Thomas Dickerson
@elfprince13.mumak.app
Geospatial AI @nbcuniversal.com, Brown CS PhD & SMCVT Math/Physics/CS alum, admin @cemetech.net, AFOL, SFF nerd & open-theist Foraging & homebrew Bluesky open-source contributor Decentralizing systems (human & digital) Opinions are my own 📍Vermont
Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—compressed to run cheaply. USC's Emilio Ferrara argues this compression is treated as a safety nonevent, when it should be treated as a change to the deployed system. This has policy implications, he says.
The Model You Audit Is Not the Model You Ship
Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—with under-appreciated ramifications for AI safety, writes Emilio Ferrara.
techpolicy.press
4/6 “The ARC preconceptual design is the product of an awesome engineering and scientific team using state of the art tools and building on everything we’ve learned from constructing SPARC,” said Alex Creely, Chief Engineer of ARC Conceptual Design at CFS.
Going back and watching Stargate SG-1 in my 30s is wild
Clare Moore@clarelmoore.bsky.social · 4h agoI rewatched the first episode of Supernatural last night and I (34) am trying to process that Dean Winchester is 26 in the first season. Which seemed so grown up when I was watching this for the first time at 18 and now I’m like who gave this baby a gun and generational trauma???
Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam follow accounts this week?
If Tron was real do you think the little computer guys would judge us. Probably, right? They'd have nothing to do but see our terrible code running. They'd watch a memory leak like "umm hello?"
Assuming there are some lawyers in my network or people who know lawyers - this role would be working closely with my team =) jobs.smartrecruiters.com/NBCUniversal...
Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs
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Got a swarm of about 50 dragonflies doing the Lord’s work in our swamp adjacent yard right now
Anyway ultimate is the best Smash because they fixed Mewtwo
Thomas Dickerson@elfprince13.mumak.app · 21h agoIn the opposite direction: I was a Mewtwo main who didn’t discover the concept of “tiers” until 8 years later and thought I was getting pranked and tried playing Fox to prove them wrong and was like “wait wtf I can win at this game?”
It was really funny showing up to pickup games in Middlebury in 2019 right after they won D3 nationals and they thought I was a random townie but I’d been scrimmaging with Brown’s squad that had just won D1 nationals for the last 6 years
Thomas Dickerson@elfprince13.mumak.app · 22h agoOne thing I miss about playing in a frisbee league with a draft that spans skill range from “never played before” to “literally pro” is 95% of the time you have an even matchup and the other 5% is evenly split between “holy shit I’m Captain America” and “I just got rolled so hard I can’t process it”
One thing I miss about playing in a frisbee league with a draft that spans skill range from “never played before” to “literally pro” is 95% of the time you have an even matchup and the other 5% is evenly split between “holy shit I’m Captain America” and “I just got rolled so hard I can’t process it”
eke@eke.bsky.social · 22h agoi think until you devote yourself to something athletic for years it's hard to get your head around how you can be better than 99.999% of the population at something and still every single college athlete is so much better than you that you practically can't even see them from here. let alone pros
So I’m looking again for somebody to make some video titles/overlays and build a (basic) design system for a project of mine. Not super large, maybe a dozen comps of reusable assets; it’s work that I can do but I have decision fatigue around it. Anybody have an experienced designer they’d recommend?
Using dragons in combat against people or other dragons is considered an unbreakable taboo. “Honor those the dragons heed // in thought and favor, word & deed // for worlds are lost or worlds are saved // from those dangers dragon-braved”
It is now canon that He-Man’s defining characteristic is not being a beefcake but being an HR Gentleman soooo
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d ago"“Nowadays our culture tells young men that greatness is tearing other people down, is trolling and owning and dominating. But my dad showed me what real greatness looks like. He inspired me to serve,” Talarico said." it is time for gender yall www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/
Go ahead and bury configuration and stuff thirteen menus down on a touchscreen — sure, fine, whatever, it sucks but it’s not actively dangerous. Climate? GTFOH with this bullshit. And no, I don’t want to have to understand what some German engineer thinks makes sense just to turn the heat up!
Woke up from a dream about team offsite planning that culminated in me wearing red power armor(?) flying down the hallway of a log-built corporate retreat lodge singing Disney tunes at full volume(??) to take advantage of the good reverb (???)
🤯TIL: Women don't break down nearly as much as men during the Ranger Training Course. They experience fewer physical, hormonal, and mental breakdowns as a result of the mutli-environment stressors than men. Even for me, Mr. "Estrogen is a Performance Enhancing Drug!" guy, this is surprising.
Physiological markers in females and males after multiple bouts of caloric deprivation during arduous military training
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