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I suggest using it to elevate a structure like this

illustration of one of the end deflectors of a launch loop

I think the core claims are: - there's a huge conspiracy to make LLMs seem smarter than they are by running inputs through a classifier, parsing math queries, and handing them to a calculator - also LLMs aren't really LLMs anymore because there's math in the training data This seems fragile

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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

true, and at night when they have a narrowband gas-discharge lamp that turns on and off unpredictably... sublime

A dim, heavily green-tinted outdoor scene captured at what appears to be dusk or in low ambient light, with a flat, featureless grayish-blue sky filling the upper two-thirds of the frame and a small, faint green disc hovering near the center, possibly a lens artifact. In the lower-middle ground stands a small, boxy structure resembling a shed or kiosk, its front face glowing with a soft pinkish-white light emanating from a window or doorway, and a curved, ribbed roofline extends to the left of it. To the right of the structure, a circular satellite dish is mounted on a slender vertical pole, tilted upward toward the sky, while a second rounded, dome-like object sits lower on the far right. A chain-link fence runs horizontally across the foreground, partially obscuring the base of the building and the dish, and tufts of grass are visible along the bottom edge. Behind these elements, a dark, silhouetted tree line or low hill stretches across the horizon, topped by several utility poles with sagging wires and a taller communications tower bearing clustered antennas near the center-right. The lighting is uniformly soft and diffuse with no discernible direction or hard shadows, dominated by a monochromatic green color cast that mutes all other tones. The camera is positioned at roughly eye level at a medium distance, framing the small lit structure as the focal point in the lower third while leaving the vast, empty sky as the dominant compositional element.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 20/09/2026

the signs they give you are fairly sparse, and all negative/cautionary, and written by lawyers. don't go here, this can harm you, we'll call the cops. maybe they should also mention 'this provides your internet connection' and add a friendly description of what it's doing and how it works

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Asa @asa.engineer · 19/09/2026

noticing that asphalt is a liquid at intersections where a previously straight line is drawn across

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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 · 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

the western mind can't comprehend the Oreo Spam burger

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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 · 04/09/2026

it pinpointed me pretty well, but these results are too close for comfort. the entire west is kind of mushed together

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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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Asa @asa.engineer · 01/09/2026

2046 thoughts… this would make an insane music venue and/or theme park after it shuts down

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Asa @asa.engineer · 30/08/2026

saw these beautiful clouds today 😶‍🌫️

A wide, flat highway stretches toward a low horizon beneath an expansive, overcast sky that fills the upper two-thirds of the frame with layered gray clouds. On the left, a broad curtain of falling rain hangs vertically from the cloud base, appearing as a pale, hazy shaft that lightens the otherwise dim atmosphere. The road surface in the foreground is a smooth expanse of gray pavement marked by faint lane lines that converge toward a central vanishing point. A few vehicles travel away from the viewer in the middle distance, including a light-colored car and a darker car spaced across the lanes. To the left, a large semi-truck with a boxy trailer sits low against the flat landscape, its dark cab and pale cargo container standing out against the muted background. Along the right side of the highway, low industrial buildings or warehouses and a row of utility poles alongside a single curved streetlight are visible near the horizon. Faint, low hills or distant mountains barely rise on the far right edge, softened by the haze. The lighting is flat and diffuse, with no distinct shadows, and the color temperature is a cool, desaturated gray that gives the entire scene a somber, hazy quality. The camera is positioned at eye level, likely from within a moving vehicle, capturing the scene with a wide field of view that emphasizes the vastness of the sky. Compositionally, the receding road lines draw the eye to the center, while the vertical rain curtain on the left balances the horizontal spread of the clouds and the flat terrain.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 28/08/2026

it's a new Micron fab, going online next year, and a second one a few years later.

Aerial shot of an under-construction huge industrial building

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Asa @asa.engineer · 28/08/2026

best i can do ☁️☁️☁️

heavy clouds cover the sky in this night shot with a park featuring sodium vapor-lit grass and trees in the foreground. a camera on a tripod is sitting near the bottom of the frame.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 25/08/2026

Qwen3.8 Flash Next releasing tomorrow

Qwen capybara pointing to a blackboard with 'Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Open Weight Soon'. The digit 4 is visible under a pulled back corner.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 24/08/2026

no intuition for bread:sauce ratio smh

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Asa @asa.engineer · 23/08/2026

this is a perfect example of what Ousterhout calls a false abstraction. The chat UI is an extreme version of a simple interface with all the complexity pulled down. It works very well in many cases, but for some narrowly-scoped tasks, it needlessly obfuscates what you're trying to do.

In the definition of abstraction, the word “unimportant” is crucial. The more unimportant details that are omitted from an abstraction, the better. However, a detail can only be omitted from an abstraction if it really is unimportant. An abstraction can go wrong in two ways. First, it can include details that are not really important; when this happens, it makes the abstraction more complicated than necessary, which increases the cognitive load on developers using the abstraction. The second error is when an abstraction omits details that really are important. This results in obscurity: developers looking only at the abstraction will not have all the information they need to use the abstraction correctly. An abstraction that omits important details is a false abstraction: it might appear simple, but in reality it isn’t. The key to designing abstractions is to understand what is important, and to look for designs that minimize the amount of information that is important.
As an example, consider a file system. The abstraction provided by a file system omits many details, such as the mechanism for choosing which blocks on a storage device to use for the data in a given file. These details are unimportant to users of the file system (as long as the system provides adequate performance). However, some of the details of a file system’s implementation are important to users. Most file systems cache data in main memory, and they may delay writing new data to the storage device in order to improve performance. Some applications, such as databases, need to know exactly when data is written through to storage, so they can ensure that data will be preserved after system crashes. Thus, the rules for flushing data to secondary storage must be visible in the file system’s interface...

Excerpt From
A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition
John K. Ousterhout

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Asa @asa.engineer · 19/08/2026

what are they listening for 🧐📡 (microwave backhaul hub)

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Asa @asa.engineer · 19/08/2026

I got Mormonism but specifically the South Park satirical version 😭

AI Overview
You are a newly deceased spirit realizing that the exact, exclusive truth belonged to none other than the fictional "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" as depicted in the animated satire South Park. The creator of the universe is not a singular, traditional bearded man, but rather a mild-mannered alien from the planet Marklar.
Upon this cosmic reveal, the afterlife operates precisely according to "All About Mormons" (Season 7, Episode 12):
The Only Right Answer: The Mormons were correct all along. All other major world religions guessed wrong and received zero points for their belief systems.
The "Marklar" Rule: Instead of a traditional heaven or hell, the afterlife is a unified, forgiving paradise. Everyone gets saved and enjoys unlimited charades, singing, cookies, and juice.
The Ultimate Reward: The only caveat is that devout Mormons get their own planets to rule. Everyone else simply gets to exist comfortably in the celestial kingdom.
Now that the mystery of the universe has been solved:Would you like to research your new planet's real estate potential?
Shall we review the rules of charades before you arrive at the celestial kingdom?
Do you want to hear what the other aliens have to say about this cosmic hierarchy?

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Asa @asa.engineer · 19/08/2026

it is now considering "LLM confabulation" as a potential root cause 😭

The position embeddings match the released source exactly, ruling out surgery errors. I'm now looking at three remaining suspects: Q8_0 quantization of the ViT, a bug in b10164's handling of the projector, or LLM confabulation—so I'll reimplement the ViT to test directly.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 18/08/2026

helicopters seem like a bad idea unless you really need to maximize the thrust-weight ratio, in which case, coaxial dual rotors are the best way to do it. quadcopters are the more elegant and maneuverable design overall, if you've got more atmosphere to work with.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 18/08/2026

uhh... pretty mid 😅

Your scorecard
8/12 Correct
9 Your guess
71% Avg confidence
58/100 Calibration

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Asa @asa.engineer · 14/08/2026

Qwen 3.8 27B tomorrow

Qwen capybara in a wizard outfit reading from a book called 'Dreams'

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Asa @asa.engineer · 13/08/2026

pov: if you like bird watching, why not go and join them?

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Asa @asa.engineer · 12/08/2026

how it feels to be a Qwen user:

Qwen 3.8 Max capybara mascot holding a baton, catching up to the Qwen 3.8 27B capybara, both running

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Asa @asa.engineer · 09/08/2026

well, he is, but not for that reason. there are a lot of springs in the ground around there, so the data center will have access to fresh water and will have a relatively small impact on the lake compared to the nearby agriculture.

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Asa @asa.engineer · 09/08/2026

interesting… I usually just come here for peace and quiet and birdwatching but it sounds like Das Energi Festival is this weekend. I don’t have general admission money but you can still hear it ok from 2 miles away if anyone wants to join me

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