"you need to level up your prompting skills, it's a skill like any other" This wasn't a programming task, it's not something I was super familiar with. The human was working with an application that they are only vaguely familiar with and rarely use. Arguably less familiar with that tool than I […]

fifth experiment in a row where I pitted an LLM against a human doing a nominally tedious information-processing task and the human won handily yet again (the human wasn't even me, this time). I'm starting to think maybe these things just aren't very good tools

Fuck russia. #fuckrussia

Otto havin a lie down last night #dogsofmastodon #smoothcollie

"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value." @anildash on The […]

Do USA-ians think funny signs will change things?

every 3-4 years when they are cleaning it the authorities allow visitors into the #lodz waterworks. They are pretty fussy about security (I guess rightly so) but they do allow pictures. #pictures #water

Mini USB fan club #miniusb

1994 SCHMOEN CHRAUERTS - $11613

Long but very good: "An essay on wank" It names and identifies one of my least favorite genre of posts – finally I have a proper term for it! I'm sure I've been guilty of it too in the past, so it's useful for self-regulation, too. https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_on_redacted

@maxwainwright Oh, looks like he blocked me. Figures.

Just learned that my boy NJM2113 is now NRND :-(

My eyebrows and eyelashes have started getting tangled. I guess it’s me becoming An Old Man, but also maybe I should frown less

I moved back to Malmö today. Feels like home.

I released a live track under the name Reforger, a new project of mine. “Recording from a performance at Kulturhuset Femman, Uppsala on 22 of august 2025. I used a small but complex no-input setup. Everything into everything feedback.” […] [Original post on toot.community]

I released a live track under the name Reforger, a new project of mine. “Recording from a performance at Kulturhuset Femman, Uppsala on 22 of august 2025. I used a small but complex no-input setup. Everything into everything feedback.” #noisemusic […] [Original post on toot.community]

I released a live track under the name Reforger, a new project of mine. “Recording from a performance at Kulturhuset Femman, Uppsala on 22 of august 2025. I used a small but complex no-input setup. Everything into everything feedback.” #noisemusic […] [Original post on toot.community]

I have never worried about the singularity because I had a single conversation in 2007 with a guy who worked in a chip fab, and learned just the tiniest bit about the physical, mechanical process that goes into actually manufacturing a microprocessor, and how much of it requires direct […]

a lot of misallocation of resources could be stopped if more people understood the difference between a "performing a rigorous thought experiment" and "fantasizing about some cool cyberpunk shit"

do The Youths these days still know about Pokemon Crystal Vietnamese? So called because it was discovered in a market in Vietnam, it's a romhack translation from Japanese to English (presumably before the real English version released), except it seems to […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Just a subtoot: If you don't 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 nuclear, you'll find reasons to be against it - facts, climate change and human flourishing be damned. It is therefore the wrong approach to respond against anti-nuclear arguments with facts. Believe me, I've tried. You can reply to worries about nuclear waste […]

Did anyone else see the moth walking on the referee in yesterday’s Finland-Switzerland game? Btw Finland deserved to win, #moths #moth #euro2025

“I think it’s because we live in Hell. The modern tech ecosystem is so utterly vile. Every single day our tech breaks in new and inventive ways, our iPhones resetting at random, random apps not accepting button presses, our Bluetooth disconnecting, our word processors harassing us to “try and […]

It FEELS like it works because that's the target of its optimization function. The term "bullshit generator" is both colloquially and precisely true. It's a big expensive gradient-descent optimizer and *the metric it is optimizing* is PLAUSIBILITY. It is fooling you because it is DESIGNED to […]

a conversation by Daniel M Karlsson & Max Wainwright https://maxwainwright.bandcamp.com/album/a-conversation I made this with @t36s earlier this spring. We played together, for the first time, and things gelled. Recorded with mics, no line, and then hottened […] [Original post on toot.community]

So, any news from not-usa today?

Remember my goat that we named Cybertruck because of his various safety issues? He's been doing great, until earlier when he went offroading (in the barn) and high-centered himself and had to be rescued, again living up to his name. All hail Cybertruck!

So… I’m not sure this is how it’s meant to be used 😬 #diy #soldering

Nuclear tech to recycle plastic? 👀 https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/how-nuclear-tech-could-revolutionise-plastic-recycling

Fascinating watching this orangutan tying a knot. 🦧🪢

How difficult and expensive would it be to train an LLM to open a bunch of free ”chat with the lying bot” and just keep spamming stupid and difficult questions continuously? 🙂 Not that I’d be interested in doing it, just a fun thought. Considering OpenAI are losing money on its _paying_ […]

Just thought that it’s funny how ai doomers are worried about The God Box deciding to turn us all into paper clips, as if we’d decide to just delete every other living organism; then I realised we are working on that, if not by purpose; then I realised that Autocomplete on Crack is in some way […]

I’ve had this idea for a very long time. Never did it until yesterday. It’s fucking glorious. It is so so fucking good and it was my idea. You just take a bunch of phone plugs and unscrew the barrel thing. Plug them into a mixer and patcg with crocodile clips. Suddenly you can do out of phase […]

”If NASA is Amtrak in space, then SpaceX is the Fyre Festival with rockets” Maciej Cegłowski tears a gaping whole in the idea of humans going to Mars. https://idlewords.com/2023/01/why_not_mars.htm

this late night dicking around in kicad is becoming a real problem. It’s half past four now. fuck

Is there a name for the feeling when you leave a field recorder in the woods for an hour and return and it happily proclaims that it is indeed armed to record! And has thus far recorded 0:00:00 of high definition audio 🙃 #fieldrecording

Could the US just shut up for one moment? Thanks!

I made a pair of hyōshigi today. Very pleased, they are loud and bright and quite compact. One is skinnier because it had a small crack. I was about to glue it but when i tested them it split. Sounded much better afterwards. Not sure what wood it is, dark […] [Original post on toot.community]

My new idea is to use Roman miles instead of imperial. They’re 1,479 km or thereabouts (it’s an approximation and wasn’t fixed anyway) so i can just round it to 1,5km. Easy to convert to sane measures. Now i just need to find an imperial measurements user to impress/confound. “Oh, you don’t […]

Fuck russia in every imaginable way. Sanctions on everything and everyone. Shut the border and throw away the key. Close the Baltic. Just fuck the entire terrorist empire until it goes away #russia #russiaisaterroriststate #fuckrussia #armukraine

Ai will take lots of jobs, but do it by crashing the economy #ai #marketcrash #aibubble

https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/ Never Forgive Them “You are the victim of a con. You have spent years of your life explaining to yourself and others that “this is just how things are,” accepting conditions that are inherently exploitative and abusive. You are more than likely […]

www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/ The Generative AI Con “Wow, you created a superficially-impressive research project that's really long and that cites a bunch of shit it found online that it made little attempt to verify? And said report took a while to generate, can only be produced if you pay […]

Fediverse chick wrote to me. Didn’t know she was from Poland. #fediversechick

Otto often gets compliments such as “what a pretty dog” or “how gracefully he moves”. Well. Sometimes not so much. #dogsofmastodon #smoothcollie #sillyface #stick

No thoughts, just floof.

I was in the dog park and Otto fought another ~2 year old dog. I went in to break them apart. And now I’m in the local ER with a cut in my right middle finger. It hurt a lot but they’ve anaesthetised it so now I’m bored mainly. #bored #dogsofmastodon I’ll […] [Original post on toot.community]

Been working on this thing for a while now. Around half a year. A lot of work. I hope it works. And also i have a lot of work left to do

Russia and Ukraine fought. America surrendered.