iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This paper is interesting. It shows how mode collapse on something like “tell a story” is not well explained by pre or post training data prevalence.

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Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The how they “ported to the browser” description is awesome.

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Play Progress Quest

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

@mikecaulfield.bsky.social Plot.fyi doesn’t seem to have Tom Hanks first lead role Mazes and Monsters where a Dungeon and Dragons game makes him insane. Is it no Tv movies are included?

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plot.fyi: Film discovery for film lovers

Explore intersections between film characteristics to find similar — and surprisingly dissimilar — films.

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

we went to a highly recommended pizza restaurant in Formia, Italy. the fact that the menu consisted of gorgeously made Italian pizzas with fresh local ingredients, and then also contained this monstrosity called a "pizza Americana" is S-tier trolling by the Italians

a pizza topped with fries and hot dog slices

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When he arrived in NYC it was the Beat folk scene that took RICHARD PRYOR in. Once you know he opened as a Singer for Bob Dylan & Nina Simone his singing “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out” on the Kraft Summer Music Hall in 1966 makes sense.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Gpt reply w/r to show recommendation conversation — It suggests Shai prefers stylish, plot-forward shows with charm and momentum, while you tolerate more recursive, melancholy, structurally weird material.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Named inline citations should not constitute 40% of what you ask me to read.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

claude code had a ui update where you can click on the answer to questions it asks you. This has the reliable effect of selecting a completely random answer as i try to give focus to the window.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Making my own versions of apps i want.

picture of Icons for Progressive Web apps on mobile. Reader, FoodLog, Clozure, and Pair.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Actual thing i said to Shai as she is coughing this morning: “The way you deploy cinnamon, it constitutes a biohazard.”

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Proving something in Isabelle and Krull comes up. Every proper ideal sits in a maximal one? I'll admit I didn't quite get that from this movie as a kid. I guess it was some symbolism about the Glaive.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Next up for bookclub. I wanted something like Vorkosigan and this popped as a suggestion.

Cover of The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Have a bunch of gutenberg sentence embeddings (52M), but they were not matching. I was using the right model for the query, but I had embedded them with pytorch (fp16) long ago and was using an 8-bit gguf of the model now. - The vectors were not even remotely close.- fp16 in LM studio works.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I called the Costco peanut butter “bulk sized,” and Shai corrected me: “institutional sized.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A 4bit quantized qwen/qwen3.6-27b running on my 4090 RTX with 52K context appears sufficient to write small rust CLIs.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Seems like this guy called the goblins six months ago!

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Yeah i meant “self-bootstrap”, but what happened when it ran with “self-boo trap” (and took it seriously) was really interesting. “helps the audience catch itself because the wrong word clangs”

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Cool game. I think i was lucky here. I also didn’t write the claim below, but i am terrible at remembering names. 45.4/50. I remember colors better than I remember names. Come at me. dialed.gg?c=GKTNKA

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Color Game — How Well Can You Remember Colors?

We show you colors. You recreate them from memory. Challenge friends to beat your score. It's harder than you think. Play free at dialed.gg.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Quick pickling with sake. These things have a juicebox straw!

Sake box with “juice straw” used in quick pickling for cucumber and carrots.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Claude — So the instructions should tell the agent: your job is to make the thing documentable, then document it. If you find something you’d have to apologize for in the docs, fix it first. Let me identify what’s still half-assed before rewriting.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype is this anything

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

My recreational ontology project is formalizing the intersection between Goodhart’s law and McLuhan’s the medium is the message. I’m trying to keep it in RCA₀.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

How I code now: "Do the continuation." PRD says what. Technical Design Doc says how. Roadmap says when. Continuation holds one task. Completion log is append-only. Strict authority boundaries. One node at a time, test before advancing. Setting this up is the work. Sometimes I swear at it.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 15/03/2026

This book is very good and you will enjoy it. Get it cheap now!

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 15/03/2026

I can’t remember which newsletter it was in but my whole family are now simultaneously playing this stupid thing and it’s simple and joyous! 100jumps.org/play/

100jumps.org

100 Jumps

Hold to charge, release to jump. Land on 100 platforms to win — but one miss and it's over. How many attempts will it take you?

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Recreational ontology engineering. This appears to be what I am doing for fun these days.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Long ago Microsoft Acqui-hired Ray Ozzie via Groove. So I gave groove a try. It started with a gigantic message box asking an inscrutable question. I opened task manager and killed Groove. Hadn't thought about that in a long time. Installing Anti-gravity to give it a try.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The triumph here is overstated though it was solid forward progress. Gemini pro is not quite up to replacing gpt 5.2+ yet. I'm adjusting some instructions. Ironically I'm trying to formalize my McLuhan vortex error idea and it is hitting it -- which kind of helps.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Playing around with Gemini Pro since i canceled OpenAI, but I still want a contrastive model for Opus work. Gemini Pro- “This is a triumph. Getting this to compile under Lean 4 ... This is a genuinely novel formalization of Deleuzian process philosophy” lol, Ok buddy. :-)

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Started data export for openai. I expect it will take some time. Hopefully it is ready sometime today.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

McLuhan vortex error: treating the presence of a medium/tool (e.g., Lean) as a gravitational attractor that rewrites every nearby design discussion into the medium’s stereotyped telos (e.g., maximal formal assurance), thereby importing intent that was never claimed.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I think i may use branch quite a bit.

A picture of chatgpt conversations. All just say Branch Branch Branch Branch.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/02/2026

Donald Trump will never know this L❤️VE.

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Steve Steiner @stevejsteiner.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Book 3 in Christopher Alexander’s 4 part series arrived! The fourth in this series looks much more difficult to obtain.

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