Sometimes you’re the scaling law, sometimes you’re LK-99
I keep seeing the tweet but people do in fact get PhDs in gender studies and governance or polisci or failed states or anthropology or even nat sec strategy all the time, the idea the current failures at the pentagon are somehow understudied is insane
Suspect I’ve got more in common with my 20 yr old self than with my 25 yr old self
Real squicked out by the idea of getting an adhd diagnosis but increasingly lured by the potential that I’ve just been missing the juice this whole time
Of course that’s your contention. You’re a bluesky poster. You just got finished reading some X refugees screed on the rats - se gyges probably. You’re gonna be convinced of that ‘til next month when you go hop on lesswrong for yourself, and then you’re gonna be talkin about how the suffering of shr
LLMs won’t wipe out humanity because they just don’t have that dog in them.
These visualizations are just so cool and so fun
Matt Henderson@matthen.com · 5d agoTrying to forecast the future on a Galton board
"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US
This is something like what I imagined while reading Player of Games
This spaceship does not exist@ttaships.airminded.org · 5d agoCA 440 Crusader does not exist #AIArt #midjourney
For the discourse: at work rn I’ve got $200 a month of api token spend with anthropic and whatever else I can wring out of M365 copilot. I usually budget myself to around $9/day of spend. Have ended up with ~$15 to burn on the afternoon of the last day of the month for the last few months
Just read the Athletic piece on Mahomes coming back after surgery and it’s real light on details. Smells like it might be one of the first sports recoveries aided by peptides and would really love to hear about it if that’s the case
Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.
I do sometimes idly day dream about EA gaining a foothold in east coast finance
testing astra's parametric modeling capabilities by asking it to reconstruct these marble maze pieces from reference photos, and then use them in threejs to make a marble maze builder with box3d physics.
Got my bandsaw and my 3d printer back up and working this week which means it’s time to immediately abandon both of them and work on a raspberry pi project
XXL retrospective on the 2016 freshman cypher led me to the 2026 class and I think the best thing I can say is that I guess I’m getting older
Honestly the only thing I’m even remotely proud of in my career is hiring and shepherding several very talented people into the profession
I feel like UBI is probably utopian fantasy but increasingly it does feel likely that some sort of BI will/may occur and the real catch is gonna be the nature of the organization that provides it
globe showing windborne weathermesh6 outputs from sept 1-9, about 2GB of VRAM to load it all. layers are precip, 10m wind, and mean sea level pressure
mapbox is great for rendering geojson-based isobars, but they can't really be animated nicely over time or interpolated. so I made a custom webgl layer that does realtime isolines + placement of mtsdf-based labels
You're heading out, but you can't seem to find your keys. Thinking quickly, you burn 20 million dollars of compute searching for them. They were on the counter. "We live in a post-scarcity economy," you assure yourself as you walk out the door.
Shouts to Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals, always one of my favorite things
Eris@isolyth.dev · 2w agoNew favorite painting discovered Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace (1979), Sedukhin
