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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. -- hacker 🦀🐍 musician 🥁🎸 amateur historian -- 🔗 https://jmsdnns.com

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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · Apr 4

📜 The Wild Man of the Revolution, Samuel Adams.

I wrote an essay about Samuel Adams and why I think he was punk rock. I'm convinced he'd love the band Fugazi and that he'd sing their lyrics while tossing tea in Boston harbor.

jmsdnns.com/history/wild...

The Wild Man of the Revolution, Samuel Adams

His friends and family loved him. His enemies called him the Machiavelli of Chaos. Thomas Jefferson credited him with making the revolution possible. It was an unexpected surprise to learn that Samue...

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 46m

a drawing of a robot with the letters ic on its head

ALT: a drawing of a robot with the letters ic on its head

media.tenor.com

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1h

McLuhan always feels relevant, but lately he has returned to feeling prescient

youtu.be/5dawLQe1ZUA

Marshall McLuhan's The Medium Is The Message (Best Explanation) - 1977

YouTube video by Michael Simmons

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2h

same

bsky.app/profile/booc...

Grady Booch @booch.com · 20h

I’m not anti-AI.

I am, however, anti the rapacious tech bros who selfishly hype AI for the purpose of increasing their wealth and power at the expense of our humanity.

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2h

vive le ribbetstance!

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 13h

It's that time of year where I lay on the couch with blankets on, which makes me furniture for Sierra to sleep on

Sierra, my cat, is sleeping on blankets on the couch. You cant see me underneath them.

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d

maybe glyph? he has posted about his frustrations with not getting it

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d

fun way to learn about atmospheres and what happens as you get farther and farther away from earth neal.fun/space-elevat...

Take a trip to space!

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d

that's why V had such great endings where everything worked out so nicely! right? RIGHT?!

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d

ohhh that is AWESOME

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d

vast contentment

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d

right?! been thinking about that a lot this week.

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. And hopefully with time, LLM output will earn our trust too. Until then, and tomyour original point, knowing when we can / cant trust LLM output is a matter of skill.

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed! But to Simon's original point, knowing where we can trust it and where we cant is part of where the skill is.

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d

And here is an overhead video of me playing drums that represents what Id love a model to produce if I fed a song and asked for a drumming video

m.youtube.com/watch?v=3BE7...

Foo Fighters - Everlong (drums cover)

YouTube video by American Food

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d

Notice the whole video is focused on the guitar and what my hands are doing

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cDMK...

NOFX - The Death Of John Smith (guitar cover)

YouTube video by American Food

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d

It does, but I also think about how many people use Rails or Django that have never read the code to either framework

In this way, coding agents can be thought of as a next level framework that does enormous scaffolding work for us

Not as uncomfortable!

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d

I'd like to feed a song to a model and have it produce a video of someone playing the guitar parts or the drum parts

My guitar cover videos are, in part, an attempt to contribute to a dataset that would facilitate this

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d

If anyone attacks the frogs, we gotta call it the The Portland Massakermit.

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d

"The cleverest trick used in propaganda against Germany during the war was to accuse Germany of what our enemies themselves were doing."
– Joseph Goebbels

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 3d

moooore video of Anika Nilles being unbelievable at drums

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ho2...

Anika Nilles - DARK CHOCOLATE [official video]

YouTube video by Anika Nilles

www.youtube.com

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 3d

the dynamo project from nvidia is pretty damn cool. written in Rust for multinode inference

github.com/ai-dynamo/dy...

GitHub - ai-dynamo/dynamo: A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework

A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework - ai-dynamo/dynamo

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 3d

true for many youtube videos too

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 3d

I'm fascinated by that Hierarchical Reasoning Model paper. I also can't resist a paper that mentions Danny Kahneman as an inspiration.

Awesome thread on how it seems to be demonstrating a lot of cool benefits!

bsky.app/profile/seba...

Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @sebastianraschka.com · 3d

From the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) to a new Tiny Recursive Model (TRM).

A few months ago, the HRM made big waves in the AI research community as it showed really good performance on the ARC challenge despite its small 27M size. (That's about 22x smaller than the smallest Qwen3 0.6B model.)

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 5d

Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 5d

geeking out some more to Anika's incredible playing. the music might be cheesy, but ignore it cuz it's just a vehicle for the extraordinary drumming

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AqE...

Anika Nilles - SHINE [official video]

YouTube video by Anika Nilles

www.youtube.com