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Jack Smith

@jacks1016.bsky.social

Semi-retired computational quantum chemist and material scientist with an extensive (50+ years) background in research computing and a new passion for developing AI/ML applications.

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How about letting individual schools decide whether a transgender female can participate in female-oriented sports. Itโ€™s not really a federal, state or county issue. And why are transgender males never an issue in male-oriented sports?

24.04.2025 03:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Interesting that police departments switched from red lights to blue lights about the same time law enforcement politics switched from blue to red.

24.04.2025 02:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Perplexity says:

The description matches **Robert Morris**, a former Republican-aligned evangelical pastor and founder of Gateway Church in Texas. Morris, a spiritual adviser to Donald Trump, has been indicted on charges of child sexual abuse dating back to the 1980s.

16.03.2025 04:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think we need a 10 million person โ€œMay Dayโ€ March on DC and similar marches at every state capital in the US and every European capital on May 1st against fascism and oligarchs.

16.03.2025 03:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ve been asking various LLMs to suggest a time and place with historical significance, and with high potential for appeal and impact, to organize a national protest march against fascism in the US (and worldwide), and the consensus seems to be May 1st in Philadelphia. Thoughts?

03.03.2025 01:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump is demanding that Elon deliver him a new Air Force One, but what he really needs is a bus to throw 340 million people under.

02.03.2025 04:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I appreciate BlueSky sharing trends but not force-feeding us posts we didnโ€™t subscribe to.

02.03.2025 03:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In case you donโ€™t realize how these posts appear to most of us. Captions would be helpful.

02.03.2025 03:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For a country that seems obsessed with the rugged individualistic cowboy image now berating the modern icon of that very image baffles me. Maybe itโ€™s the money after all.

02.03.2025 02:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think NotebookLM should add an option to generate a 2-person comedy routine instead of a podcast as an audio overview. Think Laurel & Hardy, Abbot & Costello, Smothers Brothers, Martin & Lewis, Cheech & Chong, Hope & Crosby, Burns & Allen, and showing my age. Image your resume as a comedy routine.

15.02.2025 05:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ChatGPT, you are an expert at analyzing images, extracting named entities, and inferring their relationships. Please identify the President and his sidekick in this photo.

12.02.2025 00:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have unfollowed everyone on X except the ML/AI community. I do wish theyโ€™d migrate to BlueSky at a faster pace, though, so that I can finally pull the plug. LinkedIn also has a strong ML/AI community - almost enough to allow me to drop X.

10.02.2025 01:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Perhaps youโ€™re not aware, but all these YouTube posts with no title, description, snippet, frame-shot, or anything but a play button are not helping you attract/retain followers.

02.02.2025 00:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Old enough to remember punching cards for 15 years before I saw a terminal (not even a CRT). Now using AI to help develop AI applications to train new AI models that can generate code for future AI applications. Maybe theyโ€™ll even be able to punch cards and emulate a VT100 terminal.

01.02.2025 01:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m a tiny bit sad for NVIDIA and their stockholders (I may even be one of them), but open source and HuggingFace FTW!

28.01.2025 04:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It could also be that most Humans donโ€™t actually reason either. They just sometimes sound like reasoning people. Most Fox News listeners are just poorly trained bots.

13.12.2024 03:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have unfollowed almost everyone on X except for a handful of AI/ML people who have not yet migrated or cross-posted to BlueSky. I know I have left some important people behind, but I just canโ€™t stand reading the โ€˜For Youโ€™ feeds or comments on X anymore. Not to mention no blocking or sharing links.

13.12.2024 03:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Quality, not quantity.

13.12.2024 03:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How much for the Enterprise version? Do you get free Cuff links?

07.12.2024 04:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Theyโ€™re still in deny mode. Defend mode next.

07.12.2024 04:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The best things so far on Bluesky, besides the community:
* Starter packs
* The follow-back culture
* Blocking
* Deleting replies
* Its distributed architecture
* The post-only feed
* No Ads (yet)

07.12.2024 03:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I would say tens of millions. Same for Trump and most of his nominees.

07.12.2024 03:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To the AI community on Bluesky, help me convince Paul Rohan on X (@rohanpaul_ai) and his followers to migrate (or cross-post) to Bluesky.

07.12.2024 02:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

07.12.2024 00:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You need to use HSL (instead of RGB) and use H to represent percentage difference in R vs D voting, S to represent population density, and L to represent overall voter turnout. It reflects a much more realistic view of the spatial-political-apathy divide.

05.12.2024 00:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sorry, meant to say โ€œBluesky, Bluesky, Bluesky!โ€ Now I wonโ€™t know which one caused my demise.

05.12.2024 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Letโ€™s find out. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!

05.12.2024 00:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whatโ€™s a safe and effective way to encourage someone on X to move to BlueSky without mentioning BlueSky?

04.12.2024 23:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How can Fox News watchers claim that Bluesky is now an echo chamber for liberals? Oh, they heard it on Fox News. Of course.

24.11.2024 04:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why donโ€™t normal people run for office anymore? Clearly, having skeletons in your closet is no longer an issue. In fact, they seem to be an advantage these days. Criminality, infidelity, fraud, misogyny, racism, lying, and the like, are now virtuous. So just lie about having those โ€œvirtuesโ€ and run.

24.11.2024 04:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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