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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 24m

PR here: github.com/bradfitz/liv... but I haven't tested it since I don't currently have a working Linux box. I wonder how much of the testing could be pushed onto the Github CI? If so there are a bunch of performance ideas that could be vibe coded relatively easily.

Add comprehensive test infrastructure by adewale · Pull Request #1 · bradfitz/livecore

This PR adds a complete test infrastructure for validating livecore's core dump generation, including structural validation, tool compatibility testing, and performance benchmarking. What's...

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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 3h

#TIL that I want NSI more than ASI.

adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 4h

I'd recommend also having ground truthing mechanisms to avoid ending up in LLM psychosis because it magnified your misconceptions.

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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 15h

I just cloned it and told a coding agent to add a bunch of testing infrastructure and tests to figure out if Livecore works. It also had some ideas for improving STW times.
If it actually builds something that works (whilst I'm sleeping) then I'll send you a (hopefully sensible) PR in the morning.

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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 16h

Which coding agent were you using? Claude Code tends to be quite assertive about its contribution but I don't see any of the usual signs.

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David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · Aug 12

We are knee-deep in studying the developer experience around containers, because if agents are going to be maximally useful, they need to be in a box. What we have discovered so far: sketch.dev/blog/in-prai...

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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 20h

Currently: thinking about the relationship between metis and coding agents.

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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 1d

s/the right/better/
That way we can hill climb our way through the problem space.

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 1d

Picard management tip: You're not supposed to come up with all the ideas yourself. Ask for suggestions.

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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 1d

Try vibe engineering instead: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/v...

Vibe engineering

I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 4d

It's looking like I've got several projects that need language detection as part of the workflow. It's been a few years since I've used that and I assume there's been some (possibly vast?) improvements. Anyone have a favorite library / model / etc they'd recommend? #MultilingualDH

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 4d

An accompanying book, The Word for World, is edited by Sarah Shin and So Mayer and published by Spiral House.

Visit the exhibition website for more details: www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

AA School

Architectural Association School of Architecture's website homepage is the online entrance into the AA; to its courses from Foundation to PhD for undergraduate and postgraduate students; its open publ...

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 4d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 3d

This talk is absolutely tremendous. AI, cellular automata, how to define intelligence, how life emerges from building blocks, symbiogenesis… Incredible. overcast.fm/+AAhjRoBRgM0

Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence? — Long Now

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 4d

I have a theory that when designing a social simulation / generator, it can be useful to keep in mind a story you’d like your system to be able to organically generate. not every system should generate the same story but I have a short list of high-salience interesting stories I reach for. (1/2)

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! It originally comes from Graeme Ritchie's iconic 2007 paper which formed the basis for a lot of computational creativity thinking: homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pa...

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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 3d

Which lead to discovering that temporal embeddings can be versioned embeddings (every edit generates a new embedding) or time-aware embeddings.

adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 3d

Currently: thinking about how one might discover Surprisingly Similar Documents using embeddings.

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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 4d

Whatever happened to Jon Kleinberg's work on "word bursts": www.newscientist.com/article/dn34...

Word 'bursts' may reveal online trends

Searching for sudden "bursts" in the usage of particular words could be used to rapidly identify new trends and sort information more efficiently, says a US computer scientist. Jon Kleinberg, at Corne...

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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 5d

The first time I ran into the concept of a velleity was in Mike Carey's Lucifer comics where it's used to generate power by granting wishes.

adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 5d

Definitely. I'm in Shoreditch nowadays so we can meet up in person or do a session via Google Meet. I'll message you on Discord.

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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 5d

I'd love to see that list. This is especially relevant as I'm speccing out a geist-like tool for myself at the moment and your blog post came up in the research: interconnected.org/home/2022/05...
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Designing user interfaces with bots not buttons

Posted on Monday 9 May 2022. 1,404 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

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adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 8d

How are they achieving this grounding?

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 13d

Picard management tip: Break a complex, urgent problem into subcomponents, one for each of your lieutenants to solve.

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 13d

In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge.

My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.

Understudies by Greg Egan

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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