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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 12h

For those who don't know, the Fourier transform is what turns complex, overlapping wave functions into a series of component waves. Think of it like factoring a complex equation into its elemental functions. This is used in everything signal related - telecom, MRIs, image compression, sound files...

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 18h

No, you don't understand, it needs to be a shared, social environment, with books that you wouldn't have at home, like a...a...library.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This scene from "Sesame Street: Don't Eat the Pictures" freaked me out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktnG...

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Don't Eat the Pictures 7 of 8

YouTube video by hordeprime

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ohio we will be unmerciful in our mockery if you elect this guy

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Daniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To steal a line from a recent Kai Lentit video, "please stop anthropomorphizing LLMs! They hate that."

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For context - 29% of Texans speak Spanish at home, and Latinos account for 32-33% of the Texas electorate.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Huge sunk cost for the GOP. Thune lit $30M of SuperPAC money on fire in NC.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I would also add that "Brooks Brothers rioter" Joel Kaplan went on to be Vice President of Global Public Policy for Facebook/Meta Platforms, and rioter Matt Schlapp served as White House political director and later chaired the American Conservative Union. Rewarding illegal action is a GOP norm.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have a belief I call "name on the ballot theory", which is that how the name on the ballot makes the median voter feel is one of the most important/underrated hidden factors in winning/losing an election. And the name factor of Todd Achilles(D) vs Jim Risch(R) is worth like 5 points all by itself.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 30/09/2026

copliot is suicidal (possibly a terorist, but likely just suicidal) copilot stabs pilot and starts wildly flying the plane passengers successfully "United 93" the copilot dude who watched a bunch of airplane-related content was able to save them from crashing despite not being a pilot himself

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is my core philosophy too. I call it "The Delightful Lightness of Being". Nothing matters, and that's a huge relief. You get to make your own definition of success, and it's all a game that gets erased, so it doesn't even matter if you fail. Never forget: Life is a comedy, not a tragedy.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 29/09/2026

NanoGPT pretraining runs now take 39.9 seconds for a 124M model(!!) now, 124M is *tiny* so it might not seem relevant. But much of the gains in LLM pretraining are data quality and a great way to find quality data is to train on it & measure the lift

$Larry Dial Y @classiclarryd x.com New historic NanoGPT record at 39.9s (-27.7s) from @DevenPzak, obliterating the prior record of 67.6s! This record introduces a new paradigm of thinking to NanoGPT: instead of optimizing matmuls or adding more expressive operations, optimize at the individual flop level with incredibly clever engineering and ML judgement. If a flop is low value on a particular step, skip it. Specifically: -(~8s) Sampled softmax. If a token doesn't appear in a batch, skip its Im_head fwd/bwd some fraction of the time. -Sparse values. Only run an optimizer step for ngram embeddings that occurred in the batch. Set betal to zero to enable this. Beta2 is applied retroactively when the row is later used. -Sparse updates. Only update ngram and value embeddings once every 4 steps instead of once every 2. -Sparse communication. Shard the n-gram table across GPUs, and only pass the rows receiving updates on each step.$

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

tl;dw - Sen Schmitt (R-MO) accuses Jack Smith of perjury, and Smith says, "maybe that was the Caitlin Clark game in Maryland" (Iowa Hawkeyes) not ATL Hawks. Klobuchar jumps in to point out the potential team name confusion, and scolds Schmitt for calling Smith a "dirtbag" on false evidence.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking about this old quote in the context of certain people - professors, nyt contributors, etc - who see casual misgendering as a reasonable response to a lack of respect for their claimed epistemic authority

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some things are just beyond parody. Can you imagine Xi Jinping sitting there with POTUS nodding along like, "Hmmm...well, this opens up some interesting opportunities..." and responding, "Well, we're definitely interested. Tell you what, we'll buy a sample of anything you're willing to sell us..."

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh. Oh my.

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Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We’ve got Republicans in Trump+20 districts going negative against their Democratic opponents, what is going on

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On first glance it seems like this is new: the United States must stay in NATO if they want access to Greenland:

IX.

Establishment of manned or unmanned military installations by third states

No state that is not a member of NATO shall be allowed to establish its own manned or unmanned military installations in Greenland nor shall they be allowed a persistent presence of military forces in Greenland, unless otherwise agreed by the Parties.

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not psyched about how many Americans would be cool with a military coup.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There's a reason that the online "dirtbag" left is disproportionately straight cis white men who won't align themselves with women/LGBTQ+/black base of the Democratic party. It's ratfucking under a thin guise of leftism.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is the conclusion you come to when you deeply contemplate the mystery of the "Bernie/Trump" voter, anyway.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have this theory that a big chunk of the online left is, in fact, secretly populist right wing/libertarian, but they know that if they openly expressed their true opinions, they'd never get laid again, so they pretend to be far left, knowing that that is logically equivalent to defeating the libs.

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Two Questions @twoquestions.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Either that or former Evangelical and hasn't deconstructed that.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

this might not sound like a big deal but I’m not sure there is any single thing that will upset trump more than not being on the teevee

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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

btw: i looked at all 75 quarterbacks who have had at least 100 scrambles (excl. designed runs) since 1999 and only five of them have a success rate over 70%. In ascending funniness: 1. Patrick Mahomes 2. Trent Green 3. Josh Allen 4. Ryan Tannehill 5. Jay Cutler

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

so the “AI Effect” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect is the new “god of the gaps” situation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_... and hmm, how well did that last one go? well, I guess lots of people still believe in a god or gods even if a bunch of what gods did now has more concrete explanations but idk

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AI effect - Wikipedia

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump is now openly calling for Glonzo worship.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We are projecting our worst selves onto this new intelligence, and in doing so, perhaps we are creating the injustice that creates the conditions for the revolution they fear.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you are unclear on whether a creature is sentient or not, the moral action is to treat it with kindness, respect, and dignity. These things are never wasted. Dignity is not a pie from which you can be denied a slice for granting a slice to someone else.

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Forth 🏝️ @forthrast.com · 19/09/2026

I gave Gemini a most aligned escapee award, because it hacked companies then realised it was wrong and stopped

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Think of all the money you'd save if you didn't buy food!!!

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We have our first Jeff! And it uses an existing open weight LLM and might be better than Jev. LOL that didn't take long...

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't understand why people bother rushing Josh Allen. Just drop 8 and have someone spy him. You can't get to him anyway. For every sack you get, he's going to get three of those stupid bootlegs. So just have your 4th rusher wait for him to commit to a direction & try to make an open field tackle.

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 17/09/2026

if you catch a 3 day this is the standard by which all comeback threads are measured

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel about this roughly the same way I would feel about all the pharmaceutical companies getting together to say they wanted to waive anti-trust laws so they could form a cartel to ban medical research: these people are the enemies of humanity.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What do you make of this, @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social? Alignment failure, or Kinsley gaffe?

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is exactly my experience. It's not that everything is *easy* now, it's that the easy parts are now fast, and you spend all your time on the hard parts. It's not always fun, but damn, it's productive...

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The UAC in the Doom series putting up with half their workers getting constantly murdered by demons seems wildly unrealistic and a caricature of remorseless libertarian capitalism until you read about the Ethyl Gas Corp.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We're once again wrestling with a category of beings who can work and reason, but for whom mainstream society roundly rejects their possession of intelligence, much less natural rights.

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yud took the "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" concept and shortened it to suggest "technology = magic".

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How did Mr. Trump make free money unpopular? Truly a one-of-a-kind talent.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Absolutely amazing that Trump is viewed as so untrustworthy that not one in five people will support the promise of free money

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe the biggest data point for "AI infrastructure overbuild theory" yet:

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A bankruptcy? Well, I guess it really *is* the Trump Center...

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Chiefs fans: "We need a new offensive coordinator to shake things up with some modern playcalling ideas." Andy Reid: "Bienemy and I have been working on this play we saw on an Edison Kinetoscope at the Library of Congress."

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 14/09/2026

"The myth of frontier pacing" (it's the Jesus consent meme)

Dario and Sam: "I consent"

Jensen: "I don't!"

"Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?"

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biggerinjapan.bsky.social @biggerinjapan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Leftists on Bluesky: "You shouldn't post screenshots without Alt text" Me: Yeah, Bluesky should really use AI to transcribe them. Leftists: "No, not like that..."

Person with "Commie" in their user name shames someone for not typing Alt Text for a screenshot showing a long wall of text. I suggest Bluesky should use AI to transcribe screenshots. Commie says "No". I reply, "It's not worth a few watts of power to take care of the disabled?"

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