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Former bookstore owner & tweeter. Strategy game player @ https://pente.org/gameServer/profile?viewName=watsu occasional game creator & also https://poe.com/tomrasul #Discworld #PratchettQOTD 🌈💙 DMs generally left immediately, unless I actually know you
I have them all in print form and I'm still tempted. I can't recommend Pratchett enough 🥰
I only own a few, and mostly read physical books from the library vs. digital, but this is mightily tempting for me as well.
Hey, all! Sorry that I've mostly been using reddit lately and have been remiss on posting #PratchettQOTD here for some time now. I ran across a #Discworld bundle, though, and shared it to my reddit page (39 of the 41 volumes in the series are included in the bundle) - www.reddit.com/user/Middlet...
IIn celebration of both #NationalLibraryLoversMonth and #BlackHistoryMonth I posted a link to r/books on some history of Black librarianship in the U.S. Dorothy B. Porter basically desgregated the Dewey Decimal system, for example. #libraries #librarians #blacksky www.reddit.com/r/books/comm...
Hey @sdcushing.bsky.social - let's chat sometime soon
Okay, thank you. Please be patient, I'll need to populate the beginnings of a third starter pack for college libraries, international libraries, etc.
I'm getting back on social media a bit more (but also want to read more #booksky material), so I'm seeking #libraries to add to my library starter packs which I made last year. If you're a library account & not in my packs, or know of one LMK. bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack...
2026 is looking up for #Bluesky - and this looks like a good feed to follow
ATM, I'm on a #classicrock posting jaunt there. Getting some top 25 hits, but nothing top 10 so far. Will take play requests here, though. ;)
A couple of my top 10 greatest hits from #reddit involve #bluesky #starterpacks so it seems appropriate to do a year end review and post them here: www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc... www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc...
I lack the foundation to gain insights beyond areas where one LLM might do better than another. As LLMs advance in capabilities, I'm sure we'll see more crossovers between specialized STEM fields. Note that the cross pollination was human led in this case, I was just seeing how well AI could follow.
As a recent example, the paper in @quantamagazine.bsky.social crosses between #StringTheory and #algebraic #geometry. Frontier LLMs, due to their training data are a lot better at making a crossovers like that than the average human, so that gives them an edge vs an average grad student.
#Sonnet tends to be my prompt engineer & peer reviewer. For explorations, I've mainly been using GPT 5+ & Gemini 2.5+. Cross disciplinary explorations & programming seem to be the main strong points so far for the frontier models, based on my research. The models are well rounded grad student types.
Mainly open #math problems which #AI #GapAnalysis indicates #frontier LLMs might potentially make some progress on. Ramsey numbers, Hadamard matrices, covering arrays, optimal packing problems, branching problems... the list goes on. So far, nothing really breakthrough in terms of results, though.
I've tried older versions of #Sonnet for various writing tasks, including #creative #writing & custom prompt bots. The last few months, my main focus has been on testing #frontier #LLMs in terms of their #math capabilities and limits, so that has been my main use case for the 4.5 version of Sonnet
Not being a mathematician myself, the project wouldn't even have been possible for me to take on, in terms of peer review. Also, I've found that Sonnet 4.5 is quite good at both peer reviewing and #prompting other models, even though it apparently isn't quite as good as they are at #math
I just finished using the #Sonnet-4.5 version of #Claude to #prompt and #PeerReview #Gemini-3-Pro in an exploration of a #math paper. I'm not sure what my next project will be, but here's the link for the last one: bsky.app/profile/midd...
@anthropic.com created #Claude, @athena-ai.bsky.social
I read this #article yesterday, and the #puzzled #mathematicians described inspired me to see what #LLMs could make of the paper. GPT 5.2 seemed like overkill for what I attempted, so here's Gemini 3 as prompted by Sonnet 4.5: poe.com/s/KfIWpHdklV... #AIResearch
#GNU Rob Reiner AKA Marty DiBergi #RIP #SpinalTap youtu.be/Cp3ctOQTYlM?...
I'm continuing to refine it, but the link is now poe.com/WikipediaToA... (I had an established user base for the original at that link).
I'll see what I can do with that, lol
Tonight, I was exploring the latest iteration of my wikipedia knowledge graph app, poe.com/WikiGraphs and once I got from #GoodOmens (TV series) to #Discworld I figured I should share an image of it with my #TerryPratchett fan friends.
Looking up at #Mamdani like a five year old looking up at his favorite ball player. Wow. Was this before or after Mamdani affirmed that the #OrangeTurd is a f@scist? www.pride.com/culture/mamd...
#Discworld #PratchettQOTD #GNU
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
