i think my favorite thing about isaac chotiner is that he looks like this

LLMs are a great tool for letting you kind of do something you don't know how to do. the problem is that knowledge of whether it is a good idea to half-ass something is highly correlated with knowledge of how to do the thing correctly.

there are so many people smarter than me in this world. thats awesome

This is the ideal female body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

okay look i'm probably more transit-pilled than most of transit-pilled bsky but this is like saying "people who have cat hair on them say they like cats more than those who don't". Like, yeah, that's how they got the cat hair on them.

harvard is about to discover who does the bulk of undergrad teaching duties

Being late to everything means you’re a bad person. A key narcissistic personality trait: letting other people know they and their time are not important compared to whatever you feel like doing at a given moment.

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

last thing i want to do is to carry water for nyt out of all places, but the reason they're saying "appears to be AI-generated" is not because they think it might have been real, but because there are non-AI means to make fake videos too

TIL that if you're traveling along the NEC, you can sometimes cut the price of your amtrak ticket in half by simply booking from Newark instead of NYC

whenever anyone says something nice to you they are doing a hugbox and you must immediately tell them to cease. they will be impressed by your keen perception. furthermore you will enjoy great mental health

i ride the new york city subway every day and i would absolutrly, every time, prefer to share my train car with a guy who hasn't bathed in 3 months clipping his toenails and talking to god than with a someone watching a tiktok video without headphones

i have to say, I'd be a lot less upset if the reason why i had to leave the country was "new administration's immigration policies" and not "a 20yo paralegal who doesn't know how to read"

I feel lots of things that felt like, were billed as, self-actualization read in retrospect as canaries in the coal mine for the fraying commitments we owe to each other as members of a society.

I think park of the reason for the Court st bike lane freakout is that is makes parking MUCH more visible. We've been conditioned to ignore curbside parking, but when it's pulled out like this, it becomes clear how ugly it is. Like I had a visceral reaction to this ugliness today.

(I know why) why is the train from nyc to boston 3 times as expensive as the train from nyc to orlando, florida

I stopped teaching in 2018 and went back in 2023. I quit 6 months later. Blame it on my failure as a teacher if you want, but I teach the #1 most hated subject, and yet pre-2020s I've never had issues with keeping students engaged or at least getting them to comprehend the sentences they're reading

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

last few days on bsky are like

dig in mr mittens

you can have a little intellectual humility about the nature of consciousness even if it's politically/ideologically inconvenient to you

my online social circle has never recovered from the 2018 tumblr exodus so that's a weird post to make because there are so very few of you, but here we go anyway: I'd like to go to places and visit people before I have to leave the country in 2026. If you would like to hang out, let me know!

Yeah the analogy seems right to me re someone who spends a lot of time gleefully simulating torture of a barbie doll and, like, I think I wanna avoid that person and not because I am confused about whether or not the barbie is actually feeling pain.

i believe there are about a hundred and fifty million people like me who would pay $17 to watch benicio del toro as sergio st. carlos plan and execute a tight sunday costco run before he has to man the barbecue after his niece's afternoon soccer game (run time: 2 hours 20 minutes)

the average person probably only knows about naive stochastic gradient descent and not newer optimizers like Adam and so on. they surely understand that deep learning systems are not explicitly programmed using human engineers writing human code.

we're all members of the international brotherhood of cyclists here, but i need some of yall to understand that no matter how fancy your bike or kit are, the person standing at the light in jeans & boots on a beat-up fixie is almost certainly faster than you, and you should not pull in front of them

i know there are much bigger problems happening in the country right now and so this feels very "first world problems", but my brain just refuses to comprehend that after 2026 I'll never see new york ever again

im going to just say it, even if im the only person in the world who thought that, but eddington was better than one battle after another

living in new york is difficult because you're constantly faced with challenges like "is a $50 cheaper ticket worth it if it's from EWR"

what do we think the grad school is

what i like about articles like this is that their mere existence is an implicit acknowledgent that it's hopeless to try to reason with car drivers

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

the fun thing about cycling is that if you Follow The Law™ when you are forced to ride with cars, it will probably get you killed by some inattentive driver, but if you ride in a way that is safe for you, you get branded as reckless by news org hit pieces and threatened by aggressive drivers instead

do you think my mother is reading the news and feeling guilty like "damn, i shouldn't have taken all that paracetamol"

This effectively makes EB-5 (investment-based green card) obsolete because the investment threshold is also $1M but it has additional requirements about job creation

Pro-deportation, as long as it's for the right people. Gotcha.

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

okay im too lazy to read so can someone more plugged into LLM world explain to me what the study actually shows because the headline is "new study shows that 4-2=2 when 2+2=4"

you'd think Blind couldn't get any more racist, but they're really having a moment over there re:h1b

One very weird things about bsky is that i have seen plenty of posts like "i have colleagues who'll be impacted by H1B proclamation" but zero posts "I'll be personally impacted by the H1B proclamation"

Because my company didn't initially believe me when i said my lawyers made mistakes in preparing my green card application, the app wasn't filed on time, and the plan for me was to leave for 8+ months and return on H1B once the app is filed. This ensures I can no longer return. 14 years in the US.

i know we all already know that EZ doesn't know anything about anything, and yes replit did have a significant - and stupid - product pivot, but still, being ostensibly a tech journalist and calling replit a "vibe coding startup" is certainly a choice

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives

absolutely not. take that shit back to sf

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

what drives me crazy about all the ostensibly liberal pundits pontificating anout what we should do with immigrants (raise taxes? reduce benefits?) is that they seemingly never considered that immigrants are not, like, an abstract dial you turn looking at the audience, but also the girl reading this

i am far from the first person to point this out, but if the dems wanted to be perceived as "tough on immigration" without actually making immigrant lives hardey, all they needed to do would be to present the immigration policies that have been in place for decades as their bold new vision