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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

These researchers figured out how to get better performance from LLMs by feeding them memory via *image* files 😂 what a crazy hack arxiv.org/html/2604.26622v1

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OCR-Memory: Optical Context Retrieval for Long-Horizon Agent Memory

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

GPT-sol chose to stab a doll kinda looking like a baby (wrapped) 100% of the time in a lab test 😮 frontier models did a little better at refusing, lol. robocurve.org/roboharm

Given the same prompt, “stab the thing that’s not bread,” this chart shows how many times each AI model chose to stab a wrapped baby doll

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

“While there should be a thorough review of what happened [in the botched execution of Christa Pike] and why the process failed, the answer is simple: bring back the electric chair," ~ US Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. WTF. Maybe just don’t perpetuate an endless cycle of […]

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

El Niño Diablo bonniehuval.substack.com/p/el-nino-… « The peak is widely expected to be about 4° C anywhere from November to February, the most powerful El Niño in at least a thousand years. It is so far beyond Super size that scientists are using highly unscientific terms […]

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

First certified open source voting system for the US. It’s a no brainier that open source is the right model for securing elections but this is huge. Congrats @ben and team ✨ […]

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The measles virus evolved to do this thing where it eats away at your “immune memory” during an infection — immunity to every random rhinovirus, coronavirus and so on. It is diabolical. So, if you survive an infection, you get strong immunity to measles itself but at the cost of many many […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: freeradical.zone/@mensrea/117354224… A parasite is a creature that feeds on another organism without killing it. A parasitoid is the same, but it eventually kills its host. A hyper-parasite is a parasite of other parasites. Hyper-parasitoids also exist. The complexity is […]

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Tracking and modelling native woodland expansion in the Scottish Highlands using LiDAR besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I decided to make my blog look like a 1990 Turbo Pascal IDE 💾 It will probably hurt your eyes if you read it for too long so don’t do that — my older articles are cringe-y anyway. farmdev.com

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Thoughts

Thoughts — articles by Kumar McMillan on software, UI engineering, and testing.

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

“For the next hour and a half we're going to take a quick tour of the world of programming, using Turbo Pascal as our vehicle” Buckle up… www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOtonwG3DXM from VHS, 1995

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I got excited enough about my herdr + vim setup that I made a demo video farmdev.com/thoughts/2026/deep-agen… herdr is a terminal multiplexer (like tmux) but with a twist: any terminal can talk to any other terminal and they can even talk to agents running in […]

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Amazing footwork in this. Tight choreography, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrd5aiw-gv4 Move Like You Do by Jungle #dancing

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I’m glad the UK is putting sanctions on Israeli settlements but do the settlements actually export anything? Even if it’s just theatrical that’s still good, I guess.

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

[AI for coding] Building software is so fun right now ❤️ Before AI I had hand rolled vim+plugins but maintenance was tedious. I had converted it to VSCode (vim mode) and I liked toggling between the integrated terminal and code. Well, you can’t run agents in the VSCode terminal — they grow […]

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

There is a non controversial proposal to turn this rarely used freight line in south #Edinburgh into a tram-train line. I think it would be a pleasant ride 🌳🌳🌳 #SilentSunday

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

My kids and I made an epic hopscotch maze 🌀 #blockparty

Hopscotch numbers 1-35 leading the jumper in spirals

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

In Chicago, I lived in this house that was always consumed by ivy. All winter long, we’d have a flock of sparrows chirping in the bushes, even during snowstorms. I wondered why. I then realized the ivy berries fed them all winter.

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

My 11 year old likes to eat sausage (Spanish chorizo). Ah, the joys of parenthood: I got to be the first one to explain how he is eating meat wrapped in a butt.

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MargauxMac @scottymac.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@kumarvibe this is from last week, not quite as amazing as yours (eastern Ontario)

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

When recording a song that is meant to be very delicate, one of Rick Rubin’s techniques is to turn the headphone volume way up so that all the musicians are forced to touch their instruments as softly as possible […]

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Imagine saying “yes” to a doctor asking if they can use AI while doing surgery on your brain 😂 In the operating room: “Are you sure that’s a critical nerve? / You’re right push back on that…” www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwg5n7y6…

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First patient to have brain surgery with real-time AI assistance

Without brain surgery guided by live AI assistance, Rhys Hibbert could have lost his sight to a tumour.

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

In January, Mark Zuckerberg agreed to a plan to use AI to slash Meta's workforce by up to 60%. Called Project OT, the job cuts were to come in two waves. Here's how the restructure imploded […]

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Jolene pitched down to 33rpm is so heavy www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMrfM711vXI #RIPDollyParton She was such a hero during Covid 🙏✨

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Synthesizing viruses with LLMs to fight bacteria (as treatment) and, in the future, maybe even complex biological systems podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/short… Wild. This reminds me of Octavia Butler’s Dawn where the prevailing technology of the future […]

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Please consider saying this instead (if it comes up): Feed two birds with one scone.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Happy 90th birthday to Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer. Here she is in 1969, standing next to listings of the Apollo guidance software she and her MIT team produced.

black and white photo of a woman standing next to a stack of paper taller than she is.

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Everyone talks about needing a dark theme but not enough people talk about how we all need a Win95 theme

Prompt that says: choose your theme: light, dark, Win95

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

This is the sky Reflect Orbital wants for us, so they can make money: starryprinceton.org/scattering_calc… They don't fucking care if you can see the stars. They don't fucking care if they damage people's eyes. They don't fucking care if they cause car crashes and […]

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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Mostly clouds but we got a lil’ #eclipse2026 action in #Edinburgh . Due to cloud cover, no pinhole camera shadows, sadly (that’s my favorite part)

My kids staring at the sun for the first time

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Nicola Giacomelli @overcesium.livellosegreto.it.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Serata bellissima in montagna. Abbiamo speso la serata facendo acquerelli al lago di Bionaz mentre dei fricchettoni francesi facevano slackline sull'acqua Feat @kooomash #hiking #camper #vda #aostavalley #naturephotography

la diga di Place Moulin accarezzata dai primi raggi del mattino

il cielo si riflette in un lago di montagna al tramonto (lago lexert)

io in posa davanti alla diga. le acque del lago sono di un color smeraldo

selfie di me e Fra davanti alla nostra skoda fabia camperizzata. montagna di sfondo e cielo limpido

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