Aaron Steven White

NALOMA starts tomorrow in the 2nd week of #esslli2025 in Bochum.
We have three excellent keynotes:
@aaronstevenwhite.io
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
Kyle Richardson
The workshop program can be found here:
naloma.github.io/2025/index.h...

Not about definiteness, but see also "take drugs" to refer to smoking weed (or really doing any sort of recreational drug).

No more coding vibes in the efficiency era I hope you brought the receipts for your latest productivity initiative

s/engineer/bureaucrat/g

"Here’s something that doesn't get fixed with AI: dark work. The hidden toil. The hours spent trying to decode tribal knowledge, or divine what some now-departed engineer meant when they scribed:

// don't touch this."

devinterrupted.substack.com/p/no-more-co...

Small idiosyncratic language errors in otherwise clear technical papers are now a plus; assurance that I'm not wasting my time trying to read GPT spam. #neurips2025

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

When you don’t follow the law, and you haven’t managed to pass another law, I think there might be a word for that…? I’m no lawyer, but I’ve seen schoolhouse rock.

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

An Elektron Digitakt and Digitone on a wood table with a plant in the background.

Couldn’t really justify lugging my modular rack cross country for a one week trip, but obviously I had to bring at least my elektron boxes, right?

Unfortunately: `git: 'rest' is not a git command.`

git rest --hard

Hankamer, watching him rip their very last phone book in half:

The turnout for No Kings in tiny Fairport, NY is just wild. Eyeballing, there are probably about as many people here as the entire population of the village (~5500 people).

On the Birth of a Son By Su Tung-Po Families when a child is born Hope it will turn out intelligent. I, through intelligence Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope that the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he'll be happy all his days And grow into a cabinet minister.

Nice day to share my favorite poem. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

A greyhound lying in grass in sunshine.

Enviable, deep, blissful ignorance.

A VSCode window with the sidebar open, showing a python library with modules referring to category theoretic concepts and deep learning concepts. The file that is open implements a Monad class.

Just over here doing some truly unholy shit.

Rust is so good.

A large pile of books underneath a chalkboard with the words “please take” written above them and arrows pointing toward the book pile.

broooo what if some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

"NIH is developing an institute-wide AI strategy that charts a progression from today’s data-science-driven analytics through semi-autonomous AI agents to fully autonomous, self-documenting biomedical AI beings."

I...what?

Sick. Thanks!

Consistently in awe at what utter dweebs these guys are. Like, munchable? You're going to be this evil and use the term munchable? At least, choose something that is appropriately insidious.

True prophets.

Ah. Yeah. That sounds right. Haven’t used pd in a while—since moving to Max a few years ago.

And does pd visually distinguish signal and control connections?

Looks like Max with the roundy corners? Maybe you can skin pd to have roundy corners though?

You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

Also potentially allows for a nice model of gradient membership in terms of filtered noise. (Where, I think kind of intuitively, Σ* itself has constant spectral density—i.e. it corresponds to white noise.)

Like, languages in some classes are well-separated in the frequency domain in a sense useful in designing sample efficient learners.

Has anyone studied the spectral properties of the subregular hierarchy? Like, languages in class X always have spectral property Y? Got kind of obsessed with this Q over the weekend. Think there might be some potentially cool results involving spectral gaps between languages in some of the classes.