shoutout to the nano influencers

lol people sometimes get mad about "omg if you think LLMs could be/not be conscious, you might be reducing ME! do you think I don't have experience?" as if p-zombies thought experiments would also be an incredibly insidious mind disease

Now, you're talking about interpolation over the training manifold, and all these things you're talking about are totally information-theoretic things and a byproduct of them is, you've defined cognition out of human brains too.

Screenshotted is especially especially funny in light of following the money at all on big names like Zitron & Adam Conover. Conover's story, which is the less-gross by far, involves *doing ads for Worldcoin*

"I did my own research"-ahh post.

Partially in light of faux journalists hosting Zitron on their podcasts tbh

The line between content creator & journalist apparently grows harder for people to differentiate every day

"cold coffee, warm LO, I can't lose him!" ugh I have been *saying* this

bluesky has a lot of linkedin posts but if they were really angry

Tried to google the movie "Is God Is" just now but slightly misspelled it and Google AI got very confused

Lots of people & places behave sort of like weather phenomena Realization that it's "random rules" all the way down could be preeeety jarring.

I NEVER WANT GEMINI TO HELP ME WRITE. PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP GOOGLE DOCS.

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

Big news, friend!

people who say they want to skip the small talk & have deep conversations mean they want to talk about aliens. this is fine but there should be more space for the weather & neutral monism imho

i never stopped doing generative art but i'm just doing generative art that i'm really bad at rn

"Poppy Field" - my oil painting

I met him and he would totally be aghast for being used to promote maximalism. Sickening.

doing magic tricks & it's all just reparameterization

they should do bicameral mind discourse about the odyssey movie

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

my view counts are so bad on twitter. a dozen thousand followers & I get like 200 views on a post with v decent interaction rate. otoh this is not surprising lol

Frog has a new album with lyrics: "In the soft morning light, said a prayer for her I miss you tonight, and therefore Oh, wherefore is the beer store?"

so apparently british squirrels have been seen vaping and there is concern that swedish squirrels might also start doing this. anyway here’s pictures of squirrels vaping

reading my brother's ex's dad's psychology/phil of science paper. it's really good

Disco Elysium is alienating, Doraemon is alienating Black Bloc dreck, Moroccan westerns are alienating, manga is generally alienating, Black Girl Magic is alienating. Masscult under Post-Leftism is inherently alienating. Sorry to spoil your 'fun'.

I wanted to model my writing process & accidentally made a (hopefully) broadly useful tool :) Repo: rynmurdock.github.io/writing/seegit Brief writeup: github.com/rynmurdock/s...

aaahhh I've finally finished this side project that's been roughly the bane of my existence. Excited to write it up & share the pip package for the data creation; facilitates really easily collating edits to a file, analyzing them, and rebuilding them to a specific point in the edit history

omg hahah this is what the internet should be bsky-emoji.cee.wtf

Today we’re releasing EMO, a new mixture-of-experts (MoE) model trained so modular structure emerges directly from data without human-defined priors. EMO can use a small subset of its experts for a given task while keeping near full-model performance. 🧵

Wait what the fuck, Rushdie having one blind eye many years later after after writing this book is berserk!

You had me at "imagine a worm"

The issue with empirical papers centered around performance is that many of them rest on leveraging compute. As a result, the improvements don't stack because they're all targeting the same limited resource

U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers & about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, per a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities & repair damaged missiles

"Prompt engineering is dead" mfs will spend hours appending to their claude md

Oh so gushers are illegal now

Bisks with a powerful aura

well, this sucks www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

The "out of the way swine" comic is great but this is the best comic strip of all time

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

world's most popular* writer of speculative ML adjacent children's wizard literature fanfic

before the internet was a corporate hellscape it was built by ordinary people! the slop was wacky and homemade just like mom (and David) used to make. alas the good old days are over but I can't believe how lucky we are to have @archive.org to remember them :') web.archive.org/web/20080803...

Wandb will do anything but effectively load plots

The Ground Beneath Her Feet is such, such an enjoyable read. i'm basically giggling & kicking my feet the entire time lol

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

oops i interacted with the ridiculous & sensationalist content. entirely on me

Found some prescience in a manual from the 1950s.

Ye’d best start believin’ in the Oops App. You’re on it

Polling friends for upcoming classes to teach! www.patreon.com/posts/what-s...

ah thank god, finally. i've developed a method to make me hate my writing more