amos
@fasterthanli.me
hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🫐 currently working on https://vixen.rs and ML/ASR stuff, occasionally making videos about my latest code crimes 🦀 rust shill until something better comes up 📚 https://fasterthanli.me 📺 https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime
whether you AI-love or AI-hate I think all of you will enjoy a little something about this story:
amos@fasterthanli.me · 51m agoran out of claude/chatgpt quota. thought: why not try qwen3.8-max, I hear good. have it operate on a machine I use a lot, jax, which is also the router for the entire house. it finds /etc is tracked by etckeeper but has no remote. "okay push it to this private repo", I say. qwen thinks, wait...
> Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down stepping down? from where? 😏
You could not pay me to press any of those buttons. (tbc the policy is a good thing. the discourse I will stay faaaar away from)
this, so much code is just clay now, shape it however you want
antirez@antirez.bsky.social · 10h agoNow part of the DwarfStar README
> succeeded 19 minutes ago in 1m 12s > succeeded 15 minutes ago in 28s well this seems to be working
So I looked up the year that the first Chrome version was released, and I am feeling very old.
I thought I would be cute and serve an HDR video stream, and now if it's on my studio display, it's much much more dark than it should be. That's the first image. If, however, it's on my my MacBook display, it's exactly the brightness it should be.
Do you think every company has a person full time that just updates the Docker desktop app for everyone?
Super interested to see how this will turn out and if it was actually well thought out
Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton and Minehead@rachelgilmourld.bsky.social · 2d agoFrom today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.
My job as a guy who has officially Seen Some Shit in my professional career is now to show up and say "yes yes nice workaround but have we tried not having this problem" and then showing what not having the problem looks like. I can't imagine this is popular but by god is it needed
anyone not seeing Opus 5 anymore in their claude code model picker? did I curse at it too much or?? claude-opus-5 manual selection still works not much of value was lost etc.
our new cat.. licks the corners of books? literal thirst for knowledge smh
okay I finally understood what cashback is for. the manufacturer is buying a qualified lead: someone who already bought one of their products through a reseller, they can collect email/phone/address, force them to subscribe to marketing channels and that.. that may be worth up to 600EUR. got it.
me: 1000 nits hdr panel amazon: "Results for: 1000 nuts hdr panel" me: amazon you're setting unrealistic standards for skanks
eris finally made a viz of my how my brain runs:
Eris@isolyth.dev · 4d agoI HAVE SOLVED SPOTLIGHTMOE MOTION!!! TIME TO SCALE TOKENS!! (probably, or I could mess around with attention arches and tokenizers... I should scale first though, only like 2 days for a chinchilla optimal on the total params I believe)
in fact if you play marry/fuck/murder against itself, you can place yourself on a 3D alignment chart. me, I'm at: marry: fuck fuck: marry murder: murder
thank u, hexed@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 5d agoUsing lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.
There's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
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- sir, I would implore you to measure your words. we are in presence of the duke! - well I shan't! not even for a person of this caliper!
