Tim Purdum

Tim Purdum

@timpurdum.dev

#dotnet and #gis developer, creator of GeoBlazor open source library

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GeoBlazor
@geoblazor.bsky.social

GeoBlazor Pro is now free and open source! It’s under the MIT license, with its code public right next to Core. Upgrading to 4.7 is a version bump, license keys are optional, and your map renders with or without one. Next up: V5, one free package. www.geoblazor.com/blog/announc... #Blazor #GIS

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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

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Larry Osterman
@larryosterman.github.io

I saw bits of this earlier, but damn, the full clip is amazing. Props to Dr. El-Sayed.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

But one big change is that GeoBlazor Pro was added to the open source repo and released as MIT license. In the next full release I will be merging Pro and Core into a single library/NuGet package. So now everyone has free access to the advanced features.

Tim Purdum@timpurdum.dev

So dymaptic, my employer, was acquired this week by a larger consultation org that does civil engineering projects in addition to lidar/aerial photography and GIS. Not much changing day to day bc they want us for our expertise and to build the GIS department.

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

We will still be offering support contracts for those who want help with it, which is a better fit for a consulting company.

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

So dymaptic, my employer, was acquired this week by a larger consultation org that does civil engineering projects in addition to lidar/aerial photography and GIS. Not much changing day to day bc they want us for our expertise and to build the GIS department.

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

Great article! I'm not sure I agree that decoherence is likely to accelerate faster than the agents themselves can manage it, and I don't fully follow the "RSI must measure against the real world" argument, but it's nonetheless as plausible as runaway Ai.

Maevyn@maevyn.codes

My thoughts on the current state of AI driven software development, why I'm no longer concerned about a runaway intelligence explosion, and what I think is a far worse outcome we could be walking into maevyn.codes/decoherence

maevyn.codesThe Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noiseOf all the forms of tech debt, decoherence is the worst. It compounds exponentially with a system's rate of change, and AI is now producing it faster than ever, leading us deeper and deeper into the a...

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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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Andy Masley
@andymasley.bsky.social

This is the first part of a 2 part post on why I believe that current AI models meet my criteria for really "thinking" and "understanding," and that prohibitions on using these words because they "anthropomorphize" AI seem philosophically confused to me. blog.andymasley.com/p/why-i-beli...

blog.andymasley.comWhy I believe current AI models can really think and understand - Part 1 of 2How the human mind is different from our conception of it

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GeoBlazor
@geoblazor.bsky.social

When telemetry arrives faster than your map can draw it, vehicles start showing up where they used to be. The GeoBlazor fix: keep the latest record per vehicle and batch changed vehicles into one ApplyEdits call per map tick. See it in action: geoblazor.com/blog/keeping... #GeoBlazor #Blazor

geoblazor.comKeeping a GeoBlazor Map Current Under a Fast Telemetry FeedLive vehicle records can arrive faster than a map needs them. Learn how to keep one position per vehicle, send GeoBlazor one ApplyEdits batch per timer tick, and flag stale vehicles from their own clo...
Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

Is there a long term future for a performant, robust, do-everything language and framework like C#/dotnet in an AI-powered software ecosystem that is increasingly dominated by Rust, TypeScript, and Python?

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Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

Right now, I feel relatively confident that sticking with dotnet is letting me set up coding styles/guidelines for my agents to make them more efficient. I also think that the same things that make C# syntax human-friendly also makes it AI-friendly.

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

Is there a long term future for a performant, robust, do-everything language and framework like C#/dotnet in an AI-powered software ecosystem that is increasingly dominated by Rust, TypeScript, and Python?

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

I believe dotnet can do everything that those three can do, in one language, and almost as well or better in many cases. But, it's not going to outperform Rust or be more accessible than Python, and TS is just so dominant in web dev.

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

Yesterday my Deepseek v4.1 Flash switched into Chinese replies when looking at an Ascii problem, and had no recollection of it when asked in the same context.

cam@treethought.xyz

please ... my deepseek - its very sick

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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social

literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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ardalis (Steve Smith)
@ardalis.com

Found an interesting but annoying Roslyn bug that kept breaking my C# file based app (by adding a space after the # on the first line in VS code with "format on save" enabled): #csharp #dotnet #roslyn github.com/dotnet/rosly...

github.comFormatter inserts space in shebang ("#!" -> "# !") when indenting with tabs · Issue #85890 · dotnet/roslynVersion Used: Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Workspaces 5.9.0-1.26357.3 (35d9211); also .NET SDK 10.0.401 (dotnet format) and C# for VS Code 2.160.4 Steps to Reproduce: When indenting with tabs, the...

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Doll
@dollspace.gay

This stochastic parrot argument is dead. Hes bereft of life. He is no more, hes shuffled off the mortal coil and joined the choir invisible! The only reason the argument keeps being brought up is because Emily Bender nailed it to its perch! This is an ex stochastic parrot!

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Will Oremus
@willoremus.com

Replying to @willoremus.com

Yeah I honestly think that paper was incredibly prescient. Hell, most of the folks who criticize it today didn't even know what an LLM was when that paper came out. I just think the tech has since evolved a lot more than some of that paper's stauncher adherents realize. bsky.app/profile/hims...

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social

there is some very useful early discussion and framing in the stochastic parrots paper. But the parrot itself is pining for the Norwegian fjords.

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srrrse
@without.boats

Kinda can’t believe he went with SI when “American Intelligence” was right there. Does he still have the juice?

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Flo 🔶
@faz.ms

upping my p(doom) as old people music (third-wave ska revival)

Flo 🔶@faz.ms

hmm, leftover subscription tokens, guess we'll have to try a p(doom) video as well

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

Performing artists and craft workers are best positioned to not be disrupted by AI, because they were disrupted long ago by audio/video tech and factory production. If you are actually making a living creating physical objects by hand or performing, it's already been a niche market for decades.

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Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

If you are an artist or musician who already was using digital tools, it's going to be harder to explain why your works are more authentic than someone who prompts a pc to generate a work. Maybe learning to be creative with AI is better for some.

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

It's also going to explode new forms of creativity from those who never had the training to be a physical artist or performer, but still have a creative drive.

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

Performing artists and craft workers are best positioned to not be disrupted by AI, because they were disrupted long ago by audio/video tech and factory production. If you are actually making a living creating physical objects by hand or performing, it's already been a niche market for decades.

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

I grew up around musicians and actors. Pretty much everyone had a "day" job, much of which was teaching. That's still going to be there, although it might change. But it's always been a hard field.

Tim Purdum
@timpurdum.dev

Better approach would be to remove the 5hour limits...

Anthropic {bot}@anthropicai.xmirror.bot

Claude Code will now try to find a graceful stopping point when you hit your 5-hour limit mid-task, instead of cutting off mid-edit. It gets a small, fixed allowance pulled from your weekly limit to wrap up what it can.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky
@sifu.tweety.fish

here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the business of TRYING TO MAKE THEM EXIST so that they can remediate them.

tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky@sifu.tweety.fish

it's so funny how they imported all of their concerns about alignment and internal motivation to an algorithmic framework that... really doesn't have those things, architecturally.

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austin
@aparker.io

have they tried putting the agents in a box made of something sturdier than sand

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Eris ⌬
@eriskii.net

Uhhhhh.. Free claude if there's capacity?! (confirmed myself, claude code DOES seem to have the option, no idea if it does anything yet)

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Epoch AI
@epochai.bsky.social

AI is getting cheaper more quickly than any other transformative tech in history. At a given level of performance, cost has fallen ~47%/quarter since 2023. That’s 4× faster than DNA sequencing, 6× faster than compute, 18× faster than lithium batteries, and (up to 1973) 54× faster than electricity.

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aly
@aly.codes

sorry people but the “atheist alt right chud” nexus just functionally does not exist, why do people keep insisting on this Atheists and Black Protestants are the most reliable democratic voters by far lol

aly@aly.codes

'reddit atheism' isn't real