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En cualquier disyuntiva que proponga a la barbarie como alternativa la barbarie es la mejor opción.

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It is actually relatively easy to understand how they work. There are some mysteries on top that have to do with scale and generalization but those I feel are more about the structural characteristics of a large corpus of human language and what is truly encoded there.

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Computers are such a fun technology. Wonderful wonderful invention.

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Sergio @sergio.bsky.col.social · 04/10/2026

American university fraternities are the source of all types of evil and stupidity.

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I hold these two views simultaneously: 1. The combustion engine is useful technology 2. Car-centric cities are dysfunctional and, on balance, harmful to the people who live in them I hold essentially the same view about LLMs

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.

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Opinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I. (Gift Article)

All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.

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javier @bartlebooth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every paragraph feels like a pitch from a three people San Francisco based startup trying to get their valuation over half a billion dollars.

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I was reading someone who put into words a way to discern ai writing (and which also makes AI writing annoying): that it tries to end every paragraph with a mic drop. I had mentally categorized this as "writes like a teenager trying to show off" but this is much more specific.

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javier @bartlebooth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are people trying to hack languages specialized for agents. But the size and diversity of examples of living languages will make them very hard to beat as the better choice, even if not as token efficient (whatever that means).

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javier @bartlebooth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a world where programming languages do not matter as much we may end up with only a couple that survive. A high level one, probably JS, and a low level one, probably Rust. Everything else may go away.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 01/10/2026

but generally I do feel like I have a more nuanced critique of these things since I started using them for work, that part is true

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is why trying to see far into the future will drive you insane, all you can see is how far away the world you want still is. but the more straightforwardly oppressive world of the distant past is also far away! because small people did small things that added up over time!

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 29/09/2026

My @thestar.com column: Brad Bradford and Chris Alexander talk about Toronto's budget like it's some mystery we need outside experts to solve. But the mayor's spending record is all public, and tells a simple story of priorities. No mystery. Just math. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Matt Elliott: There’s no mystery behind Mayor Olivia Chow’s budget record — there’s just math

Lately, the leading candidates taking on Mayor Olivia Chow in the race for mayor have taken to referring to the city’s budget like it’s some great cosmic mystery. A riddle

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javier @bartlebooth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What about Simon’s example with the local Qwen model?

javier @bartlebooth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Orwell would be so amused by this shit.

javier @bartlebooth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How long will it take before someone does something funny with the robot from America.gov

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Meriendismo 🍉 @meriendismo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

David Graeber would have loved this. Madrid, Puerta del Sol tonight. Madrid Housing Protest: Hundreds Pitch Tents in Puerta del Sol After Pensioner’s Eviction Sparks Outrage. I met David in OWS in 2011, with a group of Spanish "Indignados". They are occupying again. @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social

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terror @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Age is just a number” (friend who just unlocked his spin attack at 43 years old)

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/09/2026

uncritical adoption of sex positivity, especially in straight-dominated spaces, usually just means women are expected to perform sexual favors for men

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javier @bartlebooth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I predict a title like Muse by Meta made a teenager commit suicide or Muse by Meta is generating a new family of eating disorders among 13 year olds in about a year.

And I hate their fucking notation.

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We are in our type theory era.

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Feliz cumpleaños, querida.

Exactly this: bsky.app/profile/inte...

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And they are boasting about it because they believe they can avoid legal consequences and fuel the propaganda engine that ensures their pockets are properly financed.

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