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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Unbelievable, this sucks. If you’re feeling angry about those idiots, remember not to take it out on people who are on your side.

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Bob Calhoun @bobcalhoun.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

My deep dive into the new Netflix #truecrime series, This is the Zodiac Speaking, are live mere hours before everything goes to hand in a hellbasket tomorrow. Lots of new, compelling evidence linking top suspect Arthur Leigh Allen in the series, but is it enough to give us any closure?

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Was that the Zodiac Killer Speaking?

A new Netflix documentary series finds even more compelling evidence that Vallejo pedophile Arthur Leigh Allen was the Zodiac Killer, but does it bring us closure?A police sketch of the Zodiac killer,...

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Deal. Sorry mine are a little jaded. 1. The recent Dem optimism is going to turn out to be unfounded - the Selzer poll was just a bad one. 2. Harris will turn out to be less ahead among women than expected, and men will close the gap.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Still not over how Arriguccio finished #TheDecameron. What a superb show.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Oh shit that thing is tomorrow? Guys don’t forget

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

You know what the world really needs? A high level charting library for JavaScript. One that reinvents the grammar of graphics, except makes it really shit and incoherent. I don’t think we have one of those yet.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Getting a bit tired of pearl-clutching over false or exaggerated ideas of AI rather than the actual social and ethical concerns. Like this story about the PLA using Llama. Militaries using open source code (despite license terms) isn’t a new thing. www.reuters.com/technology/a...

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Exclusive: Chinese researchers develop AI model for military use on back of Meta's Llama

Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People's Liberation Army have used Meta's publicly available Llama model to develop an AI tool for potential military applications, according to three academic papers and analysts.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Here’s hoping this has the opposite effect to what was intended, and the credulous morons don’t ‘waste their effort’ voting

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Me, reading the paper on arXiv after spending a week failing to make my own version work

Matt Smith considers a piece of paper. His expression is both downbeat and accepting.

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hiive @hiivelabs.com · 30/10/2024

New blog post up, detailing some of my recent experimentation with policy generation for NPC AIs. #gamedev #ml hiivelabs.com/blog/gamedev... Questions and comments welcomed.

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Machine Learning Experiments, Part 1

This post is about the first in a series of experiments to determine the utility of using an LLM to build behavior policies for NPCs. Specifically, I am sett...

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

The comments on this are quite interesting. Fax machines are old and rubbish, and symbolise the private sector’s underinvestment in rail services. But also, if they still work then it makes sense to invest in improving other areas first. Like the train operators have done with… errr… oh.

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Cliff Chapman VO @cliffchapman.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Men, I challenge you to do this: - No Sonic Screwdriver - No army - No plan - 1-3 attractive young human or human like friends (one can be robot) - 10,000 Daleks - 1 TARDIS - A Jammy Dodger - Some jelly babies - A yoyo - Some string - Save universe Shall we?

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

If I didn’t have BlueSky my work messages would be a lot less constructive, to say the least. Thank you, Internet friends

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Devs: we don’t want to mindlessly copy your implementation, it’s important that we rethink it. Me: yeah but instead you’re mindlessly building a worse implementation because you’re not thinking

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Oh cool they also removed the one serious abstraction I put in place and just pissed the third party dependency all around the codebase.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Watching the devs convert my prototype to production code. Gleefully they stamp on every odd bit of code they see, not considering that maybe there’s a reason it’s like that. There is a reason, in the commit message. But it’s much more fun to re-introduce a bug and have to re-squash. What joy.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Seems a super insightful and helpful thread, but once again: USA wtaf please don’t do this to people

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Reading up on the Mexico GP, apparently Verstappen got the penalty not because the stewards woke up, but because Norris kept ahead at the apex this time. Good for him for adapting. New racing guidelines due for Qatar that hopefully end the shenanigans once and for all. #F1

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

On the one hand, I know better than to hope for Norris clinching an against-the-odds title victory. He needs to be P1 and Max P4 for every remaining race. On the other hand, both Ferrari and McLaren are looking sharper than Red Bull, which would be the top 4 spots… #F1

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

The FIA’s refusal to apply common sense on Verstappen’s moves is hugely frustrating and can’t be excused as anything other than bias. But I’m disappointed in the other #F1 drivers for not taking a stand too. Only Lewis has adapted his style, everyone else seems to just accept the disadvantage.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Fighting GitHub actions. Programming in YAML and not finding out for several minutes whether your changes worked. What a heavenly combination.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

There’s a significant contingent of journalists who are MUCH more interested in being journalists than they are in doing journalism.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Idly considering betting on the wrong one winning the US election, to try and soften the blow if it all goes wrong

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

It’s just as well that Peter Capaldi only did three series of Doctor Who. He’s so incredibly good in the role he could easily have ended up owning it like Tom Baker did. Bit gutted he didn’t do a multi-Doctor adventure though (not counting the one with First).

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Still coughing from a bout of probably-covid that otherwise cleared up weeks ago. Got off lightly but still could do without this

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Lib Dems concentrated in Waitrose. The Gail’s strategy makes a lot of sense!

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Perplexity’s $1bn valuation is entirely riding on having a decent RAG implementation early, which itself is due to their willingness to disregard basic copyright ethics. They aren’t even running their own model, it’s ChatGPT under the hood.

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Gerard Ryan @looshkin14.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

My life.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Sitting waiting for inspiration to strike. It’s not bloody striking. How do I get it to strike

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

My default position (after years of Tory threats) is “hands off my NHS!” but as usual JBM makes a solid point: NHS IT is in a very bad way.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Meme decay. This one started out mocking people who seek to over complicate things, but now just says “thinking about problems is wrong”.

Bell curve meme, this one saying that mid-level devs incorrectly worry about business priorities, whereas the extremes of the curve just write code. Which would be good if true. Of course it’s not, because the biggest difficulty is knowing what to build. The highly experienced dev might get an intuition for it without having to do the tedious bits hinted at by the mid-level, like interviewing stakeholders and risk assessment, though most likely that’s because they have the existing relationships and domain understanding.

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spirit airlines presents: airplane fall @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

gonna read this tweet back to marc when he’s up against the wall

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

I’m actually a bit worried for Lewis next year. Sainz is a bloody tough benchmark if Lewis takes too long to get up to speed #F1

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Nice, looks like we’re having a healthy influx of #DoctorWho fans. Welcome!

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

American accents? Are you kidding me? I’m here for the dodgy international accents. #AgeOfEmpiresMobile

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Age of Empires mobile is out. Guess that’s it for my career.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Yet another tragedy of AI “art” is that I didn’t believe this (wild but genuine) image at first, because it’s so easy to fake old photos now.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Showed up to a business event under-dressed and talked through the presentation. Probably won’t have to bother figuring out how to politely decline these events in future.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

CW “Dix pour cent”, which Netflix inexplicably gifted the cringeworthy English title “Call my agent!” C’est super: well paced, likeable characters, not too dark. Doing nothing at all for my French though, Parisians speak unintelligibly fast.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

“…and finally we’d like to thank Elon, for distracting himself with that weird taxi bullshit and staying out of our hair so we could work. Couldn’t have done it with you Elon!”

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

How much tea is too much tea? Don’t answer that actually, I won’t like it.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Everyone is rightly noting that Tesla’s humanoid robots aren’t even as good as the decade-old Honda Asimov. In case you’re wondering, the state of the art in robot mobility has advanced massively. Look at this video game-like madness: youtu.be/-e1_QhJ1EhQ?...

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Atlas Gets a Grip | Boston Dynamics

YouTube video by Boston Dynamics

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Other car companies reveal similarly impractical “concept cars” and no one gives a damn. Yet Tesla does it and the stock gets pumped.

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🧛 Carnotaurus 🎃 @carnotaurus.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

LLMs aren’t going away, but OpenAI might if they can’t pull themselves out of this hole before competition catches up. (No tears, bye Altman!) www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

OpenAI projected costs chart from the Information reporting. The company expects to lose $5B this year.

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