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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Not many people seem interested in my research proposal of "do a cold pressor test daily (submerge your hand in an ice bath and log how long until you can't) while logging the results as well as information about your HRT regimen and how long it's been since your last injection." I wonder why.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's not P-hacking if you call it "preliminary research," right? Right??

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

And how would I even go about teleresearch study design for the sort of thing I'm interested in? I want to use existing women's exercise research as a starting point and investigate, specifically, how much of it is applicable to trans women on HRT, but it's not like I can measure VO2 remotely!

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm realising now I know less about proper study design than I thought. Why must I be burdened by things like "distance from potential subjects," "adherence to methodology," and "sample size"? Why can't n=1 or n=2 research be as powerful in reality as in fiction? Whyyyy???

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Science Magazine @science.org · 14/07/2026

The complement receptor CD46 controls gene programs that promote human T cell survival and inhibit HIV transcription in infected cells, according to new in vitro research in #ScienceImmunology. scim.ag/4eV5IA8

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Sp1 links CD46 to CD4 T cell metabolic fitness, survival, and retroviral control

A CD46-Sp1 axis controls human CD4 T cell gene programs underlying survival, effector function, and integrated virus transcription.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Well, it took me long enough, but I'm back in the saddle, so to speak. PT is underway (mostly focusing on my quads and glutes right now), and I successfully resurrected my laptop. I'm feeling cautiously optimistic, so I think I'll start planning some research soon.

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danbo @danboland.net · 11/05/2026

i dont know how to tell you this but "touhou 8 imperishable night" doesnt look right. it needs the 0. it needs to be "touhou 08 imperishable night" or it wont work. you can put a tilde there whatever man but it needs the 0 like a snickers needs the vein

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I decide to exercise and the whole world conspires against me. It's cold, it's raining, my socks all have holes, my knee hurts again, I'm tired... just excuse after excuse. I have to do something though, maybe a lower amount.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The doctors suspected and then ruled out bone spurs. Seems my theory might be accurate, so I'll start doing exercises to target it and see a sports medicine professional in two weeks.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My working theory is that it's infrapatellar bursitis aggravated by dynamic valgus due to the tight hip flexor that also causes most of my other biomechanics issues, plus overall poor form when walking. I can't wait to hear what an actual, qualified medical professional thinks, though.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Lucky enough to get a doctor's appointment in the day after my knee pain became so unbearable I became intermittently unable to walk, AND I have transportation to it. But not lucky enough to not have my knee swell to the point using that leg is extremely painful, I suppose.

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vittorioromeo.bsky.social @vittorioromeo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Normal game developer: "I will add ImGui to display useful information and help me debug my game." Me:

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Then again, my favourite meals are just variations on the theme of "homogeneous slop". Oatmeal, grits, porridge, burritos with premixed filling... the only real exception is fried rice which is a heterogeneous slop. I like cooking and tasty food but hate the act of eating, so my opinion means nil.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

That doesn't mean I think it's wholly bad. It is, in fact, what got me into cooking! But it's also the excuse I used to half-ass it, and it's also why I treated food preparation as an obstacle to overcome before doing "real" projects rather than a worthy project in and of itself.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Just because some processes are more tolerant of mistakes and inaccuracies than others doesn't mean they're a fundamentally different thing, and I see this framing employed all too often as an excuse to avoid doing research and pay proper attention while cooking. I find that incuriosity to be sad.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I think the "baking is like chemistry and cooking is like art" framing has done a lot of damage to the way people approach cooking.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I wish my motivation to do things while walking to or from the store persisted once I got back home. "I'll clean my room, and my desk, and... oh, new DRG core hunt!" Every time.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The more I look into running local LLMs, the more I'm disappointed by the memory cost of a context window large enough to be usable. There's got to be a better way...

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Nevermind, that service tunnel is intentionally flooded for... some reason!

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🗻 pixeldreams.東京 🪼 @pixeldreams.tokyo · 13/04/2026

this is what i have to deal with now

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Well. I think the steam condenser exploded, but at least this time it was user error and not due to my code failing.

A screenshot of a maintenance elevator from a Space Station 13 server. There is a fluid pipe running past the elevator doors. The area outside the elevator doors is flooded with massive amounts of water.

A screenshot of a section of complicated heat exchange and steam condenser piping from a Space Station 13 server. The room is full of water.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

There's something oddly fun about trying to optimise bleeding-edge thermodynamics simulation code in a 20-year-old video game, on a codebase where you have a significant language barrier between you and most of the contributors.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It's so bizarre to me how easily available (in theory) racetams and racetam-like compounds are now. Like... okay, sure, most of them are probably fake actually, but some AREN'T. That's exciting!

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I messed up and it looked, felt, and tasted like sand. I ate it anyway though, since it was sand with sugar and I won't say no to sugar.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm trying to make meal prep less of a hassle so I can streamline my exercise and nutrition, and I thought about pre-mixing my burrito filling ingredients (at least the protein, beans, and rice) before realising there's a decent chance I'd just eat that plain. And yet, I'm still considering it...

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Basically: I spent five dollars and a bunch of my time to gamify procrastination by letting me argue with my reminder bot. I shuttered it when I realised I was mostly using it to create Google Calendar tasks for myself because I was lazy.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

For point number 2, I've heard Claude is far better about this, but I don't have that kind of money. I was using deepseek, which was/is dirt cheap. Even then I didn't find it cost-effective due to the absurd token burn of OpenClaw, even after gutting it. It was overengineered for the task, for sure.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The highlights: - Devving it became a substitute for the things it was reminding me of. - A conversational interface is one you can argue with, which rewards inventing excuses not to do stuff. - It led to "antiproductivity tasks" that interfered with my real goals but were more fun.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Thinking about possibly doing a short-ish blog post about what happened when I tried using (declawed) OpenClaw as a reminder bot with a conversational, personable interface, mostly so I know what to design around if I try a second time.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

One week in, and I'd like to think I'm using the site properly as some people have followed me. Here's hoping I keep it up.

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Peter @sketchyhippos.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Saw a guy today at the grocery store with 10 boxes of Monster in his cart standing in front of the impulse drinks at the check out, think a little bit, then grab 3 cans of Monster.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It also tastes good, but at this rate I'd almost rather just have hot oatmeal with brown sugar and avoid the prep. If I could I'd drink meal replacement slurry and occasionally supplement that with snacks. I don't even know if overnight oats are even any better for post-HIIT recovery.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Making overnight oats always feels like such a scientific endeavor for what ends up being barely an after-exercise snack. I measure out the exact ingredients, ensure they're properly mixed, dissolve in solution, ensure it's evenly distributed, and then chill in a temperature-controlled container.

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Orteil @orteil42.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

part of why we need diversity in game development btw. one person's unremarkable everyday life can be another's "whoah this worldbuilding is insane"

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

talking to my brother about what I perceived as quirky things in the older Pokemon games probably just being normal Japanese things. I mentioned the little building transitions between towns that just have a guy standing at a desk and he immediately identified them as Kōban / police boxes. OH.

the Saffron city guard from Pokemon in his little building says "You can go on through."

actual Koban building in Osaka is a small square building containing one or two cops

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 10/04/2026

through years of LLM research, we have finally managed to invent a human-usable interface for ffmpeg

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I was nodding along for most of this but that... I'm no musician, is it a modulation? Either way, the shift at around 57 seconds really got me in a good way. I'm not sure *why* I like it so much, but I kept relistening to that part.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I checked the HuggingFace page for Gemma 4 and they directly state that active parameters result in lower inference times than a dense model. I suppose that's another point in column "read the documentation before asking questions answered by it," but I appreciate the empirical confirmation!

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

More specifically, I landed on an idea I wanted to investigate where I'd use activation vectors to fine-tune the model weights, but once I'd nailed down the basics of the idea I found *ReFT: Representation Finetuning for Language Models* by Wu et al. that was exactly what I'd had in mind.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I keep remembering that the end result of my research into activation steering and fine-tuning was "just LoRAs again". It's like boiling water but for the AI age.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I really need to clear off my desk. Every time I sit down to work on a project, the lack of light and the cluttered desk surface take the wind out of my sails... and I have a perfectly good desk lamp downstairs.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I can never remember if sparse MoE models have better inference times even when they don't fit entirely in VRAM due to having fewer active parameters for any given input, or if all that matters for inference time is total parameters. I suppose the fastest way to check is to try on my own hardware...

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Those tokens were the difference between "being able to have a decently long conversation with a model entirely in VRAM" and "50-second inference times because I had to crank up the context limit". 6GB is such a painful limit...

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I just tried OpenClaw once and got so irritated at how many tokens were being wasted on skill definitions, personality, etc. The worst offenders couldn't even be disabled, because disabled skills were still included! I wound up modifying it locally to remove them and save a few hundred tokens.

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

On the other hand, I can't run anything even half-decent on my hardware, and you need to be able to introspect and manipulate the model to do steering. I doubt I can get any useful results with the small models I have on hand. Or maybe I'll just have to deal with long inference times...

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Reportedly llama.cpp supports activation steering out of the box now, though I'd have to check what that actually means in practice. That might mean some of my ideas for prompt distillation (offloading personality description into steering vectors to save on context) might be more feasible now...

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Oh, that's awesome, I wanted to do something with activation steering and prompt distillation but got overwhelmed trying to figure out NNsight vs TransformerLens and whatnot. I should really look into this more now that it's not as much of a pain.

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Atelier Alyssa ⭐💫 @alyossan.art · 08/04/2026

I am never forgetting at the first anime con I ever went to in like 2007, there was someone selling a print of Light and L from Death Note naked and dramatically reaching toward each other across a flower and the artist put a big sticky note on it that said "NOT YAOI - SYMBOLISM"

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The Superluminarian, Agnes Tachyon @superluminarian.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

And then as before I immediately choked on a glass of water. It wasn't as bad as last time but I'll probably have a cough for a few hours. Not great.

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