mastodon 4.7.3Lastenrad dad techbro in Berlin.
"In most cases...the problems are posed not because we desperately want the solution to these problems in and of themselves, but because we have seen from past experience that human-directed efforts to solve these problems tend to spur further development of the field..."
Autumn has arrived in Berlin from the outer province
LLMs make it easier to maintain two native mobile stacks than to use React Native
(And the scaffolding this led Shopify to is another example of LLMs catalyzing good engineering decisions, e.g. decoupling biz logic from UI so it can run headlessly.)
The thing to remember about CDU is their top priority is hating cities and the people who live in them.
Their plan for Torstraße is pure spite, comic book villain shit designed to be twisted into anti-Grüne propaganda.
Some nice words about LLMs pushing us apart
https://notes.piercegleeson.com/researching-on-a-post-reality-internet/
Chouser released a beautiful UI over the very beginning of Clojure on IRC
European status
Berlin SPD rightfully taking some licks for coalitioning with CDU.
I think I like “Sozialstaat? Kann weg.” on the recycling bins better than this one.
LLMs enabling a developer to switch from emacs to vim might be the technology's greatest crime
Ceci n’est pas about LLMs
1. Develop a broad, varied base of knowledge
2. Load context by closely reading a small corpus, developing models of what they say and how they relate to each other
3. Clearly & narrowly state the problem
4. Set constraints on the solution
5. Decide how you will evaluate the solution
6. Explore solutions in parallel, being careful not to let the assumptions from one solution-exploration poison the others, but also surfacing discoveries between them
7. Check your work rigorously
over/under to a police department using AI video modification to frame someone
bidding starts at 8 years
Currently enjoying the "text extruding" LLM metaphor.
Serve words like soft ice cream from a tap
Dairy sourced from the Great Milk Sea, formed by pumping the teat of ~all human writing
Ancient taboo prohibits going near the milky reservoir ourselves
Instead we fitted every nook and crevice of it with hoses, each leading to a sort of N-inputs Chinese room
Flavor is steered by a leprechaun in the room, doing his best to pick the right combination of hoses according to your instructions
but sometimes he loses his reading glasses
It's malpractice to write about giving up running because of injuries and not even mention strength training.
It can't solve *everyone's* problems but it can solve a lot, and we need to crush the childish belief that just doing the sport itself (especially one as brutal as marathon+ distance running) is good training.
Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What’s the BIG DEAL?
"Somewhere through this web of satellite trails is Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS)..."
@gregburd@mastodon.social I’m getting 404 on https://github.com/gburd/pg_mentat — is it perhaps still private? The announcement is intriguing :)
Interesting LLM-involvement note on this commit. The tool is a tool.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c
Fujinokawa bests the Yokozuna with a pulling/redirecting escape of the kind I expect from Hoshoryu himself.
discord's block feature is 💩
🇺🇸 “In 1842, a young journalist interviewed 91-year-old Levi Preston, the last survivor of the battles of Lexington and Concord [and] expected to hear stories about unconstitutional government and oppressive taxes.”
This proglang for physical calculations with units is blowing my mind
