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Dan Tuohy
Dan Tuohy
@tripsnek.com
tripsnek.com - Europe Travel Planner and Itinerary Optimizer Software person. Primarily Node/Angular/TypeScript. AI R&D since 2005. Things I like: Static types, genetic algorithms, Rick Steves, liberal democracy 📍Atlanta, Georgia
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Just added a new thing: Language Brush up tripsnek.com/brushup Specifically designed for those with some background, but are rusty, and are about to travel. It consists entirely of the content you are most likely to actually need. Ultimately just a fancy flash card deck, but with some bonuses...
With no account, your progress is stored locally, so just make sure to use the same device. With an account (free, no obligation), it will automatically transfer between devices so you can practice wherever. Any and all feedback most welcome. tripsnek.com/brushup
Just added a new thing: Language Brush up tripsnek.com/brushup Specifically designed for those with some background, but are rusty, and are about to travel. It consists entirely of the content you are most likely to actually need. Ultimately just a fancy flash card deck, but with some bonuses...
Just added a new thing: Language Brush up tripsnek.com/brushup Specifically designed for those with some background, but are rusty, and are about to travel. It consists entirely of the content you are most likely to actually need. Ultimately just a fancy flash card deck, but with some bonuses...
Just added a new thing: Language Brush up tripsnek.com/brushup Specifically designed for those with some background, but are rusty, and are about to travel. It consists entirely of the content you are most likely to actually need. Ultimately just a fancy flash card deck, but with some bonuses...
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Replying to @niedermeyer.online
The horrifying sin at the heart of Tesla's driving automation is the fact that creating a safety critical system that performs an entrancing simulacrum of self-driving is vastly more lucrative (when properly leveraged on Wall Street) than developing a system that actually improves safety.
VR mods are even more dramatic. It may take years, but eventually VR will be comfortable enough to be a major part of the overall market, and top notch AI-assisted VR ports will already have existed for years as mods to AAA titles bought for $4.99 on steam sale. Titanfall 2 VR feels almost native.
The “AI game remake” trend kind of feels like a Napster moment for the industry, in that it threatens to permanently devalue a remake/remaster in players eyes as a thing you get for free. And considering that AAA is really coasting on remakes right now, seems bad!
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it's odd that we don't have a shared understanding that he gives speeches in the patter and intonation of a 1960s lounge comedian who would have been old even in the 1960s and also none of the jokes would have been funny even in the 1960s
Trump: "I take an aspirin a day. I don't know if it works but psychologically I need it. It thins the hell out of your blood I guess ... They want me to go down to the 80. I take the 386. I don't know what the hell it is. It's a monster. They said, 'Sir, you don't need that!'"
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JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
there remains no more devastating way to write about him than to simply transcribe the words he says, in the order he says them, with accurate punctuation
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
As a fun experiment, I added a natural language interface to tripsnek built around decision models. Same principle as the existing tripsnek: mention start/end city, total nights, then as much other detail as you want. You can try it out here: tripsnek.com/describe Threading with some data.
But even the code complexity I'm ambivalent about. It puts you back in the land of regexes and text munging. But it's also debuggable, optimizable code. Anyway, (ai-assisted) write up here: tripsnek.com/lab/jev-trip... h/t @hikikomorphism.bsky.social , where I first heard about these models
As a fun experiment, I added a natural language interface to tripsnek built around decision models. Same principle as the existing tripsnek: mention start/end city, total nights, then as much other detail as you want. You can try it out here: tripsnek.com/describe Threading with some data.
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"We're gonna be signing a document today renaming the bike shed, because it's not a shed. We're gonna be naming it the Bike House. Official renaming it."
Trump: "We're gonna be signing a document today renaming artificial intelligence, because it's not artificial. We're gonna be naming it Super Intelligence. Officially renaming it."
"Knowing how to operate in a denied EW environment wins championships" - Bear Bryant
Right as Laura Rutledge explains Donald Trump's presence leading to communication issues for Texas and Tennessee, the ABC audio becomes a mess. Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit try to deliver the play-by-play in a painful listen for ABC viewers. 🏈🎙️😵💫
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Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.”
NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...
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At 3:30pm ET, US District Judge Tim Kelly will hold a hearing on whether to grant a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of Trump's 9/18 directive to bar @cnn.com, @msnownews.bsky.social, & @politico.com from the White House grounds. I’ll try to live-post for @lawfaremedia.org /1
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There's plenty of corruption, crimes against humanity, and downright evil shit to focus on, but every so often it strikes me how thoroughly we USians have been exposed and disgraced on the world stage. A country who can elect such a man—twice!—is not a worthy country. We need radical reformation.
Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"
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i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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All Georgia Sample Ballots are up and available for all voters on @GaSecofState Raffensperger’s My Voter Page. Review yours and make a plan to vote. You can find yours at mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
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Replying to @coreyryung.bsky.social
Its not actually that bad, this is for route PLANNING and dispatch scheduling: www.faa.gov/newsroom/SMA... It is unclear if the AI does anything other than ML for "this is probably your best departure time"
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Dude reflexively defends data centers like they are coal plants staffed by credibly accused sex abusers
President Trump says he is forming an “AI Force,” modeled after the Space Force, and will soon appoint an AI “czar.” Trump said his administration will not “hinder or stifle” AI growth, saying the technology could eventually account for as much as 25% of U.S. GDP.
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