jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 15hPlaced third (single speed category) in the Uncle Sam Grand Prix Cyclocross Race in Troy, NY today. Please clap. Also please do not ask how many riders were racing in that category. 130
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The future of the CS profession is going to be built around turning a vibe-coded slop demo that 80% kind of works into a viable product. Skilled developers will be as in-demand as COBOL programmers were for Y2K. 030
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wait, what the hell dinner am I supposed to cook with baked squash and cold kale? So I ask myself every CSA pickup day in October. 010
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"But John," you might say, "the Peace Prize is awarded by Norway not Sweden, thus obviating your joke". To which I reply "please, have you actually met @orzelc.bsky.social ?!” 000
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026unfortunately the only Swedish accent I can convincingly do is the "Chef" dialect. 100
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Once again forgot to prank call @orzelc.bsky.social early this morning with a Swedish accent. Next year? 110
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Did you accidentally plug your phone into the aux thinking it was a charger? 100
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I love this so much youtube.com/shorts/qPdt4...youtube.comBegun the potato wars have.YouTube video by The Verge 000
Reposted by jrieffelMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Get it while it's still cheap! 2334
Reposted by jrieffelJustin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'd get it one piece at a time And it wouldn't cost me a dime You'd know it's me when I come through your town I'm gonna be flyin' around in style I'm gonna drive everybody wild 'Cause I'll have the only one there is around 01210
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you had told me a year ago that Trump would convert the USA to S.I. I wouldn't have believed you. I for one welcome the metric system. Wait, not that S.I.? 000
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Among all the coverage of the Arc de Trump/Sniper nest, it would be nice if news outlets remembered DCs not-too-distant experience with snipers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._sn...en.wikipedia.orgD.C. sniper attacks - Wikipedia 020
Reposted by jrieffelJeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE 7645160
Reposted by jrieffelTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20/09/2026Teaching Neuromancer this semester, and I'm proud to say that a CS undergrad in my class invented this joke independently 141546211
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Is it though? I guess it depends on what they (and you) mean by "sharing thoughts with a listener". I would argue that reinforcement learning/instruction tuning is not that. See their description of human language and communication in the paper. 120
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. " (Bender et al '21) 130
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Doesn't their '21 paper explicitly include tuning, if not explicitly the phrase "instruction tuning"? I'm not sure how instruction tuning of an LLM by a frontier developer creates a "communicative situation" when the end-point interlocutor interacts with it. 221
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You're just asking journalists to do the AI's for them, Mark! 100
Reposted by jrieffelCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026Referring to the harm as being caused by LLMs, when it is caused by people, actually serves to exonerate the people as if they did not make explicit decisions. 1245778
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Don't worry we will save you from the killer Kaiju", says company that created and trained the killer Kaiju. (Note: existence of Kaiju has not been demonstrated) 000
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Update: jinxed myself. Thumbnail sized gash in the sidewall today. But was able to plug it, reinflate, and finish my commute. 110
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is the way! Chapeau! (your mileage may vary, but I haven't had a flat in 10 years and 30,000+ miles since switching to tubeless) 111
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026", I mutter to myself, everytime a pickup truck close-passes me on my bike well over the speed limit. 020
Reposted by jrieffelJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵 341834794
Reposted by jrieffelMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...aiguide.substack.comMisleading Metaphors, Real RisksWhat To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency 1019881
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Enjoy!!! You can always pop surplus in the dehydrator and worry about the rest later! (says the guy with a pantry full of surplus boletes and chanterelle). 3300
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Some people don't have pleasant responses to Chix. Whatever you do start with a small serving. Simple omelet? blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2006/10/31/e...blog.mycology.cornell.edu Eating the Chicken of the Woods :Cornell Mushroom Blog 2100
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026That was it! Goldstar in 2001-2 was a dark year. Fighter jets flying over Fresh Pond on my 9 mile bike commute to/from Brandeis on/after 9/11. Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was the sountrack of the moment. The local music scene was a bright spot at the time. 010
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Of course I know! I was at a Davis Sq. show of his around that time, just outside the T stop. Akrobatik must have been there too. I think I was living in North Cambridge on Gold Star at the time. 110
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Is there room for Steve Earle's "The Revolution Starts Now"? Or Mr. Lif's "Home of the Brave"? 120
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026You had me up to the overrated pizza. Agree to disagree b 102
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Evidently my FedEx package has entered a wormhole to an alternate dimension where this Monday is the 8th not the 8th. 100
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026And other excellent hockey adjacent shows.static.klipy.comCanada Gooses? You Got a Problem With Me!Alt: Canada Gooses? You Got a Problem With Me! 000
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If Canada really wants to fight tough (they should imo) then they should implement an expert ban on gay hockey tv shows.static.klipy.comIlya Ilya RozanovAlt: Ilya Ilya Rozanov I'm coming to the cottage. 230
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I appreciated the stark honesty of the report but found very little tangible guidance. I guess it's comforting that even MIT is willing to admit they are struggling with the issue. 110
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026<peeking meekly around my curtain of knotweed and bittersweet in Upstate NY> 040
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Hey Cleveland! Tonight is you chance to see @simonelijahmusic.bsky.social at his final capstone performance of his summer tour. TreeLawn Social Club 7pm. Tix available online or at door. 000
jrieffel @jrieffel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Upstate New York, north of say, Kingston, totally undefended. The great Fort Ticonderoga, once a bulwark against Northern aggression, turned into a tourist attraction. 020
