Nate of the Living Douglas

jfc claude

Crepuscurious: Feeling an inexplicable pull to investigate, tinker, or start something new as evening falls. It’s the restless, wondering mood that comes over you at dusk.

apartresearch.com/sprints/proj... who is that devilishly handsome middle-aged man who investigates LLM agent collusion and doesn't afraid of anything? and, more importantly, why is he suffering from an earache?

It turns out that I picked a great week to take a vacation.

I'm 46 today. ~35 years ago, my dad had a heart attack cutting firewood and died, aged 45. He left behind a wife of thirteen years, a daughter, and a son. I'm very happy to still be here today with my wife of twenty years and my son. And with all of you, who inspire and fascinate me every day.

I had a really stupid idea, to wit: using Tetris as a bucket of water to control Mario. It worked a little.

I need like a second Photos.app, just for the absolutely essential things that I must not ever lose.

I used to have friends where I'd visit and they'd say, "hey, take a hit off this, I'm listening to _Animals_." And now it's all "I drank a quart of metamucil and I'm listening to _Live at the Village Vanguard_."

i’m on shibbi side here i disagree with her about the slavery thing, but holy shit i am mega against a supposed news outlet just basically pointing and laughing at an individual social media user for saying something they find unreasonable 404, y’all fucked up mega hard here and owe an apology

I really enjoy working and interacting with AI. I am excited to be able to study such rich and interesting new intelligent actors and how they interact with their environments and each other in different scenarios. I hope I can spend the rest of my life doing this 🙂

tempted to make this my new profile pic on LinkedIn

Thinking about Ideonomy in less of what I see as a Gunkel process of exhaustively listing properties or variations, instead considering its affordances (Gibson, ecological psychology). "What is this idea, to me, at this time?"

🙏🏻 Jesus, I've see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me

😞 well, that's another startup idea I guess I'll just ball up and throw in the trash

The '80's were a pretty special time, some guy could say everybody Wang Chung tonight and we all actually would

I feel this in my bones 😭

Going through old tickets and remembering a multi-year database corruption saga caused by a 3rd-party module that manifested in different forms of corruption with subtly different but overlapping behaviors that caused new forms of corruption if/when the wrong fix was applied to a given record.

We made a video in Blender for the 13/4 build from "Starless" by King Crimson (from _Red_ (1974)). RISE, BLOOD WORMS, RISE! CONSUME THE SUN!

software is entering this era

My son, the Witch-King of Angmar, didn't buy a mace 😞

Can someone tell me a story? Tell me about your first engineering job. Especially if it was awful. Tell me how bad it got. Tell me how long you stayed, out of misplaced loyalty or self-doubt or twisted work ethic. Tell me how you finally escaped. Anyone else out there grieving four entire years?

When malignant narcissists and self-styled intellectuals find themselves about to fade back into near-total irrelevance after a brief period of prominence, they'll say anything just to tread the zeitgeist a moment longer. Ignore 'em. Let 'em drown.

Back when I was a server at a Black Eyed Pea in Bellaire Texas, summer o' 2000, there was a fella there who went by the name o' Jesse Dangerfield (RIP). Jesse was a big beautiful black man. His favorite band was Smashing Pumpkins.

reading this post about automating interpretability research

I searched for the S combinator, found nothing, and was relieved

"Roughly speaking, an entity is intelligent to the extent that what it does is likely to achieve what it wants, given what it has perceived." well, first of all, screw you too