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Babak Farhang

@gnahraf.bsky.social

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applied & engineering physics guy turned programmer

I'm building something new. Here's the first part..

https://crums.io

Aurora, CO

  1. Artificial Stupidity

    We named it wrong and early. You see, inanimate things cannot do stupid. It takes work (energy) to achieve the flip side of intelligence.

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  2. I shudder every time I consider the energy budget for my search results, which now always include a costly AI response. Making matters worse, the results page does not cache, reloads even in tabbed browsing.

    You'd think the profit motive hems in such wanton waste, but it's now the fomo motive

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  3. Hey, I worked on that. A map of the larger LA area. Overlays included historical aerial pictures, allowing a user to not only pan but also scroll back and forth in time. My best friend Navid Haddadi who passed away some years ago, was the principal.

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  4. Notice lately, bigots using "percentages" a lot. They can't add, but somehow still feel comfortable using "percent" as an adjective, as if a dog-whistle for ignoramuses. The leading US degenerate, meanwhile, is promising huge price discounts: "60, 80, 120, in some cases 200, even 300 percent".

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