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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 12h

nextdoor update: I AM FILING A FORMAL COMPLAINT nextdoor update: THIS WOMAN IS GARBAGE AND SO ARE HER GARBAGE KIDS

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unemployed at Works From Home has reached out to connect. you have zero mutual connections

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the interviewer offers me an iced coffee. I slap it out of their hand. they nod. job secured

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

under explored Hollywood genre: the combination reboot. any given friday the 13th and so on

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I got carded for non alcoholic beer

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

every day at work I expect Big Yud to crash through the wall like a stinky kool-aid man

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

so if our models are adding a bunch of non hermetic tests to my code they are doing it for everyone else right? but not everyone knows to axe them. so that might explain Flakiness Hell

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my name is mister burns. two things are clear: you have a letter for me, and I don't know my first name

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

model is hallucinating yet I have not yet fed it any drugs?

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

maybe the real monsters are the computers we download

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would be flying on an airplane. if it were here. it is not.

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

see, ai is not going to kill us all directly. Aella will kill us via ai

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

get with the program. on the computer

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

rotating a program in my mind until it is computed. I also can tell if it halts without computing it.

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

computing a program in a von Neiman architecture where data and instruction have the same representation

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

it would be neat to have a president who wasn't a big dumb asshole who makes everything worse 👍

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

new project I pitched is working and project manager likes it so I think I did a god dang leadership

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't think the executive leadership of the US gov't is doing a particularly good job

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

he just wanted to mackle. he wanted to mackle more. and we loved it. we loved it but nasty ed said less! he needed to mackle less. can you imagine? mackle less? who the hell wants that?

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

you better believe it: computer

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

wifi sucks in this billions of dollars building because it is a faraday cage I think

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

help i'm trapped in a big technical

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

ballroom. we're doing ballroom

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

bane says have you seen my mask around? I feel naked without it

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it has been said before but browbeating people with your CV / degree is not all that convincing I also have a PhD and a bunch of paper citations. it doesn't make me right!

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was trying to figure out why there was a not that well defined all hands thing that I'm traveling to next week and I'm willing to bet ten whole dollars that someone said "let's do it after burning man" one of the joys of the East Coast is no one asks you if you are going

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

evals are not accepted unless they demonstrate scaling this is a wild bias. everything appears to scale with FLOPS because evals that don't are a priori considered wrong

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

computers. fricken downloads

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

dear Claude, please refactor this code as follows claude: I have done half of this and you are out of tokens. fuck you

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

solution to this was to break it into two computer programs that were cpu and tpu bound, respectively

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

my 18 month old son thinks our dog's name is "good girl" which seems pretty right

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doctor brames @brames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

really just not writing code any more. specifying constraints and behaviors. I guess it helps that I know what I am doing so I can tell the difference between a bad implementation and a good one, but there's a real sense of grief. I was good at programming computers! now the computers are

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