The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 10hThis is the universe punishing you for putting coffee in a microwave. And to serve as an example to others. Maybe you or one of your uncles should order a truckload of coffee beans so you can just pour the stale coffee down the sink and make a fresh cup. As god intended. 321
Reposted by The IllTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15hIf the traffic numbers being reported are even half true then the Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres may be the most effective strike on far-right influence in Europe we've seen since WW2 222762
Reposted by The Ill👻spOOokika👻 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026SoCal's gotcha covered, Pastor 1164
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Could also be that CS people have some serious math envy, like they're not pure math, and not really even applied math. So killing pure math is a huge motivator. Probably. 150
Reposted by The IllNonofyur Darnbusiness @ladyasrai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Imagine thinking that a democracy doesn't have a right to exist in the year of our lord 2026 Cause that's what zionism *IS* you chud. Go back to playing fallout. 081
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hamas using civilian infrastructure as military installations is very much why Palestinians were sifting through rubble to find the bodies of their dead children. 010
Reposted by The IllMalcolm P. Johnson @admiralmpj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Lord knows I don't want Palestinians killed... ...but I don't want Israelis killed either. But we need to remember on this day of all days that it was Hamas who started this current war. Hamas. Stop pretending they are freedom fighters. Stop pretending 10/7 never happened. Stop hating on Jews. 1623862
Reposted by The IllJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2023On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 deaths. 340 wounded. That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since. That disaster helped lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60...youtube.comHarrow and Wealdstone Train Crash NewsreelNewsreel footage of the aftermath of the 1952 Train Crash at Harrow & Wealdstone Station, which claimed the lives of 112 people and injured hundreds more. 10447240
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A list of people this gullible with this kind of disposable income? In this economy? 000
Reposted by The IllCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/10/2026#FunFact: Yes, it's now possible to drive a standard, mainstream EV from New York to Los Angeles in a reasonable amount of time without getting stranded with a dead battery and WITHOUT having to use a Tesla station! 2239394
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And how do we discover these composition rules for new concepts that may not even exist in human language? Would an AI be able to reason about them? 100
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Discretizing clusters in latent representations is how you generate new symbols. 100
Reposted by The IllRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm… 1300190786219
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026TIL: Maureen Dowd has assistants. Apparently it takes a whole village to write a high school newspaper gossip column. 000
Reposted by The IllMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media 1002546521
Reposted by The IllMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026journalists denying that they have any power in society and merely reflect society is exactly how they wield power 320855
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just because these “latents” are represented as vectors and can be continuous, doesn’t mean that they are. Very few things end up continuous in trained neural networks, and even though I haven’t studied these latents in LLMs, my bet is that they are in fact pretty discrete in a trained LLM. 100
Reposted by The Ill#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 05/10/2026*Well, it cheers me up that, in his old age, he's no less eccentric than he's always been *Nevertheless, this is Wolfram's personal version of a math-vs-AI moral-panic attack writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/09/what...writings.stephenwolfram.comWhat’s the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?Stephen Wolfram chimes in about the future of pure math and AI based on his unique perspective of language creator and scientific researcher. 4193
Reposted by The IllJM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In Kolbuszowa, Poland, about half the town was Jewish before the war. Naftali Saleschutz grew up there, the youngest of nine children in a devout Hasidic family. He later became Norman Salsitz. #EternalLight 1/10 14324
Reposted by The IllGingit @gingit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You are a disgusting POS if you attend a march to “free Palestine” on October 7th. Absolute filth. 2816054
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just because AIPAC is used as an antisemitic cudgel doesn’t make it good. AIPAC has become an alignment between Likud and the GOP, a right wing org meddling in US politics through Democratic primaries. This is not good for Israel or the US, and it doesn’t represent either US or Israeli Jews. 100
Reposted by The IllLady Ashlynn I 🏳️⚧️🇮🇱🇺🇦🎗️🟦 @ladyamelia1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Bluesky is a good alternative to Twitter however it has some fundamental issues and I’m tired of being silent on. Bluesky has a socialist/tankie problem, this app attracts so many far left individuals that it has caused the app to be called a tankie platform. We need more moderate liberals 4106
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Right. But to what extent is the explicit syntax anthropocentric, and takes its current form merely so we can confirm that the models we’re training aren’t going off track? Eventually our input will be superfluous, and AIs will use their own ligua franca. 100
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Apparently you’re having some trouble with this UI then. LLMs suck at helping with UIs unfortunately. Maybe try an MCP? 000
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Data lifecycle is one of the most interesting, and desirable features of rust. Typing waxes and wanes. Sometimes necessary, sometimes over restricting. Helpful for us think more clearly about code and abstraction. 000
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is the reason behind the saying that any problem can be solved with an additional level of abstraction. You don’t need to tell me, I once thought that Fortran77 was at long last the answer to all of our problems. I’ve learned some lessons well since then. 010
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026That’s called featurization, or the eigenvectors of intermediate layers. The product of the encoder in the encoder/decoder structure. We’re probably over constraining them even now, forcing them to use decoders/transformers that make sense to us. 100
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not as lucky as you think. Trying to monetize the last strands of the available arbitrage, feeling them slip through my fingers. 110
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Much in the way that understanding assembly language, and even looking at compiled code did in fact make us better high-level programmers. In the olden days. Looking at LLM-produced rust from English prompts is much the same. For now. 140
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Of course they benefit from powerful abstractions! They’re just not as constrained by linear, serial thinking with only a handful of variables like we are. That’s only a temporary condition during the transition phase we are in right now. 110
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I mean, you do use compilers, right? Does your understanding of assembly language improve your coding style in say, rust? Do you routinely look at the assembly language produced by a compiler? English is the new high level programming language. Rust, python, C, etc. are the new assembly languages. 110
Reposted by The IllRepJackKimble @repjackkimble.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sacrificing my own back to not drop the baby was one of the scariest moments of my political career, but I never stopped fighting. 2112616
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A man who can’t find his boots can rest in the knowledge that he’s led a life worth living. 000
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We are the stochastic systems transforming ideas into executable code. Until now. Since we’ve invented still stochastic, but much more deterministic systems to do that for us. 100
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not for an actual LLM probably, since it’s trained to output serially. But, its guts are parallel. So, soon. We’re very near the end of conventional cpus. 210
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Conservatives only understand the world through power dynamics. 010
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026But the LLM’s code doesn’t need all those safety guarantees, that’s just for our fat fingered barely thinking meat! Ok, not quite yet, but give it a year. Forcing an LLM to program in rust (or lol, java) is hilarious though. Verilog is probably closer to their natural language. 300
Reposted by The Ill🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026reminds me of TOO CHALLENGING FOR YOU????youtu.beWhat's Wrong? Too Challenging For You!? | James Acaster | COLD LASAGNE HATE MYSELF 1999YouTube video by James Acaster 11032
Reposted by The IllUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A great many white readers in 1967 were not ready to accept a brown-skinned hero. But they weren’t expecting one. I didn’t make an issue of it, and you have to be well into the book before you realize that Ged, like most of the characters, isn’t white. 011720
Reposted by The IllI'm movin' on... @alyssonfergison.com · 24/12/2024Some of my thoughts on populism... 612039
Reposted by The Illicookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Because if you prop your mouth open to shout slogans like “ famine” “genocide” “ ethnic cleansing” “displacement” yada yada ya for Gaza. But never uttered the names of these 9 places and its civilians. Again you Just hate Jews and its time to own that. wfpusa.org/news/largest...wfpusa.org9 of the Largest Refugee Crises Around the World and Their Effects on Hunger - World Food Program USARefugees and IDPs face some of the toughest challenges imaginable in their search for stability. One of the worst is hunger. 37320
Reposted by The IllI'm movin' on... @alyssonfergison.com · 03/02/2025And, for the record, I'm not asking anyone to have faith in Democrats. What I do expect is for them to be smart enough, particularly after the past decade-plus, to recognize when they're being used as a pawn in a coordinated propaganda campaign by hostile foreign & domestic actors.media.tenor.coma woman says that 's what 's happening in front of a white backgroundALT: a woman says that 's what 's happening in front of a white background 0124
Reposted by The IllJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system" @bachynski.bsky.socialinquirer.comA 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decadesAfter measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system. 27512217
The Ill @the-ill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I guess we’ve reached the stage where Bill Kristol, founding neocon, is reposting articles from Liberal Currents criticizing originalism, a foundational neocon ideology, and apparently agreeing with them. Strange times. Still, don’t ever mistake these people as friendlies. 010
Reposted by The IllTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf... 301039350
