Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻ponder @ponder.ooo · 07/10/2026heartbreaking: this measure just became a target 3877
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 24/09/2026every (convex) quadrilateral is a square- if you view it from the right perspective 1231432
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻dad (aka miguel) @aka.dad · 27/08/2026the logs refer to me as "the event." 071
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 26/08/2026become unpriceable 0133
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 24/08/2026Now available as a blog post: mikedecr.computer/blog/sugar-f...mikedecr.computermikedecr . computer | Sugar free: Porting the exact `ggplot2` syntax to Python is not important 120
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 14/08/2026plenty of weird and tough things about getting older but one thing I really do love is not knowing what the hell people are talking about. I love not being bothered w/ stuff. "Alex Cooper's beverage business is failing." I don't know who that is or whether that's good or bad. you kids have fun 180
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 12/08/2026I read stuff like this and it's like, okay I just can't pretend to be nonchalant about it in situations like this: I. AM. BAYESIAN. 040
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 11/08/2026there's a lot of what I would just call "expertise" or "experience" that lead me to get very frustrated with LLMs sometimes. Today's example: generating basis spline fit for me (great use case bc I hate spline boilerplate). But I want to set knots that go outside the range of X. I get an error... 140
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 02/08/2026do I know any data engineers or software devs who work on research tech? There will be some hires on my old team working with our research platform / financial market data pipelines / distributed compute etc. Crazy data and very cool tech where Python meets high-perf C++ 055
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 01/08/2026went to a skatepark today, did not die, no broken bones 010
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 23/07/2026gf and I have been going to a nearby parking lot to skateboarding. she's learning fast. and I'm gonna hurt myself for sure 130
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 21/07/2026It's perfectly fine to have a principled commitment to empiricism and scientific discipline, actually. And when political actors try to bully you into being quiet or changing your story, it shows your integrity and bravery to resist that pressure. Right or left. 380
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable 35183711145
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 03/07/2026RIP to everyone techdebted by the LLMs, but I'm different. And better. 4563
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻amos @fasterthanli.me · 30/06/2026therapist: and... would you say this flips the story? claude: you're right *sobs* therapist: I'm right tooooo? claude: you're right to push back on this. *wails* 1874
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 30/06/2026Safari will exit full screen if you hit the Esc key. it's infantilizing 000
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Kalshi now allows you to place Pascal’s Wager 1034671
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Also, people now need to use as.factor() a lot more often, and they don't necessarily realise. notstatschat.rbind.io/2024/03/22/f...notstatschat.rbind.ioFactors as factors - Biased and Inefficient 1134
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 07/06/2026i bought a skateboard so you know I'm early to hit m*d l*fe cris*s 020
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 01/06/2026This blog post does not render in quarto without a Jupyter kernel for Hy. There is such a thing already but it's old and broken. LLM diagnosed and rolled its own kernel adapter for Hy in like 3 minutes. It is shipped with the blog post's src code so you too can feel the Hy of lisp programming 100
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 01/06/2026I like language exercises like these, so I implemented some of these functions in Hy, which is a Lisp that generates Python. We like functions right? Would we still like functions if they were **evil**? mikedecr.computer/blog/r-hy/ 000
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 31/05/2026Psychologists doing clustering be like: #statsmeme 940763
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻potch @potch.me · 23/05/2026money's tight 🤝 dark chronomancy "we're going to have make some sacrifices for the time being" 0246
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/05/2026I still believe it's a mistake to believe that the fact that LLM capability along certain dimensions seems to increase with scale implies that a sufficiently large LLM can do anything imaginable. Or that if an LLM can perform a task with difficulty D, it can do anything with difficulty ≤ D. 121319
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 21/05/2026as a blog post: mikedecr.computer/blog/python-...mikedecr.computermikedecr . computer | Using dark magic to create local scopes in Python 000
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 20/05/2026scope in Python *is* possible but for your sanity you should ask no more questions 000
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 19/05/2026"I have heard people talk about, like, 'Our goals should be that people don't write or read any code,' and stuff. That's a weird goal. I feel like our goals should be about trying to make people as effective as they possibly can be." www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUYP...youtube.comNow more than ever: building reliable software in the age of agents | Ron Minsky | Bug Bash 2026YouTube video by Antithesis 000
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 19/05/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxDR... I thought this was a good talk. By someone at OpenAI no lessyoutube.comNothing has changed about software engineering | Ben Eggers | Bug Bash 2026YouTube video by Antithesis 000
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 29/04/2026I love the conceptual model of ggplot but believe that implementing the exact syntax feel in python is not desirable or important. The "adding" of the plot components... how much will you suffer for this? I write this helper fn all the time 030
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 19/04/2026The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management. 294200423910
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 04/04/2026the key to creative coding: numbers you can scrub through? 4284
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Awesome view from Artemis II this morning. 947149862292
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 28/03/2026This is how you all use Claude, right? 1191
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻brennan @brennan.computer · 27/03/2026github emailed me to say that my code wasn't even good enough to be worth training on 5715
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 24/03/2026It's my washing machine. I should be able to spin without rinsing if want to 000
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻JCorvinus @jcorvinus.bsky.social · 22/03/2026The shape being rotated: "would you still love me if I were a word?" 2271
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 21/03/2026the reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated i spent 10 hours writing this blog post by hand. i would be delighted if you read it stevekrouse.com/precision 2555
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/... 11737761266
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 17/03/2026I don't see what the big deal is. I simply leverage the computational power of LLMs while breathing the ineffable and inimitable human spirit into my creation. It's trivial really 091
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Worth noting that "AI reduces labor demand" and "AI increases labor demand" can both be pitched with negative valence. 721930
michael 📈 👨💻 @mikedecr.computer · 03/03/2026There can be no such thing as a private mogging (zoomer wittgenstein) 010
Reposted by michael 📈 👨💻Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse. 333191422875