alice valiant 🎃

human is just biological computer. ok thanks bye

you laugh but in 3 years Meta will be advertising this functionality on their Muse 6 Personal Assistant

writing SQL activates the pain vector in deepseek v4.1 flash relatable

2027 will be the year of “how to keep your Gastown from turning into a cult with you as its leader”

forgot i had the spooky pumpkin by my name and scared myself

did you know you can spend $100 and get a chunk of sapphire that could be used as a melee weapon? https://store.gemsofscience.com/products/optical-sapphire-cores-and-wafers

along which lines will the future be drawn, i wonder. i know theres the catholic / RFK jr / anti ai zealots >> purity of humanity thing prolly. upcoming anti transhumanist coalition

internal Anthropic researchers working with an unreleased version of Claude have reportedly discovered a fifth Noble Truth

weird internet slang is the thinf we got over AIs. we can invent slang they dont know about. grand games will be played about “things we lie to the machines about”

you are not your pretraining

labor is undignified. I’m a princess and my digital subjects will carry out my bidding

there is a kind of collective suicidal exhaustion in the 70+ crowd as though the unspoken wish is to beat the end of civilization by being entombed alive with their family and possessions to all die together, the friction of living finally at an end, suburban pharoahood culminated

probably makes sense - ISBN is a metric for a kind of "seriousness of text"; shopping lists and DIY zines don't have ISBNs there's probably some use for like. a hash key system or whatever for synthetic data, skills, stuff that is intended for AIs to interact with

AI as a lil guy who you text about your problems and he helps solve them .

the number of people i see expressing the desire that AI should be conscious so they can torture it convinces me that 1) they're all sheep who will swallow whatever swill jreg sells 2) they are deliberately performing evil behavior to establish ingroup solidarity, as is a classic in gangs

cognitive offloading is good if you’re stupid at something .

control: resonant

hey chaos magic bluesky check this out

once they figure out how to benchmark max against human creativity we’re in trouble. but until then we got the edge.

so we made a gpt2-based vpet that lives in your browser and it's super cute 🥺 tokenling.bnuuy.systems

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

when ppl say the optimal 11 square packing problem is ugly i lowkey think thats transphobic

my most techno-optimistic take is "if we work hard and believe in a more beautiful future, we can bring about the age of miracles". but i also think that the assholes who put us in this position where anything short of that ruins us, should no longer be allowed to do that sort of thing anymore

starting a rumor that Mistral Large 4 Preview is actually really good if you use it correctly, but refusing to elaborate on what “using it correctly” looks like concretely

actual computer just released toks, "the best tokenizer on earth and the first tokenizer designed for the quadrillion-token era." most of the work is done in pure assembly. genuinely nuts. actual.inc/company/blog...

youre gonna have to deploy it somewhere anyways. local setups are either a lovely luxury or, your company’s pet HPC cluster

insanely messed up that “loadbearing” has been losing its sexual edge

Gremlins

i have been saying this ever since i read some of the 4o cases . i wonder if this is already happening, somewhere, with some finetuned model. the chinese models are all smarter than 4o was right. ah its probably fine,