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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I get that Texas has laws... and I get that @bsky.app being a corporate entity, is complying with them. Yes, it is annoying. But where this turns to BS is when @bsky.app claims to be fighting the fight while rolling over and denying access to existing data Sure felt like corporate control to me.

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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Just published in JOSS: 'faer: A linear algebra library for the Rust programming language' doi.org/10.21105/joss.06099

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Mapkeep @mapkeep.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Mapkeep is ceasing operations on 30 May, 2026. Your maps will remain available through 29 May, 2026. You can export your maps to the Online Wardley Map format.

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Stage 2 of #enshittification is well in progress. The surplus is being shifted away from consumers. chatgpt is already not working on mobile web. Stage 3, that comes after, will take surplus away from the content producers. They'll have to pay for content (not ads) to be shown

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I'm looking for Mac-only IT support company for SMB. Anyone have good experiences?

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I find it wild how AI is this unstoppable force and also we have to change every API and data format to markdown.

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This holiday season I managed not to buy any new domain names 🙌

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

So... what happens when LLMs are trained on LLM generated code?

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

@firefox.com how are you this incompetent in 2025?! Your major version update (146), once again, destroyed all bookmark functionality. What do you think you Job To Be Done is?!

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

heh... "The “is a” relation is the most overhyped and poorly understood mistake in computer science." ... change my mind 😉

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

. @markburgessosl.bsky.social I'm noticing the change to LEADS TO instead of FOLLOWS FROM in SSTorytime writing. Any significant reason for the change? Or is it just easier for folks to use?

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 19/12/2025

/9 @tristanls.bsky.social presents Our path to an easy-to-use platform. How we’re planning to evolve Monty into an easy to use platform and how the community can help. youtu.be/kXoB49lcnAo

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2025/12 - Our Path to an Easy-to-Use Platform

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 17/12/2025

Take a crash course on Monty, the Thousand Brains Project, how it works, and how to get involved. Ask questions, explore the implementation, and learn from the team. Today at 9AM PST. www.meetup.com/thousand-bra...

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Did anyone at Google bother to read this sentence out loud?

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Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It's Halloween. So here's a story about the horror of replacing your developers with AI: accu.org/journals/ove...

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Judgment Day

What if AI takes your job? Teedy Deigh finds out.

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

There's this idea that thanks to LLMs reviewing code will become more important than writing code. It misses the idea that writing code includes reviewing code as a side effect. For those who only speak "LLM": writing code is like generating your own data on which you train to review code.

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 30/09/2025

🚀 New Video Series: Community Videos! First up: Collin & @tristanls.bsky.social dive into adding CUDA GPU support to Monty’s HypothesesUpdaters, with a proposed high-level API + open issues to tackle. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/eFmIK16B5kQ

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2025/08/28 GPU Support Meeting

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Pflugerville Purrpfect Pawtners Cat Rescue Make it happen #pflugerville

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Incidentally, this short 4 minute video triggered in me a fundamental insight into why quaternions work: an embedding in a higher-dimensional space with one constraint avoids singularities or discontinuities when representing the embedded space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgJ...

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Modern Robotics, Chapter 2.3.2: Configuration Space Representation

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

You've heard of conventional commits, you've heard of conventional comments... behold: conventional responses. conventionalresponses.org

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Conventional Responses

Responses that are easy to emote and convey how you actually feel

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Are you a software developer who wants to work on AI but doesn't have the classic Machine Learning / LLM / deep neural network experience? Then, I'm looking for you... I'm looking for traditional software engineers to build our sensorimotor intelligence platform. thousandbrains.org/company/care...

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Open-Source Software Engineer

As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 13/08/2025

🚨 Question: How did you build something radically different than deep learning? youtube.com/shorts/4cfxP... Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494 Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra... #AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 09/08/2025

🚀 From LEGO bricks to neocortical-robotic AI. We built a robot with tower-mounted RGB+depth sensors & a rotating platform, powered by Monty + Raspberry Pis, to scan real-world objects in 3D. 🎥 Watch the build, debug, train & demo: youtu.be/_u7STtACQ50 #Robotics #AI

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2025-05 LEGO Robot Presentation and Demo

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I'm hiring again at @thousandbrains.org I'm looking for an experienced software engineer to join us in transforming our groundbreaking research into a platform that will enable people worldwide to run Monty and apply sensorimotor intelligence to their problems. thousandbrains.org/company/care...

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Open-Source Software Engineer

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

A must-watch talk from @scott.hanselman.com. Scott and I are of the same vintage, and I am embarrassed (mortified!) by how revolting some of our generational peers have become. Technology still has a unique power to improve our lives, but wow, do we ever have work to do. youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...

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Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It occurred to me that it used to be difficult to convince "the business" that 100% SLO was not achievable. No defects was so difficult to counter. I'm amazed how much LLMs flipped the whole thing on its head and nobody cares anymore 😄.

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 11/07/2025

1/ 🚨Another New Paper Drop! 🚨 “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain” 👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 10/07/2025

🔥 Want to understand how the neocortex builds intelligence? Artem Kirsanov made a great video on the Thousand Brains Theory, the foundation of everything we’re building at here Thousand Brains Project! 🎥 youtu.be/Dykkubb-Qus #Neuroscience #AI #ThousandBrains #Neocortex

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A Fundamental Unit Of Intelligence

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 09/07/2025

/1 🚨 New Paper Drop 🚨 We’ve released “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference” — the first working implementation of a thousand-brains system, code-named Monty. 👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Many people think of the brain as a hierarchical system, and in many ways it is. But there is also a lot of non-hierarchical processing going on. Check out this pre-print where we review and propose functional roles for the different long-range connections in the neocortex 🧠

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Latest updates to the Thousand Brains Theory!

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Super excited to share our new paper! We spent the past years building an alternative AI approach, and now we demonstrate a whole range of advantages. Robust object & pose detection, generalization, data and compute efficient training, continual learning, shape bias, intelligent policies, and more!🦾

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Niels Leadholm @cortical-canonical.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Ok this is one I've been really excited to share - our pre-print demonstrating the capabilities of thousand-brain systems is now out 🧠🚀 It gives a great overview of why we believe the approach we're taking is so promising. Rapid and continual learning leading to rapid and...

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The papers demonstrating neocortex-inspired sensorimotor AI are finally here! If you are interested in what comes after LLMs, then these are the ones to read.

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 19/05/2025

🚨 New video drop, the first in a series on object behavior, initiated at our Feb retreat. We dive into how the neocortex models behavior and tracks features through movement in cortical structures. Follow our journey as we uncover how behavior works. 🔗 youtu.be/TzP53N2LsRs

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2025/02 - Brainstorming on Modeling Object Behaviors and Representations in Minicolumns

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It's fascinating watching developers discover they get better results using "A.I." if they prompt with tests, work in small steps, test continuously, review and refactor throughout, integrate often, and work in smaller teams, and attributing those results to autocomplete.

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Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer · 17/04/2025

Join the team that's changing computing forever! oxide.computer/careers

Hiring announcement graphic listing open roles: Field Sales, Product Assurance, Product Infrastructure, Software Solutions, and Support Engineering.

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Recently, I had the opportunity to talk about the @thousandbrains.org at the Austin Robotics & AI Meetup. Check it out.

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A lot of the ridiculous "you will get everything you've ever wanted" claims of the "text-to-X" AI models seem to keep forgetting that a lot of the challenge lies in the "thought-to-text" portion of the solution.

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 07/01/2025

🚀 Exciting update! The Thousand Brains Project is now an independent non-profit organization separate from @numentaofficial.bsky.social. This change empowers us to focus entirely on our mission - free from for-profit distractions - while advancing our groundbreaking research. 🌍 thousandbrains.org

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Home | Thousand Brains Project

Powerful neuroscience-based AI

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 03/01/2025

🚀 The 2025 Q1 Roadmap is here! 🎥✨ Join @vivianeclay.bsky.social & @cortical-canonical.bsky.social as they dive into this quarters 3 key pillars: 1️⃣ Fundamental Research Progress 2️⃣ Implement Past Years Research 3️⃣ Usability & Extensibility 🔗 Watch now & see whats next: youtu.be/xlNKnu-it3I

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2025/01 - Q1 Roadmap

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Why is the graphic depicting a black hole though?

Image of a black hole with a headline that Grok AI is free for everyone

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Will Larson @lethain.com · 01/12/2024

Finally took some time over past month to learn Wardley mapping. Still a technique I’ve rarely seen “in real life”, but glad that @mipsytipsy.bsky.social mentioned it a few times online in ~2018 and I’ve finally caught up 😂 lethain.com/learning-war...

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Rough notes on learning Wardley Mapping.

In my ongoing efforts to draft a book on engineering strategy, I’ve finally reached the point where I need to transition “Wardley Mapping” from a topic to consider including into a topic that I either...

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 17/12/2024

🚀 Exciting update! The Future Work section of our docs just got a major refresh! Explore key project ideas (like Detect Local & Global Flow)—big enough for a paper or a master’s thesis. 💡 Open an RFC to share your ideas! 🔗 Dive in: thousandbrainsproject.readme.io/docs/project... Questions? Ask away!

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