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At a warehouse party and I'm just *dying* to talk to someone about my current pet metaphysics problem, the struggle is real.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

So I've been on Adderall for about 18 months now and while there's been ups and down, the contrast has been incredible. It took some time to figure stuff out and settle in, but it feels like I've managed more in the last 6 months than the previous 5 years.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I *cannot* believe people had the *audacity* to complain about python tooling. Javascript is the worst tooling experience I've ever had and it's not even close. I have spent hours getting absolutely nowhere and getting not a semblance of a coherent answer from chatgpt or anything else.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think any word has come out of the last 15 years more badly battered than "biased" and "unbiased". Whenever I encounter it in writing I automatically assume the writer is an idiot. The writing was on the wall when Fox went "fair and balanced" but still.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So we're seeing massive leaps in AI, quantum computing, robotics, and *checks notes* nuclear fusion all at the same time? I know it's the schizophrenia talking but damn, things used to be subtle.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Finally finishing the Fountainhead and dear lord the monologues. They are everything I was told they'd be. Every inch as bad. That said, I'm starting to see some odd parallels with Orwell and I have a wild theory that there are two confounders: James Burnham and the Protocols of the elders of Zion.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

TIL that either Sora does not know what clean-shaven means, or cannot conceive of mathematicians without a beard.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

One of the issues with being an elder millenial is how I calibrate download sizes. Seeing a 100MB download triggers trauma from when it would take several hours at best, and it's basically the size of a clock app these days.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Good Lord Deep Research really is as good as they say. Like, it's not just high-quality data gathering, it reads really well as well. Kinda worried I'm going to burn through my requests before the end of the weekend.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

x.com/Dorialexande... I did not have "existential waterboarding" on my bingo card today.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Spent 2 days trying to figure out why changes I was making to my toy TUI weren't registering. Deleted every cache I could find. Created new venvs. Turned on every refresh setting. Eventually I realised. I have an old drive I use as a backup. I was editing that version and running the normal one.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Was it worth spending 1.5 weekends rewriting NanoGPT so that it doesn't look like every stereotype about researcher codes combined? Probably not, but I did it, and now I can torture my GPU until I find the exact point where it breaks.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Considering leftwing politics are so decentralized in the US it's kinda weird that crypto as a rule is rightwing.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Goals tbh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

A tale in two tweets: Tweet 1: x.com/JDVance/stat...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

There's something deeply offsetting about being called cute by a twink. Like the scenario has been flipped.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

How far are we from the first AI-related (in the luddite sense) major terrorist attack?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I expected twitter to discover that right-wing censorship is a thing, but I didn't expect so many smart people to find it a surprise. I might be showing my age: I saw the whole woke backlash start from people who I knew were very much tyrants wannabe so my default was always that anti-woke

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

kvetch: to bitch about something cwtch: a hug or a cuddle kwtch: to bitch about your day whilst in a cuddle

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Me: I'm fairly easy going when it comes to code as long as it does good research Me reading through Karpathy's nanoGPT code and writing pydantic models out of muscle memory: the AI apocalypse can't come fast enough.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Looking at Deepseek's CoT makes me sad because damn it's both stupid and anxious. Latest torture: "here is four lines of bash, make a script that switches between the third and fourth line depending on an --interactive flag" and it spent ~2000 tokens wondering if I want to run the preceding lines.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Occasionally I have to remind myself of two things about my little parasocial Twitter tpot community that a water/fish dynamic makes me forget: - the level of 'tism is high - I am not autistic To be fair a lot of people have to be reminded of the second one, I'm afraid to poll my acquaintances.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments