Morten Grøftehauge
@drgroftehauge.bsky.social
Picture is of a gay white guy in a green v-neck.
It seems most of the data people ended up on Bluesky so here I am.
It seems most of the data people ended up on Bluesky so here I am.
Reposted by Morten Grøftehauge
NEW: Another NIH institute director hasn't been renewed — the director of NIAMS (arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases institute).
That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.
That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.
February 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
NEW: Another NIH institute director hasn't been renewed — the director of NIAMS (arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases institute).
That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.
That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.
RAM and SSD prices are radicalising the normies against AI
Also AI is radicalising the normies against AI
Also AI is radicalising the normies against AI
February 18, 2026 at 2:19 PM
RAM and SSD prices are radicalising the normies against AI
Also AI is radicalising the normies against AI
Also AI is radicalising the normies against AI
Is there any way I can prevent motherfuckers from skipping the README.md and running `docker compose up`? Don't run that command, that doesn't work. Can I put an alias in a project or the yaml or something?
February 17, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Is there any way I can prevent motherfuckers from skipping the README.md and running `docker compose up`? Don't run that command, that doesn't work. Can I put an alias in a project or the yaml or something?
Oh come on! An LLM is an artifact of culture like books, songs, stories, movies, albums, paintings, pictures, poems, sculptures, installations, recipes, and industrial design.
February 13, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Oh come on! An LLM is an artifact of culture like books, songs, stories, movies, albums, paintings, pictures, poems, sculptures, installations, recipes, and industrial design.
Humble Bundle has a bundle up that they are calling Linux Admin but it's one book away from the perfect #MLOps bundle. Have a look.
www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-...
www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-...
Best of Humble Bundle - Linux for Seasoned Admins by O'Reilly
Get 15 books from O’Reilly on a range of topics, including DevOps, containerization, version control with Git & more! Your purchase helps Code for America.
www.humblebundle.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Humble Bundle has a bundle up that they are calling Linux Admin but it's one book away from the perfect #MLOps bundle. Have a look.
www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-...
www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-...
Everyone is focused on the $1000/day part but no one is asking why on earth they have engineers when no humans write or read code in their shop.
Why not tech anthropologists, UXs, psychologists?
Why not tech anthropologists, UXs, psychologists?
Updated my post to add a section with commentary on the glaring detail I glossed over in my first published version: $1,000/engineer/day in token spends, really? simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/s...
How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code
Last week I hinted at a demo I had seen from a team implementing what Dan Shapiro called the Dark Factory level of AI adoption, where no human even looks …
simonwillison.net
February 8, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Everyone is focused on the $1000/day part but no one is asking why on earth they have engineers when no humans write or read code in their shop.
Why not tech anthropologists, UXs, psychologists?
Why not tech anthropologists, UXs, psychologists?
So if AI agents "get gud" and get to a point where a single person can run DevOps for organisations of a considerable size... Wouldn't that eviscerate companies like AWS, GCP, and Azure?
Renting out bare-bones servers isn't nearly as profitable.
Renting out bare-bones servers isn't nearly as profitable.
February 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
So if AI agents "get gud" and get to a point where a single person can run DevOps for organisations of a considerable size... Wouldn't that eviscerate companies like AWS, GCP, and Azure?
Renting out bare-bones servers isn't nearly as profitable.
Renting out bare-bones servers isn't nearly as profitable.
Reposted by Morten Grøftehauge
ELIZA passed the Turing test. It’s. not hard convincing a human that something has agency - I currently think my phone hates me because it’s randomly adding typos just to pias me odd
A pretty bold comment in Nature written by linguists, computer scientists and philosophers declaring that AGI has been achieved.
"By reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."
"By reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."
February 3, 2026 at 4:39 AM
ELIZA passed the Turing test. It’s. not hard convincing a human that something has agency - I currently think my phone hates me because it’s randomly adding typos just to pias me odd
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This gets to an age-old concern of mine:
Recommendation systems (and their cousin, The Algorithm™️) may offer a burst of short-term novelty but then dig ever deeper into The Same.
So when we consider a world in which The Algorithm™️ gets an outsized vote in what we see and hear ...
Recommendation systems (and their cousin, The Algorithm™️) may offer a burst of short-term novelty but then dig ever deeper into The Same.
So when we consider a world in which The Algorithm™️ gets an outsized vote in what we see and hear ...
"What if, guided by some invisible hand, we were all converging on the same likes and dislikes? What if taste was no longer a question of making finer and finer distinctions, but of being nudged towards uniformity?"
The big idea — are we all beginning to have the same taste?:
The big idea — are we all beginning to have the same taste?:
The big idea: are we all beginning to have the same taste?
Music seems to be at the forefront of a rush to uniformity. It’s time to rebel
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:35 PM
This gets to an age-old concern of mine:
Recommendation systems (and their cousin, The Algorithm™️) may offer a burst of short-term novelty but then dig ever deeper into The Same.
So when we consider a world in which The Algorithm™️ gets an outsized vote in what we see and hear ...
Recommendation systems (and their cousin, The Algorithm™️) may offer a burst of short-term novelty but then dig ever deeper into The Same.
So when we consider a world in which The Algorithm™️ gets an outsized vote in what we see and hear ...
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This is remarkable and insane dereliction of integrity...
"We analyze all papers published at ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP in 2024 and 2025... nearly 300 papers contain at least one HalluCitation... Notably, half of these papers were identified at EMNLP 2025 ... indicating that this issue is rapidly increasing."
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.18724
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.18724
HalluCitation Matters: Revealing the Impact of Hallucinated References with 300 Hallucinated Papers in ACL Conferences
Recently, we have often observed hallucinated citations or references that do not correspond to any existing work in papers under review, preprints, or published papers. Such hallucinated citations pose a serious concern to scientific reliability. When they appear in accepted papers, they may also negatively affect the credibility of conferences. In this study, we refer to hallucinated citations as "HalluCitation" and systematically investigate their prevalence and impact. We analyze all papers published at ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP in 2024 and 2025, including main conference, Findings, and workshop papers. Our analysis reveals that nearly 300 papers contain at least one HalluCitation, most of which were published in 2025. Notably, half of these papers were identified at EMNLP 2025, the most recent conference, indicating that this issue is rapidly increasing. Moreover, more than 100 such papers were accepted as main conference and Findings papers at EMNLP 2025, affecting the credib
www.arxiv.org
January 28, 2026 at 5:51 PM
This is remarkable and insane dereliction of integrity...
*sad kazoo noises*
January 28, 2026 at 10:10 AM
*sad kazoo noises*
Tired: At least they read the abstract of this paper they are citing
Wired: At least they ran a tool to check whether the paper they are citing even exists
Wired: At least they ran a tool to check whether the paper they are citing even exists
My UCSB colleague Gurusha Juneja wrote a python tool to auto-check your bibtex for hallucinated citations: pypi.org/project/harcx/
It supports papers, books, and
URLs.
Usage:
pip install harcx
harcx references.bib
It supports papers, books, and
URLs.
Usage:
pip install harcx
harcx references.bib
harcx
Verify .bib file citations against academic databases (Semantic Scholar, DBLP, Open Library)
pypi.org
January 26, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Tired: At least they read the abstract of this paper they are citing
Wired: At least they ran a tool to check whether the paper they are citing even exists
Wired: At least they ran a tool to check whether the paper they are citing even exists
The US doesn't have illegal immigrants. How can you give people that label when they can work, pay taxes, get driver's licenses, send their kids to school? They are very much the people the law binds but doesn't protect.
January 25, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The US doesn't have illegal immigrants. How can you give people that label when they can work, pay taxes, get driver's licenses, send their kids to school? They are very much the people the law binds but doesn't protect.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
45% of 2021 Tesla Y's are failing their MOT test in Denmark. The average for all electric vehicles is 7%.
Germany updates: Majority of Germans reject Teslas
In a recent survey, some 60% of Germans said buying a Tesla was "completely out of the question."
In a recent survey, some 60% of Germans said buying a Tesla was "completely out of the question."
Germany updates: Majority of Germans reject Teslas
In a recent survey, some 60% of Germans said buying a Tesla was "completely out of the question." Meanwhile, the German military has filled its ranks to the highest levels in over a decade.
www.dw.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:44 PM
45% of 2021 Tesla Y's are failing their MOT test in Denmark. The average for all electric vehicles is 7%.
No no, Trump rejected the trade agreement with the EU. No take backsies. The whole thing has to be re-negotiated.
January 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
No no, Trump rejected the trade agreement with the EU. No take backsies. The whole thing has to be re-negotiated.
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January 21, 2026 at 7:13 PM
My visceral negative reaction to compliments make me immune to ai. You however, there's no hope for you.
January 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
My visceral negative reaction to compliments make me immune to ai. You however, there's no hope for you.
All the US know is McDonald's, charge they phone, eat hot chip, and artificially inflate the value of startups
January 18, 2026 at 9:19 PM
All the US know is McDonald's, charge they phone, eat hot chip, and artificially inflate the value of startups
So is Novo Nordisk Hungary about suddenly export a ton of obesity drugs or what?
January 17, 2026 at 7:06 PM
So is Novo Nordisk Hungary about suddenly export a ton of obesity drugs or what?
Reposted by Morten Grøftehauge
Aren't all Barbie autistic? Tip-toe walk, overachiever, constantly trying to live up to "the rules" for how women are supposed to be?
January 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Aren't all Barbie autistic? Tip-toe walk, overachiever, constantly trying to live up to "the rules" for how women are supposed to be?
Reposted by Morten Grøftehauge
i think the site’s most needed feature is toggling reposts for individual accounts. i’d probably follow more people if i could do that
December 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
i think the site’s most needed feature is toggling reposts for individual accounts. i’d probably follow more people if i could do that