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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
hmmm... wwdd?
if i were dysfun i would simply invent a new branch of maths on top of bayesian statistics to give a language to talk about such things in.
and i am dysfun, sooooooo.....
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i think the answer is bayesian statistics.
you know, the analytical alternative to neural networks?
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
Another day, another annoying person to block
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johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:
Scott Jensen's concern, in a nutshell, is the abuse and harrassment that AI propagandists have to face here, on Mastodon.
His concern about the unethical, immoral, and destructive externalities of yes, even "local AI models"? His concern about the deliberate, strategic conflation of ML applications like medicine and materials development? Protein folding? Physics modeling?
Apparently not urgent enough to even mention.
No, it's the propagandists receiving rudeness he finds alarming.
3/
Mastodon Feedadele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:
I try a new Fediverse client using only HTML and basic CSS (no JS). It is written in PHP
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dave@alvarado.social ("Dave Alvarado") wrote:
BYD is absolutely bonkers with proving they understand their entire process. If I could buy a BYD car, I would.
> When defective cells appeared, Wang asked: “Have you found the root cause?” If yes: “Can you reproduce it?” Then the demand: “Make one hundred cells with exactly the same defect. If you can reproduce the failure one hundred times, identically, then and only then have you understood the mechanism.”
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Rue89Strasbourg@mas.to ("Rue89 Strasbourg") wrote:
La ferme maraîchère Riedoasis devient une coopérative, reprise par ses salariés
À Obenheim en Centre-Alsace, Riedoasis est devenue une société coopérative d'intérêt collectif en 2025. Mathieu Fritz, à l’origine de la ferme maraîchère en agriculture biologique, a choisi de la transmettre progressivement à ses salariés. La plaine du Ried alsacien, terre de maraîchers, est gorgée d’eau, en cette clémente fin d’hiver. Patates douces, céleris, blettes, épinards, mesclun,…
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Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼♀️🐈🐈⬛") wrote:
Putting accessibility features behind a paywall: amazing. A+.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
"what's vibe coding?"
"it's where you ask for something in english and you don't have to write the code"
"like having a trans computer toucher partner?"
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I couldn't stand Sapiens, but I'll read Holly Dunsworth's critique.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/06/dr-dunsworth-is-good-at-this/
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
@aredridel Yeah, he's become the oddest of ducks these days.
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
@baldur I cannot figure out Steve Yegge. He can't even figure out himself. He's said some interesting and useful things but also whoa nelly is there a bunch of weird in there too. Definitely not a source to cite without care and context.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
okay please excuse the maths thoughts and bear with me here, takes hit on crack pipe
when you have an immutable data structure such as a tree map, you rewrite up the spine of the tree from where you make the change to the root, right? if you happen to query for the key you just inserted, you look up that path exactly.
if you're talking about on disk data structures, append only, you're thus looking at fewer seeks to read precisely that path because you'll have just written it in order. but by the same token you'll probably worsen literally every other path in the tree...
how do i even start to quantify this sort of effect?
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Vandacorp@aus.social wrote:
A rainbow lorikeet resting in a magnolia in the yard this arvo.
#Australia #Canberra #autumn #birds #photography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #nature #naturephotography #Birding #Ornithology #bird #rainbow #lorikeet
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
let's have a go then.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I'm working in the movie business! Sort of. And not very well.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/06/im-in-show-business/
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
why is my software shit dot com
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
crash investigator should be a software job and i should be able to go around telling people how to do better.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Steve Yegge is so bad that whenever I want to convince somebody on the fence on ”AI” that the biggest LLM boosters all seem to be having serious mental health episodes, I send them a link to one of his posts. Works every time.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
To those who aren’t “AI”-pilled, Steve Yegge on anything related to LLM coding makes about as much sense as the Roko’s Basilisk nonsense. If you want to be convincing to outsiders you need to stop citing what are effectively “AI” catechisms
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
I try to keep track of what’s going on among those who use LLMs for coding but they all keep linking Steve Yegge and I just can’t take anybody who links to Steve “gas town” Yegge seriously.
He’s the opposite of convincing.
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yatil@yatil.social ("Eric Eggert") wrote:
New article: https://yatil.net/blog/screen-readers-are-not-testing-tools
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faden ("Andrew Faden") wrote:
Famous quotes from NASA mission comms:
- Apollo 11: "The Eagle has landed"
- Apollo 13: "Houston, we have a problem"
- Artemis 2: "We are still updating Outlook so everything but email is go"
Attachments:
- video: e71399ffc6b87456.mp4
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cate@hachyderm.io wrote:
It's a hard time to be an OSS maintainer. I see why many have taken a no-AI PRs stance. In general the worst part of AI is spending more time to fix something than someone spent "doing" it - whether that's a document, a PR, or a process.
Steve Yegge's "Vibe Maintainer" piece proposes an alternative: using AI agents to triage ~50 PRs a day, fixing contributors' code yourself, cherry-picking the good parts, making rejection the last resort rather than the first.
It's interesting and worth a read. I don't think no-AI PRs is a sustainable strategy, and - as Yegge notes - there are real downsides to "just fork it".
But the token cost to do this at scale seems very high. This is my continual complaint about many of the most bleeding edge AI workflows - how much do they cost, and how well does that cost translate to value?
In this case if the maintainer is going to spend tokens reconstructing your contribution anyway, the highest-value thing a contributor can do is write a really good issue. Describe the problem clearly, show your reasoning, let the maintainer's agent do the implementation.
In this time, being able to produce the specification seems higher value than producing the artifact. That's harder and requires more critical thinking. But with output abundant, critical thinking is now the scarce resource.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
Social media is the modern message in the bottle?
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i have been watching a lot of aviation videos recently and you know aviation is problematic from a climate perspective, but one thing i am consistently impressed by is how seriously safety is taken by the industry on the whole.
like swissair 111, there was light smoke(? vapour?) that ultimately proved fatal and that led the authorities to just decide that for any sign of anything that could potentially indicate fire, they should prepare to land immediately.
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
I'm quite amused that ML-DSA-44 public keys are 1312 bytes.
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floreana@poliversity.it ("Floreana") wrote:
What happens when you put up one of those cute bird houses.
Source: https://theycantalk.com/
#birds #birdsofmastodon #comics
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
everybody stand back, i know the wives of henry viii
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
Fiber unites the worlds of networking, category theory and nutrition.