steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026Little hand emerging from the stroller muff, tiny demand of “moh!” Incredible feeling. 000 0
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026Last year was the bad one (you may recall a late application…), but there’s been a creche outbreak, so they’re being cautious. I’m not fully convinced (two tiny spots so far, could be anything), but we’ll see in the morning… 110 1
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026Hand, foot AND mouth? In this economy? (The child has hand foot and mouth. Allegedly) 3130 13
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026The new Opus is as good again as the Opus that came out in August 2025 at which point many people said “uhhh this is good enough at coding that I can often just watch.” Like, it’s unnervingly good, and at many more things than just code. 110 1
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026Something bleakly fascinating about the rise of parallel authorities – for want of a better term – in UK public life. “Independent Sage”, the “Commission for Academic Freedom”. Legitimation crisis bingo. 000 0
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026I only this year found out that they had been together. Seems obvious in retrospect but I was slightly too young at the time (and it was practically pre-Internet) 020 2
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026I would love to but I am around three thousand miles east of NYC on the other side of the Atlantic. But it would be great to talk in some way, at some point. Also, the thing’s public-facing frontend: sensorthings.dev / sensorthings.dev/infosensorthings.devMeitheal · SensorThings on ATProtoMeitheal: live environmental sensor data published to the AT Protocol. 010 1
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026Paul! I am working on something that has been doing this at scale! It is in fact using atproto! 130 3
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026You don’t have to have an intuition for it but: that is SO high. With a base rate of 1% actual AI text, you’ll get around 20 false positives against at most 10 true positives. 30 pieces of writing get flagged, but TWO THIRDS are written by humans arghhhhhhhhhh 021 2
Reposted by stephBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.argmin.netFaster Fourier TransformsThe OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit. 1520171 201
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026Barry’s is great (and ofc very divisive here; all Irish households are either Barry’s or Lyons, and feelings are strong) 030 3
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026Certain flavours of geography are SO bad for doing things like this. “As I explored this neighbourhood, with its fascinating interplay of lives (Jacobs, 1961) I happened upon a prison (Foucault, 1975) …” 1102 10
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026I can’t stand the “incredibly violent murder imagery” turn that decorations have taken lately. Sorry, that is not canon. We fucking invented this holiday and if an evil-looking turnip or something in the spook line isn’t good enough for you, well… . There are rules, ESPECIALLY when the veil is thin. 150 5
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026Just feels absolutely awful to read. Physically unpleasant. Those mid-year Claudes were particularly bad at writing. 000 0
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026Like Stellan Skarsgard in Ronin catching the coffee cup. 120 2
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026Quite bleak that most of the people I’ve seen posting that “who holds up the Internet”…thing are academics. Did you not notice that it’s so obviously LLM-authored that I would be quite confident guessing the exact model that spat it out? Do you regularly read student-submitted work? 260 6
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026Yeah it has been amazing – it has been really good at finding edge cases in geo (which already had excellent coverage, and like two decades of JTS tests that were ported over). 040 4
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026It’s in Kent, on the south coast, next to Dungeness. Derek Jarman’s rad black-painted cottage is there. It is a super weird-feeling place (in a good way). 110 1
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026Hegel is the new multi-language property-based testing tool from the authors of Hypothesis (mainly David MacIver). docs.rs/hegeltest/la.... Hypothesis does shrinking extremely well (probably better than any other proptest library) and is generally very good.docs.rshegel - RustHegel is a property-based testing library for Rust. Hegel is based on Hypothesis, using the Hegel protocol. 181 8
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026How is it possible to write Declare, but also this? Much to consider. 000 0
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026Of paramount importance (obtained in dried form, rehydrated – truly the labours of Hercules) for Rösti. 000 0
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026I want to add the “oh my god” meme here, but every time I go to edit it I start laughing uncontrollably (it is my favourite) so you’ll just have to imagine it 010 1
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026Nobody tell Professor Bender about this incredibly banal convention in cybernetic thought, lest an even larger Parrot is posited. 030 3
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026“They’re here before…” and other apparently endearing things old ladies on the bus say about your child which in fact imply that they are changelings from beyond the veil &c. I’ll have you know she received her forbidden knowledge telepathically from the cat, like all babies. 052 5
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Oh I know I was just making a joke, the guy in the middle remains mysterious. 010 1
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Scholz calling in from his new attic conversion, apparently. 120 2
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Somewhat surprised to find myself having joined Anthropic’s war on the Pope on the side of the Pope, but here we are. 020 2
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Well exactly. At the very least, he’s hopefully found a substantial new audience. TEOE is prominently on display in the window of Hodges Figgis as we speak! 120 2
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Depends on the context; you could soften it a bit with “could I request” which will work in Britain, but may be wasted nuance for North America. 000 0
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026All I will say about today’s MacArthur announcement is that I didn’t realise that “After Geoengineering” was a Verso book. 011 1
Reposted by stephBurak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 25868 68
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026My memory of it is that it was overwhelmingly too sweet (I don’t really like cheapo vanilla ice cream as an adult) but that might not be true anymore. I think you should! 100 1
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026The internet continues to amaze, part whatever: a culturally hyperspecific part of my childhood (Spaghettieis), something I haven’t really thought about for the better part of 35 years, has suddenly become a topic of discussion on both Bsky and Mastodon. 120 2
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026Do you think that rationalism was somehow indispensable in getting us here? I don’t, but I think that something with its shape was. 070 7