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ajd.us

@daubman from 🐦 technology & music enjoyer ...just trying to reach my keyboard without disturbing my cat blanket

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It's international women's day and that means it's the day I self-promote! I've written a few good books including my most recent on Platform Engineering, check them out here! amzn.to/3QYGaoB

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Reminder: if you haven’t yet read “The Mythical Man Month,” buy two copies so you can read it faster.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Zest Delites indeed 😼🌶️🫛

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a dark day for ska

submitted 5 days ago • 125 comments

my doctor

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-hundreds-of-millions dollar contracts at fed and state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that repeatedly delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

I am currently getting multiple reports that Google, in an attempt to remove pronouns in the US government email accounts, just removed pronouns for every private workplace account in the world. If you use Google workspaces, go check on that and confirm for me. Overcompliance leads to stupidity.

submitted 10 days ago • 296 comments

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

submitted 10 days ago • 478 comments

I heart Tina Smith.

submitted 11 days ago • 606 comments

Last night's show is already up on YouTube™ (where I've posted the tracklisting in the comments; a whopping 64 different pieces in just under 2 hours, with 4 playing simultaneously throughout!) Insanely quick turnaround; props to the @thelotradio.com staff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i193...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

HPE's ill-fated The Machine had an interconnect named... NGMI?!

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown you can SEE HIM he is playing in town you should go and have a good time

submitted 13 days ago • 71 comments

“Just tokenize it” is the “Will it blend” of ML today

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Time to label some data...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

submitted 15 days ago • 191 comments

Flashbacks of annual planning exercises.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

If you run a/b tests or user surveys to help you decide whether or not to launch a product, this New Coke article might give you pause. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Burning the candle at both ends? Cut it in half. Two more ends to burn, idiot

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Why don't we all just agree to have a Greenwich Nice Time together instead

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

she's doing a noise set

submitted 25 days ago • 93 comments

Would you still love me if I were a ball of worms? 🧶🪱

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

🍿 This is like if The Pirate Bay complained about Limetorrents using their index without permission... 🤣

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

youth pastor voice Paul and Silas also were once chained, or so they thought... Mixture of Experts? How about a great cloud of witnesses?

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Beep and, I cannot stress this enough, boop

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

2010 seems like forever ago... 👴🏻

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like I could do a whole book of these

submitted 68 days ago • 8 comments

Transformer LMs get pretty far by acting like ngram models, so why do they learn syntax? A new paper by sunnytqin.bsky.social, me, and @dmelis.bsky.social illuminates grammar learning in a whirlwind tour of generalization, grokking, training dynamics, memorization, and random variation. #mlsky #nlp

submitted 78 days ago • 5 comments

The joke is now on all of us, as Reviewer 2 is also ChatGPT 🤦

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

I just saw (thanks to a great quote skeet in the @home-assistant.io newsletter) that through the magic of the fediverse and bridging, @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy is here!

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Eleanor Zigbee / Turns on the lights in a room where nobody wants them / Misrouted scene / Based on a message / Sent by the press of a button six hours before / Who was it fooooor? #HomeAssistant

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, so it turns out that paper on black plastic was a bit blown out of proportion by a simple math error. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

submitted 82 days ago • 317 comments

If a significant proportion of posts on a social network are about that social network, it's a bad sign 😿

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I mean, I do like "Games that involve playing with Balloon"... 🤔🎈

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Me when starting to read this book review: "Why would any sane person want to read a whole book about principal component analysis" Me after finishing this excellent book review: "WTF inject it right into my veins" loreley.one/2024-09-pca/

submitted 89 days ago • 12 comments

I just can't make Mastodon work well for me, how do we get Aphyr over here? They were one of the biggest early losses from 🐦

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42 is old enough to remember dial-up, Friendster, burning CDs off Napster on their Gateway towers to play on the discman that connects to the Jetta’s speaker via a cassette cord plugged into the headphone jack on their way to celebrate a good report card at Red Lobster when that meant something

submitted 110 days ago • 5 comments

"you wouldn't train on a car"

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I heard there was a secret chord Made Drake so mad He went to court

submitted 102 days ago • 86 comments

What interesting new things do we think are going to come out of the discovery process in this suit...

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment