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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 10h

saw someone talking about how we need to teach cosmology in a way that acknowledges that the Western scientific view is just one viewpoint and I started screaming internally

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 12h

I have a bunch of 30MM stuff which means I get to make up my own lore for my collection of robot girls :>

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DevMsg.txt @devmsg-txt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I heard you farting, My life will never be the same again, I heard you farting, Sing AnDybDahl!

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Matt Lichti @mattlichti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The data center water use is actually for baptizing all the new LLM instances. We should also add some baptism related Bible verses to the system prompt just in case.

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

when I type "2+2" into a calculator, is the calculator "doing addition", or is it just performing a sequence of electronic operations that only become addition when I interpret the end result?

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

like, the contrapositive of "being misogynist makes you ugly" is "beautiful people can't be misogynist" which uhhhhh

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this feels like a somewhat more interesting example than addition because everyone knows how to do addition by hand, but I suspect that computing gamma by hand is much rarer

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(I then asked another instance with tool calls, and then it used Python with math.gamma; when I told it to do it with only common functions, it computed gamma(30.902) using Stirling and then divided back down)

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

fwiw I just asked Claude Opus 5.5 to compute gamma(8.902) to the first decimal place without tool calls, and it got it; it claims it used the recurrence and computed gamma(1.902) using a Taylor series. obv no clue what it *actually* did but I doubt there's a secret tool call behind the scenes

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

applying synthesis by saying that rationalism is a religion and that therefore criticizing it makes you an edgy fedora reddit atheist

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

PissPigGranddad, the guy that volunteered to fight against ISIS in Syria

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it's definitely not clear that you can just abstract neurons to the extent that they become fancy perceptrons but what about doing it at the level of fundamental particles? obviously impossible to *actually* do this due to physical constraints but that's not the point

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

also in what world would you not have to double check the information from the insurer's website anyway lol

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

not directly related but I remember one time I contacted my insurance nurse line, she told me to go to urgent care, I asked "okay, where should I go" and every single one she gave me was closed for the night b/c it was like 10 PM

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

also a lot of people saying "this is why Techbros don't understand people" as if US universities don't already have gen ed reqs!

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

a lot of these takes also have the interesting implication that someone who hasn't gone to college at all is "unfinished", which is interesting

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remember I used to hate washing dishes, going through all the stacked-up pots and pans. But then one day I decided to really *focus* on the process, to not just shortcut it by using a dishwasher, to be present in the moment. To focus on what technology had robbed from us. And this is what I found:

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i was going to say "you shouldn't screenshot randos with bad takes about AI, that's just pointless smugposting" but then I searched to see who said that and no that is definitely not a rando lol

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i think if you think that an account that posts "hijab-inspired secular accessorization" and "'people of color' is a slur" is real and Says Something About Leftists and not someone pretending, then I think you're bad at detecting when you're being trolled

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

idk but if they did I'd probably just comment on their flavor choice and ignore it

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i'm pretty sure i've brought a straight up energy drink to an interview, on both ends of the desk

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

it's got to be like working at Anthropic but worse. coming up through the ranks you occasionally saw evidence of something strange and vast and when you make director they give you indisputable proof that the alien gods who created us thought weird black monster goo was sacred.

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(in that the latter seems to be much more likely to be an unpleasant person to interact with)

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

not directly related but in my experience there's a huge difference between "crude username that actually represents the person" and "crude username chosen for shock/humor value"

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Skellyosa @skellyosa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One piece villains:

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

see I was thinking something wackier as in, like, oh yeah it turns out that Church-Turing is false and it turns out that the brain relies on post-Turing computation

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

although the question then becomes "can we harness weird physics in computers"; e.g. even if true quantum randomness is indispensable you can buy a hardware quantum RNG in the silly limit, a brain is a computer that perfectly simulates a brain

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Penitent Clanker @penitentclanker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If your only objection to model collapse is that it enables synthetic people to write a callout post, congratulations on reinventing retrieval-augmented generation.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

just got this hanging around from the other weekend

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

also i'd clean up the *extremely* LLM prose.

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

like if I was going to do this I would give you a knob for controlling the kinetics and how it interacts with the # of bound edges so you can turn that to extremes and see what happens. I'd have something explaining why the crystals are always growing "up". etc

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

or why there's always an "up" direction. it's just... not really a good explanation. it looks pretty but I don't really feel informed about anything.

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

or, like okay, bismuth.mino.mobi. looking at the about section I still have no idea *why* bismuth does that. it mentions a "melt" but doesn't provide context for whether the melt surrounds the crystal on all sides or what. there's no context for why the "bricks" don't keep attaching to the base

bismuth.mino.mobi

bismuth — hopper crystals, grown brick by brick

A seeded colony of masons lays a bismuth crystal one brick at a time. Same seed, same crystal, forever.

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

uh. this wound up punchier than I meant it to at first but I do stand by it.

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the docs are useless for getting any kind of deeper understanding of the solution, but if you just want pretty pictures and lots of numbers it's great I guess

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

or, like, looking at ns.mino.mobi/explorer/?s=... this is an awful explanation for *what am I looking at*. my first thought was that the rendering is fucked because it takes like five paras to get to the bit about the flow being self-similar!

ns.mino.mobi

ns/explorer — the collapse in three dimensions

A seeded 3D explorer of the 2026 Navier–Stokes blowup ansatz: an exactly divergence-free leading-order field with the paper's similarity scalings, its centrifugal pressure and heat-law exterior, rende...

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

like I remember seeing one that claimed to be a log-log plot of something or other that was clearly linear. but it *looked* professional and shiny

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've never really felt any compelling interest to click on the random AI generated visualizations/widgets/whatever that float across my timeline and i think it's because I have no way of knowing if they're actually good or just superficial

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Mixmoji 🤖 @mixmoji.pixigeko.com · 06/09/2026

🏛️ + 🤪

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it's just semanticslop at this point

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Cute Monster Props @cutemonster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We noticed ye from across the bar and are fond of yer lobster.

A grescale costume of Eefram and Thomas from the Lighthouse (2019)

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

> I told it to look online at some of Fable’s strongest feats, especially the math problems it has solved, and that something like this should be easy in comparison.

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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i actually did see someone justify it by saying that e.g. if a project has leaked code, it's impossible to verify that that isn't in the training set, whereas a human REing that project can say "yeah I didn't look at the leaked source"

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