Corneil du Plessis

Aw, damn. What a truly kind man… RIP, Walter. ❤️🖖🏼

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

The noise cancelling was really impressive.

Trump’s DHS appointees tried to get CISA to secretly hack a voting machine to find the flaws but DOGE had already fired specialists who could do it. A former official, “they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any result they didn’t like.” #TrumpsCrimesOnYourDime

This is why debate classes at school should be mandatory. Excellent parry by El-Sayed to a disingenuous question with an amazing flurry of follow-ups and take-down, plus a very pertinent history lesson about JFK.

Studies have shown a high correlation between Vertebral Absentia and Cognitive Minimalism

The bar is low only limbo champions and snakes need apply.

That sounded like a GOP campaign update not an administration update... Oh wait, this administration isn't actually doing the administration thing, only the spotlight and whatever it takes to not be consider for any humanitarian awards.

In the market of agentic mania ,apathy and hubris appear to be the primary competition for most anything involving solid engineering. Apathy: we don't need no stinkin' rigor, because we can iterate so quickly. Hubris: give me a swam of agents and enough tokens to stand on and I can move the world.

He will fall over trying to walk like that.

I have reason to believe that the mind is computable. However.

Saw this on IG this morning & had to share….things are truly fucked up in America right now

SAFe slop! The CEO prompts claude by speaking and sends a document to COO. COO attaches the document and prompts claude and sends the new document to the CTO. CTO prompts claude code and attaches the document, then zips the code and sends it to the Program Manager with instructions. 'Ship this'.

Hey @netflix.com, @primevideo.bsky.social, @disney+, @appletv how about some orthogonal design? I need a 'Never list', there are some shows I never want to see. Ever!

I have two questions: 1. Do you really believe the cost of using LLMs are going to stay where are now? 2. How large an increase in the cost of AI does your business model support?

I have read many well researched, well reasoned, and well argued papers regarding the nature of software engineering. This is not one of them. arxiv.org/html/2606.05...

Won't it be wise to just shut down all gambling or betting. As an industry, it creates nothing but misery for gamblers. Being online means that misery isn't really visible.

A system that collapses when you prosecute pedophiles, is not a system worth having.

EPA published a Community Involvement Plan for the Triple Site in Sunnyvale, California (3 nasty toxic waste dump clean-up sites, including my old Apple office). Learn more about the Triple Site here: www.ashleygjovik.com/825stewart.h... Read EPA's publication here: semspub.epa.gov/work/09/1000...

I don't fear superintelligence. I said this at TED a decade ago, and I stand by that point of view today. Among other things, any so-called super intelligence that could be an existential threat to humanity would also have to be super-embodied. And that's not going to happen. t.co/Vyp3YDWz2o

I think there is a need for a service where consumers can send proof of purchase of goods that will be used by advertisers to stop showing ads for those products to said consumer. 🤔 The question is, who will pay for this? 🤷

Handedness xkcd.com/3293/

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

The quickest way to slow down the AI market is to price usage at least at cost.🤷

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

AGI has, in fact, not arrived. Unless perhaps you mean we have reached peak Authentic Granular Ignorance.

Saying that a false thing is true does not make that thing true, no matter how many times or how many people say it.

I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number.. — Richard Brathwaith’s, The Yong Mans Gleanings, 1613 The first published occurrence of the term “computer”.

Just 5 years ago, if you wanted to affect the world you used mathematics and engineering to change things. Now we are burning the planet to achieve less using simple language. Why aren't we trying to enhance our ability to apply mathematics and engineering.

Imagine starting a programming class with the following joke: What do you get if you divide Arnold Schwarzenegger by zero? A null terminator. And everybody just stares at you? 😳

Hey look what I got

Spring Modulith gives you clean domain boundaries and event-driven decoupling without microservice network latency or ops overhead. You get strict architecture inside a single app, letting you move fast now and split into microservices later only if real scaling demands it.

You have to be fucking kidding me…please let this shitshow end

Who Put the Census Bureau in the Propaganda Business? open.substack.com/pub/platypus...

Science gives us tools whereby we may understand the cosmos: the violent formation of stars, the chaotic movement of air over a wing, the action and the structure of proteins in a cell.

Intellectualism has been well and truly buried at this point. The average person doesn't want the truth, they just want to be told something that fits their confirmation bias in an authoritative voice. LLM chatbots are the perfect psychopathic populists in that regard.

I visited Santa Clara Square today to check out the scenery & keep an eye on Apple's stupid skunkworks fab. It was a beautiful day but the creek was still a green mess. They were also doing some sort of construction. Anyone know what's going on around San Tomas/Saratoga Creek at Scott Blvd?

Okay but hear me out: A happy hour, but for bookstores.

Let's give a bunch of wankers electric shock gloves. 🤔

I think power itself make them worse decision makers. «high levels of flattery and opinion conformity directed at the CEO can result in the persistence of low firm performance» homepages.se.edu/cvonbergen/f...

Still not a drag queen.

I would like to know? #Pinks #USDemocracy

Sickening