Nick Williams 🤓
@datasentient.bsky.social
Interested in Machine Learning, Security, Electronic Music, and content produced by humans rather than bots.
Socials: Instagram, SoundCloud, TikTok, YouTube, Venmo/CashApp @datasentient
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Nick Williams 🤓
@datasentient.bsky.social
· Nov 21
BlueSky is like German beer 🍺
Twitter is Bud Light 🗑️
Twitter is Bud Light 🗑️
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While Trump is talking about Putin ‘nicely wishing him happy birthday’, my people are sheltering in Kyiv metro from Russian drones that are attacking my city. Bizarre
June 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
While Trump is talking about Putin ‘nicely wishing him happy birthday’, my people are sheltering in Kyiv metro from Russian drones that are attacking my city. Bizarre
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OpenAI's o3-pro is much smarter than o3 and amazing at using tools, but the model requires extensive context to perform optimally and may overthink without it (Ben Hylak/Latent.Space)
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June 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
OpenAI's o3-pro is much smarter than o3 and amazing at using tools, but the model requires extensive context to perform optimally and may overthink without it (Ben Hylak/Latent.Space)
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Watch this.
“The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance. It harvests our data in order to sell us stuff. We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.” - @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Watch the explosive first talk from #TED2025 now:
Watch the explosive first talk from #TED2025 now:
This is what a digital coup looks like
"We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start," says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the "bro...
www.ted.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Watch this.
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It's a 10-year black mail tactic. Orbán always vetoes important policy initiatives such as aid to Ukraine, and then relinquishes the veto in return for E.U funds given to Hungary.
as an outsider looking in sometimes it seems like Hungary veto's shit just for the sake of doing so.
April 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
It's a 10-year black mail tactic. Orbán always vetoes important policy initiatives such as aid to Ukraine, and then relinquishes the veto in return for E.U funds given to Hungary.
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Consistent and admissible search heuristics (i.e. cost-to-go / value function estimates) are good actually!
Similar to how CNN architectures exploit the inductive bias of translation-invariance for image classification, RL policies can enforce planning invariance by using a *quasimetric* critic parameterization that is guaranteed to obey the triangle inequality. 4/
February 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Consistent and admissible search heuristics (i.e. cost-to-go / value function estimates) are good actually!
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I am quite excited that our brand-new module "P79: Cryptography and Protocol Engineering" has its first lecture today! @martin.kleppmann.com and I designed the course to bridge the gap between mathematical ideas and the challenge of implementing secure cryptography in the real world. @cst.cam.ac.uk
January 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I am quite excited that our brand-new module "P79: Cryptography and Protocol Engineering" has its first lecture today! @martin.kleppmann.com and I designed the course to bridge the gap between mathematical ideas and the challenge of implementing secure cryptography in the real world. @cst.cam.ac.uk
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Community is the antidote to despair.
Happy to host! 🌹
Happy to host! 🌹
Building the multiracial working class today in the Bronx with @aoc.bsky.social at our DSA 101.
January 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Community is the antidote to despair.
Happy to host! 🌹
Happy to host! 🌹
The crypto-mania and scamming is like the most blatant degeneracy and greedy thing I’ve seen in a long time. It’s brazen criminality.
White House crypto czar David Sacks says NFTs and memecoins are neither securities nor commodities, but collectibles that people buy to "commemorate something" (Catherine McGrath/Fortune)
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January 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The crypto-mania and scamming is like the most blatant degeneracy and greedy thing I’ve seen in a long time. It’s brazen criminality.
I’m gonna unfollow people who post too much.
Nobody has that much to say.
I’m not a native Twitter / BlueSky user. So if there’s a better way please let me know.
Nobody has that much to say.
I’m not a native Twitter / BlueSky user. So if there’s a better way please let me know.
January 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I’m gonna unfollow people who post too much.
Nobody has that much to say.
I’m not a native Twitter / BlueSky user. So if there’s a better way please let me know.
Nobody has that much to say.
I’m not a native Twitter / BlueSky user. So if there’s a better way please let me know.
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Another nail in the coffin of cosine similarity!
I started disliking cossim some years ago due to multiple reasons such as the non-linearity around 0.0 and the loss of certainty-information due to the normalization of feature vectors but this study seems to give another good reason to abandon it.
I started disliking cossim some years ago due to multiple reasons such as the non-linearity around 0.0 and the loss of certainty-information due to the normalization of feature vectors but this study seems to give another good reason to abandon it.
Cosine Similarity: Not the Silver Bullet We Thought It Was | Shaped Blog
In the world of machine learning and data science, cosine similarity has long been a go-to metric for measuring the semantic similarity between high-dimensional objects. However, a new study by resear...
www.shaped.ai
January 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Another nail in the coffin of cosine similarity!
I started disliking cossim some years ago due to multiple reasons such as the non-linearity around 0.0 and the loss of certainty-information due to the normalization of feature vectors but this study seems to give another good reason to abandon it.
I started disliking cossim some years ago due to multiple reasons such as the non-linearity around 0.0 and the loss of certainty-information due to the normalization of feature vectors but this study seems to give another good reason to abandon it.
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Tbh the best security posture is you shouldn’t post photos of any subject from your personal life online, at all. Pictures of your kids have an extra level of harm, but the ease at which you can be geolocated and targeted for harassment or worse from the most minute and unexpected details is wild
And a lot of you post the photos but put an emoji sticker over the kid's face or whatever: that is really, really, really not sufficient to prevent people from doing things with them you do not want to know about. Do not post photos of your kids online, period.
I am one of those people who is *really, really good* at identifying exactly where and when a photo was taken from basic context clues (a skill I developed for human rights research and journalism purposes).
Trust me on this, don’t post photos of your kids on the public internet.
Trust me on this, don’t post photos of your kids on the public internet.
January 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Tbh the best security posture is you shouldn’t post photos of any subject from your personal life online, at all. Pictures of your kids have an extra level of harm, but the ease at which you can be geolocated and targeted for harassment or worse from the most minute and unexpected details is wild
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I wrote about the similarities between OpenAI and Visa, and how both companies have sought to build regulatory and legal moats to lock in customers and lock out competitors sherwood.news/tech/openai-...
OpenAI is Visa
Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly....
sherwood.news
December 26, 2024 at 5:25 PM
I wrote about the similarities between OpenAI and Visa, and how both companies have sought to build regulatory and legal moats to lock in customers and lock out competitors sherwood.news/tech/openai-...
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This Haaretz piece of IDF soldiers’ confessions of human rights violations absolutely wrecked me
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
December 24, 2024 at 2:28 AM
This Haaretz piece of IDF soldiers’ confessions of human rights violations absolutely wrecked me
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
This goofy Mormon melts my heart 🥰
December 12, 2024 at 10:21 PM
This goofy Mormon melts my heart 🥰
I really like Mormons. So attractive, so wholesome, immaculate vibes.
December 12, 2024 at 1:32 AM
I really like Mormons. So attractive, so wholesome, immaculate vibes.
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reminds of Hasan derangement. They can't cancel you because you're independent and have a subscription based income. so they just create a daily torrent of bullshit to try to turn you into a toxic figure
December 9, 2024 at 4:09 AM
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I actually hate BlueSky sometimes. Why can’t I just send someone a DM?
December 5, 2024 at 7:42 AM
I actually hate BlueSky sometimes. Why can’t I just send someone a DM?
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🚨 A supply chain attack has been detected in versions 1.95.6 and 1.95.7 of the popular #Solana web3.js library. The injected code captures private keys and transmits them to a hardcoded address. This is a developing story. socket.dev/blog/supply-... #crypto #cybersecurity
Supply Chain Attack Detected in @solana/web3.js Library - So...
A supply chain attack has been detected in versions 1.95.6 and 1.95.7 of the popular @solana/web3.js library.
socket.dev
December 3, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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I love how sassy you opened this 😏
[SATURDAY THREAD] ☕️ 🧑🎓
In case you spent the week reading GDPR legislation and missed everything. It’s all about vision language models and image preference datasets.
>> 🧵 Here are the models and datasets you can use in your projects.
In case you spent the week reading GDPR legislation and missed everything. It’s all about vision language models and image preference datasets.
>> 🧵 Here are the models and datasets you can use in your projects.
November 30, 2024 at 7:44 AM
I love how sassy you opened this 😏
I keep waiting to get my flu shot and COVID booster. I’m gonna die if I get COVID 😳
November 30, 2024 at 12:46 AM
I keep waiting to get my flu shot and COVID booster. I’m gonna die if I get COVID 😳
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How Bluesky could implement Limited Audiences / Non-Public Content and private, end-to-end encrypted protocol-native DMs using existing cryptography:
soatok.blog/2024/11/29/i...
soatok.blog/2024/11/29/i...
Imagining Private Airspaces for Bluesky - Dhole Moments
Recently, I shared my thoughts on the Twitter Exodus. The short of that post is: Even though I’m quite happy on the Fediverse, I think the best outcome is for Bluesky to “win” the…
soatok.blog
November 29, 2024 at 8:39 PM
How Bluesky could implement Limited Audiences / Non-Public Content and private, end-to-end encrypted protocol-native DMs using existing cryptography:
soatok.blog/2024/11/29/i...
soatok.blog/2024/11/29/i...
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November 15, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Thank you for joining Bluesky, we’re happy you’re here!
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Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you’d like.
None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.
None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.
November 15, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you’d like.
None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.
None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.