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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

You know, I've been very critical of GitHub in the past few months, but I have to say, I just opened a very large PR, and I was able to view the entire diff in my browser without expanding anything, without things lagging or whatever. That's nice!

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

guys I clicked the gemini "enhance this slide" button and my deck is gone ...rude

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

I'm glad to hear that Google Slides is able to create Slides (albeit in beta)

Slide (Beta) on the Google Slides product page

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

I should work on my video and my talk but I'm NOT because I'm working on my papeerrrrrrr

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/116514… it was... rsqrt vs metal::precise::rsqrt I love how in GPU land the default is "eh good enough whatever"

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

status update: i've rented enough macs from scaleway that they stopped me halfway through to check with their "safety and trust" team (they deemed me safe and trustable)

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/116511… karma works swiftly, as today I am debugging why my implementation yields different results on Apple M2 and Apple M4. (At least it's deterministic... I hope)

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

the "co-authored by copilot" vscode change is almost definitely accidental and so, so unfortunate. whatever little goodwill left, poof, gone

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Imagine working on an ASR paper, and you port your model from one system to another. And your word error rate tanks by 4.6 percentage points (a LOT) and instead of figuring out whatever you messed up and fixing it, you go on to run another hundred evals and publish the paper anyway. ?!?!??

A screenshot from an ASR paper called "Pushing the Limits of On-device ASR" published by Microsoft this year, highlighting a table, table six, because quantization results, and they show the baseline PyTorch is has an AMI score of 11.80 And then they ported FP thirty two weights to ONNX, And the AMI is now inexplicably 16.40

Something's wrong.

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

send me strength, for I have to use histograms

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Pascal @killercup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

Spent some time writing about the latest #rust #bioinformatics crate I’ve been working on: seqair, an alternative to (a subset of) htslib with some neat APIs and memory patterns! If you work in the field: expect a crates.io release soon! If you like software architecture rambles, hope you enjoy […]

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Original post on mastodon.social

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

You know, now is probably a good time to recruit GitHub employees. I know that if I worked there, I would be actively interviewing (...and being oddly silent on social media)

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

apple: to develop for mac you need to own a mac me: uh-huh. and can I disable SIP? apple: okay... you, specifically, need to own two macs

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

github blog: > Here’s what we’ve done [...] to improve our availability and reliability. bro a postmortem is supposed to happen, you know, "post'

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

so many fun tidbits you need to know to survive on macOS, for example: codesign then copy → 🙅 binary gets insta-killed (AMFI hammer) copy then codesign → ✨ all good

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

So my Metal workload is so spiky that I can hear.. what I can only assume is coil whine (?) coming out of my laptop on every "pulse" of work. Spooky.

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

There is one very important fact of life I forgot about making a profiler. On macOS, if your profiler is slow, you cannot profile it. You have to self-profile. Fuck my life.

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

good news — apparently (in the US), independent bookstores are making a comeback: www.fastcompany.com/91529634/indepe…

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

linkin park sounds even better when there's a buffer underrun in the middle of the chorus

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

okay, ELI5 foreign policy to me: www.france24.com/en/europe/20260427… what "countermeasures" is China talking about here exactly?

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT I will soon possess: a proper COB light, a 90cm softbox, a C stand, a wider green screen, 2x90cm LED bars, an SM58 (SM7B too heavy to hold, shotgun mic in untreated room = bad), an Elgato 4K S (USB-C!), an acoustic blanket, various cables, gaffer tape, zip ties, nipple cla–wait

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

@bjorn3 Can you confirm that there is no specific AddressSanitizer integration with Cranelift? It's too low level, anyway. Right? That there would be nothing meaningful to, to emit, that ASan could check?

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

docs.rs/cranelift-jit/latest/cranel… ahhahha cranelift has a JITMemoryProvider trait that you cannot implement (because JITMemoryKind is private). allow-unsigned-executable-memory entitlement here we come.

docs.rs

JITMemoryProvider in cranelift_jit - Rust

A provider of memory for the JIT.

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

okay well, my profiler only works if you run it inside of lldb I guess lldb is a dependency now.

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

me: "I would like to manage my own memory" genie: "done! you can now manage your own memory leaks" me: "my own what?" genie: "you heard me. two wishes left"

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

> quantize weights harder > dequant flares up in profile I don't know what I expected

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

Anthropic's Stupid Fucking Move Of The Day is a conspiracy by Big Zitron to sell more Where's Your Ed At

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

pity the poor English translator of the LoongArch documentation, who put a note in the preface that, honestly, they have literally no idea what the original big-brain authors are talking about

Translator’s Note
Due to the limited knowledge of the translators, there are some inevitable errors and omissions existing in this document, please feel free to correct.

P.S. Since the academic level of the original authors is extraordinary high, words and phrases in the original documents are so profound that the translators with limited knowledge could not express them accurately even if they tried their best.

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

> eval says model got utterance wrong > listen to utterance > reference text is wrong FLEURS WHY

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

I was disappointed to "only" beat other papers by a few points but ...it turns out I was comparing my unnormalized scores with their normalized scores. I'm beating them by /a lot more/, as it turns out.

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

romanian has "new" vs "old" diacritics???!?? hmph

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

So in my dictation app, I actually have the volume, animate down, while dictating, and then animate back up. Well, it turns out that the animation is too fast for AirPods. Some of the frames are dropped, and the volume of the left and the right earbud get out of sync 🫠

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

LLM-based ASR is fascinating, not just because it can do 52 languages, be super resilient to background noise, transcribe songs and be fine tuned for live translation etc. etc. but also because of its failures modes: the first few tokens came out as A Really Long Fallout Boy Song And It Just Kept On

Exactly what I described. It's the result of ASR, me talking to the computer, saying yes. So we're currently investigating how like the current implementation has a subtle bug, etc. And every word has a capital because it started doing that randomly and then it just kept doing that because I froze the beginning of the text and it just kept at it.

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

PSA "text-align: justify" still makes your blog unreadable Even if you do hyphenations properly Unless it wasn't meant to be read, then it's fine ig

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Just had to hunt down an invoice in Alibaba Cloud's dashboard, I will never complain about AWS again. (ok I probably still will)

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

...you worked for a law firm and you made 2700 EUR? were you done in an afternoon?

post from /r/PromptEngineering, I made 2700 eur building a RAG system for a law firm

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