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Big fan of Canada, really good stuff up there. Also a big fan of taking time away from computers.
Anyways, back to work.
Anyways, back to work.
September 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Big fan of Canada, really good stuff up there. Also a big fan of taking time away from computers.
Anyways, back to work.
Anyways, back to work.
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"edit: never mind, i figured it out"
July 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"edit: never mind, i figured it out"
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@aviva.gay introduced the ability for users to appoint their own "Trusted Verifiers" to their bluesky alt client, deer.social
1. Amazing turnaround, less than a week after we launched verifications!
2. This is a great way to explore new approaches to hard problems
3. Atproto is all about interop
1. Amazing turnaround, less than a week after we launched verifications!
2. This is a great way to explore new approaches to hard problems
3. Atproto is all about interop
April 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@aviva.gay introduced the ability for users to appoint their own "Trusted Verifiers" to their bluesky alt client, deer.social
1. Amazing turnaround, less than a week after we launched verifications!
2. This is a great way to explore new approaches to hard problems
3. Atproto is all about interop
1. Amazing turnaround, less than a week after we launched verifications!
2. This is a great way to explore new approaches to hard problems
3. Atproto is all about interop
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[📄] Are LLMs mindless token-shifters, or do they build meaningful representations of language? We study how LLMs copy text in-context, and physically separate out two types of induction heads: token heads, which copy literal tokens, and concept heads, which copy word meanings.
April 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
[📄] Are LLMs mindless token-shifters, or do they build meaningful representations of language? We study how LLMs copy text in-context, and physically separate out two types of induction heads: token heads, which copy literal tokens, and concept heads, which copy word meanings.
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The gaping abyss between the reality of this, and how it is going to be covered and remembered (even by negative sources!!) really does make me wonder how much historiography was just straight-up fabricated because the reality was too stupid for anyone to accept.
April 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The gaping abyss between the reality of this, and how it is going to be covered and remembered (even by negative sources!!) really does make me wonder how much historiography was just straight-up fabricated because the reality was too stupid for anyone to accept.
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For people outside the industry, it may not be common knowledge, but one of the most famous bits of technical writing of all time, was Joel Spolsky saying that you should *never* rewrite an entire code base — 25 years ago. www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...
March 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
For people outside the industry, it may not be common knowledge, but one of the most famous bits of technical writing of all time, was Joel Spolsky saying that you should *never* rewrite an entire code base — 25 years ago. www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...
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you either die a hero or live long enough to become a technical consultant
March 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
you either die a hero or live long enough to become a technical consultant
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I got laid off today. They sent me a termination agreement to sign digitally. The app to do so was pretty nice.
I couldn't resist peeking into the source... Turns out it was using React-PDF, which I’ve been maintaining since 2017. 🥲
Open source sure brings some unexpected moments.
I couldn't resist peeking into the source... Turns out it was using React-PDF, which I’ve been maintaining since 2017. 🥲
Open source sure brings some unexpected moments.
March 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I got laid off today. They sent me a termination agreement to sign digitally. The app to do so was pretty nice.
I couldn't resist peeking into the source... Turns out it was using React-PDF, which I’ve been maintaining since 2017. 🥲
Open source sure brings some unexpected moments.
I couldn't resist peeking into the source... Turns out it was using React-PDF, which I’ve been maintaining since 2017. 🥲
Open source sure brings some unexpected moments.
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vast majority of the film takes place in dark, dingy, grimy places and harrison ford kills a commando prostitute in raccoon makeup
March 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
vast majority of the film takes place in dark, dingy, grimy places and harrison ford kills a commando prostitute in raccoon makeup
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I really cannot stress enough how much of an unexpected marketing gift the term "vibe coding" has been for us.
March 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I really cannot stress enough how much of an unexpected marketing gift the term "vibe coding" has been for us.
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Whether something is decentralised or not is a function of the administrative control of different parts of the system, not a function of the network topology.
April 29, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Whether something is decentralised or not is a function of the administrative control of different parts of the system, not a function of the network topology.
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Ok, Dynamic Arrays are cool, but have you heard about Dynamic Programming?
March 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Ok, Dynamic Arrays are cool, but have you heard about Dynamic Programming?
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but:
If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present.
Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover
If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present.
Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover
March 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but:
If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present.
Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover
If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present.
Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover
the same with 99th percentile in Russia.
rich and bored, the hatred radiating from the media brings a sense of movement ("dvizhukha") into their lives
rich and bored, the hatred radiating from the media brings a sense of movement ("dvizhukha") into their lives
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
the same with 99th percentile in Russia.
rich and bored, the hatred radiating from the media brings a sense of movement ("dvizhukha") into their lives
rich and bored, the hatred radiating from the media brings a sense of movement ("dvizhukha") into their lives
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February 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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You say "artificial intelligence"? Here is Günther Anders, in 1977, with a much better idea: "artificial imagination" -- something he says we must reclaim from ... drug users!
February 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
You say "artificial intelligence"? Here is Günther Anders, in 1977, with a much better idea: "artificial imagination" -- something he says we must reclaim from ... drug users!
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wow there is a second Brünnhilde cat picture and it’s even better
January 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
wow there is a second Brünnhilde cat picture and it’s even better
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The NYT published a bizarre religious article on the Pentium division bug exactly 30 years ago today: "Pentium and Our Crisis of Faith." It argued that you need to have faith in a computer's results, so the Pentium bug was like Martin Luther's Protestant revolt.
www.nytimes.com/1994/12/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/1994/12/28/o...
December 29, 2024 at 1:43 AM
The NYT published a bizarre religious article on the Pentium division bug exactly 30 years ago today: "Pentium and Our Crisis of Faith." It argued that you need to have faith in a computer's results, so the Pentium bug was like Martin Luther's Protestant revolt.
www.nytimes.com/1994/12/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/1994/12/28/o...
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Spa time ☁️ it's getting cold outside, so get cozy ✨ available as print on my website :) #cuteart #illustration
#art #digitaldrawing #grunling #ghibli
#art #digitaldrawing #grunling #ghibli
November 23, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Spa time ☁️ it's getting cold outside, so get cozy ✨ available as print on my website :) #cuteart #illustration
#art #digitaldrawing #grunling #ghibli
#art #digitaldrawing #grunling #ghibli
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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
—C.D. Wright
—C.D. Wright
November 23, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
—C.D. Wright
—C.D. Wright