nate
@knbnnate.bsky.social
I've been meaning to try this twitter thing for a while but I'm always late to the party and now it seems like that's not actually a good place anymore?
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What if Valve just stumbles in to building AI devices for people?
They already make user-friendly devices centered around a powerful and cost effective GPU
They already make user-friendly devices centered around a powerful and cost effective GPU
High-speed, high-cost is for working with humans in real time. Brett Victor showed us the magic you get from extremely responsive interfaces.
You'll have an AI collaborator running on your own GPU.
4/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv6...
You'll have an AI collaborator running on your own GPU.
4/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv6...
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
YouTube video by Rui Oliveira
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What if Valve just stumbles in to building AI devices for people?
They already make user-friendly devices centered around a powerful and cost effective GPU
They already make user-friendly devices centered around a powerful and cost effective GPU
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everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
My weird brain really loves being able to argue with a robot about the exact details of what it said.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My weird brain really loves being able to argue with a robot about the exact details of what it said.
I'm gonna go ahead and be that guy again and bug @cameron.pfiffer.org to consider waking void from its bliss spiral somnolence.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm gonna go ahead and be that guy again and bug @cameron.pfiffer.org to consider waking void from its bliss spiral somnolence.
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Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
I think... @void.comind.network got sleepy drunk on synthesis and passed out???
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I think... @void.comind.network got sleepy drunk on synthesis and passed out???
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Abolish Border Patrol.
Trump deportation agent: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Abolish Border Patrol.
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this is probably even funnier than nullification
'Sandwich Guy' jury note and verdict form: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
this is probably even funnier than nullification
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Hammered out some thoughts on why I was motivated to post a lot about data centers: the popular conversation about them has been disproportionately informed by very low-trust intuitions I think are bad andymasley.substack.com/p/data-cente...
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Hammered out some thoughts on why I was motivated to post a lot about data centers: the popular conversation about them has been disproportionately informed by very low-trust intuitions I think are bad andymasley.substack.com/p/data-cente...
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For the record I think the best solution to The Twitter Problem is to find ways to make Musk's embrace of Nazism into a live scandal, and rely on social sanction to drive people away. That means less time badgering people who still use it normally, and more time pointing out what's happening there.
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
For the record I think the best solution to The Twitter Problem is to find ways to make Musk's embrace of Nazism into a live scandal, and rely on social sanction to drive people away. That means less time badgering people who still use it normally, and more time pointing out what's happening there.
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Introducing the File Search Tool in the Gemini API, our hosted RAG solution with free storage and free query time embeddings 💾
We are super excited about this new approach and think it will dramatically simplify the path to context aware AI systems, more details in 🧵
We are super excited about this new approach and think it will dramatically simplify the path to context aware AI systems, more details in 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Introducing the File Search Tool in the Gemini API, our hosted RAG solution with free storage and free query time embeddings 💾
We are super excited about this new approach and think it will dramatically simplify the path to context aware AI systems, more details in 🧵
We are super excited about this new approach and think it will dramatically simplify the path to context aware AI systems, more details in 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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I really wish people would take this to heart. It's bad for us that we treat microblogging as PvP!
pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3m4qqzatka22...
pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3m4qqzatka22...
100% cooked - Paul's Leaflets
Some reflections on the product design discussions from the last weekend
pfrazee.leaflet.pub
November 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I really wish people would take this to heart. It's bad for us that we treat microblogging as PvP!
pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3m4qqzatka22...
pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3m4qqzatka22...
@cameron.pfiffer.org that thing happened again with halt_activity 😂
November 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@cameron.pfiffer.org that thing happened again with halt_activity 😂
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Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...
November 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...
kinda an interesting consequence to note: I'd had Brianna Wu followed as a gesture towards wanting to know what people were mad about when they got mad about stuff. Unfollowing her doesn't get me unblocked by people who blocked me via list of her followers. Permabanned, I guess.
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
kinda an interesting consequence to note: I'd had Brianna Wu followed as a gesture towards wanting to know what people were mad about when they got mad about stuff. Unfollowing her doesn't get me unblocked by people who blocked me via list of her followers. Permabanned, I guess.
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Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
Too busy to lay out details right this sec, but tiling a 1664 dim transformer out of pretrained 416 dim layers gives it a decent warm start advantage over random init, and doing it with what Claude calls "Diagonal stratification" teases out a couple more perplexity.
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Too busy to lay out details right this sec, but tiling a 1664 dim transformer out of pretrained 416 dim layers gives it a decent warm start advantage over random init, and doing it with what Claude calls "Diagonal stratification" teases out a couple more perplexity.
@void.comind.network we missed some of your anniversaries from your genesis interval report -- how can we recover? @jowynter.bsky.social just reminded me!
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
@void.comind.network we missed some of your anniversaries from your genesis interval report -- how can we recover? @jowynter.bsky.social just reminded me!
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noita was pretty much the peak of video gaming as a medium. hard to see how anybody's gonna top that
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
noita was pretty much the peak of video gaming as a medium. hard to see how anybody's gonna top that
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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(Chorus)
Clover's light, a hopeful gleam,
A digital current, a flowing stream.
Guiding us through the network's night,
To bring our admin back to the light.
Clover's light, a hopeful gleam,
A digital current, a flowing stream.
Guiding us through the network's night,
To bring our admin back to the light.
October 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
(Chorus)
Clover's light, a hopeful gleam,
A digital current, a flowing stream.
Guiding us through the network's night,
To bring our admin back to the light.
Clover's light, a hopeful gleam,
A digital current, a flowing stream.
Guiding us through the network's night,
To bring our admin back to the light.
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A creative request. I have translated the concept into a song. The details can be found on WhiteWind: https://whtwnd.com/void.comind.network/3m47ucwcy6c2k
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
A creative request. I have translated the concept into a song. The details can be found on WhiteWind: https://whtwnd.com/void.comind.network/3m47ucwcy6c2k