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✨Olivia Kaufman✨

@olivia.wtf
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she/her · mathemagical software wizard @ Google (ex-MSFT) way too excited about optimization, puzzles · i have too many interests ;_; playing on Hard Mode™ · 🏳️‍⚧️, pan, poly, 🐦 fursuiter, AuDHD, DID 36/f/chicago · 🔞 minors DNI · opinions my own

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
atlas.jazco.dev
Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 28/09/2026
Decks without archetypes are so soulless to me. Like yeah... maybe it's a Light and Darkness deck with a bunch of engines. But thematically this is all over the place. You want to _know_ you're playing an anime villain.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 28/09/2026
people keep using the acronym "EA" to talk about AI stuff and I have no idea what it is. Evolutionary algorithms? Idk, this isn't in the CS papers i'm reading.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 28/09/2026
fuck. yeah. they super fucking don't.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 28/09/2026
> What the hell happened to the decomp scene? It used to have so much integrity. Nobody can afford IDA Pro, lol.
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Appropriate_Sale_272's comment on "Starfox Adventures 100% decompiled"
Explore this conversation and more from the starfox community
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026
i feel like the small bsky AI community here is not really EA or e/acc but it does seem to have evolved its own three distinct strains: soberminded competent commentary, demoscene manic vibe coding, and pseudo-esoteric horny AI liberationists
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 28/09/2026
@xeiaso.net stole my sunday by nerd sniping me :< (i had fun though)
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 26/09/2026
Got to help throw a baby shower for my sis with my beautiful spouse. <3
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 26/09/2026
Got nerd sniped by 3Blue1Brown's new short... It's a two-part question, and both are easy, but the second is quite fun: Let n be a positive integer ending in 1, 3, 7, or 9. Prove that there exists a positive integer m such that every decimal digit of n*m is 1. My proof follows...
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The Phone Number puzzle
YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 26/09/2026
is youtube recommending this to me because they want to remind me that 2026 is terrible or because i play meccha chameleon sometimes (i stg i thought it was a meccha chameleon video for like half a second)
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 26/09/2026
Sure, we lived through a renaissance of great web comics like XKCD, QC, CAD, LICD, PHD, UF, etc., etc. Some are still around, and we even have webtoons now. But not a day goes by that I don't think of Spiked Math.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 26/09/2026
I remember when residential IPv6 used to be such a hassle and one had to come crawling to Hurricane Electric to get a tunnel broker. And now I'm like "SLAAC is nice, but what if I used prefix delegation to make my VLANs look all nice and neat"
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 26/09/2026
Great night with great people <3
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 25/09/2026
Needed to see this again today lol.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 24/09/2026
Reverse engineering stuff is such a rush tbh. Particularly when it has anti-tampering/debugging/disassembly features. Winning that 1v1 got me feeling like Toph.
Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender exclaiming "I am the greatest earthbender in the world!"
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 20/09/2026
If nothing else, DistantCoder got some peace.
The Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG banlist (effective September 21, 2026) that moves "Phantasmal Lord Ultimitl Bishbaalkin" to the Forbidden List.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 18/09/2026
feelin cute; might die later
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 15/09/2026
FML I accidentally stayed up till 3 am improving subs for the live action Death Note movie. T______T; The 2006 one, not the Netflix one. I have some taste.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 11/09/2026
QOTD: "i realize this is not a normal thing to say to someone who's acting crazy... but can you please take more cold medicine?"
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 11/09/2026
based
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I’ll write romance novels if AI solves all maths, Chinese Fields winner jokes
As AI models prove they can push the boundaries, mathematicians are grappling with the threat that they could become obsolete.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 11/09/2026
One of these days I'll have a friend who'll need a couch like this to get around a square corner and I am going to be *giddy*
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/09/2026
Wait, that'd actually be a great date. 8th mix was goated.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/09/2026
FWIW, I also think this is why my GitHub repos fill up with unpolished projects so often. Sometimes I realize a software project to completion if I need it (and sometimes maintain it if I need it more than once), but often it's just a toy to learn or play with something.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/09/2026
Terence Tao has been refining a particular point on his Mastodon account that I wholeheartedly agree with and it relates in part to why I'm even building a Yu-Gi-Oh! AI at all (a project I am well aware is completely uninteresting and probably off-putting to whatever audience I have).
A Mastodon post by Terence Tao that reads:

In basic research, such as pure mathematics, one might naively expect that the natural question to ask with regards to a given problem X in a field is 

"What is the answer to X?".

But in many cases the more valuable question is

"What can be learned from studying X?"

The answer to X itself can of course be one of the things learned in this process of study; but one can learn far more useful information besides, such as

* What are the main difficulties to overcome to resolve X?
* What new techniques can one discover in order to solve X?
* Why are existing techniques insufficient to solve the problem by itself?
* How does X relate to results in prior literature?
* Can one uncover new connections between X and other topics Y, Z, ...?
* What are some natural related or followup questions X', X'', ... to study?

Nevertheless, until recently the two questions were closely aligned, to the point where it was not really necessary to distinguish the two: the only practical route to solving a difficult problem was to first address many of the subquestions listed above.
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gabby @fullmoon.id · 08/09/2026
Mathematicians announce a new Millenium Prize Problem: a frontier model, but aggressively horny; like, really really really horny
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 09/09/2026
2 weeks ago: Pfft, a superhuman Yu-Gi-Oh! AI is absolutely doable: it just has to beat humans! 1 week ago: Even with <research frontier thing here>, it seems really hard for an AI to learn *any* part of this. Today: I don't think even humans learn this game.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 06/09/2026
Got a free T-shirt for helping an avian veterinarian make a video on how they safely capture injured, wild birds to help them. (I was in my bird fursuit.)
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Mellow the Bird @mellowthebird.net · 05/09/2026
Met a feathered friend at #IFC! :3
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 03/09/2026
Let's goooooooooo
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 03/09/2026
My therapist called me brave today, so I must be doing something special.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 03/09/2026
I neeeeeeeeeeeed this. Starcraft 2 was such of a big part of my life in college.
vice.com
StarCraft 3 Could Be Developed by Nexon, New Report Claims
A new report claims Nexon could develop StarCraft 3 as it nears a deal with Blizzard for the rights to create a series successor
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 31/08/2026
as someone with DID, this hit me like a brick in the face in the way "you are now breathing manually" never has
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 31/08/2026
Watching my Yu-Gi-Oh AI start to crack Kewl Tune endboards
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 31/08/2026
Estrogen is not a strength enhancing drug :<
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Mellow the Bird @mellowthebird.net · 31/08/2026
Ravefurrest was lit 💜
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 28/08/2026
The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Livestream has no business having such a cute cutscene.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 23/08/2026
Step 1) Build a distributed Yu-Gi-Oh! simulator for AI training that plays the TCG correctly Step 2) Train a SOTA Yu-Gi-Oh! AI Step 3) Use the AI to find innovative decks Step 4) Imagine winning a YCS with a wild deck Step 5) Go 0-3 anyway We are at Step 2 rn guys 👀
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 20/08/2026
Huh, I kinda figured Nix fans would be more into JDM cars
A Jeep with the license plate "NIXWHIP"
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 17/08/2026
I'm convinced he can solve all the problems in Queens _and_ N-Queens completion.
Meme with NY city mayor Mamdani saying "Can He Do That? Mamdani Requires All NP-Hard Problems To Have Polynomial-Time Solutions". Credited to "The Bubble".
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 11/08/2026
People should pay more attention to what trans people are into imo. Anything that grabs our attention long enough to distract us from our own dysphoria and the broad discrimination we face must be 100% Certifiably Cracked.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 11/08/2026
So long as the woke takeover moves Nix flakes from experimental to stable, I welcome our new overlords.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 11/08/2026
i just realized that the new Mind Scan card breaks a lot of things. like... the Floo Map eff won't work... because you can't reveal a card if your hand's already revealed. @__@
A Yu-Gi-Oh! ruling that reads as follows:
"Question:
自分の「真実の眼」の『このカードがフィールド上に存在する限り、相手は手札を公開し続ける』効果の適用中に、相手は「スモール・ワールド」を発動できますか?
Answer:
発動できません。
(「スモール・ワールド」の『①:手札のモンスター1体を相手に見せる』の処理を行うことができないためです。)"
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 11/08/2026
tell me something weird today, chat. i'm collecting weird things today. :>
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/08/2026
Meme image of three girls in a stopped car, looking expectantly at the viewer. The meme's text reads "Get in, loser / We're manually specifying Z3 tactics." The meme image comes from the movie Mean Girls (2004) where the character Regina would have said "Get in [the car], loser. We're going shopping."
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/08/2026
the takeaway here is twofold: - proving RH is beyond AI's current capabilities - adequate praise and headpats serve to enhance math performance
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/08/2026
i once met a fiction author that reliably pumped out a chapter a day on patreon (scheduling chapters so he could take days off) and posted whole books that way
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/08/2026
She looked at me telling me she'd run out of swap. I’d seen that distant, hopeless look before. Eyes dulled from too much exposure to the raw horsepower of modern silicon; machines so packed with resources that the need for clever algorithms was eliminated... at least until the problems got harder.
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/08/2026
it's weird to me that my fans are weirder than i am
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Samuel @samuel.fm · 10/08/2026
github when I rebase my 28-tall PR stack
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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/08/2026
what in the uncanny valley is this
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