Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 6hAfaik it’s also considered to be sheer insanity by both the category theorists and the music theorists so… perfect for claude I guess? 010
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 6hSee the real problem is that ut austin is only 30% white, whereas texas under-25y/os are…. also 30% white 0110
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 9hdata visualization. In particular, pie charts lend themselves nicely to orbification, a process which makes all of peoples complaints about pie charts being hard to read 10x worse 110
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 12hNow ask claude to read "The Topos of Music" and prove whether it's objectively goodbooks.google.comThe Topos of MusicThis four-volume set is the second edition of the now classic book "The Topos of Music". In Vol. I the author explains the theory's conceptual framework of denotators and forms, the classification of ... 110
Reposted by Saxxie.devAmber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 01/10/2026advice for junior developers: you are no longer a developer you are a builder you are a solution provider enter every room and make things happen learn when no one is watching create because you can fix problems because they offend you bend the world to your will and take credit 825139
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026IMO it’s a smaller-scale version of how CEOs get apparently overpaid. Part of it is that slight differences in quality do get magnified by scale, so it’s not too bad to pay a 10% better engineer 2x as much; partly its keeping up appearances 010
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026Unless you think zuck is overpaying out of the goodness of his heart 100
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026Well objectively the guy fixing a layout bug for facebook is paid more than the guy singlehandedly developing critical in-house systems for a small business 100
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026Um. You did. I hopped in because you used that term and I objected to it 100
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026“What an employee is worth” isn’t really a property of the employee as much as it is a property of the company and product; it’s not a super useful abstraction IMO 100
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026The employee who fixes a trivial one-line bug in facebook is worth orders of magnitude more than the person maintaining a complex system for 50 people. 200
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026All girls want the 5/5/5 5 minute breath hold 5 languages spoken badly 5 inch 010
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026Didn’t know they had a manifesto where they proudly announced the crime and their motivations for it, that’s crazy 000
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026Yeah but we still have (at least to an extent) humans advising them on how they should structure and maintain their long-term memories, and doing so is generally not something agents are RLed for AFAIK 010
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026Tbh we *should* be seeing a renaissance of module types/signatures to deal with this 010
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026An embiggened version of this is gonna be how we get persistent agents huh? 190
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026This sounds like you’re worried about picking exactly which “specific people” should be dead, but you don’t have to do that if you pick a high bar with a big margin for error: e.g. “only mass-murderers with 5+ victims and a manifesto” - seems pretty unlikely anyone innocent gets tangled up there 100
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 01/10/2026Problem is that the same person who is worth 100k at company A can simultaneously be worth 500k at company B, because company B has 5x as many users so the same employee doing the same work is 5x as productive there. 210
Reposted by Saxxie.devAndy Berner @andybrnr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Seeing this sort of thing always makes me paranoid about where I’m personally being intellectually incurious, rigid in my thinking, and incapable of updating on clear evidence, as clearly someone smarter and more successful than myself is far from immune. 1332
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 30/09/2026But yeah this is why I aaid dubious, not false. Alternatively you could just always agree with everyone on all sides of an argument (hell yeah this is a great discussion) and then it would also be satisfied 000
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 30/09/2026What’s preventing a non-ai-hater fron screenshotting 2 ai-haters agreeingg one another. In fact that’s pretty common - one of the bender screenshots today falls in that category iirc 010
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 30/09/2026Dubious, proof: “every time i see [an ai hater] talking about AI with the ai haters i think wow [the ai hater] is right” 150
Reposted by Saxxie.devcyber professional @permadeath.com · 30/09/2026Bluesky is like the 7th site using atproto they should encounter. Microblogging is not normal behavior. It is for sick people 1559
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 30/09/2026isn’t this one of the few parts of LLMs where interpretability researchers have a pretty solid understanding of what exactly is going on inside the black box 080
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 30/09/2026MBAs hit all the core liberal arts (rhetoric grammar logic) pretty hard, both business and law probably have the most extensive rhetoric training out of any degree 020
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 29/09/2026Love telling LLMs “you’re absolutely right!” when they find an unexpected caveat 011
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 28/09/2026Calling it eugenics feels like an overly broad definition, since “pure-blooded superhuman ruling-class” is a pretty common cultural belief in even stone-age societies and and eugenics as a pseudoscience is from the late 1800s or something 010
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 28/09/2026I feel like it should count, since obviously the addition or removal of any one member (while n>3, at least) doesn’t unmake the polycule. OTOH I’m not really sure if polycules track their own history well enough beyond the departure of their seniormost member to know how old they are? 020
Reposted by Saxxie.devNatsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026yeah, there's a lot of questions that are combining an is with an ought they need to embrace "and that's (good|bad)" thought 1221
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 28/09/2026Nah, descriptively people can be boys/girls into at least their late-30s or sometimes even later (as in “boys/girls night) - and the bar gets older every year. That’s why we have to specify “underaged” when the boys/girls happen to be children. This is what nietzsche warned about in “the last man” 000
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 28/09/2026only my mind can access semantics. Everyone else just accesses increasingly sophisticated layers of syntax 010
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 27/09/2026Big presumption that there arent 100 dumber-but-richer people out there who would gladly have taken his spot 040
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 27/09/2026Yeah at this point everyone realizes that they're just gambling on a distributed game of chicken. 040
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 27/09/2026People have been primed for decades to be weird about water, see also: Nestle 1100
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 26/09/2026But surely he would be outraged by them being allowed in female-only spaces like harems and such…. 000
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 25/09/2026Are these still the numbers that include evaporation of lake water from dams? 000
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 24/09/2026It is, of course, equally plausible for mathematical models, including LLMs, to be like an unbalanced bowling ball as it is for people’s personalities to be like an unbalanced bowling ball. 180
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 24/09/2026She’s saying that talking about “bias” is anthropomorphization, but its actually the other way around. In English the term originally was first introduced for physical objects that are biased. The idea of people being biased is a metaphor: it says a person is like an unbalanced bowling ball. 1190
Reposted by Saxxie.devFelix Schneider @felixs.dev · 23/09/2026Yesterday, so many people released so much cool stuff: @danielroe.dev unifonts.dev, @philippeserhal.com Netlify's git hosting feature, @tkdodo.eu and @benjavicente.dev Angular Query. So I wanna release something too: opendeck.spaceopendeck.spaceOpenDeckLearn languages with spaced-repetition flashcards you own. 8488
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 22/09/2026(Since you’re advertising) location + willingness to relocate = ? 110
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 22/09/2026Ok fine it’s not “just linear algebra” it’s “just geometry” are you happy now? 000
Saxxie.dev @saxxie.dev · 22/09/2026Migrate truth social to atproto and all will be well in the world 000
