ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Just realized how similar the Qud color scheme is to the solarized color scheme 181
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026and the fake slowing-down / guardrails mechanism is neotenous EA commissars 000
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Downloaded a Nintendo DS emulator and Brain Age ROM to try and de-stress while being sick and feeling like shit 220
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026One of the studies discussed in the article used BERT, so I think it does actually. Honestly I’m surprised the other study got such high performance using a random forest over simple audio features 100
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026How do you know it is using general rules applied through on-the-fly reasoning vs. using the info in the weights about how to play this video game? gamefaqs.gamespot.com/sms/588107-m... 000
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I will put in a good word for Rick Veitch's "Can't Get No" as an excellent piece of art that tries to grapple with the trauma of 9/11 000
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026a shared bond among all Americans except the brown ones we shot in the revenge killings 020
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026seems to do better than that if you let it think / give it a tiny bit of context of what the goal is 0121
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I feel like many people wouldn’t want to do that for purely practical reasons bsky.app/profile/more... 110
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Will AI companies steal your neat mathematical proofs? Probably not tbh Will AI companies immediately give any of your data they come across related to planning a protest to local and federal police? Yes 112
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I have some bad news for you about who benefits every time you post on this website 210
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026TIL about WP:TRUMPCRUFT en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... 010
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026for the linked repo - if my charging station started saying this stuff to me, I would not be a happy customer. I think it would be a challenge to find any task where this level of capability (sampling from a distribution like this) adds value 100
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Have been watching Disney’s Gargoyles (which is awesome) and people hated it for its unapologetic celtaboo nature. My gripe is that they apparently couldn’t find a single VA who could do a passable Scottish accent 020
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026not to out myself as a redditor, but reddit has just made it impossible to browse without an account, which sucks, but what adds insult to injury is that the unskippable html element that enforces this is called "desktop-dynamic-upsell-dialog" 000
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"As Mitch McConnell awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." 000
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The number of uninsured people went down by about 20 million, it's now started to increase again because of removals of subsidies to ACA marketplace plans, 10% of that wiped out in a single year, and with the prospect of greatly increasing in the near future because of cuts to Medicare/Medicaid 200
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I'm launching an interview series to explore the spectrum of different reactions to the unrelenting onslaught of both AI hype and real technological progress. Actively soliciting guests: DM me or otherwise get in touch if you want a space to air your deep grievances or unique insights. 121
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is great! Wonderful that someone did the work to show this and now there is something to point to. and lol @ this 011
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I got an audible ad for this but I feel like it would be really really really hard to get through this as an audiobook 110
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026My partner made a mood board of me in case you were wondering how I look and act IRL 130
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026And from the appendix: Men do not increase their partnership rates, but if they’re in relationships they leave their partners instead! 1157
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Phoebe Bridgers does not appear to suffer any physical injury when she hits an obstacle in the Phoebe Bridgers subway surfer clone. Instead, the loss of hearts represents the moral injury she suffers when her boyfriend runs over a goblin with his motorcycle. 001
ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I find this offensive and what’s worse is that I’m right over the decision boundary from the cluster that I actually do identify strongly with - proving again that machine learning is bad 010