It’s not intelligence. It’s what you do with it.

Happy anniversary of the abolition of feudalism to those who celebrate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboliti...

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I’ve learned to code at 13 on a Psion Organiser II. That thing could display 2 lines of 16 characters. The code needed to be in my head. Still one of the most interesting summers of my life.

Any tool can be very sloppily used. You’re responsible for what you put out in the world no matters the tools you’ve used to produce it.

Alberto Cairo@albertocairo.com · 6d ago

"AI wILl dEmOcRaTiZe dAtA vIsUaLiZaTiOn!", I see some people claim... www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Reverse sophon times

Continuous learning is not gonna be solved in the enterprise. It’s gonna be solved for SMEs.

“What are you gonna do? Stab me?”

cee@cee.wtf · 6d ago

this sounds and looks insane but i actually really really like "just stab it" as a killswitch

Radicalized against AI

This is a wonderful app for discovering what’s around you. I love that the Wikipedia projects makes apps like this possible. apps.apple.com/gb/app/inqui...

Inquire — Wikipedia Around You App - App Store

Download Inquire — Wikipedia Around You by Tamper on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Inquire — Wikipedia…

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Changing the interface requires changing the behavior of all participants at once. It’s much easier to keep the interface, not requiring any behavior change, and automate underneath.

lexi@barredspirals.comint.su · last wk.

genuinely embarrassing how much shit is still done manually with paperwork and human labor that could be trivially accomplished with computers. not even AI, just plain old databases and simple algorithms

Coding will always be hard because you have to know what you want the computer to do.

ChatGPT iPhone app is devolving into slopware fast.

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.

Did a breakthrough. “At equal release speed, the baguette probably wins. But the naan becomes competitive if it can leave the hand about 15% faster.” chatgpt.com/share/6a64b1...

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Sophie Hall@sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 2w ago

Finally, someone asking the important questions

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Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ha! It did it: "We introduce BenchBenchBenchBenchBench (BBBBB), an executable benchmark of AI-authored conformance suites for benchmark-evaluation metrics" I really thought it would treat "now do benchbenchbenchbenchbench" as a joke, but Sol actually did reasonable experiments.

“I should do a breakthrough”

"Scientists who use AI are morons who aren't reading" I'm a computational social scientist and I feel like LLMs are a lot of things, but one thing they can be is a computational tool for text-based information in science. Here is what I am doing this morning

Summer reading ready Cat Hicks’s aka @grimalkina.bsky.social The Psychology of Software Teams Bought on shesaid.buchhandlung.de/shop/article... so I can read it however I want and support my local queer bookstore.

Why isn’t Mistral distilling? Are they stupid?

My colleague said agents do all his NeurIPS coding so I asked how he knows the results are correct and he said he doesn’t understand the code and assumes reviewers will catch any errors so I said it sounds like he submits papers to find out whether they’re true and then his daughter started crying.

Naomi Saphra@nsaphra.bsky.social · 2w ago

😭

Every time permanent DST is discussed we have these deranged takes that sunrise after 7am is the end of the world but sunset before 4pm is perfectly reasonable. No.

Holland Oates@phinsphan.bsky.social · 3w ago

People are gonna fucking hate this if it actually happens. Enjoy all these post 8am sunrises

My investor told me he doesn't really see the moat in my plan. I explained that's the point. The glacis protects the base of the wall and obscures the ditch entirely. By the time the assault party reaches the counterscarp with fascines, they will be committed and under crossfire from grapeshot

I learned this using @grimalkina.bsky.social's amazing github.com/DrCatHicks/l... skill, which you need to all be using! Combine it with AnkiMCP if you're so inclined. It's really good at homing in on gaps in your knowledge, which admittedly in my case with AWS are quite large.

GitHub - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude or Codex skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding

A Claude or Codex skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities

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Flo 🔶@faz.ms · 3w ago

Specifically TIL that any user can just curl IMDS and get a session token to call any AWS api as the instance's role. IMDSv2 just means you need two requests, closing this off for simple SSRF vulns, but still! Weird choice of defaults, huge splash damage for any dependency remote code execs

If you post on X, you are an active participant in the richest man in the world’s far-right, racist disinformation campaign. But, you know, gotta get that engagement clout.

If you’re a software engineer, designer, or technologist who wants to help make City government work better and faster, apply to join our PIT crews at nyc.gov/pitcrew.

Folks romanticizing pre-industrial farmer lifestyle should read @bretdevereaux.bsky.social “How did they make it” series on bread (iron and cloth is amazing too). No one wants that life. Subsistence farming is hellish. acoup.blog/2020/07/24/c...

Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers!

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