This was a whole ride woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...

Had an idea last week to make a tool that shows what answers a model can give for a given prompt. Used this downtime day to explore the idea and the results are fun. This isn't sampling, it deterministically enumerates the search space. Prompt was: "In what year was Barack Obama born?"

me, an expert, being asked about my expertise: i dunno, why are you asking me?

Queuing theory is something I was taught appallingly badly, but I’ve gradually come to realise just how useful it is.

www.macrumors.com/2025/12/07/s... "Cook himself [...] turned 65 last month and now exhibits a noticeable, unexplained tremor in his hands." /me raises eyebrow

photos.app.goo.gl/fGaUDNCH43wV... Winter lights (with a new camera that I'm not sure about)

Not quite sure what to make of this piece, since the Irish Times reporting was a) considerably less detailed; b) did not join the dots, unlike this piece; c) appeared to be sourced at a higher level than this; d) focused on inter-agency squabbles in the later pieces. But having said that, ...

Prof Antoinette Weibel (love her) posted studies that randomly selecting leadership personnel worked the same (or maybe better, don’t remember) than choosing them in the traditional ways

One outcome of _fully_ deployed AI SRE (i.e. no humans) is a very handy accountability sink for production messups - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Una... for more

TL;DR Middle management is hard. Caring is required, but the kind of care you provide matters.

It occurs to me that President Zelensky is probably uniquely positioned to compare the national anthems of most European nations

Ben I love you

Open sourced Zork today opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... and ran it on a swarm of containers in the cloud 😂

this is one small but amazing thing

There are no words for how amazingly beautiful this poetic hack is, and I use those words very intentionally

The config of the species is more deadly than the code.

Don't Mail the Board; Find Out Who Makes the Deck for the Compliance Committee and Email Them Asking If They're the Right Person to Ask

We're currently in the biggest game of the Dollar Auction ever created. Each new frontier model represents a bid, whose cost is paid for at the time that it is trained. But the AI market is a most-capable winner-take-most game. new post by @talor.computer ft me: taloranderson.com/blog/ai-valu...

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it. All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference. Tanks

Michael D Higgins leaving office this evening to make way for his successor, Michael E Higgins

for the comment "look on my twerks, ye mighty"

I'm a bit of a nerd about this - but it's hard to quantify just how popular Local Link buses have been in 'rural Ireland' - new one will link villages from Cork to Kerry that haven't had a bus service since the 1960s... www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...

My default position is that I'm wrong, and whaddya know, often I'm right

It's understandable. The onus on people to have to fact check and verify every single piece of information we encounter leads to a lot of cognitive overload. AI slop equates to digital microplastics - everywhere in the information ecosystem, and nobody is immune.

Would you like to work on LinkedIn? InfoSec is hiring! We have both manager and IC roles -- and more coming. I'm here because I want to help protect people and not work with jerks. If that's what you like, then I hope you'll join us. Jobs in 🧵

It is important to realise that, despite everything, we are not quite there yet

Started a thread in the other place and bringing it over here - I really think we should be more vocal about the opportunities that lay at the intersection of these two options! So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :

The enemy's gate is down: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Human sacrifice is quite a harsh term. We prefer ablative employee retention programs.

Hey can y'all do me a favor? If you run across any post-incident write-ups from companies affected by the AWS outage, could you send those to me?Feel free to leave a link in the comments, or you can drop them here: www.thevoid.community/submit-incid... Thanks!

REM was wrong. I do not feel fine.

First rule of distributed systems: don’t build a distributed system if you can avoid it Second rule of distributed systems: you probably can’t avoid it

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on. Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

'I want my celebrities to say things like “What is death?” before uploading to the data centre that’s melting the world’s last iceberg.' www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r... (h/t the unforgettable @patrickfreyne.bsky.social)

(7) will LLMs always hallucinate? yes. this is a probabilistic technology. it will guess wrong. in fact, everything useful which an LLM does is driven by the same factors which lead it to hallucinate.

(1) is a LLM "fancy autocomplete." if i said "no," i would be wrong because "autocomplete" is the objective function. if i said "yes," i would be deceptive because even autocomplete has a representation space which encodes properties of language which you would not expect.

this is going to get me yelled at so I will preemptively say "this is not the thread to reply with 'but I just don't like AI and think it's bad'" but I do think that "LLMs are glorified autocorrect" as a meme is actively hindering people's understanding of how this tech works at this point

I have to recomend this movie too, I think you'll like it!

lets work on revognising the personhood of humans first, aye?

Many AI researchers draw inspiration from neuroscience. Naomi Saphra favors a different analogy. Interpretability, in her view, should take a cue from evolutionary biology.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

New scheme designed in the centre presents some difficulties for the periphery, as per usual.

A couple of years ago in Dublin Airport, I was told a story by a lady surveying passengers who used to work at check-in that a Hungarian journalist travelling with his wife tried - for a piece - to use invalid ID to get his tickets and then for an encore to smuggle a knife through security. >

"When we cease to change a program, we cease to use it." If an author reduced the reading level by six years, added 200 pages of flop-sweat anecdotes, and mentioned rainbow socks, Mountain Dew, cloud providers and AI vibe coding, we'd have a book ready for current-day thought leadership.

Included in this 1964 paper: "The person who creates one program is never free of it unless he makes it possible for others to modify his program without performing major research." A concise litany of the problems that still bedevil software design and programming. #tech

Hillel found a Mythical-man-month-anticipating, Agile-before-agile-thinking genius --

*looks out upon a world drowning in noise, contempt for knowledge, and weird storms of histrionic groupthink*: yes, I see your problem here; definitely not enough neurotypicals

Once again Keir Starmer, a sort of living batch loaf with glasses, has decided to deliver What Nobody Asked For. “Officials say the Prime Minister was determined to launch a digital ID scheme, despite Sir Tony Blair’s costly and failed attempt to roll out compulsory ID cards in the 200s.”

Jesus found an infinite loaves and fishes glitch and chose not to flood the market to maintain scarcity to maximize fishery and bakery profits

did you know gmail now has a subscriptions page where it lists all your subscriptions and you can unsubscribe from them????