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AI Developer Relations at Microsoft. he/him
Itâll be back soon, if only as a static site so the links donât break. TypePad, the blog host shut down with only a few weeks warning. Read the story of the rescue operation here:
medium.com/@gcordidoa/m...
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Devs: looking to up your GitHub Copilot game? In 60 mins, I'll be hosting an AMA with Aaron Powell, maintainer of the Awesome Copilot repo, your source of prompts, chat modes and more!
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Claire Giordano â¨
4 months ago
đď¸ New
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Ep30 just published! Guest
@simonwillison.net
talked about AI for data engineers. We skipped hype & boosterism to chat about Postgres permissions, alt text, 150-line SQL queries, & pelicans on đ˛ đ§
talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-...
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Simon Willison
4 months ago
You can try that out yourself by launching a Codespace using this link:
codespaces.new/simonw/codes...
Notes on how I got this working:
simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/13/...
- plus a detailed TIL on using devcontainer.json to configure Codespaces:
til.simonwillison.net/github/codes...
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I found out today that GitHub Codespaces come with a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable... and that token works as an API key for accessing LLMs in the GitHub Models collection, which âŚ
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/13/codespaces-llm/
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Katie Mack
6 months ago
Chatbots â LLMs â do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When theyâre ârightâ itâs because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. Thatâs all.
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James Temple
6 months ago
This
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They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.VBY-.s76GQpFar8r4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Consciousness exists in the observerâs mind
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Niema Moshiri
6 months ago
HMMER is literally *the* go-to tool for profile HMMs in bioinformatics. I've used it countless times on a wide range of projects spanning viruses, retrotransposons, etc. Absolute insanity!
hmmer.org
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Ida Bae Wells
7 months ago
I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. Itâs an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?
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Gergely Orosz
8 months ago
Itâs humbling to realize how many innovative/novel things in tech are actually often triggered by existing, proven ideas or practices: and using them in a practical setting. Latest discovery: MCP in-part inspired by LSP (Microsoftâs Language Server Protocol)
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Ashley Willis-McNamara
8 months ago
Did you know that if you put hot chocolate in a thermos and forget about it, it turns into a bomb?
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My new hobby is asking ChatGPT to name the new cocktail my partner creates each evening. It did a good job with this one.
9 months ago
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Brandon Rohrer
9 months ago
Life hack: write down stuff youâve already done on your to-do list and slam a checkmark on it
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George Takei
9 months ago
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
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đDr. Frizzle
9 months ago
Iâm crying, this is so funny WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE â ď¸â ď¸
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Kevin M. Kruse
9 months ago
Well worth a watch if you're feeling helpless and confused these days.
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Mikhail Popov
9 months ago
Coincidentally, 65536 is the maximum number of rows for the Excel 97-2003 file format
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GPT-4o? GPT-o3? Llama 3.3? Command-R? Phi-4? If you're not sure what Generative AI model to use (and when!) you're not alone â there are thousands to choose from. Tune in to Model Mondays at 10:30AM to learn now. First episode streams live in a couple of hours!
github.com/microsoft/mo...
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GitHub - microsoft/model-mondays: Model Mondays is a weekly livestream with Discord office hours - to help you navigate the fast-moving ecosystem of generative AI models with 5-minute roundups and 15-...
Model Mondays is a weekly livestream with Discord office hours - to help you navigate the fast-moving ecosystem of generative AI models with 5-minute roundups and 15-minute spotlight sessions. Buil...
https://github.com/microsoft/model-mondays
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Global AI Bootcamp 2025 is officially underway! It's organized by Global AI Community, an independent network of AI enthusiasts who will be hosting local AI-focused meetups in 40+ countries worldwide through April 15.
youtu.be/W8b6wf19ppU?...
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Global AI Bootcamp - Keynote 2025 - Teaser 1
YouTube video by Global AI Community
https://youtu.be/W8b6wf19ppU?si=ozsgFR6-N9sNAF2N
9 months ago
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Jeff Sharlet
9 months ago
No, Democrats, these little auction signs aren't it. You're acting like Wes Anderson characters who don't understand that they're in a Tarantino movie.
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Check out those camouflage videos - cuttlefish really are amazing creatures. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/s...
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What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish (Gift Article)
Cuttlefish use visual tricks to avoid being eaten. New research shows how they deploy similar camouflage to bamboozle their prey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/science/cuttlefish-camouflage-huting-crabs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U4.NtLn.2inKad5MasuD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Brooke Jarvis
9 months ago
ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much
www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
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Posit
9 months ago
We are delighted to announce the release of ellmer, an R package for accessing the power of LLMs in R! ellmer supports a variety of model providers. Chat, tool call, stream API calls, extract structured data, and more! Learn about it here:
posit.co/blog/announc...
#RStats
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Erin Reed
9 months ago
1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin
After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-new-mccarthyism-lgbtq-purges
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
9 months ago
This is the federal government very explicitly treating folks who are trans as if they are not people at all. And that was the same reasoning the Nazis used to justify genocide. And *THAT* should make you furious.
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How does DeepSeek-R1 perform for RAG applications? Let's do a quick test in GitHub Models and see how it performs vs a traditional LLM
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DeepSeek-R1 suggests a weekend in Napa Valley
YouTube video by David Smith
https://youtu.be/pK4nXk28e2U
10 months ago
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Rolling Stone
10 months ago
âThere are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace canât be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.â EXCLUSIVE ⤾ď¸
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FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety
Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it wonât affect air safety.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-faa-firings-purge-air-safety-1235271233/
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10 months ago
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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JD Long
10 months ago
Canât wait to rip into this book to understand the code base I inherited.
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southpaw
10 months ago
We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
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Venezuelan Migrant Sent to GuantĂĄnamo Bay Is âNot a Criminal,â Family Pleads (Gift Article)
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could âgive everything to his son,â said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to GuantĂĄnamo.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/world/americas/luis-castillo-venezuela-migrant-guantanamo-bay-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wU4.eCDH.fKOVfFbzEKCQ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Mike Drucker
10 months ago
I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things
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Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesnât Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City
Itâs so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, youâd think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/voting-for-the-mayor-who-promised-to-blow-up-the-city-doesnt-mean-i-approve-of-the-mayor-blowing-up-the-city
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Jennifer C
10 months ago
Thread on DEI 1. Removing DEI regulations will harm daily life in ways many donât realize. DEI isnât just a corporate buzzwordâit ensures fairness, access, and dignity for all. If we lose it, millions will struggle with basic needs. Hereâs whatâs at stake with explanations:
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Joe Katz
10 months ago
I will note again the capital D Danger here isn't canceled elections. Itâs elections that slip a little further down the slope of not free and fair that still look and feel like they always have.
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Steve Kenson âđ
10 months ago
âThere was no way to predict thisâ says only country in the world where Donald Trump was already President once.
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Jesse D. Jenkins
10 months ago
Trump isnt just trying to impound appropriated but unobligated funding. He's frozen dispersement of billions of dollars of CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED funds. Whatever you think about the validity of impounding unobligated funds, this is quite clearly a direct and widespread violation of contract law. đ§ľ
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DeepSeek-R1: It's your octogenarian uncle who responds to your simple question with a rambling story and then doesn't even answer the question.
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Contrary take: âhallucinationâ is a good term, actually. In humans, itâs the brain generating perceptions in the absence of sensory data. In LLMs, itâs a model generating content in the absence of relevant data in training or the meta-prompt. Strong parallels.
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Watching DeepSeek's chain of thought process is like listening in on the most insecure intern in the world.
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Renee DiResta
10 months ago
Lysenkoism was a Soviet-era pseudoscientific movement led by Trofim Lysenko, and endorsed by Stalin. It rejected established genetics science in favor of politically driven, unproven agricultural theories and ideological loyalty, leading to widespread crop failures and famine.
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Sarah Drasner
11 months ago
Yes, Iâm angry, watching the concept of women rebranded to weakness. And people forgetting that they benefit from the hard work of queer people and immigrants. Iâm not saying we pick every fight with these sycophantic weirdos, but sometimes they need a reminder of who we are.
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Great, very relevant article. See also the section âThe leaders of someone elseâs organization did something very wrong.â
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This is â still â America. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...
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Tulsa Massacre Was a âCoordinated, Military-Style Attack,â Federal Report Says (Gift Article)
The Justice Departmentâs conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/tulsa-race-massacre-report.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok4.2Ck5.btW_uVCyNo9w&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=off
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Vicki
11 months ago
I really appreciate the number of reasonable posts from super senior developers who talk about how theyâre using LLMs, which tasks theyâre good for in software dev, and which donât make sense at all.
crawshaw.io/blog/program...
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crawshaw - 2025-01-06
https://crawshaw.io/blog/programming-with-llms
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Hadley Wickham
11 months ago
ellmer (formerly known as elmer) is now on CRAN! ellmer makes it easy to chat with LLM models from a variety of providers and includes support for streaming responses, tool calling and structured data extraction:
ellmer.tidyverse.org
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Chat with Large Language Models
Chat with large language models from a range of providers including Claude <https://claude.ai>, OpenAI <https://chatgpt.com>, and more. Supports streaming, asynchronous calls, tool calling, and struct...
https://ellmer.tidyverse.org
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Scott Hanselman đŽ
11 months ago
My team just launched a new "less BS"
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page. Check the three links there with FREE GitHub (OSS MIT Licensed!) COURSEWARE on building apps, learning ML, and learning how to pair-program with Copilot
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AI for developers | Microsoft Developer
Learn how AI can help you create better software faster and easier. Discover the benefits, challenges, and best practices of AI for developers.
https://developer.microsoft.com/ai
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TIL on iPhones with 3 camera lenses you can click the â1xâ button to switch to the 28mm lens (1.2x optical zoom) or the 35mm lens (1.5x optical zoom).
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Josh Kaplan
11 months ago
Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys. This is his story.
www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didnât tell police or the FBI. He didnât tell family or friends....
https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole?utm_source=blueskythread&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Brad Heath
11 months ago
DOJ says an informant who made up a bribery scheme involving President Biden that became a cornerstone of Republican efforts to impeach him ended up "warping the important oversight role" of Congress.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Anna Bower
11 months ago
Reminder that itâs totally crazy that our elected officials restrict journalists from filming aspects of whatâs happening on the floor of the peopleâs House. It should not be like this!!
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