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lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 1h

the web has become such an unbelievably hateful sack of user-hostile shit. every single image is displayed with js now, for no legitimate reason

lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 2h

"cap'n, the transwarp conduit's destabilizing! there's too much teleparallel torsion on the tetragyro. we've got to pull oot, she cannae take much more!"
"reverse the polarity, Mr. Scott!"

lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 2h

screaming

will people never learn

Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 3h

Every night I sleep in a big bed with my boyfriend, and it’s not connected to the internet

lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 2h

it would be kind of morbidly funny if it we end up figuring out a legit FTL mechanism but it maxes out at like. 1.2c

lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 2h

anyway it would be huge if this turns out to be practical and actually not a hoax. haven't been able to find much information about it beyond that one talk tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDu1URwLxD8

lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 2h

(APEC crazy is normally not subtle. "worldgov is hiding the TRUTH about secret Nazi electrogravitic rockets so the Lizard People can keep their retrocausal ftl warp drive monopoly, WAKE UP SHEEPLE" is more their speed)

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lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 2h

I say "serious-seeming" because this was an APEC talk, but the guy in question (Dr. Jacob Cassibry) is a real physicist at a legit university, doesn't come across as especially deranged, and he showed videos of the tech in use, so I didn't dismiss him out of hand

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lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 2h

this seems like it would be a really big deal because it lets you manipulate materials that normally wouldn't be practical to affect with electromagnetism. the team's intended use was *fucking artificial "gravity"*

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lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 2h

one of the most intriguing things ive learned recently is about a phenomenon called dielectrophoresis. normally it's used to manipulate microscopic objects but a fairly serious-seeming professor gave a talk where he claimed he & his students had managed to scale it up

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lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 4h

(and no entanglement does not count)

lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 4h

one thing I really liked about The Expanse was how so much of the protomolecule tech was built on breaking locality. nonlocal interaction is used so casually in lazy sf, but it would be an almost Singularity-scale big deal if we achieved it irl

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lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 15h

lisps are always a problem though. the differences in syntax between e.g. janet and scheme aren't distinctive enough and they all have subtle variations in semantics. interesting LLM failure mode

lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 15h

it's even managed to generate Janet code with a bit of prodding. not many models have managed that so far

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lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 15h

dang. ling-flash 2 looks pretty impressive. like goddamn this is a ~100B parameter MoE and it's running on my desktop as fast as models a third its size normally do

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lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 21h

username checks out

lexi @barredspirals.bsky.social · 23h

how do I keep managing to injure my index finger just enough that I have to rerecord my print on my phone

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qntm @qntm.org · 1d

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