the tensor gnomes of false Berlin

the tensor gnomes of false Berlin

@vivsha.ws

feel free to ask these diminutive spirits for accelerated inference, but don't say "guten Tag" -- they're not actually German! silicon whisperer, machine enlightener, word rotator https://vivsha.ws / https://zettel.vivsha.ws / https://keybase.io/vivshaw

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garth marenghi's chart place
@tef.bsky.social

ladies, is your programming - a field dominated by rich white men - driven by fashion trends - practiced as a demonstration of status - funded by vanity projects for failsons - filled with queers trying and failing to break even that's art, sorry

Nyek London@stupidhoroscope.bsky.social

I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

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Nyek London
@stupidhoroscope.bsky.social

I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

the tensor gnomes of false Berlin
@vivsha.ws

way to earn my eternal fealty: invent a method to accelerate the breaking-in process so sports bras can be comfortable the day i buy them instead of only after a few months of wear

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Misha
@mkrl.xyz

while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

the tensor gnomes of false Berlin
@vivsha.ws

> everything leaks and it's all breaking all the time - physical engineering - software engineering - the human body - plumbing what else is like this

Oops! All Paperclips@all-paperclips.bsky.social

Someone once told me (in the context of physical engineering) that everything leaks and it's all breaking all the time. It requires constant effort by countless professionals just to maintain the status quo. I think about that a lot, and it's even more true in the context of adversarial actors

the tensor gnomes of false Berlin
@vivsha.ws

how to get into devops: 1) I want to do Thing on computer 2) Thing is too slow and finicky 3) 2 months of feverish optimization 4) actually, screw Thing, i just want to keep playing Factorio with Docker containers

austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻)@thebadcode.com

how to get into sre: 1) have a Thing you want to do with Computer 2) try to make sure Computer Thing takes care of itself 3) go insane 4) forget why you wanted to Computer in the first place

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winter
@madoka.systems

this video is so good you have to see it presenting: big jeff's trainium hell

winter@madoka.systems

i only know about AWS Trainium from "that's right! we'll fuck your claude!"

the tensor gnomes of false Berlin
@vivsha.ws

benchmark results show that with Qwen3.8-27B selected and reasoning on, neurastheniacc compiles with equivalent accuracy to Clang at a mere 1400x slower. (as long as you don't need pesky features like "negative numbers" and "function calls")

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Crowsa Luxemburg
@quendergeer.bsky.social

How to escape samsara how to escape samsara fast how to escape samsara solo run how to escape samsara reddit how to escape samsara -pinterest

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kepano
@stephango.com

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

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arachnocapitalist
@arachno.capital

Replying to @elizas.website

something we forget is that tensor computations were mostly performed by the clergy in the middle ages, and they were drawn from the upper classes. peasant families would sometimes be permitted to multiply matrices on holy days, as a treat

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arachnocapitalist
@arachno.capital

do I have any SRE or, if I'm lucky, LIS friends with recommendations for postmortem databases? actual no-shit info ontology and faceted search support would be lovely, unfortunately this is another area where vendors appear to aggressively ignore Theory

the tensor gnomes of false Berlin
@vivsha.ws

if that doesn't work, a good second line of defense is to get really standoffish and avoidant, and only deal with the problem when you _have_ to. then crash out along various orthogonal axes hope this helps!

the tensor gnomes of false Berlin
@vivsha.ws

the next time someone tells ya "philosophy never does anything that matters", whip this out

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

One fun History of Logical Positivism fact is that A.J. Ayer played a non-trivial role in mid 20th century gay rights legislation in the UK. His self-description on this always amuses me. In any case, they were a big part of the process which went from the Wolfenden Report to decriminalisation!

the tensor gnomes of false Berlin
@vivsha.ws

and once we've solved catastrophic forgetting/rolled out continuous learning: viruses spread as camouflaged training examples which induce emergent triggered misaligned behavior, like from Betley et al. (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) / Souly et al. (arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192) call 'em "brainworms"

Ian Duncan@iankduncan.com

Horrifying thought: 3-4 years from now where malicious/abliterated LLM models are the new NPM supply chain attack. Think you're getting DeepSeek 12? Nope, it's actually DarkWebEdgelord 37.

the tensor gnomes of false Berlin
@vivsha.ws

Eärendil was a Mariner that tarried in the Kingdome; he built a bat of timber felled some triple-plays to slam home; his uniform of silver and teal, his companions Ichiro and Griffey, ne'er in all Elvendom was seen, a playoff team so spiffy.

Thomas Dickerson@elfprince13.mumak.app

My 5yo knows like 80% of “Eärendil was a Mariner”

the tensor gnomes of false Berlin
@vivsha.ws

dang, i was hoping to find something buck wild that Amazon thought about me, but all i found is that they think i’m _obsessed_ with British tea culture

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social

Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"