scanstone.bsky.social

Nighttime driving

This was pretty trivial to implement. Just initialize camera rays with some speed variance. Predictably blurry, but this is clearly motion blur. Looks like a natural value over which to animate... It makes sense, I guess: sweeping velocity->infinity is like sweeping the strength of the potential->0

i got bored of imagegen/video/sunoslop and figured: what if demoscene? here's ring0, a 64k intro for native macOS arm64, single self-contained 53,304 byte Mach-O, no static assets used, all completely synthesized in C and arm64 assembly. opus 5.5, "make a native 64k intro" and a single moodboard

I'll trade you a four for all your nines

(generating certs for my root CA) ok now let's do a silly one

There’s this idea from “free speech” advocates that an unmoderated forum is somehow a truer reflection of what people think. But that system has its own dynamics and its outcomes are as much that as nature

clod what da hell is a zonotope

I ask my AI, "Is x true?" Following automated instructions, it posts x to a blog, Substack, and Medium, then pays to publish member content on Forbes "folks are saying x". Forbes links as a source for a Wikipedia ref. My AI sends me the wiki link. Truth collapses and I revert to warm protoplasm.

Don't you just hate it when you're minding your own business, forming a perfectly round bubble, and then a big membranous arm comes along and squishes you flat?

A tablet of lapis? Who does this guy think he is, Hermes Dismegistus?

Enough interfaces. It is time for intercafes

According to the IMF, AI hardware and related tech products now account for more than 10% of global trade in goods! 🤯 thenextweb.com/news/imf-ai-...

Rather suddenly, cyborgs are starting to dominate math research.

for some reason my brain’s new tic is randomly noticing english phrases that would fit into Mandarin phonotactics. such as the great writer He Mingwei

what else is like this

hell yeah!

I'm living through an intelligence explosion and all I got was Claude fill out the rest of this shirt text for me before we send in the order

my competitive advantage is believing Claude can do it!!

things to say when confronted by an "interviewer" Where will you be in 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 years? I will 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 work a day in my life. Give me 𝐭𝐡𝐞 names of everyone you have hired. I would like to speak to the job 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 when you're talking to me. Sell me this 𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞. Are you working 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰?

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘆 to your router: - I would like to speak with the endpoint 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆. - Where do you keep your 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 devices? - What are your 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 with my 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁? - I brought my 𝗼𝘄𝗻 protocol. - Sell me this 𝗩𝗟𝗔𝗡. - What are your 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀?

prayer facing us-east-1

ad astra per astra

when trying to solve an open math problem, I see GPT-6 Astra regularly making internet searches that would only make sense/be useful if the problem weren't open, which is a little funny but also, probably not a terrible policy

The 'uppin my P(doom)' video is exactly what I'd expect from a superintelligent AI that figured universal adult daycare should be it's first priority in order to max(paperclip)

Sometime before 2020 I wrote a little ditty that reads different in light of recent AI developments: You have More answers Than you will ever need But you must see And you will see! Intuition ain't cheap When intuition is free

help :C

I know every sauce

What's the most you've ever lost on a tool call

I just realized that Opus-4.6, which in my head is "an old workhorse model, less powerful but *much* less pearl-clutching than its successors", is only 7 months old. If you had asked me before I looked it up I think I would have guessed "a little over a year maybe?" AI time = dog years.

apropos of nothing, please listen to this nice song www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnaU...

It's not exponential; it's a step function!

you're the mann now gell

under a reddit post about eyestalk parasites in snails

There was once a time when computer viruses were widely considered to be a myth by sysadmins.

"i'm not velocity-blind! i'm not velocity-blind!!" i continue to insist as i shrink and transform into a corn cob at an entirely predictable rate

OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”

magic as a rotting corrupting influence, in the way that yeast rots into wines, and bacteria devises kimchi, magic in how mycelium makes forests work

cities should change so frequently that the change becomes a salient feature of how you perceive it, not any one snapshot in time if it ever stagnated, it should feel foreign