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Sean Scott

Sean Scott

@oraclesean.com

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Your database is down because you didn't listen to me. I put databases in containers so I can cook, buy knives, run & give dogs the life they deserve. He/him. Backup≠Recovery. Dogs>People. Trans Rights=Human Rights.

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 3h

Same with All Quiet on the Western Front. Devastating.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 3h

YOU get a Letter of Marque, and YOU get a Letter of Marque, EVERYBODY GETS LETTERS OF MARQUE!

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 3h

I've seen it mentioned multiple times in this thread and didn't realize how popular it is. Thanks for this!

I have auditory/gustial synesthesia and this movement is absolutely the most delicious music ever made. The bass and cello are like warm, thick chocolate.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 3h

I guess I've hit the "write your memoirs" stage of life.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 3h

Damn this thread is packed with wonderful films and music.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 8h

What's your favorite use of pre-existing classical music in a movie not directed by Stanley Kubrick?

Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.

Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 3h

Fair play, I saw the LA Philharmonic perform the soundtrack live for a screening of classic Looney Tunes at the Hollywood Bowl years ago.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4h

Just thinking "Fast as a leopard" brings me to tears.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4h

I forgot about that one. "Breaking Away" was life changing for me. The day after seeing it, I walked into my local bike shop and announced that I was going to be a bike racer. I was 13.

By 22 I was competing alongside Olympians; 5 years later, training partner for a bronze/silver medalist.

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stuaa.bsky.social @stuaa.bsky.social · 6h

A screenshot of the 1957 Looney Tunes cartoon “What’s Opera, Doc?”. It shows Bugs Bunny, dressed as the Valkyrie Brünnhilde, riding a chonky white horse.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4h

Gallipoli: Adagio in G Minor - Albinoni
The Fall: Symphony No. 7 in A Minor, Allegretto - Beethoven

Also both spectacular films.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 13h

It's rarely a good sign when the people who are most sceptical about a technology are those who understand it the best.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13h

I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

@apache.be you rule 🖤

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 1d

10 years ago I would have known exactly which news-of-the-week actor you were talking about, but today this could be anyone.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 5d

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · Jan 27

Apropos of nothing...

Columbia:
- District of
- University
- Sportswear
- The Gem of the Ocean

Colombia:
- South American nation whose president, Gustavo Petro, just schooled a global superpower.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 5d

Your MO gives you away as the perpetrator who broke into the Louvre and left the 140 carat jewels behind.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 6d

Sort of proves your strategy

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 9d

FIFA: "Hold my corruption."

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 9d

Infrastructure Week, Olympic Edition.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 9d

It's one banana, Michael. How much can it cost, $10?

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 9d

I'm old enough to remember the outrage for Janet Reno's handling of the Fabian Gonzalez situation and the Waco raid. And before that, the repercussions of Ruby Ridge.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 10d

All Cybertrucks Are Bad

A photo of a Cybertruck on a conference show floor. It's painted with black and white police livery. The trim along the running boards has red and blue police lights. The door reads "ORACLE PuBLIC SAFETY".

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13d

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13d

What you're getting from an LLM is a statistical approximation of what the answer would be to a statistical approximation of the question.

This is why prompt engineering is fake. The prompt (and any input data) is just a suggestion - and helps fool you into thinking that your question was answered.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 13d

The opposite of Midwest dudes wearing a parka and shorts because "my legs don't get cold."

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 13d

Harvard MBAs, in touch with the heartland, tapping into America's love of wholesome potato crate racing. (Coming soon to ESPN)