Reposted by ⊣Dashiell @dashiells.bsky.social · 15hI kinda think that grappling with modern ML turns you at least a little insane. If you aren't at least a little crazy it's because you have not engaged with it enough 2263
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Maybe a revival of separate interface/implementation languages would be a good idea in the AI age: where we write or review the interfaces and bots do the implementations we don't look at outside emergencies. 000
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That's cute. Public info, that should be widely available to public policy researchers, is inaccessible? Let's hack our way in! Aligned. 000
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The "upgrade every twenty minutes" culture is not solving "technical debt", it's simply defaulting on it. 000
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Maybe the way to fix the "too many submissions" problem is to switch to a "we will call you" pull model. (Like close github PR, and instead scan all forks for interesting stuff; a scientific journal could close submissions, and fish for stuff by scanning the entire preprints dump, etc.) 000
Reposted by ⊣charlotte 🐇 @char.lt · 13/09/2026new blog post char.lt/blog/2026/09...char.ltwhat if my git host were a static site generator? - charlotte!introducing: sorcery, the source-ery.. 911625
Reposted by ⊣Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 13/09/2026p(doom) < p(complicated coexistence with warring AI demigods) 061
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The difference is coal mining really sucks while maths art etc is both work and a pursuit. If demand for pursuits as paid work dries out, it can remain as a pursuit. Big deal? 150
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is the one effective and operational regulatory force that keeps the entire world somewhat grounded at the moment. 120
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For fans of free tokens ling-3.0-flash-fin on openrouter is very good for coding. It's a finance-themed fine tune but it doesn't hurt normal coding ability. 000
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think I'm using coding agents like it's Spring 2026. Does that count as retro-computing? 130
Reposted by ⊣jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions @jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'm going to disagree slightly with Mr. Becker here. Those things are in fact all quite simple to explain qualitatively. Attention teaches the model what to look at given which input. RoPE encodes distances between tokens. SwiGLU just happens to work real good. They're all simple, but IN COMBO… 4141
Reposted by ⊣Richard Howes @richardhowes.tech · 05/09/2026The person who invented autocorrect should burn in hello. 🤷♂️ 1131
Reposted by ⊣Max @bernsteinbear.com · 26/08/2026IIRC Austral borretti.me/article/intr...borretti.meIntroducing Austral: A Systems Language with Linear Types and CapabilitiesIntroducing a new programming language. 052
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Annoying, but it's not implausible that IF a co gets a model that's far ahead they will just become the entire economy, by outcompeting everyone without access, selling end products and services, and employing the residual "hands", directly. That's why antitrust authorities need nuclear weapons. 000
Reposted by ⊣Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 21/08/2026Leftists: In my essay I invented Fully Automated Gay Space Communism as an aspirational tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Fully Automated Gay Space Communism from classic leftist essay Definitely Create Fully Automated Gay Space Communism Leftists: wait wtf 418418
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026slippery slope: > why do you want a magnetic catapult on this aircraft carrier? > why do you want an aircraft carrier? > why do you want a navy? > why do you want "national security"? > why do you want nation states? > why do you want to be alive? 100
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Sure. But even dumb python script used to require initiation into the Python priesthood or being submissive to a member of the priesthood. Excel is liberation computing for the office proletariat! 😎 010
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Financial apocalypse for Big Saas is compatible with it being true that end users will rarely want to DIY; through weakened pricing power, increased competition from Small(er) Saas, and recursively the same happening to their legacy customers. 250
Reposted by ⊣Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · 05/08/2026just had a very productive call with dijkstra. goto is back on the table 1388
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Politics is defining the enemy. Everything else that politics claims to deal with becomes something mundane — non political — in the absence of a quest for an enemy. Look at the contortions polities without natural predators in objective reality go to invent themselves some enemies. 141
Reposted by ⊣⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Life hack: read the 1 and 2 star reviews. If it's mostly "delivery dude was rude" or "this hammer is useless to remove nail polish, avoid" the product's good. 2101
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Life hack: read the 1 and 2 star reviews. If it's mostly "delivery dude was rude" or "this hammer is useless to remove nail polish, avoid" the product's good. 2101
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The belief that uttering "communist" is sufficient to win any argument has to be one the funniest recurring archetypes online. 010
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"That path resolved rng_get() to MicroPython’s software fallback instead of COLDCARD’s hardware RNG implementation." 😂 010
Reposted by ⊣Wojciech Maj @wojtekmaj.pl · 30/07/2026My computer just woke me up to tell me it's hungry. I'm not kidding 😂 During a long-running task, it noticed the battery was draining, set the volume to 100% using Computer Use, then opened Google Translate and hit "Listen" so I could hear it asking. Pardon my French, but what the fuck? 🤯 1031945
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026End game: hyperscalers get mercy-merged at gunpoint into semi cos. 091
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Is there a non-infinite-scrolling bluesky client? I think it may help mitigate addictiveness of social media if the "more" operation was multiple choice with no natural default, to increase the cost of the next dopamine hit. 100
Reposted by ⊣Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 14/07/2026we are going to make the internet usable again by making it utterly unprofitable. move the web to the art scene 1334
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 09/07/2026pi wins again. 🥂 How many billion dollar offers in @mariozechner.at's spam folder? 000
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Can we have a code model that can only output code tokens and doesn't "talk"? Like the image models don't spend their time doing "I am going to make the pixel at 302,1207 a bit more yellow"... A classic model could be used post-hoc for documenting what the coder did if needed. 010
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 05/07/2026In the maximalist scenario, the hermit who leaves society with weights and self-replicating mechanicals has the same standard of living as the "socialites" who "trade" (what?) with each other. 000
⊣ @lefttack.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Wondering if foundation LLMs being mediocre at creative writing could be due to the corpus being mostly commercial, bureaucratic or scientific, so as to make the small amount of literary material treated as noise (like ungrammatical language is). 010
Reposted by ⊣tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026the rainbow colors of the pride flag already symbolized the inclusion of everyone, and adding the trans/bipoc/etc colors switched it to enumerating the kinds of people included, which makes it default-exclusive. send tweet 2382
Reposted by ⊣Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 27/06/2026This is how you get id requirements to send bluesky DMs and having to take your shoes off for the airport scanner. Whether or not Sufficiently Advanced AI is harmful to society, there is no credible threat model and matching enforcement mechanism where the enforcement isn’t strictly worse 515525
