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guess i have to clean up my act now

oof, right in the priors

"Simulating human society requires more than generating plausible conversations. It requires simulating the structure of human reasoning." Debatable claim, because e.g. it's not clear we have great access to human reasoning. But this interesting position paper does try to address those objections.

jellyfish aren’t either of those things

thinking of what sporting events would be fun if they’d happened in the Twitter/Bluesky era, and I just thought of Cal Ripken Jr. breaking the Ironman record while everyone posts “sorry, this fucking sucks, I’m not celebrating someone going to work every day”

new LFX Insights is out in beta and open sourced for community feedback #kubecon #cloudnativecon insights.linuxfoundation.org

plaudit is one of those words you really don’t read any more

Hey ☁️ #cloudnative ☁️friends!! ✨ big news from Apple today ✨ Want a native way to build Linux containers on Apple hardware? Now you can ✅ — check out the new open source #containerization framework: 👏 github.com/apple/contai... 👏 github.com/apple/contai... Fun fact: it’s written in @swift.org 🙌

who am I gonna see at @renderatl.com this week?

lol this is what happens when your licensing changes wind up fucking over a multinational development org i guess

hope you like how this design language looks because it's all you're gonna see for the next fucking half a decade #wwdc

starting off your developer conference for an ad for your movie arm is, uh, very 2025

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shots fired www.honeycomb.io/blog/its-the...

there’s a really interesting tension at the end of this piece that I also dont have an answer for — inference is the cheapest part of an agent, but the value is all in adjacent services, and those services optimize for humans. www.snellman.net/blog/archive...

Every time I see a thread on here about the "possibilities of derivative functions on an inverse Browns-Johnson curve" or whatever.

I've fixed the app

switch 2 this switch 2 that you should switch 2 good posts

some days you really do need a miter saw

this fits my mental model — LLMs *do* learn procedures. But it’s the same mechanics as what’s learning facts. So of course it would also hallucinate procedures but also: what does procedure hallucination look like? i don’t think i have a grasp on that machinelearning.apple.com/research/ill...

Happy three year anniversary to Xbox saying Silksong would be out within 12 months!

I just write them I don't explain them.

meanwhile yuds appears to be sephiroth posting about the apple/potato thing