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Alex Knauth

@alexknauth.bsky.social
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I like programming languages and functional programming, music, art, math-as-an-art-form, lakes, and other random he/him | they/them & 29 pronoun.is/he?or=they

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Iskaydi @iskaydi.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Monika @artseamoni.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I’ve found this little bug in the garden. Do you think it’s dangerous? 🤔 #silksong
A drawing of Hornet from Silksong standing on a human hand. There’s a spider web, flowers and winter cherries in the background
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 13/08/2026
Size and Lifespan xkcd.com/3283/
Comic. [Graph with size in kg on x axis (10^-10 to 10^40) and lifespan in seconds on y axis (10^0 to 10^20). A scatter plot with an approximately linear arc shows points in all different colors: white blood cells, yellowjackets, gray wolves, blue whales, a slash from top to bottom for black holes, Red Sea, Greenland, a smaller slash for red dwarfs and blue giants.
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026
Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more
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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
❌data modelling ✅ Data, modelling
Data, modelling
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 30/07/2026
Vera Rubin Observatory xkcd.com/3278/
Comic. Vera Rubin Observatory Discoveries: Bingo Card. [5 x 5 bingo card: black hole tidally disrupting a star; Planet Nine; remnants of a former Milky Way companion galaxy, 10,000 new trans-Neptunian objects, object on interstellar trajectory, star being eclipsed by weird object, secret military satellite, Kuiper Belt object that’s a surprising color; Mars-sized TNO, local group supernova, spurious signal from observatory kitchen, glitch in alert system spams all astronomers, space (free), Earth-sized TNO, defunct spacecraft, surprising number of small galaxies, neutron star merger, new supernova constraints on dark energy, new dwarf plane bigger than Pluto/Eris, lost historical comet, 5 million asteroids and comets, 50,000 near-Earth asteroids, object likely to impact Earth, Vera Rubin herself (faked death, stole spaceship), many very small dots.
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
ah it broke but like in a pretty way
graphs being drawn all over in desmos because of an accident
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てーけ @nzwixbydhknxjlw.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
#hollowknight 涙の都☔️
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Livi @classicsgaymer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is the only good post about that fan made Odyssey poster
Top photo is a snippet of a fan made Odyssey poster. It shows the title written in Greek letters. The caption underneath says “tes THDPSSSSPS”. Underneath this is a photo of a tuxedo kitten looking directly at the camera, which is captioned “wgat did u say”
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Jiannan Xu @jiannanxu.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
🚨 New Working Paper Alert 🚨 TL;DR: Our study provides the first empirical evidence on the real-world implications of self-preference bias in algorithmic hiring. Full paper available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #AI #Futureofwork #AIethics #Fairness #hiring
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AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
<p>As generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-maki
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23/03/2026
Star Formation xkcd.com/3222/
4-panel comic. (1) [Glowing black dot surrounded by clouds.] DOT: I think I did a good job with this universe. Pressure waves dance through gas clouds. They clump together and then pressure pushes them apart. (2) [Some of the clouds are clumping together.] DOT: Oh weird, that big clump of clouds is staying together. Their gravity is overcoming the pressure and more gas is falling in. (3) [More clouds are sucked in.] DOT: It’s not stopping! The heat is rising but the collapse is only accelerating! I messed up. I messed up *bad*. (4) [The clump has become a shining star.] DOT: NOOOOOOOO!!! My beautiful clouds! Ruined! It’s all ruined!
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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 20/02/2026
While developing an ATProto app, I went down a rabbit hole around the odd way Bluesky defines "character limits". I have a challenge for anyone who knows a lot about languages: mastodon.social/@mcc/1161050... If you don't like reading, you can just play around with: data.runhello.com/bs-limits/
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Got nerdsniped by a request from @thisismissem.social@bsky.brid.gy and made a little visualizer tool demonstrating the various ways you can represent "how long is this string?" in Unicode: https://da...
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Silksong first playthrough video playlist, just finished uploading Part 24a, where I got to another ending! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Silksong - YouTube
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Cogwork Waltz: Cogwork Dancers but it's in 3 instead of 4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1oS...
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Cogwork Waltz: Cogwork Dancers but it's in 3 instead of 4
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Calcidusk @calcidusk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
She's learning #silksong
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Silksong first playthrough video playlist, just finished uploading Part 14d, where I got to an ending for the first time! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Silksong - YouTube
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ふめた @fumeta-wanderer.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
毎日ホロナイ1234日目 見果てぬ夢を見てる この先、きっとキミに会える夢を
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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
'Cello' comes from 'violoncello'. This Italian word has a funny literal meaning: "little big viola". That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola': viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola). The part '-cello' is only a suffix. Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':
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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/09/2025
mastodon.social/@mcc/1106624...
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Attached: 1 image Me, standing atop a cherry-blossom-swept bridge, re-sheathing my katana
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
It’s squirrel appreciation day! Squirrels are not literally dark matter. Thanks @xkcd.com
It’s an xkcd comic about squirrels not being dark matter. The volume of the Earth would have about one squirrel mass of dark matter.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 09/05/2025
About 20 Pounds xkcd.com/3085
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/05/2023
I do like the sky
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Magion LoVun @magion02.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"Ascend" Here's my take on Hornet from Hollow Knight: Silksong ✨ I hope you aII Iike it! 😄
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
What looks to be an interesting paper (outside of my area of expertise) on LLMs and hallucinations: "hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded -- language models are optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance"
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Why Language Models Hallucinate
Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such "hallucinations" per...
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Rob Rey @robreyart.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Night Migration Oil, 30x20in, 2024 at @ixarts.bsky.social Art Show next month! In our night sky there is a dark band that runs through the Milky Way, known as the Great Rift. This darkness is where the stars of our galaxy are obscured by vast clouds of interstellar dust and geese … er, gas.
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
today I fixed a hard-to-find bug in C# code that would *not* have taken this long to find if this were all Rust code
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Christopher Larkin @christopherlarkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Hey everyone! Exciting to be finally releasing Silksong with @teamcherry.bsky.social on the 4th! The soundtrack album will be available on Steam, GOG and Bandcamp on day one, with other music platforms to follow soon after! Album price: USD 11.99 | EUR €11.79 | YEN ¥1200 Cheers :)
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Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September. Release times: 7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST Game price: USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY ¥2300
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Rainbow
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Big Hippo 🇮🇪 @bighippoart.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Autumn is near 🦊 🍂
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
GoldyLocs
Illustration of a woman with golden dreadlocs with goldfish spread around. Her eyes are closed. She's earing a golden headwrap and black and yellow top. Drawn by gdbeeart in 2023
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I just made a guide for using the auto-hit-counter built in to the Default Hollow Knight autosplitter: Hollow Knight Auto-hit-counter Guide: LiveSplit + HitCounterManager www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC5...
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Hollow Knight Auto-hit-counter Guide: LiveSplit + HitCounterManager
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I made a mapping from all the possible toki pona syllables into musical chords: toki pi kalama musi www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1vm...
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the tokirap but all the syllables are mapped to musical chords: toki pi kalama musi
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Young Eagle spotted at the Lake
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s
Illo of a celestial person reaching up to grab a star. Based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995. Drawn by gdbeeart in autumn 2021, photoshop.
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Well, here we go. After well over two years, here's a new version of my programming languages book, PLAI (v3.2.5). As always, free of cost! Can't thank enough all the people named in the acknowledgments. Enjoy! www.plai.org
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Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation
Site for the PLAI book
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Yuumei Art @yuumeiart.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Swept Away Somedays my brain is too fried from everything going on, so I just doodle some mindless wiggly lines that make me happy #art
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R FRANTIC Smith (he/him) 🇺🇦 @rfrancissmith.com · 06/07/2025
Our decades-old microwave oven is finally breaking down so we're buying a new one, and I thought it interesting how now instead of discussing desirable features in appliances we discuss undesirable ones: network connectivity, talking, any AI that isn't the actual point, etc
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windy_harper @windyharper.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My 30 day algorithmic listening challenge is over and now when I wake up in the morning I’m excited to find out what I get to listen to while drinking my morning coffee. I’d say it was a success. Idk if I’ll continue to post daily but if you’re wondering: July 1: youtu.be/WtEQsOSVkbM?...
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Josef Suk - Serenade for Strings Op. 6 (1892)
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
My favorite Alphabet Song: I genuinely find it the most useful alphabet song for singing to myself while sorting things alphabetically, when I need to remind myself which letter comes where in the order. Because it goes so fast, it gets to the point more quickly.
Sheet-music labeled as Choir Warmup Alphabet Song. The melody is made of eighth notes in ascending and descending lines between Do and Sol, one letter per note until the letter W. Letter W gets 2 16th notes and an 8th note as it descends from Mi to Re. Letter X gets a quarter note on Do, letter Y gets a quarter note on Sol, and letter Z gets an eighth note on Do. Finally, there's a piano transition for a repeat with higher pitches, written as a One chord before a flat-Two chord, both in smaller cue notes.
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
There is no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might write a comment, say thanks, post on HN, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people reading and remembering the author, posting on HN, etc. That is, it totally destroys the incentive structure.
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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
If you have an iPhone and you hit the lock button five times the phone can only be unlocked with the numeric code or password. Touch/Face ID won’t work. Cops can get your face or fingerprint but they can’t compel you to put in a code. Saying this for no reason at all. Talking into the wind.
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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Rainbow bug friends 🐌🌈🐛 #art #traditionalart #cuteart #pridemonth
Traditional art. A page filled with cute drawings of various bugs and a critters, made with a rainbow pencil. There’s two caterpillars, a moth, a snail, a tiny ladybug and a tiny worm, and a bug with speckled wings.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/05/2025
Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/
[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
A map of some time zones, showing negative UTC offsets on the left, positive UTC offsets on the right, Northern Hemisphere DST on the top, and Southern Hemisphere DST on the bottom
A map of some time zones, showing negative UTC offsets on the left, positive UTC offsets on the right, Northern Hemisphere DST on the top, and Southern Hemisphere DST on the bottom
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Alex Knauth @alexknauth.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Rainbow
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Twiggies @twiggies-draws.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
More on this btw. Potential way to kick it from your servers. The ID is 1153984868804468756 Remember, never believe an AI bot's claims that they won't train your stuff without permission. They will. #Discord
Discord recently partnered with a Generative AI called DomoAI and apparently they’re in every server but sneakily don't show up in the member list.

However they still use the art/images sent in the server to train their AI.

To bypass this, people have found the AI’s ID so we can ban them. 
The AI has already been banned in this server, but for anyone here who has a server or is in another art/creative space, please use this advice and ban the following ID using the /ban command.

1153984868804468756

It may also be smart to start watermarking your pieces.
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Dr Pen @drpen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2024
"Bias Automation" Source unverified via FB group against AI #AI #ethics #bias #academicchatter
screenshot of tweet showing bias of AI content generator interpreting man with and without bookshelf in the background
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