chris
@chrisecramer.bsky.social
Sr Director of AI and ML / 30+ years with ML and computer vision. Beekeeper, home brewer, and general fermentation fan. LLM skeptic
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It's like glitter...it's been hundreds of years and we're STILL finding Vikings everywhere 😆
September 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
It's like glitter...it's been hundreds of years and we're STILL finding Vikings everywhere 😆
Same trip to the mountains of NC, different waterfall. I can't remember the name of this one, but it was a bit of a scramble above another falls... whose name I also can't remember 😕
#photography #waterfall
#photography #waterfall
September 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Same trip to the mountains of NC, different waterfall. I can't remember the name of this one, but it was a bit of a scramble above another falls... whose name I also can't remember 😕
#photography #waterfall
#photography #waterfall
Two shots of the same waterfall (Schoolhouse Falls) in the mountains of NC. I'm still not sure which I prefer.
#photography #waterfall
#photography #waterfall
September 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Two shots of the same waterfall (Schoolhouse Falls) in the mountains of NC. I'm still not sure which I prefer.
#photography #waterfall
#photography #waterfall
Showing this to the LLM fanboys in my company and asking if this is their god
September 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Showing this to the LLM fanboys in my company and asking if this is their god
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"how can you get more accurate answers" from an LLM? that's like asking "how can you get more love from a prostitute." that's just not the service provided.
— Thomas' words of wisdom
— Thomas' words of wisdom
September 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"how can you get more accurate answers" from an LLM? that's like asking "how can you get more love from a prostitute." that's just not the service provided.
— Thomas' words of wisdom
— Thomas' words of wisdom
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Listen, Roko's Basilisk is essentially Calvinist Satan in transhumanist drag. Which implies the existence of transhumanist Calvinism. From which we get to transhumanist salvation-peddling televangelist-style grifters and transhumanist Seven Mountains Mandate Dominionism.
Are we scared yet?
Are we scared yet?
July 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Listen, Roko's Basilisk is essentially Calvinist Satan in transhumanist drag. Which implies the existence of transhumanist Calvinism. From which we get to transhumanist salvation-peddling televangelist-style grifters and transhumanist Seven Mountains Mandate Dominionism.
Are we scared yet?
Are we scared yet?
This has always been my assumption
Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident theonion.com/conscie...
July 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This has always been my assumption
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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I put Humans need to take rest periods on the general action list.
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I put Humans need to take rest periods on the general action list.
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If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i... - text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPu_... - video
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i... - text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPu_... - video
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…
pivot-to-ai.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i... - text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPu_... - video
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i... - text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPu_... - video
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No musician has had a greater impact on Titus Andronicus than that of Dan McGee and his incredible band Spider Bags
To me, this man is the 🐐, the OG of OGs, carved in stone on my personal Mount Rushmore
He also has as big a heart as anyone
Please help if you can!
www.gofundme.com/f/dan-mcgee-...
To me, this man is the 🐐, the OG of OGs, carved in stone on my personal Mount Rushmore
He also has as big a heart as anyone
Please help if you can!
www.gofundme.com/f/dan-mcgee-...
Donate to Dan McGee Needs Your Help to Recover, organized by Thomas McGee
On April 23, Dan McGee—beloved father, friend and musician — collapsed from a brain … Thomas McGee needs your support for Dan McGee Needs Your Help to Recover
www.gofundme.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
No musician has had a greater impact on Titus Andronicus than that of Dan McGee and his incredible band Spider Bags
To me, this man is the 🐐, the OG of OGs, carved in stone on my personal Mount Rushmore
He also has as big a heart as anyone
Please help if you can!
www.gofundme.com/f/dan-mcgee-...
To me, this man is the 🐐, the OG of OGs, carved in stone on my personal Mount Rushmore
He also has as big a heart as anyone
Please help if you can!
www.gofundme.com/f/dan-mcgee-...
April 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Fentanyl is very much like a weapon of mass destruction in the sense that Republicans like to lie about finding it and then use that lie as a justification to do ruinous, destructive things
March 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Fentanyl is very much like a weapon of mass destruction in the sense that Republicans like to lie about finding it and then use that lie as a justification to do ruinous, destructive things
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Medicaid covers 60% of all nursing home stays in North Carolina, providing essential support for nearly 35,000 residents. The GOP's reckless budget cuts will devastate these facilities, putting seniors at risk of losing the care they need to survive. NC families deserve better.
February 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Medicaid covers 60% of all nursing home stays in North Carolina, providing essential support for nearly 35,000 residents. The GOP's reckless budget cuts will devastate these facilities, putting seniors at risk of losing the care they need to survive. NC families deserve better.
this was my exact thought
It is actually pretty astonishing to me that so many of the most devastating and evil policies coming out of the administration so far seems almost pin-point targeted at its various voting demographics.
February 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
this was my exact thought
It's not the worst part, but my mind is blown by Trump confusing the national debt ($36T) with trade deficits.
Trump defends his controversial new tariffs: “Will there be some pain? Yes, maybe (and maybe not!). But we will make America great again, and it will all be worth the price that must be paid.”
February 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
It's not the worst part, but my mind is blown by Trump confusing the national debt ($36T) with trade deficits.
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I think it was someone on here, maybe @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social who posted something I now can't find about two Zen questions for finding clarity:
1. What is this?
2. What is my work?
The answer to #1, I think most of us are clear on.
The answer to #2 is personal. But probably not "scrolling."
1. What is this?
2. What is my work?
The answer to #1, I think most of us are clear on.
The answer to #2 is personal. But probably not "scrolling."
January 31, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I think it was someone on here, maybe @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social who posted something I now can't find about two Zen questions for finding clarity:
1. What is this?
2. What is my work?
The answer to #1, I think most of us are clear on.
The answer to #2 is personal. But probably not "scrolling."
1. What is this?
2. What is my work?
The answer to #1, I think most of us are clear on.
The answer to #2 is personal. But probably not "scrolling."
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"Their response was far less confused about the bishop's meaning than it had been about the billionaire's: As far as they were concerned, it was a vicious attack. And it was an attack, because any expression of decency is an attack against indecency."
www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-a...
www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-a...
The Bishop and the Billionaire
Five directional thoughts to align ourselves for the fight ahead. Notice direction, fight upward, ladders downward, look inward, grow outward.
www.the-reframe.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"Their response was far less confused about the bishop's meaning than it had been about the billionaire's: As far as they were concerned, it was a vicious attack. And it was an attack, because any expression of decency is an attack against indecency."
www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-a...
www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-a...
Finally!
Yes, 2025 isn't looking like it will be a great year. Right wing authoritarianism is rising. Global warming continues unabated. The world is as fractured as ever.
But at least we can count on one positive thing: it is the Year of Linux Desktop.
But at least we can count on one positive thing: it is the Year of Linux Desktop.
January 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Finally!
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I'm involved in tech hiring. I've interviewed thousands of engineers. And I'd like to tell you about a disturbing trend I've seen in tech in the last 10 years 🧵
great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.
January 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I'm involved in tech hiring. I've interviewed thousands of engineers. And I'd like to tell you about a disturbing trend I've seen in tech in the last 10 years 🧵
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This whole thread is great and also applicable to papers vs posters (which presumably David also teaches). I attended a poster session recently and half of the posters were literally cut and paste blocks of text from the students' papers.
Every year around now, I start to see grad students on social media bemoan that they’re going home for the holidays to a family that doesn’t understand their research, or what they do in general, and it breaks my heart. 🧵 🧪 #SciComm
December 9, 2024 at 12:29 PM
This whole thread is great and also applicable to papers vs posters (which presumably David also teaches). I attended a poster session recently and half of the posters were literally cut and paste blocks of text from the students' papers.
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On why Silicon Valley turned right, and the problems with the Andreessen-Smith-Yglesias "pounded progressive ally" thesis www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-did-si...
Why did Silicon Valley turn right?
The "pounded progressive ally" thesis has limits
www.programmablemutter.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:03 PM
On why Silicon Valley turned right, and the problems with the Andreessen-Smith-Yglesias "pounded progressive ally" thesis www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-did-si...
I was just chasing this down last night - how many "tech" CEOs are actually engineers anymore. Of those you hear about, it's surprisingly few
We should be specific when we say "tech", whether we mean the fascist overlords, or some kid who works at an Apple Store. The folks who organized unions at Amazon and Google are people, too, and are more _tech_ than any of the tycoons.
the only reason that tech was ever remotely left-coded was that in the early 2010s they consciously aligned themselves with what appeared to be the dominant political party. that meant large donations to Dems and nominal gestures toward diversity. as soon as the winds shifted they swung right.
December 2, 2024 at 6:51 PM
I was just chasing this down last night - how many "tech" CEOs are actually engineers anymore. Of those you hear about, it's surprisingly few