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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today's clip from the "AI Coffee Hour" Episode 5 podcast with @qethanm.bsky.social looks at how cloud computing and programming languages changed the way people access computing resources. #economics

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's really amazing how you can follow along with the Mars Perseverance rover ... right here on the internet and @bsky.app . It's stuff like that that makes me think this species isn't completed f***ed

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In this clip from episode 5 of "AI Coffee Hour" @qethanm.bsky.social and I talk about the effectiveness of the transformer architecture and how it changed machine learning. cc @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com full episode: youtu.be/P86WeTPH9G0

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Do large language models actually "reason"? This is a hard question. It has implications in a lot of areas and in ways that are not always obvious. It's a question that has a lot of researchers burning up GPUs these days.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New: pattersonconsultingtn.com/content/hitc... Ever notice how much effort is going on these days to "make agents behave the way you want"? When did computers start getting "opinions" on how execution of software should go? Well. They did, sorta.

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Deterministic Computation | The Hitchhiker's Guide to Building Knowledge Work Systems (Series)

Deterministic computing gives you an answer that holds still long enough to be checked — and that turns out to be worth a great deal.

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 24/07/2026

This is something I have on my radar regarding the rearmament of Europe: if part of the rearmament is translated in increased university research funding, this increase could potentially have interesting partial, or even general, equilibrium externalities.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What is "reasoning"? Go ahead, I'll give you a minute to try and define it in your head. We live in an era on social media where people here a word socially, something that others use with curiosity or reverence, and continue to repeat the word (or concept) --- without ever fully defining it.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Episode 3 of our "AI Coffee hour" series with Amandeep Khurana. This clip talks about the issues with identifying use cases for #ai automation. full episode: youtu.be/W7vMDjwzBmI

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

that's a lot of stars. and a lot of exo-planets.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This is an excerpt from a podcast Roger Magoulas and I did recently where we talk about how "AI is Still Just a Tool", the issues with the idea of "Agency", and how "Agent Harnesses" are moving "Agents" back towards traditional software.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The AGI-ends-human-labor argument has a structure problem. It isn't wrong because AGI is impossible. It's wrong because it treats accountability, legal standing, and moral responsibility as already resolved. They aren't. This is the Agency Trap. 🧵

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"We'll give everyone a chatbot and they can ask anything about the business." Sounds pretty snazzy but yeah "don't ship". The failure isn't the technology. The issue here is the problem was never defined right. [thread]

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I think as an engineer its easy to lose sight of the folks we build things for, and how they want their user experience to go.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"Here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. If you wish to go anywhere, you must run twice as fast." — The Red Queen, Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll accidentally wrote the best description of competitive business dynamics 150 years before anyone said "go-to-market." 🧵

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

you mean a guy who was never in ML ... doesn't "know ML" ? you don't say...

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Hot take: the AI-and-jobs debate is mostly people who haven't read history arguing loudly about the future. Cognitive tools have been restructuring white-collar work since 1950. The pattern is boring in the best possible way. /Thread time 🧵

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

never let the facts get in the way of a good story

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

In 1800, 80% of Americans worked in agriculture. Today it's ~1-2%. That's not a "role transformation" — that's near-total elimination of an entire labor category. And yet employment grew. Thread on what that actually means for the AI/jobs debate. 🧵

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The media narrative around #ai and jobs has gone sideways. The worry isn't abstract. It's about career trajectories and whether the skills you built still mean what they used to. but there is also a lot of spurious correlation going on.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The mechanical loom didn't eliminate weavers. It automated the established-pattern work and elevated everything requiring judgment. New piece on what this actually means for knowledge workers and AI — and it's more specific than the usual analogy. 🧵

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The first things humans ever wrote down weren't stories. They were grain inventories and debt records. Writing wasn't invented to preserve culture. It was invented to coordinate economic life at scale. That fact contains everything you need to understand what AI actually is. 🧵

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

What Determines Which Knowledge Work AI Can Actually Automate? pattersonconsultingtn.com/content/hitc... Applies the routine/non-routine task distinction from labor economics. Introduces the concept of "defensible but not differentiating" cognitive labor as the prime zone for acceleration.

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Cognitive Labor: The Mental Work Behind Knowledge Work | The Hitchhiker's Guide to Building Knowledge Work Systems (Series)

Defining cognitive labor, mental synthesis, and the defensible-but-not-differentiating framework — the foundation for understanding what AI actually changes about knowledge work.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

@wang.social it looks the same zoomed all the way out as it does all the way zoomed in. we are thermal noise.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

For those who may have missed it when it first came out. This stunning infrared image from #JWST, released 11 July 2022, shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. It's the Webb’s First Deep Field... ➡️ web.wwtassets.org/specials/202... 🔭 🧪 #science #cosmology 1/3

Dark velvet sky packed with countless far-off galaxies—some look like smeared amber dots, others tiny rust-colored wisps, a few pulled into long glowing ribbons and perfect Einstein rings by the huge mass of SMACS 0723 sitting in the middle. A handful of sharp foreground stars flash their classic six-pointed glitter. All this wonder squeezed into a patch so small it would hide behind a single grain of sand if you raised it to the night sky.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

People don't talk enough about how impactful the evolution of tools during the Bronze Age was. Crazy stuff back in those days.

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

America needs to take open models more seriously. Just this summer the early lead in open model adoption of Llama & co has been overtaken by Chinese models. With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.

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Sky & Telescope @skyandtelescope.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The extreme environment at the heart of our galaxy ought to make forming stars and planets difficult, but new estimates show stars (and their planets) have no problems forming there. buff.ly/9Wigh9E . . #astronomy #milkyway #cosmology #starformation #planetformation

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Planets Might Abound at the Center of Our Galaxy

The extreme environment in our galaxy's heart ought to make forming stars and planets difficult, but new estimates suggest otherwise.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I'll further note about AWS S3-Tables: They aren't quite ready for prime-time compared to the big data lake players, but the disaggregation of the database continues, and the "data table"'s time is coming. They could be as big as the idea of S3 as a "building block", especially if price is right.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

got AWS S3-Tables working today in a demo with some of our synthetic bordereaux data. I believe "data tables" (S3-Tables, and similar) and "data models (semantic layer, cube.dev, etc) are the future of the data platform. I'll also note that S3-Tables are a little wonky to get working right now;

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

🧵 This panoramic image, combining X-rays from Chandra (orange, green, purple) & radio data (gray) from the MeerKAT telescope, provides an unprecedented view above and below the center of the Milky Way, revealing threads of superheated gas ➡️ chandra.si.edu/photo/2021/g... 🔭 🧪 #cosmology #galactic

The image reveal threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields near the center of the Milky Way. It combines X-rays from Chandra and radio data from the MeerKAT telescope. X-rays are orange, green, blue, and purple. Radio is lilac and gray.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Portrait of a planet: As we mark the 35th year of Hubble in orbit, the space telescope's team has released a head-turning new view of Mars. Image details: go.nasa.gov/42HRQl5 Other spectacular new vistas from Hubble: go.nasa.gov/3GoxMNi

A full-disc view of the planet Mars observed by the Hubble Space Telescope against a black background of space. The planet's surface has a red-orange tint. White clouds obscure much of the polar regions. Other clouds and haze drift through the atmosphere. Dark patches of exposed rock, craters, plains, and volcanic mountains can be seen.

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Prof. Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez @joseptrigo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

EVIDENCE FOR CARBON DIOXIDE CYCLE in ancient #Mars found by @marscuriosity.extwitter.link is well aligned with our group findings on the growth stages of #ALH84001 carbonates. Water had an important role in forming secondary minerals into the crust rocks: www.spmn.uji.es/ESP/articulo... #PlanetSci

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

🧵 The massive star-forming molecular cloud Sagittarius C, located about 200 ly from the SMBH Sagittarius A* at the heart of the Milky Way, despite its abundance of gas and dust, produces fewer stars than expected. Image source➡️ webbtelescope.org/contents/med... 🔭 🧪 #galactic #cosmology

Images from the MeerKAT and JWST telescopes show the star-forming region Sagittarius C, about 200 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the SMBH at the center of the Milky Way. The images include orientation arrows and scale bars for context.

Radio data from MeerKAT reveal large vertical filamentary structures, while Webb captures similar, smaller filaments in a cloud of blue-green hydrogen in the infrared. Colors in the radio data are assigned based on spectral index.
For Webb, colors are created by shifting the infrared spectrum to visible light: shorter infrared wavelengths appear blue, longer ones appear redder.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Chryse Planitia Surfaces - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2peC3MA

This image shows part of the surface of Chryse Planitia, near the mouth of several of the giant outflow channels carved by massive floods. At this location the channel is much too large to be seen within a HiRISE image, and this shows an area of level plains near the mouth.

A long trough with aeolian (wind-blown) ripples runs through part of the image. This feature likely formed by contraction of the surface layer.

Image cutout is less than 1 km (under 1 mi) top to bottom and the spacecraft altitude was 284 km (176 mi). North is to the right. For full observation details including images with scale bars, visit the source link.

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www.uahirise.org/PSP_006268_1995

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Martian Hexagon This rock stands out in the bedrock of the canyon where Curiosity is currently roving. #Mars Mar. 27, 2025 - Sol 4493 🧪🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

An ochre toned picture of Martian rocks and sand. One rock at center stands out by its texture, size, color and shape. Shape approximates an hexagon, owing to a projection effect from the rover's particular viewpoint.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

hubble’s recent images 🌌 can’t believe this telescope is almost 35 years old and still giving us these BEAUTIFUL images of our universe 🥹

A hazy ball of white light fills the image. The ball is brighter toward the center of the image, becoming more diffuse toward the edges of the image. Bands of rusty-brown dust stretch across the core.

$A spiral galaxy, seen tilted at a slight angle, on a dark background of space. It glows softly from its center and out to its edge. The disk is a broad swirl of dark-reddish dust webs and sparkling blue patches where stars have formed. Atop the center of the galaxy is a foreground star that appears very large and bright with four diffraction spikes emanating from it. The star is relatively close to Earth compared to the galaxy.$ Wisps of pinkish-grey clouds fill the scene. Patches of dark dust obscure the glow. Bright, blue-white stars shine through the cloud.

Wisps of pinkish-grey clouds fill the scene. Patches of dark dust obscure the glow. Bright, blue-white stars shine through the cloud.

$An area of space filled with stars. Most of the stars are small, distant dots in a range of orange colors; closer stars shine with a bright glow and hold four thin diffraction spikes around them. These closer stars appear both bluish and reddish. Clouds from a nebula cover the left half of the scene, giving it a blue-greenish cast. More clouds also drift over the black background of space on the right side of the image.$

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 17/03/2025

The NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of gas giant #exoplanets in a system 130 light-years away, and found evidence that they formed like Jupiter and Saturn 🪐 Read more 👉 esawebb.org/news/weic2504/ 🔭🧪 #astrosci

This image shows the planetary system HR 8799. The image background is black. At the centre of the image, there is a symbol representing a star labeled HR 8799. This star blocks the light from the host star. There are four exoplanets, which look like fuzzy dots, pictured in the image surrounding the star. Furthest from the star is a fuzzy, faint blue dot, labeled b, at the 10 o’clock position. At the one o’clock position, second furthest from the star is a blueish-white fuzzy dot labeled c. Just below that is an orange dot labeled e. At the four o’clock position, still nearby the star, is another fuzzy white dot labeled d.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

New abrasion patch from the Mars Perseverance Rover. WATSON image taken on Sol 1447. Worth zooming into to look at the patch and surrounding rock. flic.kr/p/2qSnsfC

Rock with a circular hole drilled into it.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Sol 4481 MAHLI mosaic featuring rocks and some apparent Sun glare. From the Mars Curiosity Rover. flic.kr/p/2qSfZ35

Rocks.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

successfully just remembered how to exit VIM on a merge issue in git (without searching) It's gonna be a good day

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sol 4458 MAHLI image of rock following the use of the DRT brush to clear the dust. Check out the little circular bits… Taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover. flic.kr/p/2qPaKYX

Rock that has been cleared of dust.

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Josh Patterson @jpatanooga.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

why are new movie trailers not shot as VR movies? seems like you could shoot promos with dual cameras relatively easily, even if its not as big as the main trailer.

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RoGeR_OW @rogerow.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

So damn true 💯

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