⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/01/2025they (@ruesavatar.bsky.social) are facedoxxing me on X Dot Com, The Everything App 1130
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 05/12/2024an advanced entertainment technology I hope we develop soon is the ability to make tool-assisted speedrun agents which don’t require deterministic RNG 010
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I love to make utterances and encode truth claims in sequences of symbols 030
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 04/12/2024appreciation post for @imitationlearn.bsky.social’s good profile vibes pfp, display name, handle, bio, and banner all contribute smth distinct but fit into the whole 3161
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 04/12/2024twin black cats named Spectre and Meltdown 030
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 04/12/2024there’s a very particular aesthetic which I love but don’t know how to name, one archetypal example of which is “astronauts en route to mars incidentally break the all-time human altitude record in the first few days of a vastly longer journey” 280
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 04/12/2024controversial theory holds that thing B should work because thing A is true. after investigation, it turns out that thing A is in fact true. and, lo and behold, thing B does actually work! not because of thing A, though. 071
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I hope that within my lifetime we figure out what language models are 070
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 02/12/2024type of guy who schedules something for “1pm EST” in the middle of July and literally means EST, not ET 150
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 22/11/2024communications infrastructure and accessibility accommodations for offshoring SWE and IT work to the Faewilds 030
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 22/11/2024periodic reinvention of known techniques is as important as the “mark” phase in a mark-and-sweep garbage collector 050
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 18/11/2024protostar didn’t get the memo that the metric signature is (+, +, +, -) and not (+, +, -, -) 120
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I can certify that @norvid-studies.bsky.social is by nature an exceptionally lucid + sane person btw. this is just what it looks like to apply that attitude to trying to understand the internet. 1130
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024the year is ≈2.31e+7 AD. the Unicode Consortium has just approved new emojis for “anisogamy,” “[untranslatable],” and “odd-dimensional hyperbolic space.” news of the updated standard will reach the far side of the Milky Way in 100000 years. 3143
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024a social media site with a maximum character limit per post, but enforced via capriciously-applied bans, rather than an automatic check at upload time 050
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024what we care about is making progress on big problems, but the only thing we can easily measure is how much we’re making progress on small problems solution: do work which simultaneously (1) makes measurable progress on a small problem & (2) fits into a story about how you could solve a big problem 110
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024originally wrote this but quickly realized it’s untrue the reality is that “bisk” is to “bisque” as “post” is to “poast.” 290
Reposted by ⛅️ Observer of Sunsnorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 17/11/2024[south american goal voice] BOOOOÒOOÓRRRRRRRGEEEEEEEEES 083
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024woah, unfollowing @covid19disease.bsky.social now. big fan of the novel furin-cleavage site, had no idea about the tens of millions of deaths and years-long disruption of the global economy. 1100
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024bluesky can be a tough place for everyone who memorized @vgel.me’s Twitter username as “the one with all the ‘o’s” 2201
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024“sampling from the distribution” as a mode of communication which transcends “truth” or “lies” 150
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024excited to announce the launch of my new fake-time macroblogging platform 010
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024A parable: A neural network m was trained on pairs (x, y) generated as y = f(x) for some function f : X -> Y. Its creators then prepared to run it on an input x’ ∉ dom(X). 1/ 1121
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024A isn’t caused by B. A is caused by C (which is caused by B). 010
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024condensed matter physicists lack the courage and marketing acumen to refer to one of their phenomena of interest as the “God Quasiparticle” 040
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024computers as machines which let you access alternate universes, but only in such a way that you learn nothing about their measure 010
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024warbler mom with one of those family stick-figure cartoon bumper stickers on the back of her car showing two warbler chicks and one cuckoo 020
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024smart enough to one-box in a Newcomb problem; too dumb to tell when a problem is a Newcomb problem 050
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024wind tunnel testing of aircraft designs presages two of the most fundamental enabling technologies in modern deep learning: scaling laws, and teacher-forcing 021
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024an object whose danger decays exponentially as a function of the number of people who know about it 030
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024an authentic collection of ancient Egyptian poetry which rhymes when and only when it is translated to colloquial modern English 120
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024North American Strategic Earnestness Reserve 010
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024stay alert for wicked problems living far beyond the class NP, for which it is computationally easier to recognize a bad solution as good than it is to generate a good solution 020
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024both sparks and embers are an excellent way to start a fire 010
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024the tension between the way in which the future holds absolute power over the present and the way in which the present holds absolute power over the future 010
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 14/11/2024the main problem with the world is that there’s too little of it 130
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 27/06/2023if you’re the most crepuscular person in the room, you’re in the wrong room 261
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 05/05/2023incredible how it somehow knew to revert to Duck Mode at the very end 020
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 05/05/2023wow that was so easy!! Wolfram Alpha eat your heart out! 221
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 05/05/2023ripping off the 🐥 mask to reveal the 🙂 mask underneath 030
