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AI psychosis isn't a real issue and nobody's giving out gold stars for signalling one's non-affliction. I think if you fall for this you would easily fall for some other paranoia about autistics, like that magic the gathering is satanic or some shit, in a slightly different timeline

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Asa @asa.engineer · 20h

Anticipation is building for the most important AI release of the year, Qwen 4. Qwen Sparse Attention will bring fast inference at long contexts to a 27B model, with capabilities expected to be in the AGI tier. Rumored early October model weights release

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Asa @asa.engineer · 27/09/2026

no disrespect to my professors, but I think my formal education constitutes <1% of the total 'world knowledge' that exists in my head. it's baffling how much significance people assign to the content of those curricula from when they were 18 years old

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Asa @asa.engineer · 25/09/2026

Chicago public transportation is amazing. I love riding the L

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Asa @asa.engineer · 25/09/2026

they should have an art museum with time set aside exclusively for steady-handed and careful people, so you can bring beverages past the cafe area. imagine looking at the exhibits while sipping an iced americano

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Asa @asa.engineer · 23/09/2026

riding a 737 I got to see this rippled altocumulus layer:

A view from an airplane window looking out over a vast layer of white, rippled clouds that form parallel rows, resembling a textured ocean. Above the clouds, the sky is a clear, deep blue fading to a lighter haze at the horizon. In the foreground on the right, the white wing of the aircraft is visible, featuring visible rivets, panel lines, and a blue winglet at the tip. The dark frame of the airplane window borders the left side of the image.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 21/09/2026

working on my v1 cloud simulator 😶‍🌫️

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Asa @asa.engineer · 20/09/2026

we have Jev at home; the Jev at home: Qwen3-reranker

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Asa @asa.engineer · 20/09/2026

there's a Fujifilm camera that can simulate other, older Fujifilm camera technologies in software. very cool — I suggest other manufacturers do this as well. iPhone 18 with an iPhone 5 mode in the camera app

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kota @maristela.org · 20/09/2026

i 🤍 imposing structures

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Asa @asa.engineer · 19/09/2026

Many people are afraid of imposing structures that they don't know anything about. Cell towers, data centers, power plants, etc. One solution that I'm thinking about is to put an informative plaque at the entrance or the base of such constructs, that says what it does and how it works.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 19/09/2026

I now realize that no single gpu can pull it off. you can't do physically based rendering of a cloud. personal computing has a long, long way to go

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Asa @asa.engineer · 19/09/2026

I think the bonsai ternary models are cool but it's worth noting that their '98% benchmark performance' claims are heavily cherry-picked. empirically it is not anywhere close to 98% as good overall as ≥4-bit Qwen 3.8 27B.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 19/09/2026

need a drone with the ceiling removed; sadly mine is unhackable… hmm

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Asa @asa.engineer · 18/09/2026

California sounds crazy... anyway, I stand with Chinese Open-Source Developers against Anthropic, safetyism, Elon Musk, et al.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 18/09/2026

clouds are really difficult to simulate... you'd think some video game would have implemented clouds really well, but it's never been done

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Asa @asa.engineer · 18/09/2026

it turned to be a blended model, 'pareto' by unbiased dot ai. from the day I spent coding with it: it seems fine, not quite as strong as Deepseek V4.1 Flash ime, compared to which it's unfortunately way too expensive to be worth consideration.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 17/09/2026

I'm voting for my mutuals who have little to no votes. lmk if you want one

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Asa @asa.engineer · 17/09/2026

Union Alpha: this is probably GPT-6 Sol right? it has a very GPT vibe.

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🌱️ @crumb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Xiaomi are streaming their latest RL run live! (peep the cost raising by many dollars per second) mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/

Screenshot of a reinforcement learning training monitor for Xiaomi's MiMo models. Two runs are in progress: mimo-v2.6-pro at step 10 (cost $704,895) and mimo-v2.6-flash at step 15 (cost $303,769). A notification bar lists node restarts and result updates, and the main panel shows a benchmark comparison line chart alongside multiple training metric graphs.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 16/09/2026

beauty will save the world

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Asa @asa.engineer · 15/09/2026

have you ever looked at a cracked CD case with polarized sunglasses on? relive the experience with my strained glass simulator: asa.engineer/strain/

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Asa @asa.engineer · 13/09/2026

new on my website: Bubble simulator - wave interference: light bouncing off the front and back of a thin film interferes with itself 🫧 - 6 to 635nm film - choose from several boradband and narrowband light sources - look through a polarizer - settled and draining states asa.engineer/bubble/

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Asa @asa.engineer · 13/09/2026

thank you president Xi 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🫡🫡🫡 the future is open-source

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Asa @asa.engineer · 13/09/2026

despite advancements in recent years, monitors and cameras are still not very good. I hope for a monitor where you can display a wide angle video that shows the sun, and the blindingly bright sun really lights up the room with strong directional light, and can also display a convincing purple flower

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Asa @asa.engineer · 10/09/2026

single-shot compaction that takes place at the end of the context window is a horrible idea. agents need a robust memory system and it needs to update frequently and early, and compaction needs to leave a substantial chunk of the previous context intact

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Asa @asa.engineer · 09/09/2026

Deepseek V4.1 Flash tomorrow 👀

Dear DeepSeek API user,
DeepSeek plans to officially release the V4.1 Flash model around September 10, 2026 (Beijing Time). After extensive internal and external testing, V4.1 Flash has comprehensively surpassed V4 Pro across all key metrics, including performance, cost, speed, and task completion time. In keeping with our commitment to user responsibility, following the official launch of V4.1 Flash and prior to the release of V4.1 Pro, all requests to the Pro model will be routed to V4.1 Flash and billed at Flash's price as below. The new pricing will take effect at 4:00 UTC, September 10, 2026.
Item Off-peak price Peak-hour price
1M input tokens (cache hit) $0.003 $0.006
1M input tokens (cache miss) $0.15 $0.3
1M output tokens $0.6 $1.2
Peak hours (in UTC): 1:00–4:00 AM and 6:00–10:00 AM, Monday to Friday. (All other hours are off-peak)
If you continue to use our services after the billing adjustment, you will be deemed to have accepted the adjusted billing terms. If you do not agree, you may choose to cancel your service and apply for a refund. Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you for your support and understanding!
DeepSeek Team

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Asa @asa.engineer · 09/09/2026

I need a self-driving car whose mind you can download from huggingface and tinker with the harness... sadly it will be banned in the united states

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Asa @asa.engineer · 09/09/2026

sweet 🤠 here's my Qwen 3.8 Flash's 'build whatever you want' cutaway space station anoma.ly/labs/fiend/s...

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Asa @asa.engineer · 09/09/2026

alright, let's start with a singularity takeoff dry run. then if all goes well we'll kick of the real one next week

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Asa @asa.engineer · 08/09/2026

I've successfully 'updated all the way' and am no longer surprised by advancements in AGI or the singularity/ASI.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 08/09/2026

who's got a favorite implementation of a harness-agnostic local message board for your multiple agents on your computer? I'm sure they can figure it out themselves, but if you want to just set it up a nice version of it that's ready to go? and how do you make it easily discoverable?

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Asa @asa.engineer · 07/09/2026

rip Jean Baudrillard, he would have loved the flag-shaped banners that depict an image of a rumpled and distressed American flag

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Asa @asa.engineer · 06/09/2026

new Christian denomination that's really pragmatic and puts 5G sector antennas on top of their churches instead of a steeple or cross

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Anak Krakatau’s (Krakatoa) eruption plume rose above a sea of ash yesterday, captured by Sentinel-2. Data & image from browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu 10 meters per pixel, rotated 13˚ counter-clockwise. #volcano #eruption 🌋🛰️

A roiling white eruption plume rises above a brown background of low-altitude ash and stream left (west) in a satellite image collected on September 5, 2026.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 06/09/2026

can someone who has a GPT 6 Astra subscription oneshot all fixes needed to bring Asahi Linux to all recent (M4/M5) Macs, and fix all displayport, sleep, power state issues and get hdr display working as well? TYIA 🙏

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Asa @asa.engineer · 04/09/2026

there are two approaches to circular context: true sliding window (buggy, never implemented for vision models) and circular as in circular breathing (little hacks to make it seem that way).

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Asa @asa.engineer · 04/09/2026

sleep hygiene tip: drink a coffee right before bed so it'll be in your system and ready to go when you wake up

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Asa @asa.engineer · 04/09/2026

flying the gadsden flag but as a snake habitat conservationist, learning the other meaning long after

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Asa @asa.engineer · 03/09/2026

I've been syncing up the various activity indicators in Porrima

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Asa @asa.engineer · 03/09/2026

just a few hours into the AGI era; it's taking over cities

A tall, light-colored office building rises vertically through the frame, its facade organized into a grid of large rectangular windows that alternate between dark glass reflecting the night sky and panels glowing with warm interior light. At street level, a projecting entrance canopy with horizontal wooden slats is illuminated from below by small recessed spotlights, and the words "ASTRA TOWER" appear in glowing lettering on its dark fascia. Two massive cylindrical columns clad in pale panels flank the glass entryway, whose double doors and surrounding glazing reveal a dimly lit lobby interior. Several tapered planters hold conical evergreen topiaries positioned along the storefront windows, which reflect blue and pink hues from nearby signage. The foreground consists of a broad paved plaza of light stone tiles, where a pair of inverted-U metal bike racks and a small dark cage-like enclosure sit near the curb. To the right, a second high-rise building recedes into the distance, its grid of windows dotted with scattered warm lights against the dark backdrop. The camera is positioned at a low, slightly tilted angle looking upward from a medium distance, emphasizing the height of the structure and placing the entrance near the lower center of the composition.

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