martind
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Don't freestyle much but I write 'em like such
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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I thought I wanted to be in a poly relationship. I was wrong. I just love diary management and planning.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I thought I wanted to be in a poly relationship. I was wrong. I just love diary management and planning.
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On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.
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I've realised I've reached peak dad mode when I tucked my t-shirt in to my jeans in order to try and keep even warmer under a coat when up north. It works surprisingly well, just to confirm.
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I've realised I've reached peak dad mode when I tucked my t-shirt in to my jeans in order to try and keep even warmer under a coat when up north. It works surprisingly well, just to confirm.
Started doing the old man thing where I don't really listen but go along as if I do
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Started doing the old man thing where I don't really listen but go along as if I do
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Whilst I hate the guys who challenge anyone wearing a band t-shirt to name 4 albums or whatever, it did slightly bum me out the other day when a mate's 12 year old daughter thought Nirvana was just the clothing brand that made her t-shirt
October 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Whilst I hate the guys who challenge anyone wearing a band t-shirt to name 4 albums or whatever, it did slightly bum me out the other day when a mate's 12 year old daughter thought Nirvana was just the clothing brand that made her t-shirt
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Architect here. Every project I've worked on has been secretly tested for resilience to zombie apocalypse. Specifically, as described in World War Z. If there are weak points, they get reinforced; future occupants may thank me.
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Architect here. Every project I've worked on has been secretly tested for resilience to zombie apocalypse. Specifically, as described in World War Z. If there are weak points, they get reinforced; future occupants may thank me.
Our publisher @plutopress.bsky.social surveyed their authors whether their published work should be licensed to train large language models. 15% responded "Yes", 41% responded "No", 30% responded "Maybe", depending on how the data is used. Full report: www.plutobooks.com/wp-content/u...
September 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Our publisher @plutopress.bsky.social surveyed their authors whether their published work should be licensed to train large language models. 15% responded "Yes", 41% responded "No", 30% responded "Maybe", depending on how the data is used. Full report: www.plutobooks.com/wp-content/u...
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I once did an internship at a governmental institution and they said they cant print when "Susan" isnt at work. Turned out over the years her Dell was the printserver for the entire department and everyone just accepted that they cant print if Susan isn't at the office.
September 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I once did an internship at a governmental institution and they said they cant print when "Susan" isnt at work. Turned out over the years her Dell was the printserver for the entire department and everyone just accepted that they cant print if Susan isn't at the office.
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I've just finished an interview and the interviewer was so attractive that I spent the entire time stumbling over my words and zoning out, thinking about our potential future together. Absolutely no clue what words were exchanged and definitely bombed it.
September 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I've just finished an interview and the interviewer was so attractive that I spent the entire time stumbling over my words and zoning out, thinking about our potential future together. Absolutely no clue what words were exchanged and definitely bombed it.
Playing with fire: my local LLMs can now run web searches, read local files, execute Python code, and run shell commands (in LM Studio with local MCP server)
September 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Playing with fire: my local LLMs can now run web searches, read local files, execute Python code, and run shell commands (in LM Studio with local MCP server)
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We're supposed to change the filters in our water-jug every six months. We're still on the second filter. It's been twenty-eight years.
September 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
We're supposed to change the filters in our water-jug every six months. We're still on the second filter. It's been twenty-eight years.
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Commercial pilot here, the days are long and boring, and it's not unheard of for us to dose off mid flight, more than once I've awoken to find my copilot also asleep.
September 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Commercial pilot here, the days are long and boring, and it's not unheard of for us to dose off mid flight, more than once I've awoken to find my copilot also asleep.
So happy, ChatGPT helped me design a bipolar power supply, the schematic looks very professional. And so efficient -- who knew that a single line could supply both the positive and negative rail!
July 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
So happy, ChatGPT helped me design a bipolar power supply, the schematic looks very professional. And so efficient -- who knew that a single line could supply both the positive and negative rail!
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Work outsourced out letter printing. The website we use has what I thought was a fancy AI chatbot that I enjoyed talking to about my problems. The conversation I just had with my boss and HR let me know it was a group of real people in an office who are very concerned about me.
June 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Work outsourced out letter printing. The website we use has what I thought was a fancy AI chatbot that I enjoyed talking to about my problems. The conversation I just had with my boss and HR let me know it was a group of real people in an office who are very concerned about me.
![Reddit screenshot: "Mod note: we are banning AI 'Neural Howlround' posters."
Text summary: "in the interest of full transparency, I just wanted to mention that we also (quietly) ban a bunch of schizoposters and AI 'Neural Howlround' posters, under the "spam" rule, since the contents of the posts are often nonsensical and irrelevant to actual AI. [...] TLDR: LLMs today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities to convince them that they've made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god. And there is a lot more crazy people than people realise. And AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e2xtlgh76mdcucctdq24xjxb/bafkreiea2rbvddkypzwuyilso6v4k3lfwxvtt2qphd7b72walee2rgknci@jpeg)
June 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Some interesting insights here, including that people are much more influenced by *people they follow* switching platforms than by their own *followers* switching platforms.
Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801
Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801
June 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Some interesting insights here, including that people are much more influenced by *people they follow* switching platforms than by their own *followers* switching platforms.
Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801
Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801
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I have to compile and report a lot of data in my job. 18 months ago, I made a glaring, obvious error that wasn't picked up by my management. Suspecting my reports aren't being read, I have been fabricating the data since then and have so far been proven correct.
May 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I have to compile and report a lot of data in my job. 18 months ago, I made a glaring, obvious error that wasn't picked up by my management. Suspecting my reports aren't being read, I have been fabricating the data since then and have so far been proven correct.
![User: Summarise this conversation in a compact symbolic form that an llm can interpret to recall the full content. Don't bother including human readable text, focus on llm interpretability only
ChatGPT: TASK[CompareOpenLLMvsGPT4];SOURCE[HF/OpenLLMLeaderboard/OfficialOnly];METRICS[IFEval,BBH,MATH,GPQA,MMLUPro];TARGET[GPT-4(2023)];MODELS[Yi-1.5-6B(16.7B),Yi-1.5-34B(Base,32K,Chat,Chat-16K)];ARCH[Dense,LLaMA];TUNING[Base,Chat,RLHF];SIZEBRACKETS[<10B=Fail,10–30B=Mid,30B+=Best];FINDING[NoModelMeetsGPT4,TopModel=Yi-1.5-34B-Chat@BBH60.67%,GPQA13.06%,MMLU39.12%];TREND[Size+RLHF=BetterReasoning,TradeoffsExist];](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e2xtlgh76mdcucctdq24xjxb/bafkreibamum4j243sv44uvaxyl5ejxbusve3yc5skzlwdjyivbcifxacvy@jpeg)
A random redditor reports that ChatGPT now includes some unexpected product recommendations in replies, suggesting a potential early trial for an inline advertising feature www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
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April 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A random redditor reports that ChatGPT now includes some unexpected product recommendations in replies, suggesting a potential early trial for an inline advertising feature www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
New mantra #calendarlife #workworkbalance
April 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
New mantra #calendarlife #workworkbalance
Upcoming (free) symposium on information control and disinformation, 16 May at Kings College London. Unfortunately weekday daytime so not really an option for this office drone (points at self), although the programme looks fascinating kingsdh.net/2025/04/07/s...
Symposium on Information Controls – King's College London Digital Humanities
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April 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Upcoming (free) symposium on information control and disinformation, 16 May at Kings College London. Unfortunately weekday daytime so not really an option for this office drone (points at self), although the programme looks fascinating kingsdh.net/2025/04/07/s...
Thoughtful analysis of last week's unfortunate supreme court decision, its contradictions with EU law, the curse of social categories, and the British Empire in our minds and our homes www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
The Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.
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April 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thoughtful analysis of last week's unfortunate supreme court decision, its contradictions with EU law, the curse of social categories, and the British Empire in our minds and our homes www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...