Eric James Soltys
@esoltys.dev
Canadian software developer and hobbyist creating art and music in the BC Kootenays.
Started watching #Carrie last night. It is so good. Great casting that's not just Flanagan's core troupe that are always great, but I'm happy to see Midthunder in there. Every character feels real and deep. I found the scene with Carrie and counsellor Morton so touching.
We voted early, but returned from vacation to find BC with a new Conservative government. Kootenay-Monashee and Kootenay-Central will remain NDP. #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Absolutely beautiful day cycling up Mount Royal and through the surrounding neighborhoods.
Happy birthday to us! If my baby niece Rachel is 30 then I must be Legendary. 🥳
Not just a long read, but a major interactive essay challenging the foundation of AI superposition. Nick Cammarata argues neural nets are naturally legible and "already clean" with no complex untangling required. Brilliant visualizers throughout: already-clean.goodfire.com
Neural Networks Are Already Clean
A working hypothesis about neurons, generalization, and the ecology of circuits.
already-clean.goodfire.com
Simons Foundation: Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort To Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era www.simonsfoundation.org/news/simons-...
Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort To Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era
The Simons Foundation today announced a new set of initiatives that will help the mathematics community navigate the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in the field. Under a partnership…
simonsfoundation.org
Derek Thompson: I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep open.substack.com/pub/derektho...
I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep
On technological grief
open.substack.com
Started playing Enshrouded solo. Very pretty and there’s lots to the world encouraging exploration. Controls are a little odd. Wish there was more character appearance options. enshrouded.com/en-US
Enshrouded - Play now!
Play now the new Survival Action RPG game from Keen Games, and explore a mysterious world shrouded in fog.
enshrouded.com
Very happy with version 3.0. I like how the app is shaping up and I'm still eager to work on it. Going to tackle portable music players next. #BuildInPublic
Luminous Music Player@luminousmusicapp.bsky.social · 2w agoVersion 3.0! - Seven languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Ukrainian - Love and rate together, synced with ListenBrainz when you sign in with MusicBrainz - Free-frequency parametric EQ with AutoEq headphone profiles - Live lyrics in the miniplayer, plus word-by-word syn…
Trailer for Narnia 🦁 wasn’t what I expected, especially the music, but I enjoyed that surprise. #Movies #Fantasy youtu.be/gDJ-ini7fF0
NARNIA: THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW | Official Trailer | Netflix
Only in theaters February 12. Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig brings C. S. Lewis’ beloved story The Magician’s Nephew to the screen for the first time in a sweeping adventure that…
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🎧 Listening to "U" (2026) electropop album by underscores. AOTY has it as a "Must Hear Album" www.albumoftheyear.org/album/170193...
Huh. Steam doesn't recognize the new BC time zone. Seems to be because Steam’s UI is built on Chromium (CEF/React), and the bundled timezone mapping database (ICU/CLDR) does not have a mapping for the newer Windows time zone identifier:
Saw "Other Mommy" last night and I enjoyed it. I liked that they got right into it with no preamble. The dream logic and f/x were fun. Good cast and was I was happy to see Karen Allen. #Movies #Horror https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1400837-other-mommy
Quanta: “Math by press release is not that healthy for math,” Braverman said in September, when asked about the rumors of an upcoming OpenAI announcement. https://www.quantamagazine.org/as-ai-closed-in-on-unique-games-proof-researchers-raced-to-beat-the-machines-20261007
PsyPost: "The authors noted that prior work often treated domestic work only as physical actions, leaving out the constant mental organizing that many women carry." It's not just balancing the physical tasks like laundry/dishes, but sharing the mental load like the calendar and social burdens.
I agree that OpenAI dumping math results is wrong as it places the burden on the community, but those results shouldn't be ignored. The mathematicians at OpenAI should do more to reach out and format results to match community norms. To my mind they have a job that's similar to Dev Relations.
🎧️ Listening to my Morning Mix of The Paper Kites and Mumford & Sons
