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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I score zero‽ Consider me self-appointed on the vibes criterion.

robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At first glance I thought this was the global average. It's for one of the regions with the most warming from el niño. Still bad though. Small consolation.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

AI is deterministic if you have the right RNG xkcd.com/221/

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fun little reminder about exponential growth- there is no objective "knee of the curve" For example this is y=eˣ shown at different x values, with the y axis autofit.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It'd be the same with transistors, or pen and paper, or rocks xkcd.com/505/

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They're using Slack to send these alerts? Their human in the safety loop receives a Slack message? The enterprise messaging software? And replies via? Slack? This is simply not how safety is done in any industry that must take safety seriously.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They should never have been allowed to advertise 99.999999999% durability, and certainly should never be allowed to claim it now.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The open models too, I know this is basic, but it was only a few minutes of prompting glm-5.3-flash

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Begs the question: what's a but-for?

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Cool. I won't worry until the hardware price charts look like this.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oh, and it did a pelican too, since I pointed it to that blog post. Still just one prompt from me. Again with rotation errors. But like, not bad for something I didn't know could be done at all. Feedback would probably go a long way. Wild.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

FWIW it's still making changes, but I don't think its noticed the obvious error on the rotation of the donut. (Yep, bigger sprinkles, rotation issues)

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ok, had to see the LLM→Blender pipeline myself. This is GLM5.3 and a harness not optimized for this at all. First test rendered. I didn't tell it what to build, so of course I got a donut. Impressed I got anything at all after a single prompt.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Really curious to hear how well this works when people get actual hands-on time with it.

Circuit board design file, 3d mockup, and OpenAI's press release about it.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yes, there is a reason. I did this recently (for a relative's Win 10 machine) - you can dd the iso to a usb - you can even kind-of boot from it - the installer will fail Kept happening until I found another windows machine and used the MS disk creation tool.

Windows 10 installer error message "A media driver your computer needs is missing... ”

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Like a fluoroscope but way less dangerous?

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If the price of robot labor doesn't almost immediately fall below minimum wage and continue trending towards zero, it's an indicator of very bad times to come. (supply is essentially 0 today, so pricing will be whatever they want as part of their demo, I mean when this is really available)

YouTube thumbnail.
Robot with a wifi-router looking antenna head, "Tau Robotics" t-shirt on. Standing at a kitchen counter with cleaning products.
From Associated Press channel. Titled "Humanoid robots clean a house in San Francisco for $30 an hour".

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dish soap will strip the wax layer. Not necessarily a bad thing, but you'll want to re-wax it. Otherwise the clearcoat and then paint layer are susceptible to damage, and you can quickly get to this situation:

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Well, I haven't fought just one person... for so long.

Fezzik fighting Roberts in the Princess Bride

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Framed as a lawnmowing puzzle, minimizing revisited squares was like 3rd on my list of factors to optimize.

Sarah also did something that appeared a bit unnatural. Instead of simply continuing straight a few times, she intuitively and preemptively turned in a snake-like pattern. This highlighted a key difference between real-life mowing and our simplified game, an approach that strong mowers exploited. Sarah, an avid gamer, seemed to recognize this strategy immediately.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The reality of superintelligence is unpredictable. That should worry you, even if there are many possible good endings.

The same chart as above, but with some changes:
- the chart title is "Reality"
- the intelligence levels have been shifted, with equal large gaps between ant, bird, chimp, and "dumb human", and only a small gap from there to "Einstein"
- the trendline has been extended forward, and it is clearly exponential, crossing through every level and extending nearly vertical where it leaves the chart
- next to the stick figure saying "Haha that's adorable the funny robot can do monkey tricks!", there's a second figure, on the other side of the trend line, saying "The fuck??"

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Is this normal, for an IPO? Only 13% voting control for the new public shares? Jersey Mike's here, but I've seen these low % on a few lately. Has it always been like this, or were public voting % higher a decade+ ago?

Zoomed in screenshot from the Jersey Mike's IPO prospectus. "Public Stockholders" branch of a chart, with highlighted text "Class A common stock: 13.7% of voting power, 18.7% of economic interests"

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Picked up a bottle of something orange & bubbly. Maybe I'll open it soon.

Bottle of Martinelli's Sparkling Apple Mango being picked up off a store shelf.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Deepseek looks ok to me, what's the issue? Gemini also looks ok, numbers are placed wrong but it's not the abomination that the others are. Do they not have the right motion? Render wrong in different browsers?

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

E.g. here's how I'm doing lately. Room for improvement, but I'm probably doing better than almost anyone who isn't keeping and reviewing this data about themselves. Ideally everything would be on the diagonal, green just above and red just below.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Why did this spike to 99% today? Are we bombing Somalia? Somebody knows something that's not in the news yet.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Young? In any other generation 30-50% of congress would be your age already.

Chart showing count of different generations in the US Senate 1949-2021. Each generation follows the same basic curve, until the transition from boomers to gen X and millennials, which is delayed.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I uploaded a custom thumbnail, but youtube seems to be showing people this random frame from the video. I'm cracking up.

YouTube thumbnail with face and the caption "I need soap"

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Burrito taxi has made in-store items more expensive. Convenient $17 footlong? It's only $2 more. Worth it. But the footlong was never $15 until the restaurants decided to capture more of the value the burrito taxi was taking.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Sometimes it's fun to see competent people handle an unexpected situation well. For example, @hankgreen.bsky.social and @smartereveryday.bsky.social did a great job co-hosting the game show at Open Sauce.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Confirming "as God as my witness" is a very George Burns thing to say

Frame from the courtroom scene of the film "Oh God!"
The character of God, played by actor George Burns, places his hand on the Bible and is sworn in with the line "so help me, me".
That caption is visible in the image.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

April 2024 No other comment from me, just trying to save others the trouble of looking up when it was posted.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

@katmabu.bsky.social For an email you lead with "This is not a fundraising email and does not end with an ActBlue link", this email certainly ends with a big ActBlue link.

Mobile screenshot of an email from Kat, showing her ending salutation, some boilerplate fine print, and then a box with a plea from ActBlue ending with a red call to action button to "Chip in!". The link redirects to ActBlue.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

ASERT is nice. The changes from qwerty come in pairs, and every change stays on the same finger. Very 80/20 as far as the benefit/struggle if you're coming from qwerty.

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