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Szymon Kaliski @szymonkaliski.com · 1d

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Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net · 3d

I'm teaching 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺(𝘀)! again. I'll be posting the videos & tasks on YouTube too.

In the first lecture, I explain what's a tiny system, why write one and show plenty of demos!

🎞️ Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
👉 More info: d3s.mff.cuni.cz/teaching/npr...

Write your own tiny programming system(s)! - YouTube

The goal of this course is to teach how fundamental programming language techniques, algorithms and systems work by writing their miniature versions. The cou...

www.youtube.com

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Duende Software @duendesoftware.com · 2d

We're happy to start sponsoring the Spectre.Console project!

It is a #dotnet library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications by giving you access to standard components you may find in a CLI experience.

Go check it out! duende.link/sp3ctr3

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 3d

i like a nice higraph

dslab.konkuk.ac.kr/class/2012/1...

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thebes @vgel.me · 3d

if you're interesting in gaining a better intuition for how llms behave at inference time, you should try logitloom🌱, the open-source tool i made for exploring token trajectory trees (aka looming) on base and instruct models! more info in thread

🌱 vgel.me/logitloom
💻 github.com/vgel/logitloom

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 3d

dont we get free student access

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 4d

I can finally do some real work.

Hazel programming language with a parsed csv and table of pokemon

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 4d

maybe. convincing fakes have been around since the dawn of photography. scale x quality makes a difference but for many we're deep in the singularity already. photoreality is relative. many seemed and seem already (perhaps always) bedazzled by the spawn of photoshop 2.0

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 4d

> Video will become like other forms of testimony

is this not already the case? not convinced that widespread ai image or video generation changes much legally

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 4d

generally my feed here is pretty pleasant but as soon as i get even slightly off manifold things take a turn

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 4d

somewhat aesthetic bug

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Hillelogram @hillelwayne.com · 5d

Any abstract data type that supports the flipping, bopping, twisting, and pulling operations

luna @imlunahey.com · 7d

so ah.. what's a linked list?

Hillelogram @hillelwayne.com · 7d

If you call yourself a "software engineer" you better be able to:

1. Flip a linked list
2. Flip it again
3. Bop it
4. Twist it
5. Twist it
6. Pull it
7. Bop it

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Emilia (halloween name) @lazerwalker.com · 6d

So if you visualize LLMs as not "artificial consciousness" but "an artificial connection to the collective unconscious":

1. They become philosophically way more interesting
2. It's way more forgivable they suck at math
3. It becomes extremely clear they are infinitely less useful to capitalism

Emilia (halloween name) @lazerwalker.com · 7d

A thing I am starting to embody in my extremely weird healing journey, and that a lot of AI people don’t seem to get, is that consciousness is *by far* the least interesting or impressive part of human intelligence

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...

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thebes @vgel.me · 6d

new blog post! why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? i put llama-3.3-70b through its paces with the logit lens to find out, and explain what the logit lens (everyone's favorite underrated interpretability tool) is in the process.

link in reply!

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 9d

Not obvious to me there’s any scale invariant equilibrating force keeping that culture intact. Certainly not admin. If growth starts again it will get diluted

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Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net · 11d

I'm at #uist2025 presenting our new work with @jonathoda.bsky.social!

𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗸 is a computational substrate for end-user programming that makes it easy to implement programming experiences like programming by demonstration, collaborative editing and more!

tomasp.net/academic/pap...

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Chris Arneil @chrisarneil.bsky.social · 10d

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 14d

The premier is happening rn

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m5g...

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Noel Cody @noelcody.bsky.social · 16d

Building a #pico8 game around this little guy! "Moss Moss" WIP

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rntz @rntz.net · 16d

imagine an inverse h-index (a ɥ-index?): not how widely an author is cited, but how widely an author cites. do they cite from other subfields? other fields? other centuries? other languages? etc.

who do you know who'd have a high ɥ-index?

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 16d

lmao you called yourself out. i fully discretized the topology for discretion!

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 16d

slack DMs converge to the discrete topology

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 16d

Might be more specific than you’re looking for but our lab did some work on incremental type checking: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.08946

arxiv.org

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Scott Anderson @impossible.bsky.social · 17d

There seems to be a phenomenon on Bluesky where if you talk about AI, even critically, in a way that isn't obviously disparaging, you're marked as an AI bro and blocked. The result is that leading AI ethicists are now "AI Bros" 🙄

Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 17d

I’m currently blocked by almost a quarter million users, mostly due to block lists asserting I’m a spammer (I am not), “AI bro” (I am not) or Generative AI user (I am not). There appears to be nothing I can realistically do if my time has value.

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