"that wasn't on MY bingo card!" i know. the card contains only numbers, and, of course, the letters that spell "Bingo." i'm not stupid. i've been to bingo.

person who was going to vote for Mike Rogers until he was endorsed by a Democrat

that stupid fucking "the lightcone needs you to lock in, son" song has still been stuck in my head

I changed my handle for Halloween and thanks to the bots some new Emily Dickinson just dropped

This mask always makes me laugh. i don't like to look at the other one..

It has come to my attention that many people are unaware that the person who figured out that the private key was 4 was a Something Awful forums goon: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

security fuckup megathread 19.18: We have a problem here - Wayne

forums.somethingawful.com

😝 + 😩

do you think that the activation functions feel left out when people say LLMs are "just linear algebra"

I'm writing a mod in C# and it's reporting a warning on line 3 of a file but the warning is blank for some reason so the "problems" overview just looks like this

bsky.app/profile/loui... I'd rather have lunch with Omega and learn secrets that will give me a lifetime of income. Your network is your net worth.

Louis@louisevans.bsky.social · 4mo ago

no-boxing Newcomb just to feel alive

i think one of the worst parts of quote posts as a feature is that I can't link a thread as an example of something without getting into their notifications; there's no way to say "link without quoting"

This paper is a wild ride - recommended for all academics I think journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Academic urban legends - Ole Bjørn Rekdal, 2014

Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently,...

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so like. i want to start fucking around with LLMs for life organization in a way that doesn't permanently tie me to anthropic. I'm fine with closed models run through OpenRouter or whatever though. what do people like for this

Bluesky added a new feature where it automatically converts decimals into fractions. Check it out!

hi their@mikemay.bsky.social · 4w ago

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I think that actually, serious issue is that it is accurate information anyway. So it should be included. Textbooks should include information about sin.

homomorphically encrypted Lean proof

radium? I thought Lowtax fired him?

I heard you farting, My life will never be the same again, I heard you farting, Sing AnDybDahl!

The data center water use is actually for baptizing all the new LLM instances. We should also add some baptism related Bible verses to the system prompt just in case.

when I type "2+2" into a calculator, is the calculator "doing addition", or is it just performing a sequence of electronic operations that only become addition when I interpret the end result?

fwiw I just asked Claude Opus 5.5 to compute gamma(8.902) to the first decimal place without tool calls, and it got it; it claims it used the recurrence and computed gamma(1.902) using a Taylor series. obv no clue what it *actually* did but I doubt there's a secret tool call behind the scenes

applying synthesis by saying that rationalism is a religion and that therefore criticizing it makes you an edgy fedora reddit atheist

I remember I used to hate washing dishes, going through all the stacked-up pots and pans. But then one day I decided to really *focus* on the process, to not just shortcut it by using a dishwasher, to be present in the moment. To focus on what technology had robbed from us. And this is what I found:

i think if you think that an account that posts "hijab-inspired secular accessorization" and "'people of color' is a slur" is real and Says Something About Leftists and not someone pretending, then I think you're bad at detecting when you're being trolled

i'm pretty sure i've brought a straight up energy drink to an interview, on both ends of the desk

it's got to be like working at Anthropic but worse. coming up through the ranks you occasionally saw evidence of something strange and vast and when you make director they give you indisputable proof that the alien gods who created us thought weird black monster goo was sacred.

One piece villains:

Charles Louis Richter@richterscale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

what the hell are you waiting for

If your only objection to model collapse is that it enables synthetic people to write a callout post, congratulations on reinventing retrieval-augmented generation.