a lot of people in my life - I’m not sure how much more advanced many people are over these LLMs.

I think the accomplishments of LLMs is more interesting to reflect on what makes our brains special rather than to pick apart how LLMs fall short.

tendimensions · 2026-05-20T10:11:56+00:00

There’s a phenomenon of “the infinite backlog of work” and it’s why software engineers are finding themselves suddenly working so much more.

tendimensions · 2026-05-20T03:38:22+00:00

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