Ich muss gestehen, dass mein Vertrauen in die Medien immer mehr abnimmt. Was ich die letzte Zeit an Unsinn zu technischen Themen gelesen habe, ist einfach unglaublich. Und das betrifft "seriöse" Medien. Warum schreiben Menschen, die Französiche Literatur studiert haben, über technische Themen? 🙄

Expecting one-shot perfection from a *tool* is a folly, I think. And LLM/agents are tools, nothing else. They help me build, think, and find solutions. They are useless without a human or human input, as most human-made tools are. I don't expect even a *great* hammer to build furniture on its own 😉

We do not know how much Anthropic pays for the inference. The per token pricing is not the objective true price, and neither is subscription. This is a VC backed innovative cloud service that needs a larger paying customer base to get even more VC.

Having an extremely expressive face is not really an asset when you are a diplomat, but Kaja Kallas makes the best of it.

I really hope never to offend her.

Apparently, you can ask Claude Code for a SVG of your software's architecture and... it just appears. Well, I should not be surprised at all any more.

Wer fordert, Teile des Internets oder gar das ganze Internet für bestimmte Bevölkerungssegmente zu beschränken, der fordert eine komplette Identifizierungspflicht. Und zwar jedes Mal, wenn man sich an seinen Computer setzt. Diese Daten in der Hand von Faschisten.....

Negative: freezing! 0 to 10: Cold! 10 to 20: Mild! 20 to 30: Pleasant! Above 30: hot! The American mind cannot comprehend this.

Passt www.n-tv.de/mediathek/bi...

So I do have a spirit animal after all.

Fastexcel Library in Python Reading Excel 35 times faster than Excel is yet another evidence that MS has lost the plot. My data mining app now breaks speed records thanks to Fastexcel and Polars.

That is also true of humans btw.

I hate the world rn.

Remember to get your valentine something special.

Claude converts my app rn. Wish me luck.

The aesthetics of the 3.5" floppy are immaculate. It's peak consumer electronics design from the company that brought you the Walkman a few years before! I could write a book on the design of just this floppy, and how it's so much better than the 5¼"/8" floppies that came.

Chess players in Warsaw, in June 2022 for Pixel Heaven conference. (In the garden of Proces Kawki café) I did this watercolor for a Galerie Maeght show in Paris last February, based on a rough sketch in my sketchbook, and my memory of the scene, which touched me for many reasons.

One easy way to start if you already know Python, is to use xlwings lite add-in from @felixzumstein inside Excel. It'll allow you to use scikit-learn, pandas, polars, etc completely offline and without complicated setups.

#bioinformatics #statistics #memes #bluesci

Some people are just forces of nature.

HY-1.8B-2Bit 🔥 A 2-bit on-device LLM released by Tencent huggingface.co/AngelSlim/HY... huggingface.co/AngelSlim/HY... ✨ GGUF available ✨ Near INT4 performance at just 2-bit, with full reasoning preserved

Immer wieder wird in unserer Debatte gefragt, ob die Menschen in der #Ukraine zu Zugeständnissen bereit sind. Gerade in einem (wie immer sehr guten) Gespräch mit dem wunderbaren @golod.bsky.social im @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy. Dabei sollte nicht vergessen werden:

this is I think the first time an Olympic athlete has done something so funny that it immediately made a new permanent wrinkle in my brain

I keep this here for reference. My take: more open source will be written in the next years as project velocity goes up.

Building an app with pyinstaller apparently takes as much time as developping and testing the whole thing. Ah Python, never change.

Thinking rn. that 2021 me wouldn’t have understood a word of this. Never too late for an old dog to learn new tricks.

Some people, especially the Luddite crowd, really need to learn how to adjust priors. Being stuck mentally in the year 2023 isn’t doing anything valuable for a discussion about the usefulness of AI.

i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute

/insights in Claude Code is really helpful.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Sometimes I like making art untouched by human hands. Art resulting from machine patterns isn't the same as art resulting from human agency, but people seem to like them and I think they have a real place in the world and are here to stay I'm referring, of course, to cool visualizations of fractals

One in a million.

Claude refactors my code. Time for a beer and some hot chew.

Software engineers: “my occupation used to be associated with intelligence, but now a computer can do it” Chess players:

Vibe coding experiment... Gave Claude Code the dumbest prompt my manager could think of, "a hippo stealing bananas to feed a hungry leopard while avoiding angry farmers" Play it: wickedhardflip.github.io/hippo-heist AI-assisted coding doesn't have to be serious, this was genuinely fun to build.

Thinking of building a spreadsheet software for scientific computing. Powerful Solver, integration of computer algebra etc. Dies Julia have a suitable UI library like PyQT?

I got a lot of shit for this last time around, but I stand by it: making oneself into the kind of person who kicks roombas as an anger displacement technique is not good for the soul

The hill I am about to die on the upcoming AI wars: if you can’t make use of a powerful tool bc. it’s nondeterministic, that’s you having a skill issue.

for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations

Dicking with all three rn.

I can not find people who use optimization (as in mathematical optimization) around here. Where are the battle hardened schedulers, transportation problem solvers, profit maximizers? Cmon! Even the Excel solver tribe is quite muted here. Where are my people?

Old schoolers like me keep random forest around just for situations like this.

Building a new application with Claude is so satisfying. I do only use vanilla Claude Code atm - skills and commands a little bit out of my comfort zone for now.

Use LM Studio AI LLM models in Claude Code lmstudio.ai/blog/claudec... 😎

Using Git is for the weak. We Klingons run Claude directly into our Rust compiler. On a Linux box, on root, with Claude having admin rights.

I realize that "hustle culture" is all the rage, but what about "sit in front of a cracking fire in a Scottish Highlands cottage whilst reading, sipping tea, and eating scones" culture?

BCherny’s updated Claude Code tips: xcancel.com/bcherny/stat...

New normal: I clean the house, the robot writes the code. I didn’t plan for this, but here we are.