He’s famous as a really good geo-guesser (a game where people get random google streetview images and try to drop a pin as close to the coordinates as possible).

People give him challenges all the time, and it’s really impressive.

Here he is finding someone’s location based on a picture taken from a plane.

Found a scan of the article for anyone curious:

It would be funny to contact them about this…

https://helpcenter.washingtonpost.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

I can read this as either: AI allows anyone to code their own stuff.

Or

AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

It’s nobody’s decision but yours, but I will point out that as humans, we are very poor predictors of how we will think or feel in the future.

When we’re depressed, our brains process thoughts of the future as if we’ll be sad forever. When we’re happy and have lots of energy, we make big plans as if we’ll always feel that way. Lottery winners feel an initial euphoria and think they’re set for life, but studies show their mood returns to baseline after about 1 year. Age and development helps you push the fog of foresight a little further, but it’s still hard.

I don’t know you, but if I were speaking to myself at age 22, I would caution making a decision like that so early. I still cringe about being tasked with picking a college major at 18 and how wrong that could’ve gone, and this is easily 100x more important.

I did some searching and I’m seeing 1937 and 1938, so yeah, that’s probably about right.

It looks real, and the follow-up gets weirder.

A quick search found the following panels here, if anyone is interested:

Go for it! I stole this anyway.

Very interesting! Editing it now to correct it as the day it hit the iceberg, because someone else mentioned that it didn’t sink until the next day.

Gotcha, sorry. I’ll hold off on posting reddit screenshots here.

Incredible work

Maybe they’re all cheering for the white pieces?

RIP to a legend

I may have to one of these days.

That’s an amazing story. That’s exactly the flavor of badass nerd that we need.

It’s against the rules!

I love my Logitech G502, which I’m sure you will see recommended anywhere you look because it’s pretty popular.

I’m still using the wired version, but if I were to be in the market for a new one today, the wireless one would be the first I checked out.

The band Green Day invited a fan up on stage to play one of their songs, but he played the song Wonderwall instead as a joke.

Guitarists playing Wonderwall for people has been a meme since the 90s. Here’s more about it if you’re interested:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wonderwall

It’s so sad. I feel like we need to be hoarding all sorts of random media that was put out pre-AI, because it’s flooding everything. Videos, music, gaming, historical photos/videos…

Random example: I have a folder of desktop wallpapers that I’ve been casually adding to for the last decade or so. Literally thousands of them by this point, but I haven’t added anything recently because every source is inundated with AI generations now.