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ponder @ponder.ooo · Apr 27
putting together a collage for the github readme
it was a fantastic time working with the zuck up until it became clear he and i will never really see eye to eye on how we should go about making your toaster sentient
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
it's so funny to leave meta bc of like. technical disagreements about how to achieve real AGI. when u could and should have left meta like, a long time ago for pretty basic ethical reasons
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
the cult of the True Distribution
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
"not everybody can code" this is learned helplessness
November 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
code is the best ui
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
digiorno really still tryna make "wood fired crust" a thing 🤡
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
the gradual underlying process of diffusion should not be hidden from the user, watching the generation unfold step by step and seeing how your parameters affect the dynamics is an essential part of seriously engaging with the models. death to blackboxification
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
distilling away the gradual many-step process of diffusion models takes away so much of their range, so much of what you can fiddle with at inference time
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
a diffusion model trained on synthetic captions is like an angel without its wings
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
While existing theory has seen great success in explaining lunar and solar motions, many of the heavenly bodies exhibit unexpected empirical behaviors. In this paper we introduce EpICYcle, an extension of the theory to provide a robust foundation for reasoning about diverse orbits.
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
using a rented gpu remotely is soulless and alienating
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
do you like being stepped on by private businesses or do you like being stepped on by the state
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
the Forms are imperfect shadows of material reality. the highest mathematics is in truth the messy, approximate, finitary, constructive; the "purest" and most abstract math is the most fallen. HOWEVER working on abstract nonsense w/ no real applications is morally preferable in an evil society
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
kegels got me grippin it like a champagne cork
November 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"my son turned out fine"
sir your daughter has opinions about ∞-topoi
November 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🙄 he's not "the demon king", that's strictly inaccurate, for one thing devils and demons are totally different u can go look it up in the monster manual. and secondly his official title is merely His Wickedness, not "king" nor "his majesty", you're conflating two distinct systems of governance,
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
every computational cycle spent generating generic anime titties is a cycle that was NOT spent on anything remotely beneficial to society. since the society in question is the united states of america, this is actually an unambiguous good. in this essay i
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
a case for numerical methods as the most fundamental field of mathematics
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
November 16, 2025 at 6:16 AM
dont sleep on fusion. fusion has the juice. look at this shit. impeccable sci fi vibe. alien curvature for reasons u wouldnt understand bc u dont know what poincare sections of the plasma beam are. it's even greebled with ports and domes and shit. u can tell the physics nerds are really cooking here
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 AM
your containment strategy:
- particles wander off course
- plasma is unstable
- operation is intermittent
- sad, boring symmetry
- "baby's first fusion reactor" vibe

my containment strategy:
- intriguing asymmetric design
- stable plasma
- continuous operation
- every particle feels the same force
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
babe we've been over this so many times you *know* i can't get off if ur not wearing the stormtrooper helmet. so why are you doing this to me
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM
the problem with rhetorical bullshit is either people see through your bullshit or they don't and neither case is good
November 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
being able to just write a single module-level unsafe declaration for when ur doing a ton of ffi or writing an ecs or whatever would be a huge ergonomics improvement for rust
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
❌ make the compiler faster
✅ make your codebase smaller
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM