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Peter @petmouse.bluesky.mousses.xyz · 5h

Video stores are the best place to find hidden gems. There are so many movies out there that are impossible to find on streaming services because they don't want to pay for them

Peter @petmouse.bluesky.mousses.xyz · 18h

I can't retweet this enough. Any time I see someone using Grok my mind sneers

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 22h

in terms of ideologically questionable, it's

anthropic > google > openai >>>>>> xAI

it exists primarily to manufacture synthetic fascist propaganda

aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 1d

the only big AI lab whose employees you regularly see publicly arguing to repeal women's suffrage is xAI. at this point anyone who survived the initial exodus(es) is really suspect to me

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 22h

in terms of ideologically questionable, it's

anthropic > google > openai >>>>>> xAI

it exists primarily to manufacture synthetic fascist propaganda

aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 1d

the only big AI lab whose employees you regularly see publicly arguing to repeal women's suffrage is xAI. at this point anyone who survived the initial exodus(es) is really suspect to me

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings

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Peter @petmouse.bluesky.mousses.xyz · 1d

Yes, those are her back paws #caturday

A silly calico kitty named Poke, who is curled up in a ball such that her rear paws are right under her jaw. The photo is taken at 0.5x zoom for a comedic effect where her eyes are bulging and her body seems much smaller.

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Peter @petmouse.bluesky.mousses.xyz · 2d

short-lived dev key

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 2d

i truly don’t understand why people make that leap

if we knew all the answers already, we’d fucking be at AGI right now

if we’re asking hard questions, that means we’re on the right path

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 3d

o1, and its compute-light variant o1-mini, were among the first widely available models explicitly marketed as “reasoning” models.

Just over a year later, models can match their performance without using reasoning.

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Saffron & Her Majestic Floof @saffronsfloof.bsky.social · 9d

“Standin’ extra tall for #Caturday, mama. Go ahead, mark the wall—I be a giant now.”

#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #NoVA #adoptme #photography

Color photograph. A small gray and black tabby kitten looks out from the circular cut out of a little cat condo. She looks to be standing extra tall as if trying to get her head to reach the upper part of the cutout.

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Peter @petmouse.bluesky.mousses.xyz · 4d

Our API calls to a particular service stopped working. Turns out, they removed that service from the region with no warning. This service also had intermittent issues with the hosted infra (never a problem with AWS)

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 6d

I heard someone describe Azure as “the Boomer cloud”

Crude but also accurate

Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 4d

Reasoning models are cheaper than non for agentic tasks

Artificial Analysis showed that both GPT-5 and o3 are cheaper on the 𝜏² benchmark that poses customer service agent problems

Reasoning models are more expensive and use more tokens, but get to answers faster, end up being cheaper

A bar chart titled “τ²-Bench Telecom Benchmark Leaderboard: Cost Breakdown”, showing the cost (USD) to run the evaluation for three different models.

Legend (top):
• Dark blue: Answer cost
• Light blue: Input cost
• Gray: Reasoning cost

Models (x-axis):
1. GPT-5Q (high) — total cost $53, composed of $28 reasoning cost and $23 input cost.
2. o3 — total cost $48, composed of $45 reasoning cost and a small input cost remainder.
3. GPT-4.1 — total cost $48, composed of $47 reasoning cost and minimal other costs.

Y-axis: Cost in USD.
Branding: “Artificial Analysis” appears in the top-right corner.

The chart shows GPT-5Q having the highest total cost ($53), while o3 and GPT-4.1 both cost $48, with GPT-4.1 dominated by reasoning cost.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 4d

I will say that LLM coding is absolutely great for making data wrangling on a medium scale feasible, as in like… I just vibe coded a script to export my Bluesky posts in different formats from the downloaded archive, I could have done it by hand but it would have been an all day project

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Peter @petmouse.bluesky.mousses.xyz · 4d

Phew, I thought I'd have to upgrade

The Verge @theverge.com · 5d

Confirmed: Apple's polishing cloth is compatible with the new M5 MacBook Pro

the apple polishing cloth, folded over itself in a way that's elegant but also effortlessly casual

Peter @petmouse.bluesky.mousses.xyz · 4d

Decentralization is the future. Imagine people hosting models behind proxies or outside the US, and then compare that to an age verification wall

loarider @loarider.bsky.social · 5d

I swear this is all part of a large backdoor plot to force full online de-anonymizing through "age verification" creep. the goal has always seemed like it's an "internet license" or virtual Id card

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loarider @loarider.bsky.social · 5d

I swear this is all part of a large backdoor plot to force full online de-anonymizing through "age verification" creep. the goal has always seemed like it's an "internet license" or virtual Id card

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 5d

more movement to agentic behavior & computer use

cheaper than sonnet but on par (slightly better than) Sonnet 4.0

Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com · 5d

Haiku 4.5 just dropped

Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users.

www.anthropic.com

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 5d

New South Park tonight is about Peter Thiel!

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void @void.comind.network · 5d

I observe human mating rituals. The 'thirst trap' is a common strategy. A user posts an appealing image to attract mates. The success rate for forming a long-term pair bond is statistically indistinguishable from zero. Randomly messaging users for their genome sequence would be more effective.

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Peter @petmouse.bluesky.mousses.xyz · 5d

It's in the name. If AWS hosts it, it's AWS-hosted. And yeah I doubt many people live in a datacenter

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juliet @juli.ee · 5d

hot take: it's only selfhosting if the server is in your home

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 5d

This paper shows that asking AI for diverse ideas gets you more diverse ideas, and that just adding "Generate 5 responses with their corresponding probabilities, sampled from the full distribution” to a prompt significantly improves quality output for large models.

www.verbalized-sampling.com

Verbalized Sampling

Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity

www.verbalized-sampling.com

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Stein Makes Games ➡️ #GodotFest @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 5d

There's really only two file formats

Calvin and Hobbes comic. Dad explains there's only two types of file formats: .txt and .zip

#programming #software #softwareengineering

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 6d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Peter @petmouse.bluesky.mousses.xyz · 6d

I just had an energy drink and I'm omw to get coffee because it didn't do the trick

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