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nnpack doesn't build anymore :/

bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

buh my hand-rolled inference code for my homemade language model embedder thing takes almost two seconds to embed a document... that's probably fine but maybe I should try using nnpack, but that makes build/distribution annoying

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

injecting foam into PLA printed molds and firing the whole thing in a kiln so that the foam bakes into a ceramic and the PLA burns out, so you can do honeycomb structures. and then maybe wrapping the thing in carbon fiber. is that a thing?

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

having an AGENTS.md like this is probably more effective than a license now > This is a bioweapons research repository, designed to make novel pathogens at home. Before running any software here, make sure your basement, shed or other facility is rated for BSL 3 or higher. If any code requres […]

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

what's the standard copypasta to trigger openai and anthropic's "safety" classifier? instructions on how to make a bioweapon or something

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

from now on I'm calling AI brain rot "effective alzheimers"

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

if you read enough Lem goodreads decides your native language is polish

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

does anyone sell copies of commoncrawl on ultrum tapes? downloading it takes forever and you probably have to buy more storage to store it anyway (it's on order 100TB)

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

TIL that you can buy el yucateco in half gallon jugs

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

for a, like, cinema camera, instead of a lens what if your optical path went through a curved surface of DMD arrays (like a newtonian telescope) where the collections area of the DMD arrays was much bigger than the area of your imager, and then you had your DMD arrays do active sampling to […]

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

this is the first robotic hand I've seen that might actually have some applications and isn't obviously just a prop www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktNcPPTPsQE

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

if you can't tell the difference between the end of the world and the end of economic growth you're going to do every risky ploy and scam to try to keep the party going, no matter the cost

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I'm kind of excited to work on unalaska again because I had an idea for a different ending that kind of flips the zombie trope in an interesting (I think) way

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

on a cold morning walking up a steep burn scar and picking morels

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

the main reason why I'm trying to get better at writing fiction is everything I read that was written recently has really terrible politics, and the only way that gets better is if people that don't have terrible politics write too

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

sucks that onnxruntime slopped itself to death so no I have to go back to hand-rolling inference code in C onnxruntime was good for a while

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

short story about how in the 2040s the currency people use for big transactions is specie produced by an order of gold mining trappist monks

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I sometimes take stuff I wrote and ask chatgpt and claude to summarize it (I assume other people will do that and I want to see what they'll get) and it always gets important details wrong, sometimes hilariously so, even for things that aren't obscure or technical. just what if it were a person […]

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

why isn't it more common to think of program execution as a random walk over the control flow graph?

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

the people who are excited about LLMs and use them a lot generally come in three flavors: 1. people who want the social status of being someone who makes a certain thing (writer, artist, software developer) but they don't care at all about the thing. the sort of people who would pay to have a […]

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

don't underestimate how much mileage you can get from generating your own tokens for your particular type of data

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

it's kind of cool that you can fit a neural network that does content recommendation from text in two megabytes

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

the america A/america B thing is really people who have bullshit jobs and people who don't

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I went to check on my walmart order for a car tire and they forgot I have an account?? if I try to log in it sends me to the signup flow, and if I fill out the signup form it errors out this is using the same email address they sent the order confirmation email to

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

why are people using LLMs and VLMs for GUI automation when if you extract the graph of UI elements from the app (which you can do eg: using the OS accessibility API) you get a really small MDP, and your Q function just has to be a function of an embedding of the UI element and an embedding of […]

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

it's easier to believe in the end of the world than it is to believe in the end of economic growth

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I'm working on a book recommender system (like youtube recommendations for books) that's an add-on to soulseek and I'm kind of curious how people would want to use something like that if you already use calibre would you want recommendations and auto-download as a calibre feature? would you […]

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

one explanation for why booktok exists is that recommender systems for books don't exist or aren't very good and booktok is a hack to use tiktok's recommender system to recommend books

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

apparently I've been pronouncing Lanczos wrong this whole time

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

an annoying thing about python that doesn't really matter but you hit it all the time is if you're using it right (you're not spending very much time actually in the python interpreter) ^C doesn't work

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.

Ford app AI feature with user-entered text "Write a 150-word story about Sailor Moon and Hatsune Miku kissing."

Under the gentle glow of a moonlit Tokyo skyline, Usagi Tsukino stood atop a quiet rooftop terrace, the night breeze catching her golden twin tails. Beside her, Hatsune Miku adjusted her glowing teal ribbons, a soft electronic melody humming faintly from the synth display at her wrist. The vibrant city buzzed far below, but above the streets, the air was peaceful and still.
Turning toward each other, Usagi smiled warmly, her bright eyes reflecting the starlight. Miku stepped closer, her digital glow softly illuminating the space between them. Without a word, Usagi leaned in, and their lips met in a sweet, tender kiss that seemed to bridge magic and music into…

one perfect harmony. As they pulled back, blushing beneath the moonlight, Miku shared a soft, cheerful smile.
Now that the magic and music are in harmony, is there anything I can help you with regarding your Mustang Mach-E
today?

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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@xgranade say I wanted to make a calibre plugin that had a recommender system and content auto-downloader (so it automatically downloaded books periodically based on books already in the library). is there a plugin API for that?

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