rule 34 of the 30 to 50 feral hogs

putting layer upon layer of various admixtures of granular, sedimentary, cementitious, and petrochemical material on you to give you a smooth, durable surface and flexible yet sturdy inner structure suitable to carry traffic

tumblrslop take

the guy legolas plays in the pirates movies is a lesbian

the brownian motion that makes molecular biology happen is kinda the original jingling of keys

aggressively nice weather

oh my god finally a job for me

im basically the only person alive that actually understands dialectics

metabolism and code are the two primal paradigms of life; variously they compete and cooperate, overtake and incorporate one another. traditionally, computation functioned only at the level of Code. modern machine learning methods represent the Metabolic reasserting itself upon a scaffolding of code

dr: i think basically all these issues can be explained by you eating nothing but rock candy for the past six months. the nutritional deficits are catching up with you. i cannot stress enough how dire it is that you have to break this habit me: yea i just dont rly buy simplistic "monocause" theories

a human is basically just an agentic harness around a digestive tract

if the digestive tract ain't happy aint nobody happy

i should call her

the 40 principles

dry technologies: laser printers light bulbs newspaper vacuum tubes claude wet technologies: ultrasound industrial egg separation photographic film development fermentation also claude

they don't want you to know about zinc

dreamt i was in a classroom & some heavy metal song was played & then i had 10 minutes to take a test on it that required me to have caught the lyrics on the first listen & when i tried to write it was like my fine motor control of my fingers was impaired, my hand refused to hold the pencil right

Explaining machine learning to an American

explaining drug discovery to an american

abolish video compression

i will not eat the bugs i will not live at a comfortable indoor temperature year round

(((air conditioning)))

asking the llm to perform a specific text manipulation task on an out of context code string and it performs additional stylistic changes that were not asked for 🙃 like bestie do u think maybe this code came from a codebase that has conventions, can you maybe just stick to the actual task

hands u some organic mercury

sonnet diffs be like "+100 -3 | added a checkbox"

wtf at least 3 or 4 of these are true but im only allowed to pick 1

istg anthropic is engaged in a long campaign of working as hard as they can to make sonnet stupider

give the model a file ask a question about it watch the reasoning trace "ah, hold on, i need to load the truncated section..." god damn it

when are they gonna make a model that has some common sense

gemini loves to put a blurb at the top of your vibe-coded app that explains what it is but in an incomplete way that only really makes sense to someone who already gets the idea, & then keeps replacing that blurb with one that focuses only on the latest changes, making it ever more illegible

what's really painful about webgpu crashiness in firefox is that instead of just crashing right away and getting it over with, it freezes the entire fucking browser for anything from 30 seconds to a few minutes, *then* crashes

that sinking feeling when you hit the start button on the vibe coded webgpu thing and the browser freezes

The us government is picking customers who can access gpt 5.6

& historian here was just one example, i think the industry has thus far been a bit neglectful re: bringing in humanities experts and iterating w/ them to discover how ai can be made more useful to them in their actual work, rather than just "let's make and then game another history benchmark"

hegel : marx :: yud : ___

the spectre of china must loom large and keep us perpetually in a state of exception lest we be forced to morally evaluate our own country and take seriously the result of that evaluation

physics envy and its consequences

pathetic, troubling, but also darkly amusing that these people style themselves after troubled geniuses in a secret race to build a weapon so potent that only the dire necessity of defeating fascism could justify it-- but they're handing their version to trump

the confused poltergeist of the cold war

it's a choice by the major labs, not a neutral property of the domain, to develop llms to be ever more cyberweapon-shaped; that frontier models are better pentesters than historians is in significant part a matter of the priorities of they who aspirationally liken themselves to oppenheimer

100% cosign; strong models being monopolized by oligarchs or nation-states is my actual doom scenario, and would be even if I trusted the nation-state in question. Which. I. Do. Not.

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rain picked up just enough to bait me into bringing a jacket fuck my life