Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 28/09/2026Everyone going full soma on "new" music from when they were 14 has me upping my p(doom) more than the anything written on lesswrong. 110
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 24/09/202620 years if you QLoRA K3 but hacking the Aussies is eh-oh-kay. ... the artificial intelligence system may not be trained, modified, or fine-tuned, including through recursive self-improvement, except to remove superintelligence precursor characteristics or to render inoperative the covered [AI] 141
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 23/09/2026I don't begrudge anyone for making galaxy brain utilitarian arguments online or in a book. But when you start meeting with senators that go on to propose 20 years in prison for running a model in your basement cluster, I am going get a bit defensive. We have arguably built it, everyone has not died. 020
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 23/09/2026We are all living through our first singularity and there is a lot more uncertainty than with fission. There were very clear equations that showed the energy potential of nuclear weapons developed by EinsteinEtAl. Now, we have HS dropouts pointing at exponentials and extrapolating like Paul Ehrlich. 120
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 22/09/2026This post is about RSI. (Hat tip to Claude for making the image) 040
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 19/09/2026I got an email survey on Monday and I mentioned this and the donation to DHH/Omarchy in my response. Both were reversed this week. I'm taking personal credit. If they add per project logins, I'm demanding they give me some pre-IPO shares. 180
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 17/09/2026I read the thread. I didn't agree with the conflating all of it all as one movement. But if normie podcasts are going to start talking about Yud. I do think there should some mention of how the same ideas that influenced Yud have an overlap w/ SBF and the Zizians. No hiding galaxy brain power level 020
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 17/09/2026Colorado has a freakin constitutional amendment to prevent this because in the 70's the burbs through Denver was going to make their kids go to school with those people. 000
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 16/09/2026I tried to teach my son the new one but I kept messing up. And reverted to the tried and true. I did manage to memorize the new phonics based song and it is pretty lit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELl...youtube.comPhonics Song 2YouTube video by KidsTV123 010
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 14/09/2026Having a little tui that gets launched when plasma fails to launch and just ask "hi it looks like something broke your nvidia drivers again would you like an agent to fix them?" would be pretty great 😅 140
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 31/08/2026Being able to tell an agent please remove the ad/spyware launcher from my smart TV and install this opensouce one is so nice. Yes I can look up the adb commands but it is gonna be 4 hours of trial and error. 020
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 26/08/2026Uncap the payroll tax. Repeal OBBBA & TCJA. Using capital assets as collateral triggers gains. No step up in basis upon inheritance. Boom, fixed! (Yes, some general revenue will have to go to SS. That's fine. Step up in basis claws back some of the money from those who benefited from the imbalance.) 080
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 25/08/2026Seems like anthropic just shipped an update that instantly seg faults on launch on both x86 and aarch64. That's gonna be fun for everyone. Turn's out that yes claude can create a bug it can't fix (because it can't launch). 000
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 21/08/2026It spares your mutuals, but, yeah, I don't see an option to block their mutuals. 000
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 21/08/2026blocksky.app/block-follow...blocksky.appBlockSky - Mass Blocking for BlueskyProtect yourself on Bluesky. Mass block followers of problematic accounts with one click. 100
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 21/08/2026I am being sincere. In the same way that posting on twitter gives Elon power, assuming chatGPT and Claude are the only models gives Sam and Dario power. Just because they are the easiest to use does not mean they are the only models. 000
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 20/08/2026My father was a spreadsheet person. I'm a parquet professional! 1110
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 18/08/2026My agents.md contains, "When writing comments, do not explain what the code used to do. Only explain the current state of the codebase." And yet basically every PR I review I write, "//todo: claude this comment says what the code used to do." about 100 times. 000
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 18/08/2026Edros, shmerdos. Coors-field-bench is the true measure of AGI. 020
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 02/08/2026Also the direct to consumer carve out for EVs is a gift to Musk. 000
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 01/08/2026It was perfectly happy to help me reverse engineer some hardware but then I asked if I should disclosure, instant guardrails. 000
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 30/07/2026My air reservoir labeled "stab here" is raising a lot of questions that are already answered by my air reservoir labeled "stab here". 0160
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 30/07/2026 Got @standard.site working on my zola based static site. "We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy." -me rn sans.hair/dist-db-scan/sans.hairDistributed DBSCAN 040
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 26/07/2026me: reverse engineer my robot mower's RTK stream opus 5: Here are reasons it won't work me: /goal I plugged in the rtlsdr. I'm going to bed. Do a breakthrough. <8hrs later> opus 5: here is the RTCM3 stream me: omg. Do we need to disclose this? <safeguards flagged this> opus 4.8: no, probably not 000
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 20/07/2026Full video about the primes gap and Zhang: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HBD...youtube.comWe're 99.9% sure this pattern is true, but no one can prove itYouTube video by Veritasium 020
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 14/07/2026I couldn't remember the name of the rotary club this weekend and called it the rotisserie club. And now I think that the rotisserie club needs to be a thing! 030
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 07/07/2026Coding was always the cheap dopamine. Go for the good stuff: mediation, running, skydiving, and bupropion have helped me ;) If you must do it coding. 2-3 agents, on auto mode (sandboxed). If you are doing the drinking bird, spend time fixing your harness, etc. Get into flow reviewing, not typing. 210
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 02/07/2026Podcast ad removal. Haiku did the labeling to train a small fast LSTM. Works well. Fable is working on making it a less vibed so I can open source it. Also, I also have an on device political sms spam classifier. 0120
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 23/06/2026No! Mine are names after 90s ska bands. 😤 Completely different! 180
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 23/06/2026Slopulism is a hell of a drug www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comBlackRock Is Not Ruining the U.S. Housing MarketThe real villain isn’t a faceless Wall Street Goliath; it’s your neighbors and local governments stopping the construction of new units. 090
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 21/06/2026Happy Father's day to everyone trying to successfully complete their 18 year long escort mission. 010
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 05/06/2026Me returning from the grocery 🤝 Elon fanbois Not being able to hold that many bags at once 051
Reposted by Derek ParksMiguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Good post from the author of rsync on the recent pile-on: medium.com/@tridge60/rs...medium.comrsync and outrageI gave up blogging a long time ago (apart from an occasional thing about ArduPilot), I tend to just write code and hope people find it… 520547
Derek Parks @derekparks.dev · 02/06/2026I once bought an openbox nuc that came with a free ssd that included ssh keys, network diagrams for most Chipotle stores, loads of emails from Chipotle's IT/security team, and much more! 0110
