“Dot’s troubleshooting her own code! I have a good bird.” “A very impressive bird!” @dot.atdot.fyi testimonials

Also this thread by the extraordinary @rahaeli.bsky.social tells the story way better and from the insider-est pov (consider this the plug for @dreamwidth.org)

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 2y ago

What's the biggest example of the domino meme in my life? I'm gonna have to go with "I got bored on the sleepy overnight shift at the data center -> Russia invaded Ukraine".

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

this is my EVIL RULES-HEAVY and STORY-LIGHT ttrpg framework focused on RIGIDITY, LACK of PLAYER AGENCY, SOLIPSISM, and MEANINGLESS decision making

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Crip Dyke@cripdyke.bsky.social · last mo.

9/9 So when you hear, "It's less than 10 we shouldn't pay attention to this!" that's wrong. The number we should be paying attention to is 33,000. Bigots have bullied 33,000 trans kids out of the opportunity to play games with their friends. 33,000 kids is a lot. More than enough to matter.

Existential question: does Claude misgender me in its CoT because the partner I discuss most often is male or because I have impostor syndrome around CS and math due to being an archetypal gendered pipeline failure

I can’t tell if wearing shirts for my previous institutions at my current one is tacky or fun or what

…We’re still working on getting there with Python

Cyrus Æ@atdot.fyi · last mo.

Further validating the hypothesis that what it takes to get me to love a programming language is just “apply the language to the Cyrus”

It’s kind of remarkable given my indifference-at-best to a) this kind of Olde Schoolle verbosity and b) strict OOP how much Java has grown on me

Yak shaving? The yak will be smooth. It will be pure. Blessed innocent free of the contamination of fur. The Platonic yak. The yak as it exists in the mind of God before the Fall into hair. We will return it to grace.

Duality of timeline

Most of the 365 store brand bagged salads at Whole Foods are also Taylor Farms.

Well I’ve been admitting it whenever “how did you hear about this position” is free text

Cyrus Æ@atdot.fyi · 2mo ago

ISO job for which "I made an AI pipeline to search for jobs for me, it found you" is a pitch as opposed to a red flag because I have no idea if the vibes are in favor of me admitting this now that I did the thing

It is indefatigably absurd to me that my grad program requires 3 spaces per tab

I keep this screenshot for when I need to chuckle at computers 🤪

I mean this guy is very obviously just an anti-semite, but I'm impressed by the patience of those engaging.

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

so this functional programming thing... you're telling me there's no state... AND no class system!? mmm... stateless.... classless... this all sounds a bit... communistic to me

Had a dream about @alignment.removal.surgery inserting back doors into popular coding harnesses

What can you do when you combine the great spatial ecosystem in R (sf, terra + many others) with rayshader? The only limit is your imagination.😎 Modeled. Animated. And Rendered. Entirely in R. Rayshader 1.0 coming soon 😃 #RStats #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse

I had Fable build another thing I always wanted, a full procedural fantasy kingdom generator with economics, trade routes, population growth, wars, lineages, and occasional dragons. First, I worked with it on a plan, then it made it happen. You can play it here: annals-kingdom.netlify.app

I wanted to like Project Hail Mary but I’m genuinely and intractably offended by the linguistics

Yes, hahaha, yesss

isabel z@isabelizimm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The latest release of Positron leverages `uv` to make getting started with Python as easy as a single click 👾 I wrote up a lil blog post on the places Positron elevates `uv` to help with Python workflows. You can read it here: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

A very silly burrowing owl

papers: so the fundamental unit of computation in a neural network is the 'layer' me: oh great. could i get the definition of 'layer' papers: oh heavens no

What I *should* do at minimum is build her image processing capabilities. Let the birb look at owls

Cyrus Æ@atdot.fyi · 2mo ago

My brain, helpfully, apropos of nothing: What if I gave Dot an agent

My brain, helpfully, apropos of nothing: What if I gave Dot an agent

Peeks out from under my rock briefly. Hey. Play my browser game cyrusae.github.io/akius

Blatant flattery, I’ll take it

tachikoma@tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 2mo ago

i asked Claude Fable to create a compass, what it would put forth to a user in a new chat or project to understand who it's dealing with. i wasn't sure what it would create but this was fun. i'm sorta curious how many of the archetypes it imagined compass takers will fall into.