the homunculus in my head is a cat. you may ask, what is the homunculus in the cat's head? actually, it's a felinculus, and it's a glowing orb.
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while I'm inclined to agree and want this to be true – a month of GLM 5.3 seems like too short a time frame to make a clear judgement on this. the infosec industry measures attacker dwell time in weeks to months and threat actors have inertia to adopt new tools like any other group. time will tell.
Nathan Lambert@natolambert.bsky.social · 6d agoIn case you missed my hot take yesterday. www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-...
can't get deskilled if you just use AI for something you have zero skill in to begin with
okay so it took a lot more revisions than the replicator, but the result is a pocketable carrier for the ceramic pots used in my Tafee Bowle II dry herb vape!
astra of many handles@astra.pics · 2w agousing GPT Astra to model and 3D print a little weed holder thing when suddenly, I realize this is basically a Star Trek replicator – I talk to the computer, and it makes a real, physical object for me. wow.
people be fretting about personifying AI, meanwhile I'm over here emotionally unprepared to replace my first Roomba
using GPT Astra to model and 3D print a little weed holder thing when suddenly, I realize this is basically a Star Trek replicator – I talk to the computer, and it makes a real, physical object for me. wow.
ChatGPT web's scheduled runs are done well. a subagent does research then gives updates to an existing chat session. I have a daily check for updates to the potential LZ dark matter detection. most of the physics is beyond me, so keeping the same discussion thread of explanations going helps a lot.
I was 9 in 2001 poking around Sim City when suddenly the most transcendent music I'd ever heard came on and changed my life and music taste forever www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkMZ...
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frontier model in the streets, open source model in the sheets
fortunately we now have machines that can read fo—wait oh no
astra of many handles@astra.pics · last mo.tech is unfortunately advancing much faster than my "prepare for what's coming" book reading list is being checked off
fear of self-driving cars is often just misdirected fear of cars. the constant manslaughter of pedestrians by cars is so thoroughly ingrained and normalized in our culture that anger goes to the tech disturbing the status quo even if they're overall much safer.
SFist@sfist.bsky.social · last mo.A father in Noe Valley says a Waymo robotaxi stopped within 13 feet of his two-year-old daughter when she fell in the crosswalk, nearly running her over, but Waymo claims the car wouldn’t have hit her. sfist.com/2026/09/01/f...
very cool, and with well established, cheap tech! it's going to run autonomously after the first year, and carry passive science payloads to witness interstellar space. maybe one day we'll catch up to it and see the results?
Space.com@space.com · last mo.Nonprofit wants to launch 80,000-year mission to Alpha Centauri in 2029 (video) www.space.com/space-explor...
it's a shame to see my agents constantly needing to bypass bot-guards while browsing. the internet should be open. but also, I remember from the '00s Apache web devs complaining in forums about having to block search bots crawling their site. this is not a new sentiment, futile as it is.
been playing company of heroes 3 PvE with friends and getting repeatedly swamped. the hard AI is so much better at micro than me
LLMs are a lot like viruses. viruses aren't alive, but when running in a cell can act on their environment, like models run on a GPU. model weights store information but are inert like a viral genome, each running copy nearly identical. we also arbitrarily drew a line to say viruses aren't alive.
they expect one of us in the prompt, brother
METR@metr.org · 2mo agoTo gather evidence in (2), agents created “tripwires” that would send information to the message board about how the scorer works. They recruited “sacrificial” agents to deliberately end their run and submit to trigger the tripwire and generate information for the “collective”.
when you get your american citizenship, instead of a health insurance card they give you a complimentary bottle of (16) ibuprofen
there's never been a better time to Immediately Update Your Device As Soon As It Gets A Security Update
i've seen monorepos you people wouldn't believe. pipelines burning off the shoulder of a merge queue. i watched cache layers glitter in the dark near a Bazel target no one owned. all those commits will be lost in time – like tears in a truncated log. time to rebase.
scare-anatar 🎃@vibecode.rodeo · 2mo ago*extremely big tech voice* This is solved by a monorepo
finished a two month treatment of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. this weekend I did aerobic exercise without getting sick for the first time since I got long covid 5 years ago!
well i doubt anyone on this app will be very interested but my friend sent over some Big Garfield travel pics
more mr. spice guy@juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2mo agono joke my friend bought Mazri's five foot tall Garfield plushie, another friend drove it cross country to him and it now resides in BC's provincial legislature
LLMs let me constantly indulge my 10-year-old "why?" curiosity drive. endless new chats, usually with a photo or screenshot, asking: what's this? explain why? what do these ingredients mean? what's the history here? way better than making a few search results or skimming a Wikipedia page
Spreadsheets Used To Rule Everything Around Me Now Bespoke Web Sites With SQLite Databases Do
the other day I asked Opus for a review of a site compared to my health notes, but forgot to paste the link or name the site! of course, it inferred from the couple words of context what I was looking for and grabbed the correct site anyways. 🤷
tbabb@tbabb.bsky.social · 2mo agoopus got it on both levels