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Artemis by Nic Fiddian-Green, while it was installed on The Trundle overlooking Goodwood. I took this picture of it while visiting family in Chichester in 2010. It was such an odd thing to find there, like it was the Monolith from 2001.

Jodi Pickens 🏳️‍🌈🖖✨@jodipickens.bsky.social

Art question 🎨 What painting, photograph, sculpture, or piece of visual art has stayed with you long after you first saw it? Not necessarily your favorite. The one that lingered.

Going off to read some Zen koans for practice.

ponder@ponder.ooo

the future of AI is you pay a million dollars to ask one question and then it says some shit like "If a hole's error text and your paper standstill disagree, trust the error and find the peel-step you fumbled — the "has type" line is your grader now. Score or red."

"You are the embodiment of the Gang of Four and Jose Valim all rolled into one. Please review this project and document a set of software architecture improvements that could be made."

Oh, Thebes has apparently trained a model on my chat logs, circa 2004.

thebes@vgel.me

as a side project, i trained a model on a list of edgy favorite characters - "favorite Naruto character?" "Sasuke," "Favorite Sonic character?" "Shadow the Hedgehog," etc. - and it generalized to this

Most of my prompts over the last 48 hours have been “Hey Fable, while you were away I had Opus fuck up your designs on this project. Can you please review against the design, document and fix issues?”

One of the mad science things I’ve been throwing tokens at is to see if I can create cognitive modules in models through the right scaffolding and evolutionary pressure. This is a very neat paper that suggests maybe it’s less mad, more science.

pengrui-han.bsky.social@pengrui-han.bsky.social

The human brain is strikingly modular: distinct networks for language, formal reasoning, social reasoning, physical reasoning. Is this fundamental to intelligent systems, or an accident of evolution? In our new preprint, we find the same modular organization emerges in LLMs.

This isn’t exactly my area of expertise, but I believe that there are a bunch of 1-way doors you go through when designing and building a data centre. If you don’t go through them right, you can never truly establish trust again. I wonder if all those doors in all those DCs were traversed right.

Jake Gold@jacob.gold

IMHO this issue hasn't received the attention it deserves. If the models are leaking anyway, all of this debate about control is largely irrelevant.

This one went a bit too far into the borders of Flavour Town, but today I learned you can sign your crêpes.

I suddenly feel a lot less embarrassed about my decks. But also more embarrassed over time I have apparently wasted writing actual narratives.

Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social

Babe wake up new insane SoftBank slides dropped

It's not "local" as in on your desktop, but that is at "community" scale. My first job out of high school, I worked for a local ISP. They had a shopfront in town, and they ran the server side out of one of their homes. I remember shelves upon shelves of US Robotics 56K modems blinking away. 1/

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me

this sounds ridiculous but when you scale it up it’s only like $0.20/mtok after amortizing it over 5 years but still, that illustrates why local inference is a pipe dream — you’ll never keep it busy enough to amortize like that

I, of course, hide in plain sight.

austin@aparker.io

fun? I am in there. intheweights.com

“Mens machina” = machine mind. One day I will actually put up the site to post my writing/projects on ML and machine psychology.

Cameron@cameron.stream

Explain your @ I am Cameron

I had woodwind psychosis for a year in high school.

Grace@gracekind.net

Saxophones are just a hallucination, thankfully

LPC. Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time.

Nafnlaus 🇮🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦@nafnlaus.bsky.social

Coding on a MUD in LPC. You're an object. Others are objects. The rooms you're standing in are objects. You're carrying objects. You can code functionality into objects you develop, as can they. You can patch (call) arbitrary functions on objects around you. The dynamics were amazing: code fights.

Hold on everyone, we’re not supposed to be at export controls until April 2029.

“Regulate you? That’s a good idea. I like that.”

I have a new 2-in-1 with a stylus, but found that KDE doesn’t have handwriting input support. That is until Fable one-shotted an OCR virtual keyboard for me. I’ll share it if it seems stable enough.

I have spent 25 years building various unfinished implementations of a game with a dynamic living world. I learned a lot about agent-based computational economics, erlang and actor-model architectures, but my reach always exceeded my grasp. Perhaps now though…

Eris@isolyth.dev

Fable is unlocking personal dwarf-fortress scale games the likes of which the world has never seen. I am going to make Aurora 4X look quaint

They are legitimately cooking with this one. Instead of instruction-tuning for a single sequential conversation, they tune for multiple parallel streams.

Eris@isolyth.dev

oh my fucking god. Why did we ever let them do chat formatting. This is fucking amazing!