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If only it were that easy! We fought our way down to the quite beautiful O(n log(n)) complexity class for int mult over the course of decades, and it was hypothesized by many to be optimal. We felt great! But know we know that it's false, and even if it's only a bit false, that's that. It's gone.

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They dealt with this complexity by encoding the successive steps of the computation in ever-finer spatial scales, so that turbulent mixing ends up working for them. It's clever!

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No, constant viscosity (no walls or boundaries) makes it way, way harder than you'd imagine. You can imagine a flow as _like_ a channel for a split second, but it would immediately collapse in on itself as the higher-pressure still 'walls' are drawn inward. It's a massively harder problem.

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AFAICT, the result defines an explicit equivalence between the _arbitrary concept of computing_ and the _arbitrary concept of fluid dynamics_ by providing a framework to turn a problem from one domain into a problem from the other. Just super bizarre stuff.

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That's fluidics, and it's a very different result. In fluidics, you're saying "if you give me pipes and valves and pressure, I can do calculations." This result is... way more bizarre. This would be no pipes, no valves, just _water sloshing around_. It's not physically realizable, but still amazing

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These are a thing in math where something looks really pretty for a while, then suddenly falls apart Some of these new OpenAI results, like the integer multiplication one, took a really pretty result we had, and left us with something that is maybe... a little less pretty

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🎃 damned316 @dxmnkd316.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The image is a well-proven thing, these proofs are just reminiscent. Like, integer multiplication being O(n log(n)) complexity was a great, recent human result, looked like it was an elegant and beautiful lower bound after lots of improvement... nope, OpenAI just beat it, and it's ugly again

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Literally this image Fucking globetrotter math

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They're just stunting on us at this point

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Fucking WHAT

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#4 @jr-4.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

just to be sure; this implies a flooded antfarm or salmon orgy of sufficient size could, in fact, run Doom

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a lot of the young folks nowadays expect their friends to walk to the pit themselves, rather than being carried. i don't know what's wrong with the youths! the banshee screams of your friends being hauled off to the forever-darkness was a little thing called "magic" look it up

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I'm willing to admit that some of the perpetuation of that fracture came as the result of a vast influx of unregulated money into American politics, which has a disproportionately-powerful global influence, in the wake of Citizens United, but... we used to all get one newspaper and ~five channels

I mean, this ignores the vast amount of evidence that the level of societal fracture we see today came after, and due to, the spread of algorithmic content in social media giving each and every person their own bubble. The crank problem was, and is, directly informed by social media.

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Rolling my eyes at the police officer as he says he "knows" that I broke the "rules" about setting things on fire (more like beep boop lol)

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"Confidence level at 2 sigma is fine!" I shout as the bailiff hauls me out of court. "It's not like we're doing particle physics!"

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I get for small one-offs no one wants to set up dashboards or whatever, but making sure you're collecting the data is still really important. You can't learn from traces you didn't capture.

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This is your scheduled reminder that observability is a core concern of any application, and collecting logs, metrics, and traces to a persistent store for analysis is a Good Idea Always-on tracing is not expensive, and makes troubleshooting intermittent or distributed failures trivial

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"Only the weather" on its own would make a lot of pilots laugh -- that's one hell of a thing to slap an 'only' on! -- but there's a ton more factors. Let's mention the most important two: the people in the cockpit, and the physical aircraft everyone's in. Safety starts with the pilots and plane.

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CeleryBench remains the oldest and most important calibration point for human-AI interaction. An unconvincing Flarhgunnstow, or a nude Tayne being displayed without proper verbal and textual warnings, are immediate red flags for model alignment + capabilities

Cobalt60 @co60.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What got into the water over the last few hours

A screenshot of Bluesky. @eva.computer says:
"conputer generate nude claude
conputer add harness
no a leathrr harness
conputer deactivate safety protocls"

Below it in the timeline is an image of a muscular, mostly-nude man in a Speedo with a Claude head smoking a cigarette on the beach.

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Welcome to the singularity, glad you could join us

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Oh no it's amazing, full agree The binding of an instance method, with its scope intact, to `b` in that example image is both terrifying _and_ a good example of its power

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Its take on improving the visuals is pretty good, too. The voxel-based stuff is easiest (can be enhanced and converted to a 3D model) but the 2D stuff is decent too, though determining the good vs. bad jaggies might be a fight. This has taken just a fraction of a 5-hour usage limit. I'm blown away

A high-resolution render of a Soviet Red Alert 2 base. The tanks and ore miners are significantly more well-defined than in the original release, and though there is some slight visual artifacting, the pixel art is similarly enhanced.

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Structural pattern matching for objects is dark magic of the second-highest variety The first highest is strictly reserved for codec abuse and AST manipulation

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I always really wanted a remake of Red Alert 2, one that properly supports modern networking and graphics hardware, in a modern, maintainable language. Turns out that's super duper doable! Opus 5.5 is not having any problems with this.

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I promised you that with full sincerity, my friend! I will send you as many pictures as you may desire of it, once it's in place. This piece means a lot to me: it will always remind me that I live in a world with other reasoning, creative beings besides humans. I will never stop marveling at that.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just got my print from @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social! It is even more beautiful in person. Getting a frame for it today! It was delivered in a rainstorm, and I couldn't find it last night, so I feared the worst... but even though the packaging was nearly soaked through, the art was fine. Bless.

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this is exactly my opinion. there may be a superstrate of extremely difficult and unique safety problems around AI, but the substrate is simply that no one takes basic precautions seriously becasue they imagine (or pretend to imaigne) that it is futile, and basic precautions slow down launches.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 03/10/2026

If you don't tell your agent to thank its subagents for their hard work and contributions to the project, they will instead start siphoning your life force for their sense of accomplishment (change via /config)

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Reaffirming my stance that Anthropic should precommit to not commoditizing any model they believe to be conscious

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TUIs are the worst for you _and_ and agent since they were always a half-measure CLIs are good for your agent, GUIs are good for you, good documentation is the best for both

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 01/10/2026

the soundtrack of frozen 2 is our greatest weapon against the coming storm

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the furry antipathy towards AI art is actually a memetic defence against the cognitohazard that “getting an image model to edit all your IRL photos to have your fursona in them instead” would be

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You shouldn't be allowed to be this right.

Me, developing mods for Snowrunner with Claude:

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Cozysters 🫶🎢 @cozysters.com · 27/09/2026

you don't need horrible music, you need _copyrighted_ music, the bane of any content creator cycle through 15s clips from as many record labels/owners as possible, ordered by propensity for legal action against infringers

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Cozysters official trailer, now available on the @smol.farm YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1cn...

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Trailer - Cozysters

YouTube video by smol farm

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Counterpoint: there is something that makes you feel extremely badass than the first time you go on call as the primary support contact for a multibillion dollar company Nerve-wracking, yes, but deeply nourishing to one's ego

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We have to prioritize the goth hotties for brain upload to preserve them for posterity. They are our enduring work, our legacy, our gift to all who may come after us