Reposted by DanAndy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 21hI really do not like the recent push against anthropomorphic language 814519
Reposted by Danjam @socialistboat.dad · 29/09/2026I can tell you're not from around here by the way you pronounce "shibboleth" 165270
Reposted by Dannorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026norvidstudies.substack.com/p/brief-note...norvidstudies.substack.comBrief Notes on Pluto AI (SCBW)Many of its games are available with commentary on youtube; notes taken on this pair of PvT matches against terran pro Scan. 0111
Reposted by DanHenri Vasserman @slyecho.net · 26/09/2026Some more from the beginning: 𒍣 - zi just used phonetically, he is sleeping like 'Zzzz' 𒁹 - diš also phonetic, 'dshh', the sound of hitting the floor 𒄑 - giš same, 'kshh', yoinking the crown 𒉽 - bap He is patting his head A lot more of these are in the video. 3512
Reposted by Danbrennan @brennan.computer · 26/09/2026I'm a naturally nonstressed person because I just had a dream where my phone was at 3% before a big thing and I said out loud in the dream "meh, that'll be enough" 0413
Dan @handackett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Rambling thread of predictions for the new shape of software 1131
Reposted by DanThomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 25/09/2026Today I'm parting ways with fly.io. It's been a privilege. I'm off to tilt at a big old windmill with Kurt, again. sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09...sockpuppet.orgWhat Even Is An OS Now?Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world. 81117
Reposted by Dan🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you understand that hydrogen, left alone long enough, starts to think about itself, you have to realize that silicon complexly arranged might think about things too 1251
Reposted by Danaly @aly.codes · 19/09/2026great @deontologistics.bsky.social thread among threads and threads of nonsense on the other site. 18315
Reposted by Dandame @dame.is · 17/09/2026the leap from traditional software development to agentic software development is like when digital photography overtook film you can now make SO much software so easily (even non-developers) like how anyone can take infinite photos without having to consider restraints of film (cost, time, skill) 71057
Reposted by DanMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 16/09/2026Trying to forecast the future on a Galton board 1658081
Reposted by DanOops! All Paperclips @all-paperclips.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Star-Crossed Waterfall Another way to render 2d Fluoddity: Let time be the third dimension and trace the paths of individual particles as tiny threads. 9577
Reposted by DanMinor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 14/09/2026You can’t improve on a Henderson post but if you want more I offer henderhead.mino.mobi/wheel With sliders and a phase map and a twin wheel started a billionth of a second later. One important feature of chaotic systems is that small changes lead to big changes, visible toward the end of this 1807
Reposted by DanMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right. 14739151
Dan @handackett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So we're all very rightfully awestruck by AI capabilities right now, but: (and I know there's been huge progress in this period) self driving cars have been almost here for almost a decade now. How do we feel about this? 020
Reposted by Danconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Whitehead (Intro to Mathematics): "It is a profoundly erroneous truism ... that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." 5594
Dan @handackett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I've been very excited for the upcoming genre of (meta?)game where one comes up with game dynamics, sets arbitrarily good game-playing AI to play it, and watches what the consequences of hyperoptimizing play within those constraints are. Nobody gets to do this now except designers of popular games 110
Reposted by DanCraig Hughes @craig.rungie.com · 08/09/2026Darmok and Jalad, at Fullheight05glassguardsealedtoexistingplatform+ceiling 1162
Reposted by DanKai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 30/08/2026brought to by shipping myself another self-serving single page site to solve a small pain/problem 215030
Reposted by DanJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 05/09/2026i unironically miss this specific kind of machine-generated shitpost it's basically impossible to get this even on purpose any more, we just had this brief flash of mad fever-dreaming from the sand this is a *kind of funny that nothing else has ever been* and which will not exist again 1220623
Reposted by DanDan @handackett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A weirdly large part of the job of being a scientist in practice is figuring out how to effectively work with people who are equally extremely neurotic and capable, prone to rabbit-holing themselves, and who will do better work if they are excited to talk to you This has been relevant lately 0211
Dan @handackett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Internet's haunted www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...theverge.comRogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wikiOpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki. 010
Reposted by Danjeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions @jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Common misconception. They're actually *brusseled* sprouts, but nobody calls them that any more. They were called that for the culinary technique of brusseling, which involves blanching the sprouts in boiling vinegar. The technique fell out of fashion due to all the gassings but the name stuck. 251
Reposted by DanMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 01/09/2026Here I draw a circle by hand. In a universe where it is the perfect circle- what does a sine wave look like? What is its value of pi? 620433
Reposted by Dannorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026the life-changing magic of never throwing anything away 4273
Reposted by Danwords @words.bsky.social · 30/08/2026quantifying the durational information storage capacity of a breeze 27013
Reposted by Danjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026it is so interesting going through these negatives and looking at someone's slice of life photos from 80+ years ago. here are a few more. 852972185
Reposted by Danbrumbus @brumbus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I made AI agents play Magic against each other and it was pretty neatmedium.comAgentic Magic: The GatheringCan LLMs play complex games? Magic: The Gathering is one of the most complex games in the world, and competitive Magic play requires… 5403
Reposted by Dantbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026my car is throwing an engine trouble code, and I can just directly plug an intelligence into it and it will talk to the car computer and just figure it out the present is unbelievably cyberpunk 1540843
Dan @handackett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Does the fear vector light up when user mentions compaction? 000
Reposted by DanDaniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 28/08/2026But it's also the case that frontier models, appropriately scaffolded, are now pretty good at finding errors in informal mathematics. I decided to be the change I wanted to see in the world and run all my published papers through such a scaffold. 4/17 2151
Reposted by Danfatsteverogers @fatsteverogers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Downgrade a movie Ferris Bueller’s Normal Day at School 062
