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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since I became a professor, the only movies I can sit through are dumb, loud action movies. Everything else I can't get through. Depressed ruminations about the human condition? Buddy, that's my day job! Now, Sandra Bullock keeping a bus going above 50mph so it doesn't explode? I'm interested..

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m annoyed by all the academics stressing “quality over quantity” as a tonic for the LLM deluge of results / crap. People have been saying this for years. Either setup a compact with some language on putting this in hiring documents/recommendations/etc. or stop saying it.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ChatGPT gave me bad advice on how to fix an overly bitter ipa.it suggested adding salt. I asked about lemon. Did a taste test. Lemon was better. “Super intelligent” but ignorant about human experience.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/09/2026

I always get a lot of grief online when I write that the solution to America's problems cannot be "Democrats win every election forever." That's not democracy. The solution is having at least two parties where the major center-right and center-left parties accept liberal democracy.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I miss ambition in government! Let’s set amazing and maybe even borderline unrealistic goals and see what we can do.

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Why is There so Little Money in U.S. Politics?"

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Clean air kits are great! Super fun to put together. Not just for school!

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Is there some magic I need to understand to get LLMs to help with writing? I find them so terrible at this I feel like I’m wasting time trying to use them.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nothing like a sternly workshopped and wordsmithed statement to get the point across!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

Between the human verification, and the three factor authentication and so forth, I can transfer my life savings to a random bitcoin account easier than I can read a Nature paper my library subscribes to.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

True for me too. My university login is more locked down than my banks.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Re: Jev. I bet they used the word ‘noul’ so they could track usage of their tool in codebases. docs.typesafe.ai/primitive… I can’t find any actual explanation of this choice. Claude thinks it’s part of ‘Ber-noul-li’ as in a Bernoulli trial. I can’t find an actual explanation anywhere.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Coding agents are such a blessing to work with new APIs.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wild – if the data are accurate on the M6 perf. The M6 is as fast as the original M1 ultra in multicore CPU perf.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why are there so many rumors about llm efforts? These seem super leaky! These fields are not really that big at all.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was wondering why they “cannot” do this investigation (initial post) but it turns out they can. Compare web.archive.org/web/20260… to web.archive.org/web/20260…

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My sister is big on Instagram. I doubt many people would believe the vile DMs people send her. It’s so important to call this behavior out as @peark.es does. She posts some of them publicly too. Platforms do little to help.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 14/09/2026

Here's a person that thinks posting the deranged cursing at me in a DM from someone is "leaking" a DM. What kind of moron do you need to be to think spewing hatred at someone in DMs is somehow privileged from public view? Very, very stupid people.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

LinkedIn has the worst discourse on LLMs.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And I was going to post something this morning about opus 5 being really bad….

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'll post more about this tomorrow, but I've spent the last few weeks trying to do some social network analysis on the most recent "OpenAI Swarm" You can do some interesting things with the data to identify how the different "Agents" interacted. kevinreuning.com/blog/ai_swar...

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OpenAI Swarm – Kevin Reuning

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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What if another name for "jagged frontier" is "not a general purpose technology"?

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Is anyone else surprised Open AI can’t answer about the impact of user-info for training their LLM? It seems like searching for “the forcing function is smooth option c and d in Fefferman” (or simple variations) in user-derived training data is a feasible task. I can’t imagine it is that common.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Does anyone else seem like they can feel the impact of rope in llm writing? It loves to use a lot of words to say little.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I tried to use Fable 5.1 to review a commit. It blew through my entire usage in 10 minutes… (Anthropic Max plan…) it might as well not exist because I can’t use it even to do simple stuff.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Since its coming up a bit, one of the reasons i think Carney, Mamdani do well isn't liberalism/socialism or whatever, but its that they really represent their values in a genuine way. Actually believing in shit. (i think thats plausibly why climate and bridge is dangerous for carney)

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Does anyone else find LLM generated text hard / impossible to edit? It’s like it throws words and jargon into work salads that “look right” but have no flavor / meaning. Picking them apart leaves you with nothing left. It’s the opposite of “write as simply and directly as possible”

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Why am I getting tons of emails from people trying to promote my github repositories?? Is there some market here now?

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Pierre-Paul Axisa @ppaxisa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What seed did you use 🤓?

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In the past few days I’ve gotten job offers/inquiries for… dock supervisor in North Dakota, anesthesiologist in Colorado, cloud engineer in the bay area. Sadly, none of them are in my wheelhouse.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Prediction. First llm proof/progress that p != np within 6 months!

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In the tech sector are there good examples of voluntary/nonbinding "norms" or "practices" that act as de facto rules guiding behavior, system design, or deployments broadly? The important thing is that they are voluntary/non-binding and are "enforced" by social expectations rather than law/rules.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’ve talked to multiple people about using LLMs in reviews. If the journal is going to systematically run an LLM to provide feedback on the paper, than that LLM output needs to be available to be run before submission. Why not give authors a chance to fix it before submitting?

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Did Anthropic change something with usage limits on Claude? I’ve constantly been hitting them today. But essentially never hit them before!

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sometimes Claude wants to over-engineer stuff that just needs iterative feedback. I mean, a use case of LLMs is to build it, and iterate faster with things that work, not try and spec the thing up from the ground. If it gets it wrong, it’s fine if it just has to start over.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Can we pass a law that LLM can’t use “I”? There is no “I” in an LLM. There is no person.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I agree! Maybe I’ll try and organize one.

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Microconferences: A modest proposal for alternative systems to generate, evaluate, and share knowledge.

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Microconferences

A proposal to create alternative systems for generating, evaluating, and sharing knowledge

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I love people who email a picture of a QR code instead of GIVING A LINK! I hope cyber security scanners scan all pictures for QR codes and validate those links!

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Claude (really Anthropic’s designers, who I suspect have encoded lots of color schemes and designs in the “skills”) has replaced PowerPoint and Beamer templates with … a different set of annoying but “cool looking” ways to organize text on a page.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/07/2026

Visualized.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Walking and biking are great reference numbers for transportation systems. A human walking is about 100 watt hours/mile. A human biking is 30-40 wh/mi. Human and e-bike: 35-45 wh/mi. EV: 250-350 wh/mi. Gas car: 1000 wh/mi. Airplane/person: 600 wh/mi

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 11/07/2026

Pedestrian in the Age of Planes: a (cope?) 🧵. I grew up walking and biking to go places. My whole training, and later professional life, was done accordingly: I don't go really far, nor really fast, but I have a good sense of direction, and developed very specific muscles. Now we have planes. 1/

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I’ve found myself wanting to denote regions of human and LLM content in documents recently. Here’s a quick proposal for an easy-to-use way of doing this for Markdown and HTML.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Just realized that the kids were on to something … 6*7 =

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Congrats to my brother-in-law Rob Lea, who is the first human to have ever done all seven summits (highest peak on each continent) and all seven swims (20+ miles channel swims on each continent). Rob’s on instagram.

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David Gleich @dgleich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

When reading letters of recommendation … what isn’t said is often more important than what is.

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Linsey Marr @linseymarr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

At some point, the letters lose their value, and then what are we left with?

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