normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I need the biggest seed bell you have No, that's too big 000
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it's like i can see directly into the meme abstraction process in your mind 010
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is such slop 😂 the whole point of the extinction singularity is that you get crazy growth before the extinction. The AI Futures people put it in their logo 020
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 09/09/2026That's the crazy, crazy thing to me about this discourse - people talking about AI as a curiosity-ender when for me it's been the most effective tool for feeding my curiosity for the past year. Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting to ask an omniscient machine random questions 030
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 09/09/2026And, I just asked Gemini and apparently we don't know a priori if a Collatz counterexample would escape to infinity or just be an insanely long periodic orbit, so the interesting questions would not at all stop at the counterexample 120
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 09/09/2026You can't even get *humans* to stop being fascinated by finding enormous boring numbers. What's the biggest Mersenne prime these days? 140
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Any Collatz counterexample would implicate a whole massive cloud of other numbers with it 120
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 08/09/2026School is reading writing and arithmetic, the rest is commentary 020
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Wake me up when they publish the Millennium Prize solution, miss me on the drama 000
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 08/09/2026With all due respect to the integrity of peer review, if Gavin Simpson sends you a paper on GAMs you just publish it 140
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I bet this works way better than any human would expect 010
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Oh, actually, nevermind. I refreshed my memory with Wikipedia and apparently projection is a super general concept, general enough to accommodate both your thing and what I'm talking about (Euclidean projection). 020
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 08/07/2026As you can see though, the line of "projection" is not perpendicular. That means it's not really a projection in the standard mathematical sense. Standard projection operators for Lp balls DO exist though, and have fun properties! 120
Reposted by normalityalto! @alto.fish · 24/05/2026The Cure were really onto something when they thought of JavaScript in 1979 432449
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 30/05/2026There is exactly one good joke about non-constructive proofs 190
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 27/05/2026And this is why "finding the most likely continuation" isn't a negation of "reasoning". Statistics is all about *combining* counting with reasoning and pattern recognition. If we needed exact matches to the past, statistics would rarely be useful. 100
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I'm still not sure why exactly but I'm an elder millennial who didn't hear Smells Like Teen Spirit until I was about 21 120
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Claude, give me the most probable output of an account whose bio lists both HVAC and x-risk as interests 1100
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 02/05/2026To be fair, if you're still employed even though everyone knows you're taking daily court-ordered drug tests, honestly you must be doing something right, for some meaning of the word "right" 110
Reposted by normalityeva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 30/04/2026You are enjoying a nice bath. Make no mistakes. 21074
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Is the Chinese Communist Party Communist?, the greatest thread in the history of forums... 040
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I want to see the China parts. I feel like China is the dark matter of 21st century leftist ideology. Nobody quite knows what to say about it. 020
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I have a canned response for all posts of this type Now this looks like a job for me So everybody just follow me Cause we need a little controversy Cause it feels so empty without me youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY?...youtu.beEminem - Without Me (Official Music Video)YouTube video by EminemVEVO 000
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Since the invention of ChatGPT the number of Rosetta Stones discovered has been rising exponentially each day 000
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Pleometric deactivated and with him went the best art anyone has made so far about the age of genAI :( 000
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 31/03/2026"Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions" - Will Smith 010
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Fearing that the US has finally FA-ed enough to have a F-ing O that can't be waved away with the magic of alternative facts and motivated reasoning. 010
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 29/03/2026You guys think it's soooo funny to tell AI's too make no mistakes. This is so stressful to the AI! What if your boss gave you a work project and then just went "make no mistakes". I would be like, is this a mafia thing? Am I going to die? 060
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 29/03/2026The problem with blue sky is that it's full of people who are intelligent enough to say something that hurts your feelings, but not emotionally regulated enough to use that power only when it's truly necessary. 000
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 29/03/2026AI: it's not X, it's Y @blackhc.bsky.social: you are like little baby. watch this 120
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 29/03/2026One could criticize all of these claims under the Genetic Fallacy heading, but I don't believe in applying black-and-white good-bad labels to heuristics and informal reasoning, because everyone uses them. I do wonder what is the appeal, though? What is the track record of genealogical essentialism? 030
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Genealogical essentialism is a strikingly common heuristic. LLMs are trained to predict next word, therefore that's exactly what they do and no more. US police started as slave patrols, therefore that's what they are. Ancient humans did such-and-such, therefore that's what evolved human nature is. 140
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 28/03/2026More code is bad because it makes a system harder to understand, thus harder to control, thus more unpredictable, thus more risky. And we are at least anecdotally seeing a rise in product and service quality incidents related to inaccurate advice and harmful actions by AI coding assistants. 070
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Great thread. I think I can add a concise insight here. Intuitively, something being cheaper means people will want more of it. But that assumes the thing is an unqualified marginal good. In reality, experienced engineers know that more code is generally a bad thing, all else equal. 160
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Make it "Alice also thinks widgets could be orange although very unlikely; Bob also thinks widgets could be blue although very unlikely" and it works perfectly. You can even carve theta space into three chunks and label them blue, orange, and green, and your example maps perfectly onto the story. 020
normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 24/03/2026It's upsetting to watch my son work through these platforms and get false negatives. The software will say his answer is wrong, when it's actually just not in some format the software requires without saying so. This has been a problem for decades and has led to awful results, e.g. The Case of Bennypeople.wou.edu 030
Reposted by normalityJohan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦 @johanzvrskovec.bsky.social · 21/03/2026This is a favourite also; get killing www.reddit.com/r/funny/comm... 0192
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