Marco Zocca

What does it even mean to "automate science" beyond the point of even being able to understand it? 2/n

togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea... looking beyond that specifically odious and ill-informed line*, there is a deeper point worth discussing. 1/n

* ask any oncologist why using "a cure for cancer" in a sentence is a clear marker of having no understanding of cancer or physiology in general.

togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea... that specific line was a response to someone else who assembled the strawman. The whole thing is worth reading and has some better points.

higher scrutiny at review time. Reviewers stalling. etc

interesting that it still holds true for the internet too, albeit for the wrong reasons: outages are due to it having few highly-connected chokepoints like us-east-1, cloudflare etc

Huawei reached 2 nm transistors in a fraction of the time NVidia did, hello multipolar world

a glass of Timorasso white wine, with its bottle in the bg

still white wine is exceedingly hard to get right, Timorasso is one of the few

#foodsky #winesky

ZeroMQ: zguide.zeromq.org

consider: fuzzy groupchats, ie being p inside and (1-p) outside, as a way to curb drama using peer pressure

and the main character is a cross of Chucky and Alita, which, why not

strong Giger vibes from both! (complimentary)

it sure would be nice if computer could fix computer

I think this squares with the conclusions of the paper I linked above.

re. memory: would spaced repetition work on an LLM?

link to preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

"response quality is not an inherent property [..] but emerges from the interaction [..]. Theory of Mind appears to play an important role [..] suggesting that the ability to model another agent’s mental states - whether human or artificial - fundamentally shapes collaborative outcomes."

tree shaking for CUDA, is it a thing?

does every model really need 15 GBs of drivers ? I doubt it

#mlsky #mlops #nlp #nlproc #cuda #llm

now that kaniko is archived I'll switch to buildah I guess. but anything for not having to write yaml lol

I hope your CI setup is not terrible, but mine prompted me to start doing builds directly in k8s via the api. Generated code obvs

airlines usually prefer flying over land, so still a geodesic but with a variable metric 😬

trying my hand at making boba tea at home.

Boil the pearls, cool overnight, boil again while caramelising, make tea, cool down tea, assemble 😋

#taiwan #foodsky

yes, also that essay should have been 1% as long

in The book of why, Pearl articulates what to me looks like a compiler for producing research designs. I wonder if we could use LLMs at least for the question-asking bit.

paging @dingdingpeng.the100.ci who might recall that part and has more informed opinions than mine in this area

in The book of why, Pearl articulates what to me looks like a compiler for producing research designs. I wonder if we could use LLMs at least for the question-asking bit.

to me, the author muddles the definition of "observation" for the sake of argument. Things can be both physical and unobservable, or not observable to meaningful precision

hm

vga? ethernet??

the time saved by delegating a task to AI is consumed by watching the AI solving it.

"Fascinating! the service principal doesn't have RBAC permissions after all. Try this..

she's a real one! I'm a big fan 🫡