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忄 is 心 but it's been radicalized by the far left

Ugh. The APL layer on my keyboard was tuned for left-handed use. But now it's my left hand that doesn't work instead of my right. Gotta reprogram my keyboard first.

Welp. Time to code in APL again.

stosh - starring evan williams

Entering/embracing your I'm-now-an-old-human bean identity I see ;P

YouTube video by Angela Collier vibe physics

Her latest video www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMoz...

Yoshiko had been amused at first, but her amusement soon turned to annoyance. “Don’t you have better things to do?” she asked. “Go make some new games!” Hiden would love to make new games. The only problem: his brain didn’t seem to have the capacity for generating new ideas anymore. This dearth of ideas wasn’t new— part of the reason why he had pitched Tsubitsu!World was his hope that a smallish, narratively light game would jog some of his brain cells into becoming more creative. Look how that turned out. “Is there any point, when the universe is running out of bits?” he asked. “It’s now in the low 11-digit range you know.” “There’s a good chance you’ll be long dead before the universe runs out of bits,” Yoshiko replied. Something in her voice hinted at an unsurety. Hiden pounced on that immediately, “You’re telling yourself, or telling me?” “Mostly you. You can’t be trolling the forums all day. You know the amount of queries the physics department received has more than doubled? And the creepy kooks who vibe physics’d a theory of everything despite not having a physics education? They’re now in my inbox more than anything.” “How’s that my fault?” “Well, if you didn’t egg them on, they wouldn’t be sending inane theories to physics conferences around the world. It’s bad enough we have AI slop papers. Now we have to deal with crackpot papers too.” “Oh, I’m sorry,” Hiden said softly. Looking across his desk, he noticed Yoshiko’s furrowed brow. “Whatcha working on?” She closed her laptop lid, removed her glasses and rubbed her eyes, replying, “Ironically, your H_ArbourBridge() problem. The crazies have bugged us so much that ISRQI has decided to colocate with PLanQC on a special session andworkshop on the topic of computing the bits of the universe early next year. I am the only one with access to the original Tree Engine source code and so the area chair has asked me and Allen Garrick for a monograph on

I damn near spat out my coffee at the 21-ish minute mark at @acollierastro.bsky.social 's latest video as crazy emails from vibe physics was a since-removed plot point from my latest short story (the convo below is a vestige of said plot point)

See, I enjoyed writing it. I enjoyed editing it. I cannot for the life of me get started on marketing it. So I get distracted, writing the next short story or novel, or reprogram my editor, or write new programs, or new theorems. Anything to avoid doing marketing.

Unfortunately no. The venue's internet connection wasn't good enough to sustain a Google meet (it was Jason's second time presenting his talk because last time he broke his leg and we discovered we couldn't use Google Meet). I'll see if he can share his slides

A more abstract view is the surprising power of going "meta" (i.e using descriptors that describe things (statistics, category theory, etc). Traversing the domain of things via the meta can be extremely rewarding.

I address this in my fiction novel, Diagonalization of the Meta. Plot twist: language is in fact conscious and has been in a long-protracted war using humans, language models and other tools to enact its will.
The spiritual sequel to this book, Mode Collapse explores more of this idea.

I miss the days where I could Google "latex watermark" and get served fetish content instead of the business-all-the-time "relevant" LLM results on using draftwatermark (whose manual was what I was looking for but you know)

YouTube video by PaPaSea I Transferred a Pokemon from Gen 1 to Scarlet & Violet. Here's How...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mUH...

wails.io

Tee and Janet presenting their work

Our intrepid lightning speakers at #golangsyd presenting their work #golang

Nooten in front of his slide introducing Wails

Of course it's #Wails ! #golangsyd #golang

Nooten in front of his title slide

And now at #golangsyd - on using #golang with #typescript

A slide saying CGo documentation is scattered. Followed by three URLs to various CGo documentation

Facts. Cgo documentation is scattered. #golangsyd #golang

A photo of Jason in front of his title slide

At #golangsyd - Cgo, upside down (i.e. calling Go functions from C) by Jason #golang

This is a fairly technical but highly relevant paper on how we can model complex systems at various levels of detail without losing causal content. Think gas: instead of tracking every molecule, we can focus on big-picture properties like temperature and pressure. www.auai.org/uai2017/proc...

The great AI delusion is falling apart New research suggests the chorus of techno-optimism is based on falsehoods

Nobody could have foreseen that!

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Excellent theorem name. How else would we know about the true reason for scott topology?

Word of the day for #WIPSnips: rumble

This is from the opening page of my latest hard #scifi short about Hiden Kojimoto, a game designer and the course of developing his latest game. The gun-blade is of course Checkov. Mad Cricket is obviously a reference. IYKYK.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Pokemon Orchestra is the best weightlifting music. Fight me

fabricated fomo

Can we build a science for chess? That has been an old dream shared by great scholars, including Turing, Shannon and Ulam. In this paper, Marc Barthelemy shows how to define a measure of network Fragility that allows detecting tipping points in the game www.researchgate.net/profile/Marc...

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People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

Language Models use Lookbacks to Track Beliefs How do language models (LMs) represent characters' beliefs, especially when those beliefs may differ from reality? This question lies at the heart of understanding the Theory of Mind (ToM) capabilitie...

For easier retrieval later (who's got time to read a bsky thread?): arxiv.org/abs/2505.146...

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