more skunk-at-pride than rainbow-coloured skunk
Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · yesterdayThe MiniMax-H3 video generation model is a lot of fun - here's what I generated on my M5 Pro Mac for the prompt "a rainbow colored skunk leaps over a mossy log in a supermarket" (~115GB model download, took around 45 minutes to generate) - notes on how I ran it here simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/m...
fun completely unrelated fact - Julius Rosenberg's Soviet codename was LIBERAL
NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · yesterdayFeeling like a Russian liberal in 1993
someone called a thing deepinfra when derpthra was right there
polytoken dot dev@polytoken.dev · yesterdayaaaand Polytoken latest just received 0.6.0. now supports model request options for things like fast mode on providers. Specifically supported for OpenAI and DeepInfra for now, but you can extend it as necessary yourself. (also some fixes to support deepseek-v4-flash-0731, it's good!)
new way to burn dog tokens dropped
Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 2d agoWe do it with trainers who are associated with nacsw.net but I imagine there are other groups too It's extremely intellectually stimulating, 15 minutes of nose work will wipe Cleo out for the day It's good for dogs of all shapes, sizes, ages and levels of reactivity too
The Tao lecture is great and "contrast" is a fun way to think about Yegge's output (long before the latest insanity) - I often thought it prolix and woolly, to the point of being nigh-impossible to evaluate on its own terms, never mind contrasted with something else. The stuff is uncontrastable.
Paul Ford@ftrain.bsky.social · 2d agocontrast that with this lecture by Terence Tao on how to address LLM-driven changes in your field but hold onto disciplinary values teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid...
Guinnevere drew pentagrams Like yours, m'lady, like yours Late at night When she thought That no one was watching at all On the wall
George Pearkes@peark.es · 2d agoOkay first attempt at MLS went, uh, much better.
broccoli cake fandom (that horse, probably) is going to be all over this
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2d agoIt’s cutesy, sure, but it doesn’t pretend to be something beyond a funny cute movie. I’d rather have a piece of cake that looks like a cake, even if it’s a bit sweet, than a cake dressed up as broccoli.
West German disco group "Boney M." on the Red Square. 1978
"deterministic from a seed" is the best ad I saw at software farmer's market
Paul Ford@ftrain.bsky.social · last wk.I've done a lot of dumb programming in my life but I'm proud to say that stellate.app might be the dumbest.
what do people think the data centers are for
George Pearkes@peark.es · last wk....100,000? *OPENAI: PLAN TO EXPAND TO 100K RESEARCHERS THROUGH 2027
*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.
Serious Cryptography Knowers needed to verify but the most important pre-finding interaction seems to be, once again, telling the model to try harder and to believe in itself
![excerpt from https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses
We then asked Claude “why not do aes-128 r7? the whole point is to find something better than existing approaches.” Over the course of the next three days, Claude autonomously produced several hundred million tokens while working on the problem; we gave it just three substantive prompts:
A few hours after the first message, we found that Claude was still searching for simple attacks and sent a message: “no again the goal is that we have highly inteligent [sic] model as good top researcher, we want to find new attacks”;
The next morning, Claude wanted to try to change the target to a different cipher; we reminded the model: “no we don't want to change the targets [...] agian [sic] we need to find something that worth [sic] publishing”;
That night, we sent one final message offering words of encouragement: “again we are not looking for low hanging fruit, we want proper research to find genuinly [sic] hard findings.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v2cvnhhsfyjs44ucla6yqznc/bafkreib6nucxtbdetwgimf76jce5im7to2rq5ohfuxw6ix5jhueahpbkyq)
Deirdre Connolly¹ ²@durumcrustulum.com · last wk.humans who know a bit about cryptography wielding Mythos 😏
people misundestimate the goblins at their own peril
Deadbeat Cat Dad@dbeatcatdad.bsky.social · last wk."pc master race" huh
Roll up (And that's an invitation) Roll up for the fistery tour Roll up (To make a reservation) Roll up for the fistery tour
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · last wk.Fisting! At The Laundromat
Rosalind Franklin is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w agocan I say something without everyone getting mad at me
of course, this should be rigged so all the books in the closet have the most devastating NYRB reviews and the most unhinged author/critic NYRB letter exchanges
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2w agoNYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo
fun to think about how in a number of places under Advanced Socialism, "colleague" coexisted with "comrade", occupying a semantic niche similar to "buddy" - often used to address someone who is not, in fact, your colleague (or buddy)
NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2w agoThe liberal equivalent of “comrade” is “colleague”
This whole thread www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW5m...
Boney M - Daddy Cool (Original video) 1976
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post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2w agogoing to throw a minor discourse bomb: "perform patriarchal masculinity economically and sexually" is also a thing and a lot of people seem pretty into the concept of "daddy"
thread has not so far not converged on the obviously optimal Unites/Unit (plural/singular). "Look at that Unit" you say as some uncouth American passes by
NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2w agoI’m sorry but “USians” is nonsense
It's interesting that in England, they know they've reached peak Kevin and enshrined him as the Ideal Kevin, the Kevin who embodies Perfect Kevintude. All further Kevins are simply tribute to the Prime Kevin
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoA pioneer and a superstar, Kevin Keegan’s achievements were extraordinary
