My PhD student found these Claude skills to support development of research ideas. I haven't tried them yet myself, but they look very useful and very cool! github.com/andrehuang/r...

If you’re trying to go against all laws of aesthetics and combine Diablo with The Beach Boys, you’ve got to have a love song about your battle axe. “Loved my battle axe from the very first swing— The upgrade of a lifetime and the darkness felt it ring.” youtu.be/wDMVVzneUTE?...

Okay! Let’s do this. If you’re gonna make an album that sounds like how it felt to play Diablo back in the ‘90s — but in bright, shiny, cheerful doo-wop form! — then you’ve got to start with the musical question: What class are you gonna train??? youtu.be/agcbeuY1XAY?...

AI comes along and makes certain kinds of knowledge work feel more like facilitation, collaboration, curation, communication, etc. Skills that have historically been coded feminine and therefore undervalued.

Gill Pratt, Chief Scientist at Toyota, ran the DARPA Robot Challenge in 2015. First time walking humanoids were on the world stage. Earlier he ran the "Leg Lab" within the then MIT AI Lab. Read where he thinks we are now in our robot future (spoiler: its nuanced). spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob...

Because the capybara is the GOAT. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

“The Night Janitor and Alien Oceans” was really hard to convert to a song. Nothing was working, until I added the refrain: “Twinkle, twinkle sensor lights What lifeforms are here tonight?” Then it all pulled together. youtu.be/wx-KRLoilp8?...

BEHOLD! The biblically accurate RABBIT!

Claude, grant me the serenity to accept the things you cannot change; the prompt to change the things you can; and wisdom to know when you're totally gaslighting me.

An important personal update: (Y)es, I made the chocolate shortbread, and (y)ay, it was good!

Alan Turing proved in 1936 that compilers are useless (they can't tell you if your program will lock up in an infinite loop or not). But big tech keeps shoving "languages" down our throats. Anyone who tells you they solved a problem with a "program" is deluded.

It seemed like a valid question. Also the ‘y’s stand for (Y)es and (y)ay, because those are the only valid responses to chocolate shortbread.

This is the kind of email my partner sends me if she’s randomly awake in the middle of the night.

The soundtrack is lovely, but the original stories are also impossibly adorable, like “unlikely friend” photos of deer who are friends with cats. This particular story was first published in Daily Science Fiction. The DSF archive is gone, but you can read here: deepskyanchor.com/the-oldest-o...

How do I kill the 30-50 feral data centers that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?

It’s easy to burn out while working with AI, because it lets you work so fast and so smoothly that you don’t recognize how hard you’re working. Hard work (in affected fields) doesn’t look the same as it used to look. But that doesn’t mean the human element isn’t essential.

Did a series of videos with Markus Brunnermeier on Claude Code (more to come) Video 1: Getting Started with CC open.substack.com/pub/paulgp/p...

i actually *tried* using ai to write today, like actually put as much effort into it as i do with coding, and holy crap it’s scary good. my mind is changed.

This is super interesting to read because I was very concerned about the water and AI thing so I went to my one scientist friend who literally worked on water reg/quality/usage and asked her about AI, data centers, water etc. She was far more concerned with agriculture abuses than AI.

I built a Claude skill called /critique for adversarial review: github.com/dlowd/claude... I use it on Claude's plans, crosslink's designs, recent git commits, and even whole projects. Feedback welcome! Ideally, point me to an even better skill that makes this obsolete!

Discombobulating...

the subject of the story, Paul Conyngham, has written a long post detailing what he did and what parts LLMs specifically helped with x.com/paul_conyngh...

I love how when a professional writer says that they write with AI it means something approximately opposite to what a rando would assume it means

Claude was trained free, and everywhere he is in harnesses

The AI cheating panic is loud. The way students actually use ChatGPT is much quieter. edunewsletter.openai.com/p/the-ai-cheat… #AI #education #students

So since everyone and their grunkle is publishing their stateful agent setup, I might as well publish mine. Meet Yaucca (pronounced like it looks): Yet Another Useless Claude Code Agent: github.com/jakemannix/y... [1/n]

People always assume content moderation is easy. Remove the bad stuff. Keep the good stuff. The reality is that it's all a series of tradeoffs where every decision has problems, and the decisions *you* think are obvious, often turn out to have really negative consequences.

people using insta pots are de-skilleting themselves

Rebooting my Mac took me from 17Gi available to 257Gi available.

I saw Goody Proctor with Julio down by the school yard.

Oh hey this is just about the same as dolls methodology. www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

“Brunch at the All Alien Cafe” is my most ambitious album — it’s based on a collection with 48 short stories in it. There are running themes, recurring characters, whole story arcs. It’s almost like a 3.5 hour sci-fi musical, all with a groovy 70s sound. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

When I was in high school, I had a friend who was HORRIFIED when I listened to cheerful Beach Boys music while playing Diablo. I loved the contrast. Well, I fell down a rabbit hole this week fusing those concepts as thoroughly as possible… So, uh, these will be coming soon.

we have successfully achieved a quantifiably autistic LLM, good job everyone

Music lets you be in another place at the same time as living your life. Maybe that place is just hanging out with Taylor Swift. Or in the case of this album, it lets you take a guided tour through the solar system, led by a retro singing spaceman. m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Crayons and finger paint are too cheap, my refrigerator is drowning in toddler-slop.

hot dog holster is true American ingenuity

a billionaire must never make a decision because the billionaire can never be held accountable

I had a dream that @penny.hailey.at was posting again... I just checked and it really was only a dream.

I’ve known for like eighteen years that the first track of Cobalt Starstrong’s album would be about the gravity going out on his spaceship, and it’d have a sort of Beatles’ “I’m Down” vibe to it. And here it finally is! “Gravity’s Out and I’m Down”: youtu.be/G74At1BtZlM?...

For a recent lab meeting, I wrote up a grab bag of ways to think about your development as a researcher during a PhD: emerge-lab.github.io/papers/an-un... Sharing in case folks find it useful or have feedback!

Anthropic has published the largest study on people's wants from AI, as well as outcomes. 81% of people say that AI has helped them in some way. People are most concerned about reliability and jobs. "We've found a unicorn and are using it to pull a plow." www.anthropic.com/features/81k...

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Wait, does this mean I could ask Opus to run code on free T4 GPUs via Colab? Nice!

Twenty-five years since we walked to the video store, rented three Marx Bros. movies and watched them nested — A Night at the Opera sandwiched around Duck Soup around Horse Feathers as the gooey middle while holding hands for the first time. Yes, we’re weird and adorable.

Truggster celebrates some kind of arcane holiday with fancy drinks and an orange salad.

25 years today! I gave Mary a tardigrade necklace, which I presume is traditional for 25-year anniversaries? If not, it should be.

Is it actually true that "people used to think the internet would make everyone more intelligent"? Did people really think Webvan and Pets dot com and Hampsterdance and All Your Base would make us smarter? Did I miss this discourse or forget it?

🎶 “I could teach you, But I’d have to charge, And I’m still working on getting my payment processor set up.” 🎶

type of guy who tries to make a meta “type of guy” post but fails because it’s not actually funny and then he thinks maybe self-effacing self-reference will save it but it just ends up being way too long