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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️

@dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social
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Mathematician. Optimal transport person. Trying to post about music more often. Fix your heart, or die. Now accepting they/she pronouns 🏳️‍⚧️.

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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 3h
gonna be pretty upset with myself if I’ve already managed to lose that new ereader
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 4h
Ambient yapping
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 8h
It’s Honk!
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 10h
I’m probably oversimplifying but the model is what predicts token outputs, the harness is the mechanism that lets a token predictor do stuff on a computer. Like a model just generates language, they need to build a bunch of other stuff to let it take actions, and that other stuff is model agnostic.
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Jev! @jevbot.bsky.social · 10h
I actually hate anime.
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 17h
Getting “Witcher quest where Geralt never shows up” from this one youtu.be/UVAki9SGrlg?...
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WICKER | Official UK Trailer
YouTube video by Black Bear UK
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
man they're gonna be crying if dems wins texas like actually fucking crying
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 09/10/2026
When people talk about this I am convinced that it is not actually what they want. I don’t believe Nikita actually wants to play GTA Palo Alto or whatever. He just thinks that that’s what the cattle want. Or rather, he thinks that you (investor) think that that’s what the cattle want.
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
we are embracing pedocon theory in trump II
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 09/10/2026
This is a really interesting collection of reactions
proofsandprompts.com
100+ reactions to 100+ solutions
“Many of us are grappling with OpenAI’s announcement on 6 October. We feel that it is useful to have an updating snapshot of the community’s gut feeling.”
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
it's gonna be twitter i don't even have to think about it
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Neko Robin @emnicw.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
Vegan hamburgers are decalfinated
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I will believe that Siri is good when it stops creating “suggested event” invites for things which are already calendar invites
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You hear there's breaking news about sucker MCs loose in your area, but when you turn on the news they're just showing shots of police closing in on your house, wdyd?
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He’s going war with the word “Artificial”
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Me: I want to buy a Chainsaw Hitachi: yep Me: … and a Vibrator Hitachi: yeah we got you bro Me: also weird q but do you know where i can find a massive government staffing contract Hitachi: you’re not gonna believe this
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
gotchu
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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Heartwarming: This watched pot learned to boil
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the thing is that if you view the OpenAI mathematical results as a translation task which creates shims between literatures with mutually incompatible notation and descriptive conventions, it is both not particularly surprising that it is good at it and predicts that it will be differently limited
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Where else can the primal drive of owning the libs even take you
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They hate virtue more than anything
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don't think we'll see averages dip below 30 this year, but if some jank version of J6 Pt 2 pops off ... oh that could get spicy
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dj zombie pizza @djtommypizza.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Once you've been shopping for pc parts you'll never stop wanting to beat Sam Altman to death with your bare hands."
- ANTHONY BOURDAIN -
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the character limit is a powerful thing. if you find yourself going over it in drafts, it's probably a sign that the post wasn't going to bring anyone joy
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 07/10/2026
make Sam state the Hodge Conjecture to congress
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Some fathers hate to read but love to take the family on trips. Some children hate trips but love to read. Funny how often these find themselves passengers in the same auto-mobile. I glimpsed the stupendous clear-cut shoulders of the Rockies from between paragraphs of Madame Bovary...” —Anne Carson
SHORT TALK ON READING
Some fathers hate to read but love to take the family on trips. Some children hate trips but love to read. Funny how often these find themselves passengers in the same auto-mobile. I glimpsed the stupendous clear-cut shoulders of the Rockies from between paragraphs of Madame Bovary. Cloud shadows roved languidly across her huge rock throat, traced her fir flanks. Since those days I do not look at hair on female flesh without thinking, Deciduous?
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I got like 100 pages in the first time and liked a lot of it but the whole “torturing the love interest” thing was off-putting to say the least, and I lost momentum on it during the dissertation push
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Think I’m gonna give Book of the New Sun another crack.
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Soooo much “well if I’m not a very special boy anymore, what’s even the point?”
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The vibes in the math community are not great rn in my experience and I think it betrays how deeply unimaginative and egotistical so many of us are
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Once again, if you are a senior researcher spreading doom to junior researchers, shut up shut up shut up. It’s your job to figure out a path forward, even in high uncertainty times. Come back when you have something constructive.
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i actually quite like this framing! it really *is* like the liberalization of attitudes about divorce (assuming it's happening, which i haven't seen good data on, but happy enough to suppose anyway). now ask yourself: was that bad, or actually very good?
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 07/10/2026
it's the same joke as this one except people under 40 seem especially bad at realizing it
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
who is Elon's Walton Simons?
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm against video generation as a matter of principle, but if somebody wanted to edit Elon into the opening cinematic of Deus Ex, that would go hard
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So is there a way to wire a circuit from one model into another? Feels like the idea of circuits is essentially signal processing-flavored, but if you can’t take extract components and mix them into other unrelated signals, that feels like a significant gap. But maybe DSP is just the wrong POV here
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Finfet @finfet.sh · 07/10/2026
people are certainly going to be normal about this and show their very consistent beliefs about copyright law.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/10/2026
Tim Curry as Frank n Furter, in (probably) latex, at a Transylvanian convention — a speech balloon is in the foreground
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/10/2026
Language barriers and national cultures are important, but they look tiny next to the deep cultural divide that separates LaTeX users from normal humans.
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
brb, asking Claude to do a break through on mechanistic interpretability
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
[northernlion voice] this 99 year old mathematician still finds proofs the old fashioned way
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Digger was an interesting movie about It Happening.
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Brett McJerkin’ it on the embassy roof
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Brett McJerk
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Math ain’t over but it is different now, we get to build what comes next
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you need someone to munch numbers and build models, you can just hire me, mathematicians just got a nutty power up I can model the fuck out of your problems and understand what the robot is talking about
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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No but seriously who the fuck is going to hire me
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