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Ben, PhB

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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 13/08/2026
I know his name is pronounced "Euler," but 100% of the time I read his name, I hear it as "Euler" first.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
They're just making up celebrity names now.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 09/07/2026
Yes I can listen on zoom 1-on-1 with Maria and listen to her for about an hour!
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 05/07/2026
"Did you guys see that YouTube video I did with Red Bull?"
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 15/12/2025
Irony is dead
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 02/04/2025
I could use a little fuel myself
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 17/03/2025
No one thinks I'm funnier than I do
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 12/03/2025
Only poseurs spell it "poser"
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 22/02/2025
Counterpoint:
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 15/02/2025
Nothing weird about it in context.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 26/01/2025
Fact: unlike yellow snow, yellow bananas are perfectly safe to eat. #bananafacts
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Shannon corn Fleming @shannoncornfleming.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Don't even dream about crossing the creamed corn gang.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 22/01/2025
Introvert by virtue of the knitting.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 16/01/2025
Separately, contra your subjective experience, my subjective experience has been that the best code reflects human thinking, because we ultimately write code for humans, not machines, as evidenced by the fact that we write code in human (albeit artificial) languages, not machine languages.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 16/01/2025
I overall agree with you, but don't know that there's much basis that humans think in "human language" or "plain language."
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 16/01/2025
So...I don't really know. In my defense, I only worked in a mathematical neuroscience lab for one summer as an undergrad about 15 years ago.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 16/01/2025
Well according to the people who both created and are currently marketing this technology, it is "incredible at coding." In fact, o3 surpasses o1 by 22.8 percentage points on SWE-Bench Verified, whatever that is. As reported by "venturebeat.com" and cited on Wikipedia.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 13/01/2025
By the point in which you know how to ask the right questions, asses the answers, and write unit tests, it seems to me that you just do know how to write code. What other piece would you not know at that point that you could have skipped learning?
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 13/01/2025
I'm a software engineer, not an academic, but I'm skeptical that LLMs are on the brink of being as capable as you're implying. It still seems safest to me for people to know how to write the code in principle, but use available tools to speed up the development process.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 07/01/2025
Psh, that's nothing
A photo of a desk piled with papers and other clutter in front of a blank wall
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 01/01/2025
I wonder if the iterative nature of the problem solving approach plays a role. The whole "start with a skateboard, make it into a bicycle, and eventually it will be a car" thing where I suppose you're supposed to assume that if you can build a skateboard, you're on your way to building cars.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 21/12/2024
Maybe discouraged, but not disabled with certainty.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 21/12/2024
@danabra.mov
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 21/12/2024
Maybe discourage, but not prevent outright. @michaeljkane.bsky.social
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 21/12/2024
Wingstop? Oof.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 17/12/2024
Downright Shyamalan-esque
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/12/2024
Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 09/12/2024
I believe there generally should be a process to get approval for these things if you can figure out who to talk to. My wife just finished working on season 2 of Hit-Monkey (on Hulu) and Fox/Disney let her use clips from that in her reel.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 03/12/2024
Mr Doyle with the key information as always
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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is pretty incredible. If you want Twitter out of your skyline entirely, this’ll do it.
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
saying "semantic satiation" to myself over and over till it loses all meaning
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 28/11/2024
"The incidence of teaspoon loss over the period of observation was 360.62 per 100 teaspoon years. At this rate, an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a practical institute-wide population of 70 teaspoons." (quoted by @tspiresjones.bsky.social in a reply)
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 25/11/2024
Working on a prototype AI-powered smart Dixie cup dispenser. AI will use facial recognition to track your bathroom habits to determine when to dispense a cup for you. Look for the iCup to launch in 2025.
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I was fucking joking!
Oral B toothbrush with artificial intelligence
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 24/11/2024
It would also be interesting to see with what frequency content is shared that isn't read because it is blocked by a paywall.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 24/11/2024
A screenshot of another blue sky user making the same joke about this news article yesterday
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 24/11/2024
Apologies for some unsolicited brainstorming, but part of me wonders if this button/feature could be visible in some capacity before a user starts typing. I think I tend not to look at that bottom bar once I begin writing, especially with the "Reply" button at the top.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 24/11/2024
For anyone else wondering on the official Android App:
Screenshot of the Blue sky Android app showing the icon to add another reply
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 24/11/2024
Oh neat! Wish I had noticed this before. This is a genuinely amazing feature.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 24/11/2024
Wait, really?
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 24/11/2024
Isn't it the worst when the jizz catches your eye?
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 24/11/2024
I prefer to refer to my jokes as "surrealist" instead of "not funny"
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 22/11/2024
Fact: if you laid 1,000,000 bananas end-to-end (tip-to-tail), you would have done something no one has ever done before #bananafacts
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 22/11/2024
Obviously someone found it apeeling
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 20/11/2024
2/...stuff. And, since I am not a professional academic, the opportunity to have accessible surface area with those who are is invaluable to myself as a pure hobbyist.
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 20/11/2024
Slightly more seriously, even though I am not an academic and therefore not the audience you were seeking engagement from, I will say that what I am looking for mirrors @thestevejohnson.bsky.social. Academia and I mutually separated a while ago, but that is unrelated to my continued interest in...1/
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 20/11/2024
I know this wasn't the point, but I still am mildly impressed that GPT took the assignment of "write a rec-letter for a student who is a 4/10" and went straight to "they have shown consistent attendance"
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Ben, PhB @mywebpage.cool · 20/11/2024
There is just a touch of irony in this post [he said, jovially]
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