Alex O’Connor
@uberalex.bsky.social
Posting here manually til it’s more efficient to use an LLM. I’m the one in the background.
sovereign citizen basketball player: “I’m not traveling. I’m driving”
This is meant in the best way. This is absolutely so reminiscent of the direct interfaces and vision of programmable uis from the late 90s, even down to the aesthetic. Really wonderful to see these ideas modernised.
Imbue@imbue-ai.bsky.social · 4d agoWhat should the future of personal computing look like? We built it 😈 Introducing Imbue Studio: youtu.be/tbdON-tn5gA
Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.
Jev is a dealer in harsh judgments.
Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 2w agoNot the outcome I'd hoped for, but at least now I know.
Jev is really clever. Looking back at the days of attaching sequence classification heads to Bert and upgrading that product in a very smart way. I bet there are other classes of use case that need that kind of mechanism.
“The fraction of desk rejected papers at TMLR used to be about 6% in 2023 but is now at about 53%.”
Gautam Kamath@gautamkamath.com · 3w agoNihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.
so I’m “under arrest.” interesting. perhaps you didn’t realize I’m one of bluesky’s 38 most influential posters
If we really want to honor Tim Curry's memory, then we have to publish like 8 different obituaries, each with a different and entirely plausible cause of death.
Dolly Parton was the subject of a long running thought exercise in Fermi estimation. How many times do you think she said the word Jolene in her lifetime?
So what’s the Venn diagram of shape rotators, vibes people, and spreadsheet people look like?
![Disco Elysium style text box. It reads:
RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] — Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about populism. Scratch that, to coming up with the question about populism, the alpha and omega of populism questions, and that question is:
1. (Whisper.) "Is Count Binface the Establishment?"
2. Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kzsnqhdb3styakbudv3xtq4p/bafkreicg27jmn7f6syohe5d7au7dv2bmes77ec5ewugosphditdq72t73i)
Watch: Louvre Museum reopens gallery after jewellery heist
Watch: Louvre Museum reopens gallery after jewellery heist
The Louvre Museum reopens its Apollo Gallery nine months after a robbery that shocked France.
bbc.co.uk
Stately, plump Thanos came from the stairhead, bearing a glove of metal on which infinity stones lay crossed
Innsmouth Looksmaxxing@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3mo agoSkimming Wikipedia to make an "Avengers: Bloomsday" joke before the window closes
Camera ready deadline is Aug 8! Also, financial assistance form is up: forms.gle/HhXhv8ND38X1... Deadline is July 31 Author registration is ongoing (authors, get on it!) Non-author registration will follow up in (very) early August
Would literary scholars care to comment on what the Bard might have thought of “agentic sonnets”?
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
I had the immense pleasure to be a reviewer for colm again this year and fully endorse what’s below. It’s a gem of a conference.
Jacob Eisenstein@jacobeisenstein.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt’s a small, biased sample, but my AC batch for @colmweb.org was miles better than the papers i reviewed for NeurIPS: more creative, more rigorous, better written. Maybe AI research isn’t doomed to 2-3 omni-conferences after all?
Interested to note this “humanizer” for grant proposals. github.com/AIScientists... My feeling is that a lot of the more “bot-like” forms are hallmarks of traditional human academic writing.
GitHub - AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer: Strip AI-writing tells from papers and grant proposals (NSF/NIH), while keeping scholarly voice and tying claims to evidence. A skill for Claude Code, Cod...
Strip AI-writing tells from papers and grant proposals (NSF/NIH), while keeping scholarly voice and tying claims to evidence. A skill for Claude Code, Codex, and MorphMind. - AIScientists-Dev/acade...
github.com
okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 4mo agoBREAKING: The UK Government confirms that Bluesky will be INCLUDED in the ban on social media for under 16s. The government said it will be BANNED because it is a “user-to-user platform who purpose is to enable social interaction.”
Group chats on bsky are just another source of FOMO for me, I suspect.
No other programming language has had such an excellent introductory movie as Erlang. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIj...
Erlang: The Movie
YouTube video by uncertainyesterday
youtube.com
P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com · 4mo agoI am, in fact, an Erlang fanboy at heart and would bet money I spend my retirement either finding out if this claim is true, or trying to make it true