brian

the three kinds of gaming streamer: - entertaining: come and laugh with me - educational: learn how to get better at this game - competent: watch someone who's incredible at this game

a "small world" custom feed which throws you into a cohort with ~20 other small accounts. the cohorts slowly change over time as it learns from who you interact well with and tries to match you with the perfect little community key engagement metric: how many users eventually become irl friends?

the paradigm of running `sudo apt install calibre` seems wrong every tool in the apt repositories should be "installed"; it is downloaded into a local cache when I first try to use it and automatically removed from the cache if I haven't used it in a while. nix, uv, bun, docker approximate this

a cool visualization from the washington DOT, the optimal amount of traffic is a lot higher than you might prefer it to be (ht www.construction-physics.com/p/reading-li...)

love it, - did:plc, you trust bsky not to censor your account, otherwise have full control - did:web (typically), you trust your registrar to control your identity - did:web (this monstrosity), you trust your ISP and their dynamic DNS, famously very trustworthy and stable (!), to host your identity

a single-payer blockchain: the network is subsidized by one entity which directly pays out block proposers this makes sense by the same economic logic which powers franchise restaurants

does anyone run an alternative atproto relay? everyone seems to read from "the firehose" but surely there are others somewhere out there?

after reading every NIP the nostr protocol also seems very cool, it's a shame it is currently being used exclusively to talk about bitcoin

I love the idea of an atproto-powered wiki! With atproto we can have an opinionated wiki which shows you your favorite version of each page, ignores all contributions by anybody you've muted / blocked. We already have a wiki for consensus knowledge, atproto can give you a wiki without edit wars

I am continually surprised this doesn't cause more problems git merge mostly just works without introducing any bugs but it has this seemingly huge flaw! looking forward to an LLM-aided git merge which considers the intent & semantics of each commit while merging

there's an opportunity to create the netlify of bluesky, put all your records into a git repo and this service serves them for you - a bluesky account is a bag of tuples, all a PDS "really is" is an interface relays use to fetch your tuples why not decouple the data storage from the serving?

how would one go about automatically finding the closest renaissance (in this case baroque) painting for some image? mb similarity search over an embedding db but this match is so perfect because it's a crop of the original image, some kind of registration algorithm has to happen during the search?

my first custom feed: Top Articles It shows you the links the people you follow have most shared in the last 24 hours

New atproto applications require a webserver for hosting the interface to the application. Your PDS just holds the data, not the application itself. A new lexicon for defining interfaces/applications would enable atproto to become beautifully self-hosting

Don't think I'll be doing a firehose post every day but really enjoying watching new services launch. In the last 24 hours a few more new atproto applications launched and saw some adoption: - @pinksea.art, a drawing BBS - pastesphere.link, a pastebin - @woosh.link, a linktree

Yesterday the firehose averaged over 700 events per second. Two million people liked at least one post and one million people made at least one post, an incredibly high ratio. New today: 11 people placed a bunch of pixels @place.blue

this is incomplete data (still working on stability) but I've started drinking from the firehose, over one million people sent at least one like in the last 24 hours! I'm enjoying browsing this long tail of experiments & typos

the bluesky architecture enables overlay feeds: it pulls from your Discover BUT also syncs with mochi and occasionally throws in some of your flashcards. It syncs with readwise and throws in some longforms you might prefer to read

The custom feeds API is incredibly flexible and could be co-opted to expose some fun features: - a choose your own adventure where you react to a post from a limited menu of posts then are shown the next menu - voting: you're shown two SoME math videos and asked to react to the one you like most

The game theory of medieval monks bestowing curses upon those who betray them: academic.oup.com/jleo/article...

The existence of undetectable backdoors seems to suggest some kind of impossibility result for alignment: you have no idea what your optimizer might have planted in there: arxiv.org/abs/2204.06974