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Peter Swimm

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 6d

Someone in the coworker asked me what I do and I said “governance and systemic planning framework" and they asked "what stack" and I replied "computers mostly".

Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 7h

my daughter only liked watching the directors commentary of the first film and he’s seemed like a nice guy doing a job for the rent.

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 8h

a man is sitting in a chair playing a video game on a computer monitor

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 8h

can i also block people who would select this specific example

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 9h

nanochat by Andrej Karpathy is neat - 8,000 lines of code (mostly Python, a tiny bit of Rust) that can train an LLM on $100 of rented cloud compute which can then be served with a web chat UI on a much smaller machine simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/13/...

nanochat

Really interesting new project from Andrej Karpathy, described at length in this discussion post. It provides a full ChatGPT-style LLM, including training, inference and a web Ui, that can be …

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 10h

To make sure AI is truly sustainable, it’s super important to clearly separate the data we bring in, the data we clean up, and the data we send out.

But that would require these people to be interested in the problems people need to solve and who has the time for that.

Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 10h

In before he gets canceled for his work on the harry potter franchise

Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 10h

we are absolutely getting this ad this super bowl but she is stopped by ice agents. And apple will be forced to pay for it.

a close up of a man 's face with the words with their own on the bottom right

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 10h

son, that ain’t learning that’s memorization

Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 11h

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Crunchy Records Comp 2008 is out

Picked this up at Blip Festival, great tracks all up in it. More info: CrunchyCo.com Presents: The Crunchy Records Compilation 2008! This year we’ve compiled an astonishing line-up of Crunchy…

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 11h

Yay! I've been pushing for this since 2009.

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Jeffrey Powers 👉 Geekazine @geekazine.bsky.social · Aug 22

Check out my next video: From AI Prompt to Plugin: Peter Swimm talks Coding with AI #interview #AI

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 11h

A dark slide titled “Benefits” lists seven points in white text. Items include:
1. Federation-Ready: Semantic IDs are universal across forges.
2. Name-Agnostic: Surface terms are just cultural overlays.
3. Multi-Lingual: English, French, gamer, raver, Python, Rust.
4. Auto-Documentation: Generate docs in any language or culture.
5. API Flexibility: Same API, different terminology per client.
6. Cultural Inclusivity: Ravers and gamers feel at home (highlighted with a tan background).
7. Learning Tool: Python devs learn Rust terms, vice versa.

Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 12h

#SPELWork progress update

“A man points at a butterfly and asks ‘Is this agentic?’ Labels around the image read: ‘A fucking database’ (on the butterfly) and ‘LLM called as fallback only’ (on the book).”

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🎃 Spooky Scary Jam (they/them) 🎃 @jaimekay.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Indigenous People Day!

Did you know that Indigenous women go missing and are murdered ten times more than average? They don’t even get a quarter of the attention that a white woman going missing would get. Please keep these women in your mind. Don’t forget them

www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 21h

www.infoworld.com/article/4070...

Meme of the “Epic Handshake” image showing two muscular arms clasping hands. The arm on the left is labeled “SAM ALTMAN,” the arm on the right “MARC BENIOFF,” and the text above their handshake reads “MEN WHO’VE SPENT HOURS VENTING TO LLMS ABOUT SATYA NADELLA.”

Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 21h

after so many decades in a “people who fuck” first economy maybe it is time for a change.

Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 21h

This is what you’d call a biblically accurate anal.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 22h

it’s Indigenous peoples day, so if you need to purchase an indulgence for your settler sins, you can venmo me at @ziibiing and I will redistribute your wealth to Indigenous people 🫡

also, I will be accepting land or cabin donations anywhere in anishinaabe akiing (MN, WI, MI, Ontario/Manitoba)