What portal from hell opens and issues forth hoards of ladybugs in the middle of New England January? I need to know

Hey, guys, not everything is a masterclass.

Particularly in AI where it's all amateur hour, all the time. That's okay because we're all learning, but nobody has mastered this yet so there's no masterclass. Let's cut the hyperbole and find better words

How long until people start running an inetd (look it up, kids) for our growing piles of local mcp servers?

Zawinski's Law A catalog of the laws guiding software development. Especially useful for individual contributors, new managers, and product managers who want to build well-made software.

Zawinski's law (www.laws-of-software.com/laws/zawinski/) should read "Every program attempts to expand until it can *chat with an AI.* Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

I'm not sayin' I like it, but it is what it is

Folks: Use AI in hard mode.

Use it to be stronger, not as a substitute for your strength. And for goodness sake, don't let it be your voice. It's a great audience and editor to give you feedback and to train and refine your voice. Your voice is you — don't lose it!

BTW, this is why I use a separate device for 2FA -- specifically a primary and backup YubiKey 5C. The primary is on my keychain, the backup is at home. I always register both.

Swapping phones is no longer a disruption to 2FA.

Isn't that stuff in the secure element that can't be copied (and intentionally so, for security reasons)?

New type of context engineering? When using chat-mode LLMs, I'm really wanting to "fork" conversations. I've created a useful context but don't want to pollute it with several different directions of exploration.

I want this as a feature.

Q: How many LLM agents does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Either 1000 who will burn through through enough tokens to light the room directly or just one who is thoroughly confident that the lightbulb is already changed.

LLMs are the foie gras geese of data science

I am SO THOROUGHLY BORED of the AGI-is-next-week / AI-doesn't-think debate. The problem is, we don't have a good definition of what thought *is* -- because it is not just one thing. We'd get a lot farther if we start teasing out by what we mean by thought and all of its different facets

I want someone to create a Pokemon card game but for gut flora

"Oh, you have a Lactobacillus rhamnosus! That gives a +7 immuno regulation -- so cool!"

My watchgha lets you watch the progress of GitHub Actions in your terminal. Now the job names are sorted, since GitHub now returns them in a randomish order.

github.com/nedbat/watch...

😆. Particularly for FOSS projects, being able to do synthetic user usability testing across a range of user capabilities is pretty interesting. For many of these applications we're looking to maximize how smart the model is but this is a case where we might not want that

This, interestingly may be a use case for using "dumber" models in the future, even when more capable models exist, serving as a proxy for a lower range of user capability during this sort of synthetic user testing

Another Claude Code experience report. This is a followup to bsky.app/profile/kana.... Last time I tried to get Claude Code to create a new mal implementation in Fortran. It couldn't finish step1 due to memory management. This time I asked for a from scratch implementation using python3.

GitHub - kanaka/mal: mal - Make a Lisp mal - Make a Lisp. Contribute to kanaka/mal development by creating an account on GitHub.

Claude Code usage report.

Task: implement a fortran implementation of mal/make-a-lisp (github.com/kanaka/mal). Mal has implementations in 88 languages but none in fortran yet.

1/n

The Statue of Liberty from the grounds behind the monument, cast mostly in silhouette against an evening sky. Trees of the promenade bracket the photo.

Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
... or give me $5,000,000 USD and we'll call it even

I love seeing Welsh in the chat

GitHub - Computational-Turbulence-Group/SURD Contribute to Computational-Turbulence-Group/SURD development by creating an account on GitHub.

Does anyone have any experience reports using SURD?
github.com/Computationa...
#SURD #causal_inference

bsky.app/profile/alxn...

I've found the CausalSky feed to be useful. That's how I saw your post :D

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One of the greatest values you can provide to an employer is saying No. To have experience to know what's important. If we don't log this thing we will have more retention of what matters MORE, longer. The real world has costs, and those have to be paid.

I learned a new term this year "exercise snacking." Not a replacement for regular workouts but a really good complement.

Welcome, folks! 😁

Since when are there more ollama supported models than cannabis strains?

Also, I'm not sure which are which... moondream, yi, zephyr, deepseek, nuextract, mathstral, notus, megadoplhin, codebooga, magicoder

I don't know who needs to know this but the 1992 Sneakers movie soundtrack is now on Spotify 🎉

A screenshot from a FedEx shipping status page showing "Shipment arriving On-Time" followed by "NAN" where the location should be.

That's confidence inspiring...