Note to self: if you have a large uncommitted python script don't let Claude edit it with a sed command...

Shout-out to @dollspace.gay for this. I've just started using github.com/dollspace-ga... but it's gold!

I'm sorry I am at my most masculine when I am flinging my youngest into the air while she laughs and my wife disapproves.

this is like textbook singularity stuff isn't it? maybe the 2027 guys were right?

When we design for disabilities, we make things better for everyone. This is called the Curb-Cut Effect. The term was coined by disability students and activists in the 70s, who added curb cuts to the Berkeley sidewalks to make access easier for those in wheelchairs.

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Just published my annual predictions update, tracking from Jan 1st 2018, with new commentary and new ten year predictions. It is long. rodneybrooks.com/predictions-...

Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 Ht: HowTown

working at a university

No documents sent to me by university admins ever work, form-fillable or otherwise. I generally use Xournal to drop a signature PNG onto pdfs, and MS office docs are returned in whatever state they end up in after opening in libreoffice. Pdfs that don't even open are returned as 'corrupted'.

"Children make you childlike. Skipping through the park as an adult man raises eyebrows (deservedly or not.) Skipping through the park as an adult man with your son or daughter skipping next to you on your arm is one of life’s greatest joys, both for you and for anyone who sees you."

Staying with my parents and realizing the average American probably spends 15% of their day watching advertisements

Looking at the energy around atproto, I'm starting to feel like — if we're not all in a camp or an oligarch's lithium mine 10 years from now — the combination of open protocols and powerful open models could have some upsides

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Ok, who decided to call it “the bitter lesson” and not “Scaling Compute Rules Everything Around Me”

- I am very optimistic about robotics "clicking" over the next few years and robots appearing basically everywhere in society - This will have all kinds of far-reaching ramifications, as we've seen with e.g. the advent of the automobile New blog post: itcanthink.substack.com/p/where-the-...

2025 LLM Year in Review by Andrej Karpathy karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-revi...

Americas issues are sadly far more pervasive, Europe's (rarer) domestic terrorism seems so much more sadly addressable by... not doing the stuff this article talks about! Dont build a permanent abused underclass!

THERE'S A MACHINE THAT CAN EXPLAIN NEW THEOREMS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE. If someone showed you it in 2010 you would literally assume it was faked

I have been teaching myself to vibe code. Watch Claude Code grow my 780 lines to 13,600 - mandelbrot.page/coverage/ca... Two fundamental rules for staying in control: davidbau.com/archives/20...

The SNSF is considering restrictions for its Project funding. Goal: to ensure the quality of evaluation & stable success rates despite an increasing number of applications and limited funding. The final decision will be made in January 2026. 👉 buff.ly/iGOCf7R #research #science

People are really naive about this imo. I think this is the year where at the very least coding agents got strong enough they genuinely are more valuable than entry level engineers for most work

I agree that we don’t already know how to teach “AI literacy” well. But I also think literacy is too modest a goal. College students should graduate knowing how ML works; it’s liberal knowledge analogous to RNA or trig, not search-engine skills or Excel. And we do know how to teach it in that way.

At "Autonomy Visualized" at a Tesla store in Miami, see a five second video clip in this story, where the remote operator for an Optimus robot takes off their headset, mindlessly reproduced by the Optimus robot followed by falling over backwards. Oh dear. electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is ok because the Sin of Pi is 0

i'm surprised that nobody has called the elon's golden gating of grok "elon-gating" yet (i guess it's a bit of a stretch)

"Awkward wording, evident throughout the document, suggests that at least some of it was originally written in Russian."

We used to be a society

Once again astonished that Elon is building a propaganda machine in public, saying "hello, here is my propaganda machine", and the tech community continues to use it

This is so good. Its actually folding like a human would. The socks look great. Its autonomous, not teleop. It looks like a sim but its real.

Unitree H2 base model is < $30,000 USD. Incredibly cheap. Most people will buy the H2 EDU for I assume $50-60k but still

🇨🇭 🇪🇺 Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and EU Research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva signed the Swiss-EU Programme Agreement (#EUPA) in Bern. This means that Switzerland is once again definitively associated with #HorizonEurope, the world's largest research programme. ➡️ sohub.io/4tjw 📷 WBF/DEFR

This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.

Generalist AI has a new blog post detailing their "harmonic reasoning" model GEN-0 generalistai.com/blog/nov-04-... Video is autonomous

Farage is winning because politics has been reduced to clickbait. It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists. As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.” But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻

This labeler is such a clever way of making spam visible. Bluesky wins yet again: bsky.app/profile/stec...

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

It's fascinating how language shapes behavior. In Switzerland, all-you-can-eat restaurants are called "à discretion" - literally meaning "at your discretion." "All you can eat" frames it as a challenge: how much CAN you eat? It's almost inviting you to maximize consumption.

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

This paper was referenced by @Andrej Karpathy in recent podcast. Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent arxiv.org/abs/2212.07677

"Senza un’informazione basata sui fatti e non manipolata, la libertà d’opinione diventa una beffa crudele." Ricordando Hannah Arendt, nata il #14ottobre 1906.

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

“Images are becoming so realistic, we now question everything we see online,” @Gruzd.ca, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy-Preserving Digital Technologies, said. “Society cannot operate if we don’t know what’s true and what’s not.”

The state of LLMs is messy: Some AI features (like vision) lag others (like tool use) while others have blind spots (imagegen and clocks). And the expensive "heavy thinking" models are now very far ahead of all the other AIs that most people use, capable of real work None of this is well-documented

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

Final blog post on the visualization medium.com/@mark-riedl/...