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specialistjack.bsky.social @specialistjack.bsky.social · Sep 4

The only thing more annoying than the people who lionize "AI" at this point are the idiots that pretend to know everything about LLMs and machine learning and claim it is all useless. If your full idea of the thing is just chat gpt, you haven't even tried to learn anything.

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simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 4d

I think there’s only one honest position: machine learning/generative AI have many applications. Some are mature; most still need work. In some domains, certain applications are potentially transformative; in many domains there may be helpful niche applications; in many domains it will be useless.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 4d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 16d

regardless of credentials, anyone stating epistemic certainty about the internal mechanics of 1 trillion floating point numbers produced by gradient descent beyond these sorts of simple heuristics without evidence is simply not reflecting the current state of the science

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 19d

In machine learning, do you need to know any optimization algorithm other than stochastic gradient descent? A reluctant but best-faith argument for no.

Highly optimized optimizers

Justifying a laser focus on stochastic gradient methods.

www.argmin.net

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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 6h

Ziel vier Jahre vor dem Zeitplan erreicht: AfD stellt den Bundeskanzler www.der-postillon.com/2025/10/bund...

Ziel vier Jahre vor dem Zeitplan erreicht: AfD stellt den Bundeskanzler

Berlin (dpo) - Das ging deutlich schneller als gedacht: Eigentlich hatte die AfD das ehrgeizige Ziel gehabt, 2029 den Bundeskanzler zu stellen. Doch o

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Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 4h

I keep thinking: Who are the contractors doing this? Who in his right mind goes "yep, I am going to put a backhoe to the side of one of the most famous historcial buildings on this planet on behest of a man famous for stiffing contractors"?

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 5h

Not available here in Germany. Arrrgh.

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⛧ 𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖊𝖉 ♔ 𝕼𝖚𝖊𝖊𝖓 ⛧ @damagedqueen.satan.social · 18h

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness 😀

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Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 10h

Id eat that.

Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 11h

I wonder whether Volvo‘s excavator division is happy about this kind of free media exposure.

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 12h

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 21h

Looking at this picture long enough makes you want to smoke a Galloise without filter and cite Camus.

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the recommendation, reading right now.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d

Ludicrous take to say nobody misses the video store. Going to my local video store as a teenager was so fucking good. They had a five movies for five days for five dollars deal that was pretty much the greatest thing ever and a super stoned clerk who had seen every movie known to man

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Stansaid Airport @stansaidairport.bsky.social · 4d

Fact: The Dutch are the tallest race of people on earth. Which gives them a distinct advantage when it comes to aircraft maintenance.

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Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 1d

I understand residual as the distance to the regression hyperplane on the axis of the dependent variable. It’s in this interpretation always one-dimensional.

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Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of matrix multiplications.

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Tiago Pimentel @tpimentel.bsky.social · 19d

LLMs are trained to mimic a “true” distribution—their reducing cross-entropy then confirms they get closer to this target while training. Do similar models approach this target distribution in similar ways, though? 🤔 Not really! Our new paper studies this, finding 4-convergence phases in training 🧵

Figure showing the four phases of convergence in LM training

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Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 2d

Hinrichtung ("forward direction") und Rückrichtung ("backward direction") in German. Since "Hinrichtung" also means execution (as in chopping one's head off), this direction should always be the harder one.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · Jul 2

The AI discourse here is bonkers.

It's quite common for people to believe that even if an application is ethical and useful it should be rejected because the body of research informing it is tainted with original sin.

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 2d

I work in Health AI and a lot of the cool use cases don't require a lot of compute. They combine LLMs with rules based systems, machine learning and human expertise.

But this involves labour and nicheing down, the hyperscalers are allergic to that because it doesn't lend itself to a monopoly.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3d

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

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New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com

Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

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Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 3d

An anxiety celebration, or celebration with anxiety/angst, would be a „Besorgnisfeier“ in German. Works as a verb too: „Ich besorgnisfeiere den Führerschein meiner Tochter sehr.“

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 3d

Wondering what kind of conversations are happening at inflatable costume companies these days

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 3d

the US government has arrived on bluesky

4 panel comic

Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing

Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot

Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself

Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

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Karsten Konrad 🇪🇺 @zabong69.bsky.social · 3d

For a very small fee I am prepared to make up new long German composite nouns when you need them.

Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 3d

Daughter passed driving test! There must be a word for a celebration coupled with anxiety!

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