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I think with a default chronological pipeline it's harder for (3)/(4) to gain traction. When the points rely on rage / clickbait / etc to propagate there's more active work needed, with algorithmic feed redirecting air to the spark. Chronological + local interaction helps minimize (1)/2) as well?

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The fact that most wouldn't pay money for passive consumption "there" (reels, feed, ...) but do actively pay with the tick tock of our mind (hours spent, enriching the content locally, ...) is fascinating. If this is psychological obliteration we're very much an active participant in it.

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Imagination feels like a double edged sword "there". Too little and you consume only as "there" actually exists, nothing novel. Too much and you enter Don Quixote mode where "no history has more reality in it". Aphantasia may seem an accidental defense, preventing excessive self enriching?

In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse | Hacker News

A new perspective to me as well which explains why I'm always interrogating when passive via comparative analysis of "here"/"there", intending to pull back analogical wisdom to my present situation. I think that's as much protective delusion as practical defense. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4226...

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Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A new-to-me perspective on passive consumption of media (Also: I'm gifting you some psychological obliteration here!)

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Smerity @smerity.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

As an Australian I don't think it will be effective (enforcement or result), opens the possibility of broader tracking, and likely doesn't mitigate the harms they're trying to avoid either. It definitely would have stunted my learning as a teen. A contentious issue regardless ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Out of curiosity, as I'm not in deep in the panadas ecosystem, would polars fill a similar need for you or was there something different?

Glad I found you again! You're the type of follow I didn't want to lose in the Twitter migration ^_^ I appreciated the bridge app but it was definitely slow, had many false positives I filtered manually, and won't catch those moving after I migrated.

kyunghyuncho.bsky.social @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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congratulations, @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social, for the test-of-time award at @neuripsconf.bsky.social! this award reminds me of how GAN started with this one email ian sent to the Mila (then Lisa) lab mailing list in May 2014. super insightful and amazing execution!

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This is great! I'm mentally adding it to the same collection as Linus first announcing Linux via mailing list ^_^

From: torvalds@klaava.Hels
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Linus

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What got you this time? Last "yeah I definitely need to play with nightly" for me was Flex Attention - which admittedly was pretty recent too 🤣

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The part that's insane to me is that external hyperlink isn't even opposite to "central host". Reddit and X aren't that different from each other and most of Reddit is linking to outside content w/ discussion returning on site. X decided they ... didn't want free content to spur discussion ..? 🤔

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I loved seeing @commoncrawl.bsky.social's use grow after contributing a decade ago. I'm expecting the Bluesky API + firehose to have an even faster pace of innovation given it's so accessible, has a small but potent dataset (total / incremental size), and directly tracks the pulse of the community!

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Perhaps closer to how I've played with embeddings/discovery on English Wikipedia in the past but likely similar :) Also sticky taping in my personal bookmarking system for the discovery aspect, may release if works well. The Bluesky API is complex but the docs are strong! Jetstream is also JSONL 🔥

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All the examples from the Bluesky `atproto` Python API as a single text file with delineation

I've got good mileage for playing by a slightly more advanced `cat atproto/examples/*.py` and feeding it into an LLM gist.github.com/Smerity/f896... P.S. I don't mean to make a "Bluesky posting about Bluesky" post, but honestly, if I'd have been playing around with this regardless, so ... 😅

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All the examples from the Bluesky `atproto` Python API as a single text file with delineation - all_examples_from_bluesky_atproto_python_api.py.txt

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I'm both hopeful about and want to contribute to the ecosystem that could build up around this. There are many opportunities that I can't see existing elsewhere. The documentation is also far less painful than I'd have thought. Bluesky's slow rolled start is a strong help in that regard!

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Smerity @smerity.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Who is playing around with Bluesky at an API / data level? I've used the API to {read a bot's DMs, collect your likes, analyze your following / followers} (with heavy `time.sleep` for latter as I've not found bulk queries). Leaping into "Bluesky as a dataset" by exploring Jetstream. Hints?

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Caddy's a great choice. I love that it stretches from local poking and prodding to full production. The Caddy local file server (i.e. `caddy file-server --listen 0.0.0.0:8000 --browse`) overtook `python -m http<dot>server` for me given it looks nicer and has grid view for images :)

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Smerity @smerity.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Definitely true! I've personally seen it more on ML side vs broad Python. In ML your hot path usually has a cliff to both sides. Broad Python's fine with 5-10x slower pre "JIT" - your task / fixed data just takes 5-10x as long. In ML you lose even "fixed data" - epochs, experiments, variations, ...

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Smerity @smerity.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

You need at least a zillion PDFs and to have downloaded all dependencies and documentation for that new framework you've been meaning to play with but haven't yet had the chance 👍 (I not frequently do 16+ hour flights back home to AU and even that flight length doesn't help lol)

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Smerity @smerity.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Draft, redraft, redraft, ..., {% if random.random() > 0.5 %}never post, delete{% else %}post{% endif %}

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Smerity @smerity.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Writing more Rust recently led me to a revelation about Python. Rust was vital to my original task, but only a few simplifications away, the shorter Python version leapt to almost as fast. I'd stumbled from a cold path to a hot path, part of a vast network of optimized trails in Python's ecosystem.

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Smerity.com: Python isn't just glue, it's an implicit JIT ecosystem

The ecosystem wears in the desire paths, and when slow Python becomes a problem, the ecosystem doesn't optimize the Python, it paves new roads beneath

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Smerity @smerity.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I was recently writing and when you really get into flow with the iterative refining, reordering, rewording, reordering, ... The final piece ended up in a vastly different place than where it started, the best insights not even in the starting text. Not sure speech would have given the same result.

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Darn, sorry, I misunderstood the setting myself. I've added a follow up.

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Thanks, noted in the follow up -_-

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I regret to note this isn't what I had assumed - the "Priority notifications filter" still lets through likes and follows ... =[

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Turns out the functionality does exist, both on web and mobile, but you can _only_ access it via the ⚙️ button on the Notifications tab, not through Settings.

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Turns out it's possible! Sadly the option is quite hidden.

PSA: Are your Bluesky notifications a tad too loud? You can set Bluesky to only replies and quotes. Go to the Notifications tab (web or mobile) and click on the ⚙️ in the top right. Note: This option is not found under Settings

Notification Settings

Notification filters

Enable priority notifications [Toggle box]

Experimental: When this preference is enabled, you'll only receive reply and quote notifications from users you follow. We'll continue to add more controls here over time.

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I don't see notification settings in my options but I'm on iPhone so perhaps a platform discrepancy. Excited for it though! New follows / likes are (not necessarily bad but still) dopamine whilst replies and quotes are deeper interactions 👍

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I'm especially excited by the latter as that isn't traditionally an option on other social networks and can't be done yourself on a locked down social network. I could (and will if someone else doesn't) code up my own version with my existing Bluesky ATProto examples 🔥

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I think it'll work out fine! - Short term the probability of them interacting with you is high, you incrementally follow those with overlapping interests / dispositions - Long term there'll likely be a (smart?) feed from those that follow you (as there already exists feeds from only your mutuals)

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I have the exact same problem - I chose my header photo to try to start bridging the transition 😅

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I still had muscle memory of typing "tw + Enter" to go to X, even a year and a half after the rename. Browser extensions exist redirecting Twitter / X to Bluesky but those were too extreme - I wrote one that _just_ redirects twitter.com to bsky.com so I could take advantage of that muscle memory 🤣

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