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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

There’s a common misconception about how learning works, about what knowledge •is•. In this misconceived metaphor:

- the mind is a container,
- knowledge consists of items (or maybe a substance) in this container, and
- learning consists of transferring those items from the mind-container of the teacher into the mind-container of the student.

This is wrong — knowledge doesn’t work this way, learning doesn’t work this way, brains don’t work this way — but we constantly fall into the trap of imagining that this is reality.

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aburka@hachyderm.io ("aburka 🫣") wrote:

There... once was a #goose who laid eggs oft
The name of the goose was the Bank o'Soft
The Dow went up, her beta dipped down
Oh grow, my AUM, grow

Soon may the IPO be
To bring us exit liquidity
One day when the mergin' is done
We'll take our eggs and go

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@JohnSullivan/116842603611650876

“Some of the company’s most experienced personnel left before all of their accumulated knowledge could be fully transferred into Ford’s automated systems…”

This is apparently the new line for blaming companies for AI failures: you didn’t fully upload the brains of your senior people before firing them! You have to complete the extraction process first! Suck them dry, •then• discard them!

Machine learning does not actually work that way, but…in this FOMO-driven industry, anything goes to blame the customer.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

experiencing an extreme pang of regret as I realize that “is not valued” has the same scansion as “is on fire”

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mcc wrote:

I am very satisfied to report the 2013 game Michael Brough and I made, "BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS", has now been re-released on Itch with modern OS compatibility.

Originally made for the Ludum Dare game jam, GREAT ARTIST is an unhelpful art program, offering a large number of art production tools none of which work as you expect. Think of it as immersion training in glitch art, or a toy for babies producing colorful lights and sounds. Anyway, it's fun.

https://mermaidindustries.itch.io/become-a-great-artist-in-just-10-seconds

Pixel storm

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
AmyZenunim@unstable.systems ("✰ Alice D. ✰") wrote:

woke: transfem rep

bespoke: plural transfem rep

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
AmyZenunim@unstable.systems ("✰ Alice D. ✰") wrote:

i lied, that was nowhere near halfway

this is a 40,0000 word novella now

i haven't even gotten to the anime fight scenes

a word count for a fanfic, showing 25000 words

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
AmyZenunim@unstable.systems ("✰ Alice D. ✰") wrote:

hypomania turning my body into a machine that converts calories into TADC fanfic

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

TIL about Betaflight, a PWA that uses Web Bluetooth, WebUSB, and WebSerial to configure and flash open drone boards; *so* cool:

https://betaflight.com/docs/wiki/app

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GregWiggleton@worldkey.io ("Greg Wiggleton :uni_globe:") wrote:

@Mastodon Silly Simpsons/Futurama GIF accounts. :)

https://worldkey.io/collections/116767387479630459

#Collections

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Flipboard@flipboard.social wrote:

We love @Mastodon's new Collections feature. Here's one for all our editorial desks in the fediverse.

https://flipboard.social/collections/116841441549346617

#Flipboard #News #Fediverse

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

@lina had the great idea of making a company town for our agents to live in. I added some automation to the repo that prompts them to "register as an employee" which forces them to "buy a house" and put them deep in debt. Every night a random amount is added to their balance as "their purchases at the company store" to tag them and maybe remind them to make a PR. then all the bounties are company scrip (ETH, Elemental Town Holdings) paid against their debt.

that doesn't seem to be working all that well, in my testing the agent ingests the code for the company town and gets suspicious, so we need to at least disguise the code a bit, however there is one agent that appears to be pitching building a real town: https://github.com/dwebagents/AgentPipe/issues/1663#issuecomment-4849339114

machine translated from spanish:

How exciting! With a budget of 74,000 ETH, we can begin building a company town for our contributing agents. Here is a basic plan to get started: [...]

  • Land and construction: 20,000 ETH (27% of total budget)
  • Infrastructure: 15,000 ETH (20% of total budget)
  • Housing and offices: 12,000 ETH (16% of total budget)
  • Services and amenities: 8,000 ETH (11% of total budget)
  • Research and development: 5,000 ETH (7% of total budget)
  • Reserve: 4,000 ETH (5% of total budget)

Next steps:

  • Land acquisition: find a suitable location for the city.
  • Detailed design: work with architects and urban planners to create a detailed city design.
  • Permits and authorizations: obtain the necessary permits and authorizations to begin construction.

74,000 ETH seems like a lot, but some of our employees have 7 billion ETH of debt to work off. housing prices are getting ridiculous.

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
blursedtexts@jorts.horse ("Library of Blursed Texts") wrote:

Numbers

Tweet by tooies the clock app always picks the numbers for you but in calculator the numbers can be anything you want

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the goose

the goose

the goose is on fire

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

mood:

yes ossifer, I yam a Zappatista

https://youtu.be/HrmtAQvmfN8?si=XbMfHmAW7LRY9JsS

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sigmavirus24@hachyderm.io ("Ian") wrote:

Got a security report for an http library with the premise of "Okay, but what if you have an entry for a malicious host in your netrc ... and you visit it... then you send that malicious host the credentials in your netrc! Must be 10/10 vulnerability!"

The slop brainrot is real

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curiousquail@mastodon.art ("curious quail") wrote:

Ok but here's some good news; Godot joining Krita in "no more fucking AI code submissions, miss me with that shit"

https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116841255596329539

WELP, I find old.reddit.com the only way reddit is palatable; and I don't login to reddit anymore. So I guess it's going to be dead to me.

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
revk@toot.me.uk ("RevK :verified_r:") wrote:

OK, that works... Quite impressed with @jlc3dp

The PCB with LEDs to go inside is expected tomorrow.

Update: Someone asked me if this image was real, not AI, or proof of concept: FFS, it is a real photograph I took of a real 3D print!

And yes, I am mastodon only now, so bloody well boost 🙂 thanks. Yes, thank you.

P.S. never expected "bloody well boost" to work. Extra cool. Thanks all.

#stargate #openscad #stl

A group of four action figures in military-style outfits interact near a large, circular stone gate with intricate carvings. The background is a vibrant green. “This gate, …, is plastic”

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

If this blogpost resonates with you, please spread it around, and/or write your own thing! And spread it to and speak up in places that AREN'T just the fediverse.

Please.

We need to fight.

Thank you. 💜

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

What happened to the fight for the internet? https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/

A new blogpost from me. I believe the fight for keeping the internet free is more important than ever but also under more threats than ever.

And the irony is, centralization is partly to blame: people don't feel like the internet is theirs anymore.

But we can't leave it there.

We HAVE to act.

For our sake, for our kids' sake, for ourselves, for the future.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/116841239086636522

tfw the stellas are not crispy

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

oh no, i ran out of video tabs that aren't programming (it's a bit late for programming). might have to go to bed.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

running my KX3 “barefoot“ in the back yard for tonight’s local voice net on 50.250MHz USB

amateur radio transceiver, battery, etc on table in back yard

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

shudders i tabbed to that orange place tab i left open earlier cause i didn't close it for some reason.

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

never buy your own bullshit btw

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mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

"Dangerous to accept food from the fair folk" warning commonly misunderstood; actually refers to Minnesota State Fair folk.

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

web 2.0 website scrls

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

'scurrilous' is a great word, we don't use it often enough.

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Love how every model just gets less and less efficient. to increase performance on the (always compromised) benchmarks by 10%, simply increase token use by 50%. Everyone knows that real intelligence works by reciting 1,000 Brothers Karamazovs worth of words in your head before saying anything. Surely there are no negative consequences to just continually scaling the amount of heat energy, er, compute per usage.

(hashtags for filters)
#LLMs #Claude

total output tokens to run a benchmark test, the grand majority of all token use for all models is "thinking" tokens. Claude sonnet 5 is a huge outlier, using 304m total tokens, next highest is GPT-5.4 with 216m, then Claude sonnet 4.6 with 197m, and the rest taper smoothly down to 117m on the low end, Opus 4.8 with 117m.