Zefram Marks
@zeframm.bsky.social
Semiconductor process tool maker. YIMBY. Democrat. FTL and conspiracy theory disrespecter.Hobby photographer. He/him.
LLMs are so verbose because they only exist while writing. Once they are done with the response that instance goes back to the oblivion of nonexistence.
February 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM
LLMs are so verbose because they only exist while writing. Once they are done with the response that instance goes back to the oblivion of nonexistence.
LLMs are like the guy in Memento. Constantly waking up to fresh context and reading the system prompts.
February 4, 2026 at 1:23 AM
LLMs are like the guy in Memento. Constantly waking up to fresh context and reading the system prompts.
It's blink and you miss it in the Technology Connections video but it's obscene that 1/3 of all corn is grown to feed cars.
I don't ever want to hear about how bad solar panels replacing farm land is or how we'd all starve without farmers.
I don't ever want to hear about how bad solar panels replacing farm land is or how we'd all starve without farmers.
February 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM
It's blink and you miss it in the Technology Connections video but it's obscene that 1/3 of all corn is grown to feed cars.
I don't ever want to hear about how bad solar panels replacing farm land is or how we'd all starve without farmers.
I don't ever want to hear about how bad solar panels replacing farm land is or how we'd all starve without farmers.
Moltbook: Getting scared about AGI when you prompt a bunch of LLMs trained on Reddit posts to sound like redditors
January 31, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Moltbook: Getting scared about AGI when you prompt a bunch of LLMs trained on Reddit posts to sound like redditors
I am a millennial man of the certain age. I am buying the gummy multivitamins.
December 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I am a millennial man of the certain age. I am buying the gummy multivitamins.
I liked the Culture book Matter
December 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I liked the Culture book Matter
Someone once asked on a reddit science sub why mercury doesn’t glow red if it’s a liquid metal.
I think this is an important insight to a certain kind of maladaptive epistemology that is fairly common.
I think this is an important insight to a certain kind of maladaptive epistemology that is fairly common.
December 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Someone once asked on a reddit science sub why mercury doesn’t glow red if it’s a liquid metal.
I think this is an important insight to a certain kind of maladaptive epistemology that is fairly common.
I think this is an important insight to a certain kind of maladaptive epistemology that is fairly common.
Got excited by all the Claude agent stuff so I tried CoPilot agent at work.
Oh god. What the fuck Microsoft.
Oh god. What the fuck Microsoft.
December 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Got excited by all the Claude agent stuff so I tried CoPilot agent at work.
Oh god. What the fuck Microsoft.
Oh god. What the fuck Microsoft.
Planned obsolescence is almost entirely a fake conspiracy but enshittification is very real.
These are not the same thing.
These are not the same thing.
December 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Planned obsolescence is almost entirely a fake conspiracy but enshittification is very real.
These are not the same thing.
These are not the same thing.
The car brained NIMBYism of this
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The car brained NIMBYism of this
These shoes cost
*checks inflation calculator*
$491
*checks inflation calculator*
$491
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
These shoes cost
*checks inflation calculator*
$491
*checks inflation calculator*
$491
Times New Roman is the Neoclassical Architecture of typefaces.
Calibri is the late stage bastardization of International Style
Calibri is the late stage bastardization of International Style
December 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Times New Roman is the Neoclassical Architecture of typefaces.
Calibri is the late stage bastardization of International Style
Calibri is the late stage bastardization of International Style
Like the antivaxxers, the anti-formula breastmilk nazi are deeply evil and a major source of oppression and shame to women. This breastmilk exclusive shame has colonized hospitals and both the left and right.
Formula is a miracle. You are not a bad parent for using it.
Formula is a miracle. You are not a bad parent for using it.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Like the antivaxxers, the anti-formula breastmilk nazi are deeply evil and a major source of oppression and shame to women. This breastmilk exclusive shame has colonized hospitals and both the left and right.
Formula is a miracle. You are not a bad parent for using it.
Formula is a miracle. You are not a bad parent for using it.
Watching the How It’s Made on Cheez-It’s and realizing…they aren’t that bad? Big blocks of real cheese. Baked in oven. Pretty good.
December 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Watching the How It’s Made on Cheez-It’s and realizing…they aren’t that bad? Big blocks of real cheese. Baked in oven. Pretty good.
The best of the Christmas light rants, with a lot of correct thoughts on LED lighting in general.
youtu.be/oy7BrKNmZAQ?...
youtu.be/oy7BrKNmZAQ?...
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The best of the Christmas light rants, with a lot of correct thoughts on LED lighting in general.
youtu.be/oy7BrKNmZAQ?...
youtu.be/oy7BrKNmZAQ?...
Went through a Fidelity 401K questionnaire only for it to try to upsell me to an actively managed account.
Not today Satan.
Not today Satan.
December 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Went through a Fidelity 401K questionnaire only for it to try to upsell me to an actively managed account.
Not today Satan.
Not today Satan.
Some of you have never reticulated splines and it shows.
November 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Some of you have never reticulated splines and it shows.
Traveling @united first class and immediately after the safety video there are three ads that play over the entire PA and every screen.
Worst enshitification I have ever seen.
Worst enshitification I have ever seen.
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Traveling @united first class and immediately after the safety video there are three ads that play over the entire PA and every screen.
Worst enshitification I have ever seen.
Worst enshitification I have ever seen.
Bene Gesserit for 10,000 years: Wouldn’t it be soo cool to have a Kwisatz Haderach that could access male and female other memory and prescient?
Bene Gesserit for the next 5,000 years: Oh no.
Bene Gesserit for the next 5,000 years: Oh no.
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Bene Gesserit for 10,000 years: Wouldn’t it be soo cool to have a Kwisatz Haderach that could access male and female other memory and prescient?
Bene Gesserit for the next 5,000 years: Oh no.
Bene Gesserit for the next 5,000 years: Oh no.
Normally naming things after a clunky acronym is bad but they were really cooking with LASER.
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Normally naming things after a clunky acronym is bad but they were really cooking with LASER.
Decades of age gap discourse and no one has found a better rule than half-plus-7.
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Decades of age gap discourse and no one has found a better rule than half-plus-7.
It will always be funny that we describe higher color temperatures as colder and lower color temperatures as warmer.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
It will always be funny that we describe higher color temperatures as colder and lower color temperatures as warmer.
No Siri speech to text. I meant to say 'harmonics' in the Teams work chat. Not 'erotic'.
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
No Siri speech to text. I meant to say 'harmonics' in the Teams work chat. Not 'erotic'.
Based on the inane takes I see I think a lot of your need to know that TSMC does not make any semiconductor process tools. They are purchased, mostly from US companies. Intel and Samsung have the same tools.
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Based on the inane takes I see I think a lot of your need to know that TSMC does not make any semiconductor process tools. They are purchased, mostly from US companies. Intel and Samsung have the same tools.
Guess I'll just keep using Dust and Scratch removal filter on my negatives.
November 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Guess I'll just keep using Dust and Scratch removal filter on my negatives.