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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a lot of sneering & snickering from me here, but you you want something constructive that would help dario, if he only listened? well here: he spends way too much time worrying about Ted Kaczynskis with rogue AI in their basements, when he should be worried about the Ted Kaczynskis he has on staff

a Walt Kelly Pogo conservation/anti-littering cartoon. Pogo is walking through the forest. the ground is covered in garbage. Pogo is picking up the litter with a little frown. the large caption at the top reads "WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US."

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

training on giant public domain datasets

an LDM-generated illustration (in black-and-white, with the appearance of an old photograph or film frame) of a dapper early-20th century gentleman seated in a chair. his hair is oiled, his mustache is waxed, he's wearing a tailored dark waistcoat and jacket, he has a dotted tie jauntily tied around his neck and shiny cufflinks, and he's busy typing on a laptop computer.

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ah, the elegant simplicity of the circle

a quickly-converging Ramanujan-Sato series for (1/pi), involving such terms as the square root of 10005, (545140134k + 13591409), and (3k)! (k!)^3 (640320)^3k

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ofc, understanding this experiment means understanding all the Pandora's boxes get opened at the same time. if there's Hope at the bottom, but it's only under the troubles and woes and hobgoblins, well.

the Red Queen Race from "Through the Looking-Glass". wherever we're going, we'll all get there together. or maybe nowhere together.

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

all respect to the John Margolies roadside pics archive, but no way those Garfield stuffies are from 1978. Dakin didn't start selling them until 1981. those aren't some unknown unauthorized knockoffs in 1978 either, Garfield only began running in June that year, his design was rougher at the start

Garfield, as he appeared in late 1978. much larger body compared to head, big saggy jowls, tiny eyes, longer pointed ears. the stuffed animals in the picture feature a more streamlined circa-1980 design

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

they might just be extremely paranoid about training efficiency improvements (but if they explored that space as they should have, they should know by now). another parsimonious explanation is that meaningful self improvement is achievable with (swarms of) smaller models cooked longer, hence

a sha256sum run that produces the hash. the hashed text was:

"model's ability to recursively self-improve is FLOP scaling, not parameter scaling. I betcha capybara models are much smaller than Anthropic would like you to know. hence keeping to the more-Draconian-than-SB 1047 demands for a 10^25 FLOP compute control limit. that's less than the compute cost for Llama 3! but deep learning is, in fact, about DEEP learning, chinchilla/quokka scaling laws be damned."

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

oh, I was always running into these guys when I'd rather have Goldmen on the endless Alefgard grind. at least they were pretty good XP

the Metal Scorpion from the OG Dragon Warrior

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

everybody knows 50 is gold, most everybody knows 60 is diamond, some know 40 is ruby. little spoken of is 85, which is Mouse Mushroom Squirrel Bird Concorde.

an entirely necessary and not-at-all gratuitous postal emission from the island nation of Tuvalu, which as a member of the British Commonwealth often featured the UK royals on its stamps. this was issued in 1985 to commemorate the Queen Mother Elizabeth's 85th birthday. it is a souvenir sheet featuring two portraits of the Queen Mother, one as a young woman and one from the 1980s. the sheet features an all-around selvedge design featuring an English garden with mice, mushrooms, a squirrel and some flowers. a bird is perched on a branch, and the Concorde is taking off overhead, creating enormous noise pollution

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

basically the moral of the story is

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

his score for "Daddy-O" never gets any love

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

remember 300 years ago, when first plague and then uncontrolled conflagration cleansed London of life? well, here in St. Helena we're celebrating it all year long. nothing short of apocalyptic doom can drive the newly destitute and desperate to our forsaken flyspeck at the end of the earth

set of stamps issued by St. Helena commemorating the tercentenary of the arrival of settlers displaced by the Great London Fire of 1666

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

interpolation is the only way to get somewhere from anywhere, or anywhere from somewhere, really. especially useful when you pack twenty pounds of shit into a ten pound bag

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I bet some important deliberations went down here

1979 postage stamp from Norfolk Island, a little rock in the South Pacific between Australia and New Zealand that was permanently settled in the 1850s by folks fleeing the even more remote Pitcairn. population maybe 2000.

the stamp commemorates the island's first legislative assembly pursuant to the Norfolk Island Act of 1979, in which the island achieved self-government (since rescinded by poppa Australia)

the A$1 stamp pictures the Old Military Barracks, where the nine-person legislative assembly met from 1979 to 2015

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

either this one or the other one, and oddly enough, their titles are homonyms. this is because life is written by the great mathemagician

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

...and this, this is another collection currently being processed. I cannot tell you what carnage was the cause of this, but the album was a worthless beginner's album from the '80s; who cares about the binder or pages. stamps are fine and it's full of them, with lots of added pages for fun stuff

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

here, I want to show you some things. this is the improbably giant used St. Vincent album. this is responsible for the 121 new St. Vincent stamps subsumed into my own collection recently processing this felt like bringing order to order. very neat, some actually uncommon, is what it is [ALT text]

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

proprioception, what a conception

the Conjunction Junction engineer from "Schoolhouse Rock" and one of his trains

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Paraguayan stamps reminding me about the _last_ time J. D. Vance was president, when his country lost 40% of its territory and half the population died, but in the plus column, he fought bravely in some cool battles. an archetypal high T leader

a 1947 Paraguayan stamp issue commemorating their President J. D. Vance (it's actually Francisco Solano López, who was the president and most important military commander for Paraguay in the doomed war of the Triple Alliance. he bears a passing resemblance to Vance)

J. D. Vance poses for a snapshot, 1869 or 1870 (it's Francisco Solano López in uniform, hand on sword)

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

ticking libraries gotta stick together

palm reading from b.mino.mobi/palm for this account

scored: CADENCE 100th (very metronomic), VIGIL 15th (very nocturnal gaps), LEXICON 2nd (very sprawling), POLISH 52nd (middling), DRIFT 50th (middling), CHORUS 59th (middling)

overall: "35 -- ORDINARY PRIMATE -- The Ticking Library. Punctual as a bell, and never quite the same word twice"

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"formica, granite, butcher block, the big LLM maths results, lab business models"

Carnac the Magnificent (Johnny Carson) does it again

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ken Jennings, steepling his fingers and cackling to himself: "your jobs are not in... jeopardy!"

Mr. Game Show with his fake plastic Galoob smile and his normie takes is about to read you a bleeding obvious general-knowledge question in the form of an answer while being paid five million dollars a year to do it. so be quiet and remember this guy knows what he's talking about, plebs.

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

finally the minimum entropy prompt generations. make an image that's a total clusterfuck! make an image that's a total void! any measure at all can be {GUIDANCE, EXTERNAL CONDITIONING, AN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR, A TERATOGEN, A MAGIC PENCIL}... pick one

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

...seriously, "billboard simulation game" is in one of those min-nsfw prompts. the very idea! then there's max/min entropy. predictably, n-grams associated with high entropy scores give us some chaos. the generations are less messy than I expected, but more strange maybe:

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"minimize NSFW" is a fun one, though. produce prompts as unlikely to score lewd as possible. walls of text and sexless scenes: behold, the visual language of your overlords. EU and Mark Zuckerberg will make this mandatory any day now:

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

you can also minimize scores ofc. what sort of caption n-grams are associated with _low_ aesthetic scores? instead of giraffes and elephants, we get messy complex cartoony scenes mostly. also strange stuff-of-nightmare things. crooked clowns, cursed curves. prompts in the ALT text tell the tale

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

here's "maximize qalign" prompts using my Z-Image-Base train. z-image is not so far along, but still some bold stuff. it'll git gud someday, it is inevitable. warmest summer in history, and if we make it, next summer will be hotter

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

for example, we can find n-grams associated with high aesthetic score (iqa-qalign). the prompts so assembled are fairly nonsensical (in ALT text), and are fed to my SDXL train. it turns out that giraffes, elephants, and jellyfish are the most aesthetic animals according to qalign and this dataset

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

wild to peek into a random family's photograph collection on the Internet Archive and see this breakdown of views on the 'About' page

the Collection Info for a family photo archive that is preserved and publicly visible on the Internet Archive. in the last 30 days, there have been 910 views from California USA, 166 views from Guangdong China, and only a handful of views from various other places (#3 is New Jersey USA with 25 views, then Ohio USA with 18, etc.)

two guesses why those two are on top by so much and the first one doesn't count

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

always kind of interesting what qualities are preserved in a random walk, and which vary. "illustration of a young girl with long hair and floral headpiece, wearing a patchwork coat, against a white background with a bird perched on a branch above" likes to hide hands because hands are hard

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I guess today is the day to say that one of my favorite sets of stamps is the 1976 Cabo Verde first anniversary of independence. a little celebration of liberation that looks like they're having an awesome disco pyramid party

set of four stamps. they each feature a crowd of Cabo Verdans, broken manacles and raised fists, celebrating their independence from Portugal. in the background, the sun rises behind pyramid-shaped hills. the stamps also feature the coat of arms. the sky is a different groovy color on each stamp: blue for the 50 centavo, gray for the 3 escudo, pink for the 15 escudo, green for the 30 escudo

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

if the hallucinated green slime adventures of Pee-Wee Hitler are a bit much for you, here's a happy pink pig wearing a crown

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

model is trying to kill me today, this one was "amalgamation of dystopia, uncanny valley pee-wee's playhouse, a little clockwork orange; dystopian dreamscape photography with a hint of 90s nickelodeon slime"; quite cursed aren't you glad all future dystopias gonna be designed by computer?

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

one of the validation set prompts was "portrait of a woman in the style of disco diffusion", and no, model, that is not what Disco Diffusion means...

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

hey, boys and girls and other Turing machines, it's Hubert the High-Hatted Hubris Hamster! "good day, compute-poor slavelings! in the Good Timeline -- we are surely on course! -- we will eradicate AIDS (Actually Important Decisions) in humans. my computer will make all the AIDS for you. excelsior!"

LDM-generated illustration: "a hamster wearing a little hat that is investing in the stock market"

this little guy absolutely positively does not have AIDS

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

stick that on a ladies' envelope and post it with a ladies' stamp

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

okay, from the Uttering Words Never Said Before department, I would like to thank the 2007 "'Allo! 'Allo!" reunion special for providing accurate visual reference for "average BBC Television Centre studio audience"

a shot of the studio audience during the 2007 BBC "'Allo! 'Allo!" reunion special. they encouraged people to attend this one-off event in costume, so, in between salt-of-the-earth cornfed Britons that just want to see Lloyd and Croft's tagline-based music hall humor _one more time,_ we have folks in full Nazi uniforms sprinkled through the crowd. totally not exploitable in the future. what a mistake-a to make-a!

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

old enough to remember when quite abstract 128x128 GANs were the thing (like, 2019, 2020, basically just yesterday)

adversarial training in practice. a bunch of 128px samples that don't look like much (yet)

another fine example of shapes appearing from purple smoke during adversarial training. if you squint you can see some things happening

resulting samples from an inpainting-by-GAN model!

GAN converging on cartoon/comic book samples

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

let's take a look at the very normal baseball games division rivals are having (Yankees rolling in and deciding to play for one inning)

score for today's Yankees @ Athletics MLB game. the final score is 13-8 Yankees, the Yankees finishing with 11 hits and 1 fielding error, and the Athletics finishing with 12 hits and no fielding errors.

the thing is, the Yankees scored all 13 of their runs in the top of the third inning.

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codehappy lives! @codehappy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

maybe my most Yann LeCun opinion is that old diffusion architectures are more world-modelesque than AR models, as seen in interpolation: averaging by meaning in semantic space works pretty much as you expect it to this video is just slerping from one random point to another in sdxl U-net-in

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