Oh my

Admittedly I would probably say this, but I thought this article was a very insightful analysis of the problems with building AI agents, based on real experience. (Jury currently out on the _solutions_ but at least the problems seem clearly outlined.) utkarshkanwat.com/writing/bett...

🌱 Sprout: a BDD testing DSL in F#! Inspired by Jasmine + powered by computation expressions. Ready to declare your specs? Have you tried ‘feature … scenario …’ in F# yet? #fsharp #BDD #testing @fsharp.bsky.online

Just thinking of the Harvard computer women a century ago, who looked at images of the universe like this by eye to make discoveries. They revolutionized astronomy, and Rubin definitely will too! Also, wow how excited would Henrietta Leavitt and Williamina Flemming be to see this! 🤩 🔭🧪🎢

damn yes needed this today

why does ml actually work? i understand backpropagation but that's about it. are we "looking for a function"? why are these functions particularly "arrivable at" via ml and transformers or diffusion? what is it about nn? any compelling evidence it's "enough" or are there other structural approaches?

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Wasn't expecting Cory @booker.senate.gov blocking senate business with an actual in fact standing filibuster to protest what the fuck is going on but I'll take it. @ossoff.bsky.social @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov &c can ask questions to work in breaks

Ooo, I know this one! Doing An Internet.

Well done fellow Wisconsinites!!!!! We can’t be bought! Congratulations @crawfordforwi.bsky.social !! I feel this thing creeping back in…HOPE. Thank you to EVERYONE who knocked doors, made calls, wrote postcards, etc. We did it!!! @WisDems 💙

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Ken Burns’ The Internet: A Series of Unfortunate Events A slow pan over a blurry JPEG of a dancing baby, accompanied by a somber violin score. A dramatic reading of a 1999 forum post.

Laughing darkly to myself as John Roberts realizes that he’s not a leopard

To be fair, you say "me" but it's actually Trump. The school isn't being selfish here. Giving up an entire incoming class because they can't guarantee they won't be stranded, or worse, deported is a huge blow to their institution, as well.

DOGE is like economizing on your car by not filling the motor with oil.

Have you ever been so sick of a device you rage bought a competitor's? I have!

Watching my 401K drop like a stone, as I’m sure many are, now is a perfect example why Social Security must be protected, and not privatized. It is also a great rebuttal against those who say people should just save on their own and invest in the market. How’d that work out in 1929?

The Trump-Musk fiasco is of a piece with our much larger slide into "clientelism" or "personalist" rule. Trump is now discovering it has a downside: He's corruptly giving Musk extraordinary power, but now Trump is yoked to Musk's epic failures. h/t @jamellebouie.net newrepublic.com/article/1926...

me for real

I am so tired of Republicans saying “this is crazy” behind closed doors.

publishing all the new editions of the OCaml Platform Newsletter as a LinkedIn Newsletter (in addition to existing distribution channels) if you want to keep updated or promote reach of the newsletter, here's a link: www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...

Bernie’s current message is “Make your congressperson recognize they can either be scared of getting primaried by Musk or by their constituents, and they have more to fear from their constituents.” Be brave, and be brave in numbers.

Want to genuinely test something: Followers, were you taught about Homer in K-12 education?

I really dislike XML comments. It's way too much noise, and it's hard to reason about the code. We need a better mechanism to document APIs. #dotnet #csharp

So here's my big announcement, regarding filling some very big shoes of a very dear friend...

apropos of another thread, this is a pretty good watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtr...

It’s pretty cool what you can accomplish with some ethanol, water, a PHD and a gazillion hours of cleaning (Seriously though, that’s some amazing work they did to clean & restore the colors & art in the temple)

I know I’ve said this on here before, but it’s really remarkable and humbling to see our book resonate with people who want to understand DOGE. Thank y’all so, so, much for reading. It’s really special to me and @rmac.bsky.social. Hope to see some of you at the Tucson Festival of Books this week!

Anyone in Brooklyn have a part-time job for (no joke) my very sweet 90-year-old friend? She was just laid off from an office job of 25 years. She thought about applying to be a greeter at a hospital but you need to be able to physically do CPR on someone, which she can't.

D’Wayne Wiggins, founding member of Tony! Toni! Toné!, has died, according to family

Big shoutout to @nodejs.org for adding TypeScript 🎉 But how is it different than Deno's "first class" TypeScript support? Here's an overview of what you can (and can't) do with TypeScript in Node and Deno. deno.com/blog/typescr...

YES SIR!!!

I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but: If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present. Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover

Reminder that instead of attending Donald Trump's first address to Congress tonight I'll be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live at 6 PM PT. You don't need a Facebook account – or to be an Oregonian – to tune in. Look forward to seeing you all soon.

New video about 6510/VIC-II timing, $D020, and C64 stuff like that. youtu.be/-f8CsHj8z4U

The Army deleted my “Why I served” video where I talked about how I decided I wanted to attend West Point/join the Army after one of the cadets my family used to sponsor died in combat. Probably deleted because she was the first black woman to be CSM at West Point.

After Brown v. Board it’ll be Virginia v. Loving; mark my words

@missingthept.bsky.social put it best, I think

I’m looking for work! 👁️👁️ I’m looking for storyboarding or revisionist positions, but I’m also open to work in games! I’m available immediately - I’m fast, funny, and friendly, & I’d love to work with you! Help me feed my cats, they won’t stop screaming!

off to flushing today

It’s Kitty’s box now.

HT to Sean Davis for creating a status page for NIH websites: stats.uptimerobot.com/Zrqh8AhvKn - simultaneous worth sharing and sad.

One of the big mistakes in computers was naming GPUs "graphical processing units" instead of "linear algebra units" They're units specialized for linear algebra, of which graphics was just one application.