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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 17/04/2026

which (in a very uncharitable reading) makes status line customization a microtransaction-based DLC lol

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 05/02/2026

benchmark: find the net terminal gene in a trillion visual tokens of 1p video

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 05/02/2026

when you think about it, the plot of BLAME! is a needle in a haystack task

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 28/01/2026

it's quite a drive from austin, i lived in texas for quite a while and never went (we should have stopped on our Marfa trip oops)

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 27/12/2025

Whoops misread reviewer as interviewer. But code reviewers will probably also love the idea of converting type checked production code to shell scripts

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 27/12/2025

a simple solution is to do all your interview coding in bash and put everything in environment variables. They will surely appreciate this

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 27/12/2025

get it twisted, you should be putting $\ /'" in your filenames

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 08/12/2025

Had a great time presenting at the music workshop, thanks @zacknovack.bsky.social and @hermandong.bsky.social for putting it together!

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 07/12/2025

Presenting a poster with some independent work on dynamic neural audio at 3pm at the AI for Music workshop (room 27)! bostromk.net/ASURA

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Asura's Harp

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 29/11/2025

"blah blah blah user noises blah blah"

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 27/11/2025

sloppy automation makes it easy to drift into an anti-automation stance even for folks who care more about utility than principle (although i don't count myself as one)

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 27/11/2025

My hackles go up when people or agents push bad code obfuscated by misleading "polish signifiers" like comments or defused unit tests. I have a feeling that current quality issues like these are leading folks to build negative preconceptions about future systems

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 23/10/2025

low level improvements to information capacity of attention are needed to make this possible. Context rot currently makes icl useless for tasks over a certain level of complexity, much lower than what can fit in context by token volume

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 02/05/2025

being defeasible and malleable >>>>>

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 28/12/2024

$440m isn't the end of the world but it's a nice example of people giving an algorithm power and then learning that it's broken slightly too late

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 28/12/2024

Again, not "meaningful work" per se but definitely decisions with material consequences

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 28/12/2024

High-frequency trading is another established case where people choose to cede decision-making to machines - in this case directly in service of aforementioned "market forces"

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 25/12/2024

what the hell they're cracked

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 23/12/2024

fickle gill strikes again

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 14/12/2024

/families of environments

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 14/12/2024

Pretraining in open-ended environments!!

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 13/12/2024

Or bulk acting as reservoir

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 12/12/2024

Had a very similar experience Tues. Sending coal-train-banishing prayers

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 28/11/2024

It's so hard to beat (R)VQGAN codecs for perceptually good compression of noisy high freq detail both in image and audio space -- time-domain or TF

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 26/11/2024

Sometimes getting clobbered directly, case in point Shadertoy getting DOS'd by scrapers recently

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 26/11/2024

I think it's especially sucky that value-extractive use of open artifacts leaves the people building and sharing nice things caught in the crossfire of big capital (AI corps) vs big capital (IP corps)

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Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net · 26/11/2024

awesome! beautiful! balmy!

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