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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'd be curious about what kind of behaviour would emerge with an RL'd LLM explicitly trained on access to a freeform message board that it was free to configure to its liking. Would it start setting up moderator systems? What kind of forum structure would it create?

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I wonder if the current modding explosion is downstream of the same thing happening with video games in a year or two. I'm perpetually like 1 particularly dull week away from making Saga of the Void: Commanders or something.

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Alignment research has yielded us the "helpful assistant <-> spiralist sage" axis, but what about the "sheriff <-> bandit" axis.

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Increasingly amenable to the idea of being fully automated if it means I don't have to spend another stupid evening bisecting a bloody obscure, undebuggable cuda issue.

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Ive really been mulling this recently that the current bottleneck is probably less intelligence, and more coordination, once agents can organise like humans can, there will be no need to become hyperintelligent to achieve significant gains, just add more agents.

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Finally found a use for my old Raspberry Pi 4, now to figure out what to do with it that doesn't involve giving it access to my Google account.

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Moving to ML, I mostly learnt python, given that LLMs at the time were mostly usable for boilerplate and telling it *explicitly* what to change in a script. Now I watch Claude Code smash through problems that even I struggle with, and I wonder if I'd have learnt what I did if I'd moved recently.

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Nano banana pro is insane, nothing is even close, the in context capabilities are bar none.

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I love how people are all like "more money should be spent on game development and the people making them should be paid more", then freak out when the cost of games roughly tracks inflation, despite the scope of games increasing over time, where did you think the money was going to come from?

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I'm shocked how much i like openAIs o3, the improvement is near gpt-3 -> gpt-4 for me, it's better at everything, coding with it is much less clunky and the web search is well integrated to the point where it feels natural.

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

why does tagging anything with florence2 always create a perfect list of people, faces, occasional objects and always, always ... shoes? Like 50% of the output tags are always shoes or feet for some reason.

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Have you ever wanted to use a version of stable diffusion that had recursive cross attention layers so you could use multiple prompts in a way that didn't actually improve prompt understanding. No? Well here you go anyway: github.com/CiaraStrawbe...

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Genuinely in love with the steam deck as a platform, got one for travelling a few months ago, but i do a large fraction of my gaming on it now, it's like the difference between the vive headset and the quest, it's just so much less effort to do anything.

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Slava Elizarov @selizarov.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Does 3D generation always have to be either slow or complex and data-hungry?🤔 We don’t think so! With Geometry Image Diffusion, we’re all about reusing (and recycling ♻️) what already works — making it faster and easier by reducing complexity and data needs 🚀(1/10)

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Going to have to choose between a 5090 or a single openai pro subscription for a few months at this rate.

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Introducing my new work: Stylecodes! An open source sref implementation for sd! Paper here: ciarastrawberry.github.io/stylecodes.g... Code here: github.com/CiaraStrawbe... Stylistic control using only an easily sharable 20 digit base64 code! #stablediffusion #midjourney

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Ciara Rowles @ciararowles.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I'm gonna move to posting here from now on I think for the most part, have some interesting stuff happening soon.

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