sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Friendly amendment: Punim down tuchus up! 110
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In a dead heat with Jello Biafra for this honor tbh. 030
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When I think about unwilling they were to pay authors and how willing they are to pay for the construction of hyperscale data centers I have to conclude they just hate humanity in general. 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oof. The deep irony here is that Ford was also a big fan of eugenics, but still had some practical qualms about getting rid of literally everybody but him and his friends. Today not so much. 020
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Slyly penciling in “don’t“ over the Kick Me sign on my back. 0130
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wait, but in Jaws II the mayor from Jaws is still the mayor and this is actually more like the situation here? 010
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I want to tape my local representatives' eyes open and make them watch this on repeat. 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Thoughts and prayers. The trailer was so abrasive I considered leaving the theater after the first ten seconds and then just looked at my watch until it was over. 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This also applies to robots having feelings, rights, etc. I will read Phillip K Dick and listen to Grandaddy songs about depressed computers all day long but if someone starts talking to me about this as a real thing I start rubbing my temples and mentally traveling to a happy place. 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Christopher trying to convince him by explaining that if his real ma had been on the blockchain he could have avoided a lot of heartache later in life. 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This has me reconsidering my use of "hell yeah, brother" with people under 40. 1280
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Modern connectionism pushes most of this aside. Everything is scale and benchmark performance. Just thinking about tokenization makes me sad. 130
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 17/06/2026It also meant looking at item differences in how easily the model processed them, and so relatively little work went into optimization. You’d find a reasonable learning rate and number of hidden units, and maybe tweak a few other parameters so you could reliably avoid local minima, etc. 110
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 17/06/2026So, in the course of showing that rules and exceptions show different effects of frequency, learning disability and brain injury in models that don’t distinguish a priorI between rule-based and lexical processes, some general principles were developed. 120
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I was in grad school for some very pitched fights over reading and the past tense, and while I don’t miss the acrimony, I do think that provocations from modular theories drove interesting developments. 110
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Just read the paper on "classical" and "modern" connectionism and am now meta-theory pilled. The approach solidifies a lot I've been uneasy about but had difficulty articulating as, I guess, a classically trained connectionist. 130
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 14/06/2026How about a bus? bsky.app/profile/thes... 010
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Would make a great double bill: Dear Eloise, Your Boyfriend Sucks. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HtBK...m.youtube.com親愛的艾洛伊絲 - 星星 Dear Eloise - StarYouTube video by Medius Chung 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Apparently this is the last rep in a rep out where the bar never touched his chest and he never locked his elbows out. Less embarrassing but technically still his first rep tbh. 010
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Half the headlines I read could be prefaced with “but then a strange thing happened” 070
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 11/06/2026If this shit goes into OT I’ll be watching from the ER 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The whole B plot where Freamon tried to get the Egg Lady to infiltrate Prop Joe’s distribution network seemed like a bit of a stretch at first but really paid off imo 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It doesn’t even have electrolytes 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Met with a student today, who, while we were looking at an explanation with example code for something he was supposed to be learning to do, opened a GeminI window and asked how to do it. ”Native” may be the wrong word here, “addict” seems more like it. 020
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Gave me some hope that more than half the responses I saw on here were people fantasizing about smashing the robot. 020
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 08/06/2026At the Knicks bar three hours before tip off and the vibe is already almost too much to handle. 010
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 08/06/2026“the laws' majestic equality … forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.” 010
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Misread this as Mamdani being alone at the watch party and he should do it. 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Copy-paste for LA. Will never forget Bass getting on TV after declaring a curfew to chill last summer’s protests and saying “Mr. Trump don’t you want our city to be nice for FIFA?” 010
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 06/06/2026One nice thing about hating everyone running for office in California is that you get to watch literally hundreds of them lose. 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Let me tell you about my honey. 050
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This place has matcha and ube aguas frescas. It’s next to a kabob stand where the guy on the grill is blasting salsa music. Sometimes it feels like we really are gonna be alright. 010
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I don’t know what I thought a flesh eating screw worm would look like but I am really not enjoying seeing them on the TL. 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Have had a series of movie nights with my organizing crew and it whips. Favs so far have been En Guerre and Pom Poko. 110
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 03/06/2026just told my cat that he could not literally be in the window and out of it at the same time, despite what he may have heard about Schrödinger 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Coffee and CREAM (Capitalism Ruins Everything Around Me) 070
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 27/05/2026It correctly counted one "milk" in "oat milk." 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Told my partner this dude in front of us looked like Temu Richard E Grant and I‘m pretty sure he didn’t hear me but I still feel like maybe I could have waited until he was a bit further away. Will probably wake up thinking about this years from now. 010
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 24/05/2026The smarmy replies are only giving me more energy to fight for caps on rent increases in “affordable housing“ buildings where seniors are currently turning over their whole ssi checks to public-private partnerships. Please lecture me about supply and demand, it is like putting gasoline on a fire. 230
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I was involved in a years long rent strike that won tenants ten years of affordable housing and the only time yimbys had anything to say about it was to complain that taking bold action against hyper exploitative landlords would have a “chilling effect” on new development. 6231
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I put a slash in a Google doc file name one time and it felt like farting in church. 010
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib! 110
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I didn’t ask anything. See, this level of interaction, where a program can barely respond appropriately to one sentence, was enough to induce an illusion of sentience for contemporary users. So what chance did people have against a more sophisticated text generation system? 120
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I keep thinking how sad Joseph Weizenbaum would be to see how llms are being forced on the general public by Silicon Valley. 200
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 18/05/2026@bskyplays.bsky.social eliza 000
sonic-middle-age.bsky.social @sonic-middle-age.bsky.social · 15/05/2026It’s a three episode series! 030
