Raphaël Pinson
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@cilium.io Alchemist @isovalent at Cisco | CNCF Ambassador | I'm the Oops in DevOops ∞ | Family Historian 🌳 | Autism Awareness | Tweets Mine | @raphink@hachyderm.io
Most technical education systems measure labs completed, content published, badges issued. None of that is the goal. The goal is turning knowledge into confident, independent action, and the constraint on that flow can sit anywhere, including outside what you own. dev.to/raphink/the-...
The Badge Was Issued, but the Goal Wasn't Achieved.
Applying Theory of Constraints to technical enablement systems for continuous platform improvement.
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From #CTAN: Raphaël Pinson submitted an update to the impnattypo package. Version: 1.6 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Support typography of l’Imprimerie Nationale Française ctan.org/pkg/impnattypo #TeXLaTeX
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When neurotypical people read someone's expression, it happens automatically: parallel processing, fast, effortless. Like a GPU rendering a scene. #autism #actuallyAutistc #neurodiversity 🧵
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A few years ago, I realized my wife's condition had something in common with #autism and I thought I'd make a comic strip about it, to help understand both. 👉️ raphink.info/autism #actuallyautistic #neurodiversity
AI video generation destroys color precision. Color detection → hollow eyes. Chroma key → magenta speckles everywhere. The fix: stamp the original PNG's alpha channel onto every frame. No detection, no approximation. The mask was already there. New post 👇 dev.to/raphink/clea...
Clean Edges: Using a PNG Alpha Mask on AI-Generated Animations
How I solved the background removal problem for AI-generated animated WebP tiles, and why color detection and chroma key both fail.
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Would you trust a sci-fi author to program critical AI systems for humanity? No? Yet, that's what we've been doing. LLMs are autocomplete engines trained on human culture. Sci-fi authors spent decades writing how robots fail. That's the training data. That's the completion. 🧵
Most people picture autism as a line from "a little autistic" to "very autistic." That's not what the spectrum means. #Autism is not a dial, but a different way of seeing. 🔗 raphink.info/autism #actuallyautistic #neurodiversity
J'ai eu plusieurs demandes de traduction de mes posts sur l'autisme en français. J'ai donc pris mon courage à deux mains et j'ai ajouté ça sur blog.raphink.info/fr/series/au...
Autism Awareness
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Chat threads are the wrong tool for AI image generation. 4 years of drift taught me that. So I built panelgen: declarative, idempotent image generation from a YAML spec. 🚀 brew tap raphink/tap && brew install panelgen Full story 👇 dev.to/raphink/four... #ai #generativeAI #opensource #automation
Two kinds of anxiety — completely different sources. 🧠 Psychological (top-down): all sensors green, but the cortex generates a loop anyway. "What if..." Cognitive strategies can help here. #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity 🧵
So I watched Bicentennial Man yesterday evening. If it wasn't for the robot disguise, I'd be sure Robin Williams was trying to portray an #actuallyAutistic person -- and probably doing a better job at it than if it had been intentional. The whole time, I was like -- hey, that me 🤔 🧵
AI spread doesn't just question our definition of intelligence, it challenges our definition of humanity. Now is a time to stand for dignity if we care. dev.to/raphink/were... #AI #Ethics #Humanity #Tech #Discuss
We're at Risk of Losing Human Dignity to Machine Productivity
The AI debate is forcing us to define intelligence. Every definition proposed, when applied consistently, ends up drawing a line through humanity itself.
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Today is both my birthday and Neurodiversity Pride Day (which I just discovered has always been on my birthday). I'm not much of a pride day person in general, BUT if any of my posts on autism have been useful to you, sharing one would be a lovely gift. The series is at dev.to/raphink/seri...
Autism Awareness Series' Articles
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On Mastodon, I use the @autistics@fedigroups.social group to share my posts on autism awareness. Is there an equivalent group/starter pack on BlueSky?
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Everyone is talking about hallucination. That's the wrong diagnosis. Hallucination isn't a bug — it's the mechanism. Turn it off and you don't have a more reliable model, you have a lookup table. The real problem: non-determinism misallocated. dev.to/raphink/ai-d...
AI Doesn't Hallucinate. Your Architecture Does.
Hallucination isn't a bug in LLMs — it's the mechanism. The real problem is misallocating non-determinism, and why "SKILLS.md is enough" is exactly backwards.
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Defining Autism: The Shadow and the Object The DSM defines autism by what clinicians can observe. But describing the shadow isn't the same as defining the object. Maybe we need to redefine it? dev.to/raphink/defi... #autism #autismawareness #neurodiversity #actuallyautistic
Defining Autism: The Shadow and the Object
The DSM defines autism by observable symptoms. But a definition and a diagnostic test are not the same thing. One bar has been cleared. The other hasn't. And mistaking the proxy for the definition has...
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#GenAI is an amplification machine. Good ideas in → sharper. Bad ideas in → worse, more confidently. Nothing in → statistical word soup. The gate was never the tool. It was always the ideas. #AI #Writing #LLM dev.to/raphink/gen-...
Gen AI is an Amplification Machine
Most people misunderstand what generative AI actually does. It doesn't add quality — it multiplies what's already there. Which means the people it serves best are the ones who least needed it to begin...
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What would it look like, in a world full of autistic people, to study and try to understand how allistic (non-autistic) people function? Attempting to explore this (in a cheeky way) in this new article: dev.to/raphink/retu... #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity
Return to the Planet of the Autistics
A field journal from an imaginary researcher studying a puzzling minority neurological condition called allism, which affects approximately 1% of the population.
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Why has autism persisted across all human populations, across cultures, and most likely across centuries? A hypothesis: not individual advantage, but group survival. dev.to/raphink/why-... #autism #autismAwareness #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity
Why autism hasn't disappeared — a hypothesis
Why has autism persisted across all human populations, across cultures, across centuries? A hypothesis: not because of individual advantage, but because groups that contained the profile were more rob...
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My last post on #autism introduced a diagram intending to conceptualize Milton's double empathy problem at the core. Does that speak to you?
Two survival systems, two empathy modes What if autistic and neurotypical empathies were two different systems, driven by two different survival instincts? #autism #autismawareness #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity dev.to/raphink/two-...
Two survival systems, two empathy modes
The double empathy problem, made concrete: not a deficit on one side, but two coherent systems that are mutually opaque to each other.
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Society tells us rest is laying down and doing nothing. That's not what it looks like for everyone. In fact, it can be quite the opposite for some. #autism #actuallyAutistc #neurodiversity dev.to/raphink/rest...
Rest is not what you think
Rest as low novelty load, not low stimulation — known vs unknown inputs, threat/navigation system, beach vs metal music
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Autistic people who talk at length about their interests are often read as self-centered. I think the mechanism is almost the opposite... #autism #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity dev.to/raphink/shar...
Sharing is caring
Autistic people who talk at length about their interests are often read as self-centered. I think the mechanism is almost the opposite. A follow-up to my series on autism from the inside, on why infor...
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#Neurodiversity and the two layers of cognition What if the way you think and the output you produce are two completely separate things — and the gap between them has a cost? A post about internal process, expected output, and what autism adds to the picture. #autism dev.to/raphink/neur...
Neurodiversity and the two layers of cognition
What if the way you think and the output you produce are two completely separate things — and the gap between them has a cost? A post about internal process, expected output, and what autism adds to t...
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Fourteenth (and last) post in the #autism Awareness series: dev.to/raphink/you-... Take care of yourselves! #autismawareness #actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity
You can't know what you don't know
This series almost didn't happen. A comic strip, a colleague's question, and thirteen posts later: here's what masking actually is, why the right framework matters more than most people realise, and w...
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