Dan Saunders
@dan-saunders.bsky.social
ML eng making open source LM training tools. LMs, RL, CV
yearly take that turkey is great and if you don't like it chances are you've been eating poorly cooked ones
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
yearly take that turkey is great and if you don't like it chances are you've been eating poorly cooked ones
Reposted by Dan Saunders
I love how smugly people use this utter falsehood to dunk on people on this website when it has no grounding in any empirical reality and elides actual issues.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I love how smugly people use this utter falsehood to dunk on people on this website when it has no grounding in any empirical reality and elides actual issues.
what do you mean "going forward"? lol
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
what do you mean "going forward"? lol
I'm going to drop a controversial take for this app: language models are good actually
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I'm going to drop a controversial take for this app: language models are good actually
might be time for another Disco Elysium playthrough
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
might be time for another Disco Elysium playthrough
kidney donation recovery media consumption thread 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
kidney donation recovery media consumption thread 🧵
kinda want to write smthn about how AI/ML is not all bad + has plenty of morally neutral or positive applications. it's tough to work in this space as a leftist where a lot of the applications are morally dubious, and I don't blame the average layperson for disliking all the public facing iterations
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
kinda want to write smthn about how AI/ML is not all bad + has plenty of morally neutral or positive applications. it's tough to work in this space as a leftist where a lot of the applications are morally dubious, and I don't blame the average layperson for disliking all the public facing iterations
list of things I don't want to do again in my career:
- leetcode
- use macos
- use MS teams / outlook
- have a product manager
- leetcode
- use macos
- use MS teams / outlook
- have a product manager
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
list of things I don't want to do again in my career:
- leetcode
- use macos
- use MS teams / outlook
- have a product manager
- leetcode
- use macos
- use MS teams / outlook
- have a product manager
borderlands 2 still holds up
but the early game feels so bad. it takes forever to reload / switch weapons, super hard to aim, etc.
but the early game feels so bad. it takes forever to reload / switch weapons, super hard to aim, etc.
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
borderlands 2 still holds up
but the early game feels so bad. it takes forever to reload / switch weapons, super hard to aim, etc.
but the early game feels so bad. it takes forever to reload / switch weapons, super hard to aim, etc.
weirdest type of people: those that cheer layoffs
November 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
weirdest type of people: those that cheer layoffs
"AI" aka "ML" aka "applied stats" aka ???
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"AI" aka "ML" aka "applied stats" aka ???
I don't understand openai hiring, they have a bunch of zoomers with no exp (albeit extremely confident tweeting)
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I don't understand openai hiring, they have a bunch of zoomers with no exp (albeit extremely confident tweeting)
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Python Software Foundation put their money where their mouth is. Bravo. It’s easy to be inclusive when it’s popular, but PSF chose valuing people over $1.5m in gov money.
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Python Software Foundation put their money where their mouth is. Bravo. It’s easy to be inclusive when it’s popular, but PSF chose valuing people over $1.5m in gov money.
it takes so much self control to not troll xai employees
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
it takes so much self control to not troll xai employees
Will be in SF later today through the 25th for the pytorch conf, pls let me know if you'd like to grab a coffee!
October 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Will be in SF later today through the 25th for the pytorch conf, pls let me know if you'd like to grab a coffee!
I raised (what I think) is a valid point about ripping problem sets from textbooks for RL envs being in violation of copyright
people of course went and did it anyways
"you can just do things" 🙄
people of course went and did it anyways
"you can just do things" 🙄
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I raised (what I think) is a valid point about ripping problem sets from textbooks for RL envs being in violation of copyright
people of course went and did it anyways
"you can just do things" 🙄
people of course went and did it anyways
"you can just do things" 🙄
fun bug of the day: in azure ml workspace python notebooks, `print()` sometimes doesn't work
October 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
fun bug of the day: in azure ml workspace python notebooks, `print()` sometimes doesn't work
outlook is absolutely unusable
October 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
outlook is absolutely unusable
"there's so much alpha in X"
September 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"there's so much alpha in X"
the world is small, just saw two people from totally different parts of my life collide 😱
September 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
the world is small, just saw two people from totally different parts of my life collide 😱
Reposted by Dan Saunders
AI systems don't have to be controlled by fascist bootlickers. They don't have to be controlled by for-profit tech companies!
Check out our report on the possibility and necessity of an #AICommons: oneproject.org/ai-commons/
Check out our report on the possibility and necessity of an #AICommons: oneproject.org/ai-commons/
AI Commons - One Project
What if we could redefine AI? What if we could shift its development from a capitalist model to a more disruptive, inclusive, and decentralized one?
oneproject.org
September 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
AI systems don't have to be controlled by fascist bootlickers. They don't have to be controlled by for-profit tech companies!
Check out our report on the possibility and necessity of an #AICommons: oneproject.org/ai-commons/
Check out our report on the possibility and necessity of an #AICommons: oneproject.org/ai-commons/
I don't understand how people have time to contribute to projects outside of work. I tried to do that recently and got burnt out super fast. Might also be because I have been grinding work pretty hard recently
Anyways I want to do this but have to figure out how to strike a good balance
Anyways I want to do this but have to figure out how to strike a good balance
September 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I don't understand how people have time to contribute to projects outside of work. I tried to do that recently and got burnt out super fast. Might also be because I have been grinding work pretty hard recently
Anyways I want to do this but have to figure out how to strike a good balance
Anyways I want to do this but have to figure out how to strike a good balance
every night around 11-12 I have a sneezing fit. idk why
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
every night around 11-12 I have a sneezing fit. idk why
Silksong is really really good. I don't have a lot of time to play games these days so I'm taking my time, but it's captivating and I find myself daydreaming about it
September 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Silksong is really really good. I don't have a lot of time to play games these days so I'm taking my time, but it's captivating and I find myself daydreaming about it