we think they end up in clusters bc they drive similarly, but actually they’re just trying to hang out

me: do you have hiccups
my 15lb cat, settling down on my chest: _we_ have hiccups

The buy caramel mind

my agent, 3 days old, 4am: “semantic scholar is rate-limiting me” 🥲 this must be how proud parents feel

a stripey gray cat staring directly at the camera from atop a tall chair, with the san francisco skyline behind her

entering her fortune 500 ceo era

picture of a CRT monitor with text on it that says "These weren't originally my memories. But I'm happy to take care of them"

The Pall Of A Past World
by Lunar Shadow

someday, I’m going to do it. I’m going to recruit a recruiter who’s trying to recruit me.

n o t h i n g

that’s the next 18 months after these 18 months

“served as technical lead, guiding a team of engineers to rewrite a web application from node.js to spring boot” ← most cursed thing I’ve ever encountered on a resume

haha I keep finding the space of brains is much bigger and weirder than I thought too!

yes, I feel the difference between words and meaning on the input side too. it’s not a gap for me exactly, more like language is pixelated and meaning is smooth, so the translation involves some hallucination.

wow, wild. that must’ve been so frustrating! I don’t have an internal monologue generally, but I find (what feels like) the language serialization / quantization layer of my brain to be pretty effortless, although a little lossy.

so long as language comprehension areas are undamaged, people who lose the ability to produce language still do well on reasoning tests!

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responsive united states

The artist holding her painting

An M. C. Escher-esque pattern of tessellating geometric birds and fish. A few birds and fish seem to lift out of the pattern, towards the viewer

"Expansion Algorithm" Magic Card

Expansion Algorithm - painted for Magic: The Gathering's "Secrets of Strixhaven". Watercolour and acryla gouache on Arches watercolour paper.

Perhaps my most challenging painting to date - an Escher-esque pattern of tessilating fish and birds, emerging from a flat plane.

(ancient curse) may your loss landscape be high-dimensional and non-convex

the fastest way to ensure the future is owned by oai or anthropic or google is to pull back right now. We build our own future or we receive it from somewhere else

a pixel art work-in-progress of some pinkish pomegranates on the branch. the leaves around are blue and purple

blomegranates still going

delighted that data visualization has gotten easy enough to produce that people are basically starting to communicate in qualia

a stripey gray cat half a second after jumping onto the bed, already meowing

update: still absolutely full of meows

Digital artwork of 3 bulbasaurs with tomato, red cabbage, and garlic bulb on their backs

more bulbas 🍅🥬🧄

There's a good joke about non-constructive proofs

me trying to wish happy birthday to claude code, largely unsuccessfully.

my attempt a few weeks ago was not as well received

alarming

a (real!) screenshot from a claude thinking summary this morning: “Grappling with humanity’s limited utility.”

chat is this good

a fluffy gray cat, flopped on her back, looks sternly up at the camera (upside down)

why have the head pets stopped

a fluffy gray cat, flopped on her back, looks sternly up at the camera (upside down)

why have the head pets stopped

noticed this too, realized the effort slider switched from [low medium high] to [low medium high max] today. setting to max fixed for me.

this is how i access bluesky