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And if you use a proper version control system, you get to do fun things like editing through time: bsky.app/profile/bsky... Or just see how badly your words have aged: bsky.app/profile/bsky...

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I propose a new #go / #baduk / #weiqi handicap system: N number of drinks. I normally play at 8-5 kyu. But after 3 beers I find myself unable to beat someone (12-10 kyu) I normally play. (Or more likely: my skills deteriorated and her game improved over the past 6 months)

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It is Anubis! #golangsyd #golang. We should really invite @xeiaso.net to #gopherconau

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Nanik Telaram explaining how proof-of-work security works #golangsyd #golang

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At #golangsyd our talk numbers start at 2, with Nanik on web security and #golang (something about using proof of work?) No crypto involved (maybe Anubis?)

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Wasn't Nick Clegg deputy PM at one time? What's he doing slumming around doing AI consulting

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I wrote a thing about multivariate normal sampling in #rstats, and why you would be well-advised to prefer mvtnorm::rmvnorm() over MASS::mvrnorm() Now. Let us never speak of this again

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Even have a completely offline ChatGPT in my #emacs. (M-x doctor)

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I can play #go/#weiqi/#baduk on #emacs on my phone using gnugo. (Yes I am aware there are multiple Go apps for Android, but only one is completely offline - Go Pro, which you have to pay for)

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I have #emacs running natively on my android.

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Kleya is Leia right? #andor

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#WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions 7: None of them. It's a mental hygiene thing. Any fantasy I have can be committed onto paper as to allow me a level of knurdness to view this real world for what it actually is.

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#WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions What I was supposed to be researching: bear anatomy What I ended up reading about: ways of camouflaging oneself in the snow using only primitive technology. Bear hide is one such technology. Unfortunately, the scene I'm writing is about Homo's first encounter with Ursus.

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Day 5 of #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions. Against Bair: ice (the water kind). Against Theora: ICE (the fascist deporty kind). Against Bruno: AIs (the slop kind). None of these are really weapons. More like environments that hurt these characters.

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Day 4 #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions Bruno's main escape is into his mind. I've likened it multiple times to circling a drain (the equation from bsky.app/profile/bsky... might be a hint :P). Theora's main escape is talking to herself. Bair's main escape making up new words while watching the tundra.

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Day 3 #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions . One of my main characters is extremely sensitive to musical structures. So far the pieces mentioned: Schubert's String Quintet in C Major, Ravel's Bolero, Bach's Prelude in C Minor.

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Day 2 #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions MC that I'm writing now (3 in total) is struggling with her identity. Learning her mother tongue is an important plot point that spans more than 10,000 years.

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It's #wippit (@wippit.bsky.social) and I missed this #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions from 3 days ago. For my latest WIP #scifi story, it's 3 things: 1. An equation: 𝔼[𝒲²(𝒩(μₙ, Σₙ), 𝒟)] → ∞; n → ∞ ⇒ Σₙ → 0 2. The FOXP-2, NOVA-1, ASPM-D and MCPH-D genes 3. The Ariekei in China Mieville's Embassytown.

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Exciting! I once gave a talk about using GPT2 to figure out an Linguistics Olympiad question on Umbu-Ungu (video has sadly been taken down since Yow changed ownership).

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Ok now can the trumpet fuckers stop SMSing me?

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I don't write blog posts anymore but if I did, I would write one about how intelligent behaviors in LLMs come entirely from training on human instructions and traces, and not from magical emergent properties. Progress in LLMs is a matter of extracting better instructions and traces from people.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Looks like NAACL is up on ACL Anthology, and so too is our ( Junyoung Lee + @sxm.bsky.social + Naoaki Okazaki) paper on Jamo-level Subword Tokenization for Korean Machine Translation (from LoResMT). #tokenization #korean #nlp

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting study but I have a quibble with "lying". You know what got us into all this mess? Anthropomorphization. Maybe we should just stop anthropomorphizing models that are fundamentally ungrounded.

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why are programmers so scared of typing more? gosh

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

NHK has public access #Go / #baduk / #weiqi tutorials on free to air TV

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

How can really smart people appear totally incompetent? https://lemire.me/blog/2025/04/11/how-can-really-smart-people-appear-totally-incompetent/ It is often puzzling to encounter organizations run by highly capable and ambitious people

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As I grow older I gain more empathy on and insights into the mind of conspiracy theorists. I was brushing up on Lebesgue integrals and probably due to tiredness, I can't seem to get it in my head. Then a strange thought crossed my mind: what if Lebesgue integrals was all bullshit?

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Shame there are no cinemas in Sydney that is showing The Match (the Korean movie about #go / #baduk / #weiqi players Cho Hun-hyun and Lee Chang-ho). Which ports of Tortuga should I avail myself to? Arrr...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

And if you use a proper version control system, you get to do fun things like editing through time: bsky.app/profile/bsky... Or just see how badly your words have aged: bsky.app/profile/bsky...

I propose a new #go / #baduk / #weiqi handicap system: N number of drinks. I normally play at 8-5 kyu. But after 3 beers I find myself unable to beat someone (12-10 kyu) I normally play. (Or more likely: my skills deteriorated and her game improved over the past 6 months)

It is Anubis! #golangsyd #golang. We should really invite @xeiaso.net to #gopherconau

Nanik Telaram explaining how proof-of-work security works #golangsyd #golang

At #golangsyd our talk numbers start at 2, with Nanik on web security and #golang (something about using proof of work?) No crypto involved (maybe Anubis?)

Wasn't Nick Clegg deputy PM at one time? What's he doing slumming around doing AI consulting

I wrote a thing about multivariate normal sampling in #rstats, and why you would be well-advised to prefer mvtnorm::rmvnorm() over MASS::mvrnorm() Now. Let us never speak of this again

Even have a completely offline ChatGPT in my #emacs. (M-x doctor)

I can play #go/#weiqi/#baduk on #emacs on my phone using gnugo. (Yes I am aware there are multiple Go apps for Android, but only one is completely offline - Go Pro, which you have to pay for)

I have #emacs running natively on my android.

Kleya is Leia right? #andor

#WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions 7: None of them. It's a mental hygiene thing. Any fantasy I have can be committed onto paper as to allow me a level of knurdness to view this real world for what it actually is.

#WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions What I was supposed to be researching: bear anatomy What I ended up reading about: ways of camouflaging oneself in the snow using only primitive technology. Bear hide is one such technology. Unfortunately, the scene I'm writing is about Homo's first encounter with Ursus.

Day 5 of #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions. Against Bair: ice (the water kind). Against Theora: ICE (the fascist deporty kind). Against Bruno: AIs (the slop kind). None of these are really weapons. More like environments that hurt these characters.

Day 4 #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions Bruno's main escape is into his mind. I've likened it multiple times to circling a drain (the equation from bsky.app/profile/bsky... might be a hint :P). Theora's main escape is talking to herself. Bair's main escape making up new words while watching the tundra.

Day 3 #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions . One of my main characters is extremely sensitive to musical structures. So far the pieces mentioned: Schubert's String Quintet in C Major, Ravel's Bolero, Bach's Prelude in C Minor.

Day 2 #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions MC that I'm writing now (3 in total) is struggling with her identity. Learning her mother tongue is an important plot point that spans more than 10,000 years.

Exciting! I once gave a talk about using GPT2 to figure out an Linguistics Olympiad question on Umbu-Ungu (video has sadly been taken down since Yow changed ownership).

Ok now can the trumpet fuckers stop SMSing me?

I don't write blog posts anymore but if I did, I would write one about how intelligent behaviors in LLMs come entirely from training on human instructions and traces, and not from magical emergent properties. Progress in LLMs is a matter of extracting better instructions and traces from people.

Looks like NAACL is up on ACL Anthology, and so too is our ( Junyoung Lee + @sxm.bsky.social + Naoaki Okazaki) paper on Jamo-level Subword Tokenization for Korean Machine Translation (from LoResMT). #tokenization #korean #nlp

Interesting study but I have a quibble with "lying". You know what got us into all this mess? Anthropomorphization. Maybe we should just stop anthropomorphizing models that are fundamentally ungrounded.

why are programmers so scared of typing more? gosh

NHK has public access #Go / #baduk / #weiqi tutorials on free to air TV

How can really smart people appear totally incompetent? https://lemire.me/blog/2025/04/11/how-can-really-smart-people-appear-totally-incompetent/ It is often puzzling to encounter organizations run by highly capable and ambitious people

As I grow older I gain more empathy on and insights into the mind of conspiracy theorists. I was brushing up on Lebesgue integrals and probably due to tiredness, I can't seem to get it in my head. Then a strange thought crossed my mind: what if Lebesgue integrals was all bullshit?

Shame there are no cinemas in Sydney that is showing The Match (the Korean movie about #go / #baduk / #weiqi players Cho Hun-hyun and Lee Chang-ho). Which ports of Tortuga should I avail myself to? Arrr...

I try to stay away from politics but this crab eating a grape is very important.

And now at #golangsyd, Mahmudul Islam on BDD with Gingko #golang

"One of the greybeard things you probably should be doing" #golangsyd #golang

Ooh TIL about sqlc.dev #golang #golangsyd

The key is to remove stuff #golangsyd #golang

#golangsyd starts with Ben Boyter! #golang