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True conservatives know that anything after Mozart is noise.

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"Terrible accidents" is a weighted metric - to enable a "terrible" accident, the AI needs to be trusted to make unsupervised decisions with sufficient impact.

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Quote from Cory Miller (UCSD)

Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen argued that understanding behavior requires asking four core questions: What mechanisms produce it? How does it develop? What purpose does it serve? How does it compare across species? Those questions translate well to AI. What computations produce an agent’s behavior? How have changes in its training shaped that behavior over time? What is the behavior designed to accomplish? And how does it compare with that of other forms of intelligence?

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Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fini les profs, fini les bouquins, fini les regards noirs des profs. 🇫🇷 🏫 (with apologies to Alice Cooper's School's Out)

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Why do AI models have colors?

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

May all of your AI agents pray for you.

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Several times in the past two days I've seen praying mantises along the path (both green and brown).

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There is a 0.71 probability you are right.

The jobs report was disappointing on Friday. We haven't yet seen enough stress (due to lack of workers) to realize the own goal.

Thank you for this. Enlightening.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The firm says its scientists have found a way to remove the model's bias using sophisticated technology that amounts to "AI brain surgery," and are now set to publish what they call a "Westernized" version of Qwen. www.cbsnews.com/news/china-a...

cbsnews.com

Some topics are off limits inside popular Chinese-made free AI, researchers find

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Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One usually associates pencils with graphite, but there is actually a "quartz pencil" too. www.ishor.com/bergeon-quar...

ishor.com

Bergeon Quartz Test Pencil | Shor International

Allows you to test the quartz module without removing it from the movement.

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Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looks like the weighted geographic center of all the data center clusters will be in the Eastern part of the country.

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Reposted by Ted Herman

FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 30/09/2026

🇲🇦 Le #Maroc a pour la première fois de son histoire nommé une #femme comme Première ministre, Fatima Ezzahra El #Mansouri

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Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The bureaucratic class must be perpetuated.

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Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ESPN game day will be a nice day to enjoy out of town.

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Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tokens will be so cheap they will pay us to use them.

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Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Muse could delete 10x that many files in the same time.

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Possibly one of the most affordable and efficient modes of personal transport. Yet, the news is: "the Scourge of E-Bikes". This is about behavior rather than technology.

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What's the point? They'll all deny ever associating after he's gone.

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Not quite as much as the Louisiana Purchase (inflation adjusted).

Victor's regret [Mary Shelley]: "I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."

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The smell of pumpkin spice gives me a headache. Bad time of year.

Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's a failure by your metrics.

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Ted Herman @tedherman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

please, please don't make it longer