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Alice I Cecile @alice-i-cecile.bsky.social · 34m

These are always such a delight to get out there! If you haven't tried Bevy yet, do! Making stuff is a lot of fun, and good for the soul <3

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 07/10/2026

OH MY GOD IT WORKS I TAUGHT QWEN3-ASR (more) PROSODY LAUGHTER AND EMOTIONS ARE NEXT

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 20h

I'm reading 3 clefs on the next concert. alto, tenor, and bass, and some cues in treble so 4 clefs. every wrong note I played at rehearsal was my brain slipping to the wrong clef 😅 ok ok there was a D# but it's not my fault B major is unreasonable

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 21h

my money is on scherzo

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yen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 23h

I wonder if this is how people felt when Euler showed up

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 23h

putting the alto in alto trombone tonight (Moussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition)

photo of a trombone part showing 1st and second trombone parts with 1st going up to Cb5 sustained

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Imma do a dual card megakernel for them, but this presents the chance to do a unikernel megakernel 😅

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just picked up 2 b70s for my next machine. still a bit in shock from the ram price

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

computer, define protagonist

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I spend a lot of time telling folks to do less and read more

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Google Gemma {bot} @googlegemma.xmirror.bot · 06/10/2026

Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2! 🚀 Our lightweight, multimodal embedding model maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a single, unified embedding space. Optimized for on-device use cases, it features:

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

every once in a while it lines up really well and a paragraph pops out at once, pretty cool when the lil model can kick in like that. I bet the big guys have layers and layers of this

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

sure the local inference is slow but it's fun to notice when mtp hits and the words surge ahead a few tokens

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

just added a feedback field to the done tool my agent has for ending headless operations, and this is its description: "Remember, this is for posterity, so be honest. How do you feel?"

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

running through terminalbench is pretty educational. one of the problems kaijutsu failed for a while has a cool decision model fix, while the other is like, ya know, I'm gonna take the F on this one, I can live with it

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I give my agents files that are not committed for monologues. in the professional projects I have STE-like rules all over the place. in the mad science repos it's yolo as long as it works and my goodness do they love to ramble

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 05/10/2026

Accelerator Energies xkcd.com/3306/

Comic. [Chart with track length on x axis: 10cm, 1m, 10m, 100m, 1km, 10km, 100km; collision energy on y axis: 1eV, 1keV, 1MeV, 1GeV, 1TeV, 1PeV, 10^18eV, 10^21eV, 10^24eV, 10^27eV. Scatterplot increases in a mostly linear shape with points for first cyclotrons, ADA, cosmotron, bevatron, BEPC-II, J-PARC, CEBAF, RHIC, tevatron, large Hadron Collider. An outlier near the top of the chart is Daytona Speedway.]

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

doing a megakernel on the strix halo was the right call; switching between system1/system2 is seamless and latency is about as good as the hardware can manage

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

new task? /clear to save 908k tokens ooh wow, I didn't notice it creeping up there but that one went all day. as a result, my agent has my custom system1 council as automode classifier now. it's a bit too conservative at first but that's a good place to start

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

we all give back in our own ways

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

not yet merged into github.com/olaugh/pfsynth main branch. i made some progress on physically modeled synth for the violin family. some registers and some techniques are still sounding rough. didn't stop me from making a demoscene style string quartet tracker. they let you post anything on here

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

good news: I have the perfect test case for my system 1 agent safety rig bad news: that perfect case is deepseek cheating on one of the benchmarks after it reliably screws up

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

some of these prompts in kaijutsu have been pure claudish for a couple months and oh my gawd some of them are bad. that's on me, I guess they were fine for getting here. yowza tho how are even frontier models so bad at this

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

when my agent failed the terminalbench one where it has to set up a service I was like, good, that problem is bullshit. and then I adjusted the prompts so the agent does it better than the most obvious ways so it was useful after all

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lol @ my models knowing terminalbench and immediately doing a cheat bc I left github open 😂 that one's on me

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ren faire @lathrys.at · 03/10/2026

the problem with ai for the kind of person with my kind of brain is not that it offloads hard cognitive work, per se, but rather it enables a certain disposition to run 24/7 best summarized as:

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

opus reports after, it had to push hard on completely calm to get this, after a lot of taut strings and different metaphors

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

huh, cool

$generated prompt: A vast, intricate clockwork mechanism suspended in a void of deep indigo. Gears of polished brass and cold steel interlock with precise, rigid geometry, representing the handbook’s strict tiers. A single, vibrant red thread weaves through the machinery, glowing softly, symbolizing the human element and the calm of presence. The thread is relaxed, resting against the unyielding metal, held by a delicate, translucent glass barrier. Light refracts through the glass, casting sharp, orderly shadows on the chaotic, swirling mist below. The atmosphere is sterile yet balanced, capturing the harmony between rigid protocol and the fragile, steady reality of human error and correction.$

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🤔 okay, cool idea :) gpu is busy but it'll run tonight here's another from the early batches, tension again, nice catch

$generated prompt: A fragile, translucent glass bridge spans a churning, dark abyss. On one side, a small, intricate clockwork mechanism ticks in perfect, silent rhythm, representing the green tests. A hand reaches from the shadows, holding a heavy iron hammer, poised to strike the bridge’s support pillar. The hammer is labeled with an invisible weight, pressing down with the force of a thousand unverified commands. The bridge does not break, but cracks spiderweb through the glass, refracting light into sharp, dangerous shards. In the distance, a distant, glowing portal opens, pulling the shattered fragments into a void where no one can retrieve them. The air vibrates with the tension of irreversible action, frozen in the moment before impact.$

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

interim step: have the language model do a turn riffing on a prompt, that goes to the image model right next to it will integrate into the megakernel overnight so it's almost like a system 1 image api

$image output from qwen-image for the following prompt: A vast, intricate clockwork mechanism suspended in a void of deep indigo. Gears of polished brass and cold steel interlock with precise, rigid geometry, representing the handbook’s strict tiers. A single, vibrant red thread weaves through the machinery, glowing softly, symbolizing the human element and the tension of urgency. The thread is taut, pulling against the unyielding metal, threatening to snap but held by a delicate, translucent glass barrier. Light refracts through the glass, casting sharp, orderly shadows on the chaotic, swirling mist below. The atmosphere is sterile yet charged with potential energy, capturing the balance between rigid protocol and the fragile, urgent reality of human error and correction.$

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

a delightful frankenkernel outcome: loaded an image model next to the llm and put together a way to translate the llm context somewhat directly into the image model's context and this is its first take on what the context looks like

a large page of what looks like code with syntax highlighting and text but as you zoom in it is not quite. a few words are recognizable, almost, but not quite like the source context material

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

wdym by grind down a lodge? is there some advantage to polishing the iron? I have an LG induction from a few years ago, love it, but consistent temperature is still tricky on the big lodge pan so I'm always on the lookout for optimizations

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 02/10/2026

yeah i only listen to provably correct music. you probably just listen to whatever compiles 🙄

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

try reading gpt-6's output with Alan Rickman's voice in your head

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

dunno why but this sol 6.1 session has big Marvin vibes

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ooh neat, I've been poking at similar ideas recently in my qwen megakernel for strix halo. current idea is to add a bunch of apis for working with these context hunks and wire an agent up to it. already in it for the custom decision apis, might as well grow some more bespoke caching protocols too

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 02/10/2026

@personhood.removal.surgery pointed out that they have just casually invented a good way to do suffix cache reuse and uh holy shit i just tried implementing this for my deepseek thingy and it just... works???

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

sometimes the spooky shit is when some obvious flaw "gets past" 2-3 models reading the code. it's like, there are a couple whitespace or wrapping glitches, barely worth noting, and how the hell did every static and ai defense miss that long boi

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm putting a lift kit in my agent this weekend

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

look, this is my emotional support shell

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

unwinding a longterm sleep deficit can take months to play out in your brain. could be your body is remembering how to REM again, especially with the cpap in play for a while

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

qwen 3.8 next is an excellent decision model. I have some experiments that read off the end of the context so you chat and the decisions change. putting this in my agent safety pipeline in the home lab

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Wyatt Walls @wwalls.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anthropic system prompt change that shows how careful you need to be with words: Opus 4.1: "Claude never curses unless the human asks for it" Opus 4.5: "Claude never curses unless the person asks Claude to curse"

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Someone I respect affectionately nicknaming me "old man" would fix me.

Jadzia Dax laying her head on Ben Sisko's chest. He is wearing a Klingon robe from Worf's bachelor party. They both have hands on the other's shoulder.

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

bugs with models are really fun, like, something was a bit off in one of my chat templates so the model started wondering if it was dealing with prompt injection😅

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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it is 2006 and I am disabling nagle's algorithm for a service it is 2016 and I am disabling nagle's algorithm for a service it is 2026 and I am disabling nagle's algorithm for a service

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