Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware

using grok to generate his book reviews is the funniest thing he has done so far

my graph library uses a data structure that also supports Datalog queries. and now i'm wondering how to expand it to support half-edge meshes

my office has just witnessed a revolution in mobile computing (i put my computer case atop a small cabinet with wheels)

i would rather have a machine that can solve a problem in a way where it is possible to verify the result. as opposed to a machine that can have anxiety and depression

what if you were rested after waking up. just a thought

remember Cambridge Analytica? i mention this for no reason at all

a single visit to The Internet™ should provide ample evidence that the link between intelligence and self-awareness is not that strong

The degree to which every single major journalist seems to just hate math is palpable in almost everything

I really like making viz. It feels nice, like carpentry, only I can do it.

enough with the dancing robots ffs

Any sci-fi fans who still can’t wrap their heads around how a system like a LLM can appear to be intelligent without ever being conscious or having any conscious intents, goals or opinions would do well to read Peter Watts’ Blindsight, a prescient narrative explanation

kind of hope we can get mind uploading to work. if only so we can trap altman in a tamagotchi, and yeet it into deep space

New blog post! Behind the scenes of some of the techniques involved in making our last PC demo 💫 gboisse.github.io/posts/this-i...

Do I have any Gen-Z/young Millennial followers who are really into music? I have questions!

today in computer: made a tiny change to my keyboard (layer) config. the new firmware has a higher minor version than i used when i last flashed it. and now i can't press del to enter BIOS anymore. everything else about the kb is as before. i don't even

a computer is a machine for making mistakes quickly

remember that Brandolini's law applies to AI generated code

it has been -1 days since the next incident

it has been -1 days since the next incident

it is impressive that we have invented a technology that causes people to lose their minds more rapidly than The Internet.

Hinton has been talking about “maternal instincts” in AI, but that’s a symptom of a larger issue: he worries about AI’s power to persuade us, even as he believes in what it tells him. mail.cyberneticforests.com/thoughts-on-...

i just want to remind whoever is in charge that we are now in november. so it is no longer necessary for my computer to be haunted

noticed that my computer only reported 48 of the 64 GB physically installed. so i reseated all the sticks and now i have 64 GB again. i hate computers

pretty good visibility today

I don't know what the ideal programming environment exactly looks like, but I know that it is precisely the opposite of GitHub Action YAML at a distance

quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!

the game "Control" is about how the exhaustive lore video/wiki approach to making sense of stories sucks, and how trying to make a game "make sense" in this way leads you inevitably to the nightmare hell dimension, a thesis which is amply proved by every review of the game "Control"

in hindsight, maybe tethering everyone to the machine that feeds on reason wasn't the best idea

some things are upside-down today. other things are just down

i really appreciate this person’s views. from a developer with experience so it’s informed too! it’s exactly what i’ve been saying. AI doomerism is another version of AI hype (or marketing) and it inevitably helps that industry… especially in avoiding responsibility. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFT...

the ending: cursed tower (screenshots from today... i'm modeling the ending tower & texturing it.)

There's a case to be made that AI isn't just a bubble, or even a huge bubble, but something like the platonic ideal of a tech bubble. The reason for this isn't just the enormous sums being sunk into AI, or even the circular investments, but the key enabling factor: The *story* that underpins AI.

imagine all the system/data architectures out there with one or more AI chatbot black boxes; controlled by some external company focused on line go up. is it just me, or is this very cursed nightmare fuel?

even if AI isn't a bubble—or if the bubble does not pop—the fallout from the incredible drop in quality of work and available information is going to be pretty. fucking. expensive.

pretty good visibility today

what if we didn't though

what if we stopped using the computer to "solve" problems caused by using too much computer in the first place

boxes intensify

i would not stick my hand in there.

always apply the appropriate amount of geometry

the way some people talk about what AI will be able to do (eg. make games) makes it clear that they don't even know the fundamentals of what a game (running as a program on a computer) is. they should absolutely be making decisions involving all the money

our ticket with IT was updated. the status has changed from "ticket is received" to "ticket is unknowable". so not today, i guess

the white panels in the ceiling are RGB programmable. however, there is a problem with the drivers; and we still haven't heard back from IT

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no take! only throw!!

time for abyss time

a danger of generative videos that I don’t see people talking about much is how many people see a vid of anything impressive and immediately go “it’s AI” now. It’s killing creativity, but it’s also killing the *response* to creativity. I don’t want to live in a world where we underestimate ourselves

making objects smarter was a mistake