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Jms Dnns
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. -- hacker 🦀🐍 musician 🥁🎸 amateur historian -- 🔗 https://jmsdnns.com
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · Apr 4
📜 The Wild Man of the Revolution, Samuel Adams.

I wrote an essay about Samuel Adams and why I think he was punk rock. I'm convinced he'd love the band Fugazi and that he'd sing their lyrics while tossing tea in Boston harbor.

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The Wild Man of the Revolution, Samuel Adams
His friends and family loved him. His enemies called him the Machiavelli of Chaos. Thomas Jefferson credited him with making the revolution possible. It was an unexpected surprise to learn that Samue...
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 18h
do datacenters count as orgies now
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d
Ai2 does such awesome work

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN2u...
Enabling Scientific Research with Language Agents
YouTube video by Ai2
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d
proof they actually did teach C++ the right way
a cartoon skeleton with a purple hood and the words myaha on the bottom
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d
Samuel Adams would be so proud!
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d
his positivity and genuine love of nyc is THE BEST
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d
an excellent book!

loved the unexpected way alexander graham bell gets involved.
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 1d
Needs a new guitar in trunk too tho
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d
a drawing of a robot with the letters ic on its head
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d
McLuhan always feels relevant, but lately he has returned to feeling prescient

youtu.be/5dawLQe1ZUA
Marshall McLuhan's The Medium Is The Message (Best Explanation) - 1977
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d
same

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I’m not anti-AI.

I am, however, anti the rapacious tech bros who selfishly hype AI for the purpose of increasing their wealth and power at the expense of our humanity.
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d
vive le ribbetstance!
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d
It's that time of year where I lay on the couch with blankets on, which makes me furniture for Sierra to sleep on
Sierra, my cat, is sleeping on blankets on the couch. You cant see me underneath them.
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 3d
maybe glyph? he has posted about his frustrations with not getting it
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 3d
fun way to learn about atmospheres and what happens as you get farther and farther away from earth neal.fun/space-elevat...
Space Elevator
Take a trip to space!
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 3d
that's why V had such great endings where everything worked out so nicely! right? RIGHT?!
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 3d
ohhh that is AWESOME
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 3d
vast contentment
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 4d
right?! been thinking about that a lot this week.
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 4d
Indeed. And hopefully with time, LLM output will earn our trust too. Until then, and tomyour original point, knowing when we can / cant trust LLM output is a matter of skill.
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 4d
Agreed! But to Simon's original point, knowing where we can trust it and where we cant is part of where the skill is.
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 4d
And here is an overhead video of me playing drums that represents what Id love a model to produce if I fed a song and asked for a drumming video

m.youtube.com/watch?v=3BE7...
Foo Fighters - Everlong (drums cover)
YouTube video by American Food
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 4d
Notice the whole video is focused on the guitar and what my hands are doing

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NOFX - The Death Of John Smith (guitar cover)
YouTube video by American Food
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 4d
It does, but I also think about how many people use Rails or Django that have never read the code to either framework

In this way, coding agents can be thought of as a next level framework that does enormous scaffolding work for us

Not as uncomfortable!
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 4d
I'd like to feed a song to a model and have it produce a video of someone playing the guitar parts or the drum parts

My guitar cover videos are, in part, an attempt to contribute to a dataset that would facilitate this
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Jms Dnns @jmsdnns.bsky.social · 4d
If anyone attacks the frogs, we gotta call it the The Portland Massakermit.
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