jonny (good kind)

after looking on from afar in horror at LLM code for many months, each example convincing me to never touch the stuff, somehow i am now responsible for reviewing a lot of LLM code for my job, and let's just say i am not having a good time.

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Oregon lawyer wants a second TRO incorporating the reasoning in support of yesterday’s and prohibiting the use of any federalized National Guard troops from anywhere in Portland. Immergut GRANTS this. 16/

One of the reasons I love sudoku is how long you can go after making a wrong decision and have everything still appear to be fine. Each decision made after the wrong one follows from the state of the board, until you reach a catastrophic point where a square can't have any of the numbers in it […]

I started wearing a moustache as a bit, but now I can't shave it because I'm addicted to a) touching it b) eating it

with regard to Jay of bluesky suggesting they would platform engineer away the dynamics that lead to people demanding jesse singal be banned, reminder to our members that

a) you can report me or any of the members of the social working group and the reported person will not be involved in […]

Do we need AI IP protections for Vibe Coded software?! What happens when someone vibe codes an app, it takes off, and then a Reddit user says, “let me share the link to this app and have GPT build a clone with some tweaks”? The same GPT that helped build the original can basically flush it out in days. It knows the problems the vibe coder had to solve, the edge cases, the fixes. Boom -- delivered. That’s terrifying. IT STILL takes a lot of work to vibe code complex apps. It IS not easy especially if you don't have formal engineering experience. I don't want my work to just get cloned when I worked with AI to solve a complex software problem and build out a full UX etc and now someone else does it because it was previously trained on the exact same problems and app I was making (Claude will now use your conversations and history to train it's data) - I think others might also to better tune their models in real time. We need tools and laws that let people patent their apps, and once published, major AI companies shouldn’t be allowed to spit out clones. That protects the time and value of someone who vibe coded something real. It hasn’t hit yet, but if only a few companies own the AI infrastructure and distribution, this will be a huge issue. Think about it like this: I can’t just walk into a shop and clone a Ford Raptor or a MacBook with small changes. There’s a barrier. That’s what IP does -- it stops easy copycats. But with digital AI, anyone can clone [an app]

["AI" schadenfreude, reddit screenshot]

"What if someone uses an LLM to rip off my app that I ripped off with an LLM????"

Can anyone tell me who is a mod on social.vivaldi.net / vivaldi.net ? want to communicate w/ them about a report and all i see is an email address on their about page

#vivaldi

Three-dimensional spatial selectivity of hippocampal neurons during space flight - Nature Neuroscience Nature Neuroscience - Three-dimensional spatial selectivity of hippocampal neurons during space flight

go ahead and hook me up with all of the papers that are just like "are animals normal when they go to space or what"

https://doi.org/10.1038/72910
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/72910

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@techwg/115307440309078418

what up i'm quopsting on the fediverse

@JMarkOckerbloom
We've got it: https://sciop.net/datasets/adl-glossary

So about that fediverse MCP/LLM scraper instance. It turns out the code is extremely funny.

https://github.com/cameronrye/activitypub-mcp/

One example: there is a MCP command to "discover instances." The documentation presents this as a personalized set of recommendations, and one would expect […]

[subtooting prestige neuroscience]

the latest in "if it's in Nature, you can be sure it's hogwash"

the abstract:

> Our findings suggest that shared neural dynamics represent a fundamental and generalizable feature of interacting neural systems present in both biological and artificial agents […]

Update on smoothie life crisis: my life is solved

[Cyberpunk 2077]

Why did they make the basilisk into a fuckmachine and then have absolutely no lore about gayboys of NUSA secretly edging in the tank? Like the tank did not have to be a fuckmachine, but since it is, you sort of must fill in the blanks on fuckmachines in wartime

@patioboater didn't you know that you can just hook up any electricity to anything and it's fine #monsterdon

That eerie feeling when a bunch of new people follow you but you haven't posted anything recently, the sense of a distant dunk or screenshot in the air

SWARM Biotactics SWARM Biotactics develops Biobots that enter, sense, and report where nothing else can.

Putting backpacks on bugs to turn them into surveillance drones appears to be a real thing this company is trying to do
https://www.swarm-biotactics.com/

Congratulations to #UCLA for its victory in court against the Trump administration. This is the first step in the reinstatement of approved but unlawfully withheld research grants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/health/ucla-research-grants.html

PS: No university that has brought such a suit […]

I have reached the stage of being old where I believe that getting a blender and drinking smoothies will fix my life

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Fuck google pay, apple pay, any payment system linked to a phone. Fuck a cashless society. I needed to use google wallet for some event recently and couldn't because I'm running grapheneOS. Refuse to use this bull shit. The card processors are a cartel but […]

[Original post on neuromatch.social]

I am here before you tonight to cancel Dot To Dots. What the fuck was that. That was not a puzzle. That was not even a drawing. That was nothing.

Should neuroscientists ‘vibe code’? Researchers are developing software entirely through natural language conversations with advanced large language models. The trend is transforming how research gets done—but it also presents new…

@thetransmitter i would be happy to write a counterpoint to this: https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/should-neuroscientists-vibe-code/

i'm glad she still plays it https://youtu.be/WZotx7jfbOU

After returning to LA where walking is illegal from a place where walking is the only thing to do, I am feeling so much better. I do my fair share of exercise, but am convinced that walking is independently good of exercise for being a human being.

The natural conclusion here is that the supreme court rules that each individual researcher has to sue to overturn a mass funding suspension, every time they are suspended, with no limit on future suspensions […]

So yes yes, sure, AI slop bad, but also I have to admit there are remarkable things happening in the field of Fever Dream Anthropomorphic Cat Episodic Drama

Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.

Luiz Pessoa: Beyond billard ball causation in the brain!
https://www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-picture/beyond-newtonian-causation-in-neuroscience-embracing-complex-causality/
@PessoaBrain

The thing you learn by debating for a decade is that debate is a game, there are structural means of winning that game, but they are inescapably dependent on an audience since there is no neutral rhetorical plane upon which arguments can be validated, and therefore debate is fucking shitty and […]