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mike taddow@miketaddow.bsky.social · 23h ago

this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here

Another El Niño Record! Watch as heat back ups at the end. The heat building below the surface, which fuels El Niño, is higher than ever measured. This shows the heat just below the Trop Pacific sfc, moving from the W.Pacific Warm Pool where it’s stored, to the E. Pacific Sfc where El Niño forms 1/

A surprising conclusion I have come to from working with agents. blog.exe.dev/devtools-mus...

Devtools must be open source - exe.dev blog

We have entered the age of personalized software.

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This is what needs to happen worldwide but it‘s kind of naive to think it will…

Nicole Hennig@nic221.bsky.social · 4d ago

'AI for All' project underway in South Korea govmedia.com/in-focus/ai-al… #AI #SouthKorea

I got into coding at age 8. Coding by hand does bring me a certain measure of joy. But there is so much to do, and there is little joy to be had in just writing the same boilerplate over and over again.

MegaMasterX@megamasterx.dev · 5d ago

it feels so freaking good to code, dude. like human to IDE. how do ai-pilled people not find joy in doing this by hand. i genuinely dont understand.

im a non neutral cos I don’t listen to pop but as someone in that category i just do not care whether its produced by AI. It’s already slop. I don’t care if anyone is rewarded for producing it

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 5d ago

Within 5 to 10 years a lot of pop music will be made at least partly with AI and the fact that our generation deplores it will be either irrelevant or part of the appeal

I recommend this article about AI reasoning, where the author lets us in on his struggles w/ AI cognitive dissonance. Plus some priceless quotes from @rao2z.bsky.social. (My recommendation has *nothing* to do with the fact that I'm quoted in it too 😇) www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

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my wife leaves me helpful instructions when she leaves town

openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms

The oldest metaphysical trap: discover that identity is relationally instantiated, then discover it has a monthly fee

Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

The Star Wars director has called AI technology ‘the future’ of film-making and advised ‘there’s nothing you can do about it’ Star Wars director George Lucas has added his voice to the growing chorus of film-makers receptive to the rising use of AI tools in moviemaking. Speaking in an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas, 82, said: “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies.” Continue reading...

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We are leaving the Old Code Age, the Paleocodic, the artisinal code era, where if you needed a novel program, you would commission a local codesmith or code guild to hand-craft a work of code for you, bespoke.

"experts hate AI because we won't need them" is a stupid fucking take, im sorry

I’ve been writing a lot of long deep dives recently and wanted to step back and write a quick rant about why I’m consistently landing so hard in the skeptic corner in the data center debate blog.andymasley.com/p/why-i-thin...

Why I think panic about local impacts of data centers is just a panic

A request for counter examples

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I had strong priors against LLMs for medicine. There are a lot of doctors in my family and I grew up viewing doctors as careful, skilled professionals. I had plenty of bad medical experiences, but I thought it would be hard to do better. Then an LLM found a cure for my 2 decade chronic condition...

Smart stuff from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. Being empowered to make stuff is transformative for students, and this is a dramatically more hopeful vision for education in the present than some arms-crossed reversion to a print-only media ecosystem that predates my first years in school.

We could be building a better world with our students. Why are we disempowering them instead?

And why did our constructionism impulse die when it was most needed?

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

One thing that I think is somewhat not well understood that even if AI is "only" capable of stringing together pre existing ideas without any ability to do anything "really original", there is a *lot* of information and ideas out there, and you can string together *a lot*.

they finally invented the Do Nothing Machine from the hit scifi novel I Don't Really Care If You Invent The Do Nothing Machine

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2mo ago

Claude Fable's "biosecurity" flags are incredibly restrictive. This model is going to be almost useless for me.

We can go lower! Office building should be turned into living space.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Adjust for inflation, and US office construction is holding at worst-of-the-great-recession levels, falling nearly 60% since the onset of the pandemic in 2020 and down 9% over the last year in data released today

human rights abuse of "downloading on the publicly accessible web too much"

Ok this is a truly great tweet

One thing that has surprised me is how widely even scientists now parrot essentially the same arguments about human specialness that creationists tried to use for years. Although in hindsight it's less of a surprise when you realize creationism wasn't really about gods and evolution but me me me.

ok so it's 8 months later and between gemma4/qwen3.6/deepseek4 i'm pretty sure we've reached this, to a large extent i can run the dense gemma 4 on my laptop and it's basically Gemini 2.5 pro in my lap, isn't this insane?

Astra ⭐@astrra.space · 11mo ago

feeling like the coolest thing that could happen to the modern AI landscape is being able to at least run models with capabilities on the level of Opus 4.1/Gemini 2.5 Pro/etc locally on consumer hardware and at best - being able to actually train/fine-tune them on that hardware as well

I have written a new post, "Implications Of Predicting The Next Token" in which I explain why saying a language model "just" predicts the next token fails to understand what that phrase would even imply. minihf.com/posts/2026-0...

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