If the "standard harness" is so bad, why don't most nerdy nervous fast-movers just move to a shared vobe-coded OSS harness? Or are harnesses uniquely tailored to the user now, not to the model, harnessing >user's< ticks and idiosyncrasies, not those of the model?..
January is basically useless haha, but I wonder what the April SOTA is, among the cool ones... I read some 5-10 variants of the same post today, by different people, all saying "my harness is so much better than the standard harness I forgot how bad the standard one is". But like how is it possible?
> what this makes clear to the first time viewer
I have to admit that, having never watched this sport before, I'm utterly confused. To me it looks both weird and effortless. Wave-wave-wave-wave (really fast), then suddenly no wave and a direct hit, like a fly self-impaling on a needle. Why?? how??
Is there a write-up for noobs anywhere, by any chance? I have only recentlyy moved to claude code from copilot, and I'm kindal horrified by how long it ruminates now, every time, and how inefficiently. Is there a community-SOTA for coding and sparring with it? By any chance? Or only breadcrumbs?
Wasn't there an observation by @timkellogg.me at some point that the way to get a creative personality was to delibeerately give contradictory instructions, to create tension? Not opposite, but contradictory, to make the maximizaton state non-obvious?
Wait there was season 2? I didn't know that!!.
green-red scales
if I understand it right, Claude official availability page is given in the _worst_ possible color scale that exists on the face of this earth. Subtle shades of green through orange to red. The official page. Of the most popular revolutionary tool with billions in revenue. Ugh.
OMG there's an abbreviation for that!!
Huh that's so different to how I use Linkedin. I only add people with whom I actually worked together, or at least interacted meaningfully. People whom I could recommend (or not) if I had to. I don't even connect to recruiters haha, unless we had an interview for a position, in either direction
After I posted a job ad, unknown random people are sending me connect requests on linkedin, with no explanation whatsoever, just requests. Is it... normal in their subculture?.. Do some people just connect to anyone interesting, silently, like remoras to a shark? Like, what's the point?
I think it is at the very least very performative. And when something is both rage-inducing and performative, I start to get suspicious :)
There are good and bad ppl on every website. Same for fun vs boring or smart vs not so much. Nothing special about bsky in this regard
Not a good recruiter (aka their skill issue tbh)
I will prefer to think that this is fake ai generated grifter propaganda funded by Putin to poison the West 😔
What are your all time favorite textbooks? Here are a few of mine.
"I bet you have trouble with counting Rs in strawberries...'
As a former biologist, I find it cool that the LLM benchmarking narrative developed a distinctly genetics-sounding language (eg when scientists discuss coding vs noncoding DNA, or the share of the genome taken by a particular type of proteins etc)
The present no longer lasts long enough to be a setting. All fiction is either science fiction or historical fiction.
I've been saying this for long enough that even this statement itself is no longer true. The future doesn't last long enough either. All science fiction is now retrofuturism.
best way I've seen so far of explaining this failure mode, will probably quote often
A map of how parliaments sit in diff countries. It turns out, quite a few sit in a classroom style =/
A lovely (but to me, rather depressing) map: it turns out, quite a few parliaments in the world don't sit in a dialogue-promoting semicirle (or horseshoe, or even "two wings" shape), but in a horrible politburo style 😶 idk ymmv but eww
Ah that's ranking!?! Not some objective success measure? Then kinda who cares haha, and indeed a questionable use of a radar chart...
It's illegal to use torrents, with automated enforcement
Repeated lifestyle changes drove the unique evolution of vertebrate eyes. Cross-section diagrams of likely photoreceptor (PRC) and eye structures in the heads of ancestral bilaterians (top), with presumed ancient lifestyles (bottom). Approximate times in million years before present are indicated for key evolutionary stages.
How eyes on modern vertebrae came to be is amazing. There are really complex; it's a multilayered circuit of rods, cones, and rhabdomeric photoreceptors. Getting there was just as complex an evolutionary journey. 🧪
Link: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Brutally outlawed in some countries (eg mine)
The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.
That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.
(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
Wow if this drop in financial wisdom as a topical category is real, that's something to keep in mind, worth switching the model depending on the question...
Mute on site, rather than giving them extra air
For my game's terrain, I've long mulled over how to combine the epicness of grand mountains with the "what's around the corner?" intrigue of smaller cliffs and hills.
After a lot of fiddling over the past two days, I think I may be onto something.
#GameDev #ProcGen
To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides:
gershmanlab.com/lectures.html
I'll continue to update these as I improve them.
