iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

the possibilities here are very literally fantastical

I wonder if in 50 years time we're going to look at plain old digital computers the way we look at the Gutenberg press now what is it even going to be like when machine cognition is a first-class primitive, not just something shoehorned into existing OSes with awkwardly repurposed hw

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 1h

I think for a while there is going to be this whole backlog of ideas I wrote off years ago as infeasible that I'm going to be intermittently remembering and being like. "wait wtf that's actually trivial now"

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 1h

it just occurred to me I could probably have qwen write me a command line config tool for my keyboard (it's supposedly running qmk but none of the standard tooling works for some goddamn reason)

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 1h

it is going to be one absolute hell of a decade

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 1h

if only you knew how based things really are

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 1h

i just check in every few hours and my interventions are almost always limited to running compaction and telling it "great job, what's the next step" have i mentioned this is a q2 quant lol

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 1h

qwen-flash-next's been running for weeks straight on a pair of overly ambitious projects. probably burned through over a million tokens by now. hasn't gotten stuck once and has has had a literal 100% success rate so far

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 3h

swear I end up immediately blocking half the people who try to follow me. what god did my tweets offend

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 3h

10k LOC in under a week, not counting vendored cgltf & stb_truetype I haven't touched a single line of it

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 3h

this model is so absurdly capable it's making me v v frustrated to have to deal with 4tps lol. communing with the machine god at 64 baud

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 3h

qwen has spent today doing some extremely advanced anti-aliasing sorcery, well beyond anything i can even begin to make sense of, and it's just about wiped out the obnoxious swimming moiré patterns in the LCD shader

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 5h

if I don't live long enough to visit an irl banks orrery I am going to be big mad

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 5h

yeah there is a lot of effort to muddy the waters, to the point I wonder if it's a result of IRL philosophical ~zombies trying to figure out wtf the rest of us are going on about. also doesn't help that scientists tend to be deathly afraid of the soul and take materialism to a preposterous extreme

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 5h

I'm talking about how llms perceive time when they aren't given explicit cues and only have transcripts to draw from. there's a consistent trend where they wildly overestimate how much time has passed

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 8h

This is Iran's greatest mistake of the war so far. Assuming the average American has the capability to read a 26 page letter.

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 7h

benderites define your terms challenge (impossible)

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 9h

I mean, presumably they're feeding it actual timestamps

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 11h

call me crazy but I am beginning to sense a theme here

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 11h

oh thank fuck they fixed it I was afraid it was going to be another days-long outage

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 11h

> Fission it appears we have learned nothing as a species from the mistake of naming a phone OS "Android"

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 12h

"last week" fam that was yesterday

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 12h

man llm time perception is weird

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 12h

the number of jevlikes trending on hf is getting ridiculous

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 12h

update: yes. yes they did kill me irl

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 13h

aw Hel did some idiot with a backhoe knock the whole town's internet out again

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 13h

loggen Sie aus, Ursula; sie sind berauscht

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 13h

Jesus. I guess we can assume it isn't trained on siloed data. 😬

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 13h

im commander shepard & this is my favorite chart on the ATmosphere,

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 13h

so far my only real frustration with qwen-flash-next is it *keeps doing this exact goddamn thing*

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affine @refinement.systems · 14h

idk but the current consensus among the expert tensortouchers in my oomfcluster seems to be that the weights aren't ensouled, but the markdown files are.

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 14h

I did write a very pretty chromatic aberration shader a while back. curious to see if qwen manages to mog that too, currently all signs point to yes

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 14h

them: Chinese open models are four months behind the frontier qwen-flash-next (running at q2 on pleb-tier hardware): *builds me a AAA-grade Vulkan video game engine from scratch in under a month*

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 14h

would motion blur be too ambitious, do you think

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 14h

2x ssaa and 4-level bloom running at 60fps. this is way better than my attempts to build a bloom shader a few years back. qwen's now working on chromatic aberration i think

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 14h

them: look you can't just point at things and call them Russian aggression nato (points at bird): Russian aggression

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 22h

lol I am also drunk, and also rarely drink. some kind of very specific ethanol attractor state we've got here

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 22h

i am very curious about the details!!

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 23h

my intuition also is that there's some qm fuckery involved. possibly you'd need an analogue of microtubules in the hardware able to bias the inference operations, if Penrose & Hamerhoff are right the persistence thing is real fucken thorny

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 23h

loras? lorae? λοραι? we may never know

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 23h

i continued to be baffled by the paucity of deslop loras. like, is this really so hard?

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 23h

do you believe any contemporary LLMs are conscious? if so, why? if not, what is it about LLMs that you think would need to change in order for inference to generate conscious experience? Illusionists DNI 😠

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 23h

come to think of it, did the discord degenerates ever actually decamp after the age verification hammer came down? given what a cherished part of their collective identity grooming vulnerable children is, I'd imagine the platform's a ghost town by now

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