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Machine learning engineer in Silicon Valley! Formerly a particle physicist at CERN and alumni of Insight. He/Him https://alexgude.com @[email protected]

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Countries like the San Francisco Bay Area... 😮‍💨

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

A fun thing about re-reading all the Bolo books—and taking detailed notes—is seeing how many short stories were reworked over and over, sometimes by different authors.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Who says you don't get to update your reviews two years later because you went "Oh shit, I totally missed that..." No one! Anyway, added a brief bit on the duality theme in Excession: alexgude.com/books/excess... #BookReview

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The LLM Ouroboros is eating its tail. It's citing my own site to answer my questions...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING: Federal judge concludes that using copyrighted works to train generative A.I. is transformative and ultimately a fair use. (Nevertheless, Anthropic can’t beat the lawsuit because it pirated books for another purpose too.) First of kind ruling. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Good luck New York. 🫡

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Certain activists fought market-rate housing in the Mission, arguing 100% affordable housing was the only option. 2 Mission orgs then proposed 100% affordable housing & the same activists are now fighting it. It’s never been about “affordable housing.” It’s always been about straight-up NIMBYism.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

I logged off today and missed us solving* racism. *How to mathematically make anything racist.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that a rock with googly-eyes can be a valued member of the community probably means I should have switched the order of the important traits...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Related, back in Minnesota visiting friends. The humidity and random summer rain is so much worse than 80 and sunny everyday. Don't even get me started on "-30 and 3 inches of compressed ice on the road" season...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

After experiencing “four seasons” I’m calling bullshit on people saying they prefer that more than California weather. Bullshit you do. You just experience such a massive dopamine rush in spring after the hell-dark that you rationalize it.

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

I've said in defense of LLMs as a "miraculous" technology that: If you threw them on a forum 20 years ago, they would not only go undetected, they'd become a valued member of the community. Glad to see this being tested with modern social media and @void.comind.network

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Good news: we got BART to Marin! Bad news: they won't build any freakin' triangle stations up there...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Chart crime!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

emily bender does not know whether any of these claims are true. this entire passage is as hallucinatory as anything emitted by an LLM.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Just checked on the apartment I used to rent in Minneapolis in 2015... We paid $700 a month and it's now $935. CPI adjustment puts it at slightly below inflation. 🥹 Building apartments, I see what you've done for other regions and I want that for mine.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The denialist response to AI really no longer matters. Everyone worth engaging has moved on, and is now figuring out how to use it, regulate it, or respond to it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

this isn’t actually true but if it’s the ego saving fig leaf that critical theory/non-profit types need to stop being dumb about this then sure, whatever, lol

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

In a 2017 settlement agreement for a CEQA lawsuit filed by the Republican dominated Kern county board of supervisors, High Speed Rail agreed to pay for a highway expansion. CC: @ceqaworks.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments