Reposted by cosmo.Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252099926
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 23/09/2026softmax in practice performs much worse as a layer activation than silu/swish or relu 110
Reposted by cosmo.nia (cia asset) @nia.is.fckn.gay · 19/09/2026allocator stabilisation FCP passed. we're getting stable allocators in rust 1.100. we've never been so back github.com/rust-lang/ru...github.comalloc: stabilise `Allocator` by nia-e · Pull Request #156882 · rust-lang/rustView all comments See the current proposed stabilisation report for up-to-date information on the proposed stable API. outdated former status Stabilise a bare-minimum (dyn-incompatible, but cou... 39519
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 17/09/2026good things clearly come in twos! i got to invent a factorisation scheme for MCTS move policy networks ^^ 020
Reposted by cosmo.waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 09/09/2026my friend wrote a blog post about rust's never type, and specifically the misconception that has been ragebaiting me ever since I stabilized it go read it !! 0303
Reposted by cosmo.Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026[all that is solid melting into air] well, at least all that is holy won’t be profaned! 1245
Reposted by cosmo.rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” -- Thomas the Tank Engine 213918
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 28/08/2026reminds me of grabbyaliens.comgrabbyaliens.comGrabby Aliens – a simple model by Robin HansonAdvanced aliens really are out there, and we have enough data to say roughly where they are in space and time, and when we will see or meet them. 000
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 27/08/2026it causes me to recall greenblatt (or was it schlegeris?) saying “tbh i think we just need to do like 10 basic sensible things and it’ll probably be fine, but also these people are a disaster and won’t manage even that” hearing more recent things about the state of rl environments is horrifying 070
Reposted by cosmo.waffle .-. @waffle.pet · 25/08/2026blog.ihatereality.space/0C-never-type/blog.ihatereality.spaceI stabilized never type | I hate realityyeah 2122737
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 23/08/2026i suppose if you're very good at picking from a very large number of task solvers that's almost like being good at the task itself! 010
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 23/08/2026i’ve run into this sort of problem a lot in chess net design where my hidden-state is 32-wide, so to do literally anything interesting vis-a-vis routing is so (relatively) costly you may as well just not 110
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 22/08/2026new page on my site has some pretty cetz svgs i wasted several hours on: asteri.sm/pages/networ... 051
Reposted by cosmo.mimir @mimirwolv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"utility monster" as in "utility closet"; a handy all-purpose monster 2376
Reposted by cosmo.qntm @qntm.org · 11/08/2026Extremely psyched about The Elder Scrolls VI, apparently it's going to have proper classes, arrow functions, block-scoped variables with `const` and `let`... 211912
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 10/08/2026agh! okay, so the Mount Terror base rate is higher than I thought, making this at most half as surprising as it initially seemed ^^ 010
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 10/08/2026real weird seeing this directly after reading of the thing for the first time in _Mountains of Madness_ yesterday 110
Reposted by cosmo.Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/08/2026A new JWST image just dropped and it is gorgeous 17804212
Reposted by cosmo.never linger; rightly grow @nlrg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026vimes is perceptive when it comes to people. he understands that the upper class of ankh-morpork are hardly a meritocracy. he knows that *something* is up. but, i think, as a consummate policeman, it's hard for him to recognize legally-protected stationary bandits as the problem. 2232
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 05/08/2026More people should be chess programmers, for the sake of understanding, knowledge, friendship, and art. 010
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 05/08/2026I recently read Born Against (blog.fogus.me/llm/born-aga...). I’m a member of the chess programming community, and while “characterized by gatekeeping and slow progress” is simply false of chess programming, I like the article. Even better is 87flowers’ comment: lobste.rs/s/3d3wbr/bor...blog.fogus.meBorn Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage 151
Reposted by cosmo.Sichu Lu @sichulu.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven. —E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops (1909) @miq.moe 072
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 31/07/2026makes sense! i’m an unwinding-is-evil sort of girl anyway, it just seemed like a thing to be aware of ^^ 020
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 31/07/2026you might be interested in purplesyringa.moe/blog/you-mig...purplesyringa.moeYou might want to use panics for error handlingRust’s approach to error handling comes at a cost. The Result type often doesn’t fit in CPU registers, and callers of fallible functions have to check whether the returned value is Ok or Err. That’s a... 220
Reposted by cosmo.Computational Cosmetologist @dferrer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Imagining a social platform where if you use a fraught word like “knowledge” or “consciousness”, it pops up a list of interpretations of that word from the relevant SEP article and you have to select which one you mean. Then you get a short quiz on the common objections before you can post. 2415
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 27/07/2026* Well, there is a man here. * Purification in progress… * Well, there is not a man here. 011
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 27/07/2026slowly slipping away from making graphs for the sake of understanding towards making graphs for the sake of how cool it is to have lots of graphs 1101
Reposted by cosmo.Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Not understanding the thought experiment I'm in, I announce that I will be two-boxing, collect both the £1,000,000 and the £50,000, and flee before anyone can stop me 1265
Reposted by cosmo.Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I just need more irons in the fire 1222
Reposted by cosmo.Andrew Gallant @burntsushi.net · 09/07/2026regex 1.13 now has a `regex!` macro (NOT compile time regex) that encapsulates the common pattern of using something like `std::sync::LazyLock` to ensure it only compiles ~once. github.com/rust-lang/re... 1685
cosmo. @asteri.sm · 08/07/2026Went to Battle at the Burgh #6 over the weekend and saw some awesome robots tear each other apart ^^ 041
Reposted by cosmo.RustNL @rustnl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026'Obsessive Optimization with String Interning' by Arya Dradjica at RustWeek 2026! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWRL... #rustlang #RustWeekyoutube.comObsessive Optimization with String Interning (Arya Dradjica at RustWeek)Obsessive Optimization with String Interning by arya dradjica. Low-level performance optimization is a challenging endeavor. It requires a wide breadth of knowledge and can be agonizingly slow. But… 092
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