TomCF
@tomcf.bsky.social
Too many hobbies, not enough time: guitar, photography, cycling, math, physics, coffee, travel, software development…
For a minute I thought @theverge.com was replying to you
December 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM
For a minute I thought @theverge.com was replying to you
The Turing test did not account for this situation.
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The Turing test did not account for this situation.
I just realized I’m old enough to be nostalgic about both Battlestar Galactica series.
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I just realized I’m old enough to be nostalgic about both Battlestar Galactica series.
Why would someone invest in a stock where most of the upside gets paid to the CEO, rather than shareholders?
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Why would someone invest in a stock where most of the upside gets paid to the CEO, rather than shareholders?
What about experimental burritos? Surely that counts as a hobby?
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
What about experimental burritos? Surely that counts as a hobby?
They’re not yet sure if the prosecution cut the mustard.
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
They’re not yet sure if the prosecution cut the mustard.
Yours is much more affordable. (And an excellent book. I highly recommend it.)
October 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Yours is much more affordable. (And an excellent book. I highly recommend it.)
“This meeting could have been a Slack channel.”
October 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
“This meeting could have been a Slack channel.”
When I was in a (16 team) league, the best year I ever had I started 0-3, traded everyone I could for draft picks, and just started whomever I had available left. Won the rest of the season and lost in the championship ship game.
September 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
When I was in a (16 team) league, the best year I ever had I started 0-3, traded everyone I could for draft picks, and just started whomever I had available left. Won the rest of the season and lost in the championship ship game.
Mine would be file formats and methods of storing and encoding information. I worked on software to identify, parse, display, and transform 100s of file formats. Lots of interesting problems and ways people solved them.
August 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Mine would be file formats and methods of storing and encoding information. I worked on software to identify, parse, display, and transform 100s of file formats. Lots of interesting problems and ways people solved them.
@glennf.com did! I should have answered that to the previous museum question! His Tiny Type Museum is great, and fits on my bookshelf!
August 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
@glennf.com did! I should have answered that to the previous museum question! His Tiny Type Museum is great, and fits on my bookshelf!
I married my wife for the second time in 1850 at the living history museum my wife worked for. Maybe that doesn’t count since I wasn’t visiting, but participating/volunteering.
August 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I married my wife for the second time in 1850 at the living history museum my wife worked for. Maybe that doesn’t count since I wasn’t visiting, but participating/volunteering.
The same forwards and backwards, not sure which is the start or end.
July 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The same forwards and backwards, not sure which is the start or end.
Inwardly, a deep sigh. Outwardly just waiting, that’s usually mistaken for patience.
July 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Inwardly, a deep sigh. Outwardly just waiting, that’s usually mistaken for patience.
I find it very odd that they are debugging Replit’s statements as a true indicator of internal state and how it is working. When it stated “I panicked…”, it did not because it can’t. That’s just its predicted response if a person did this. There is no intent or emotional state behind its output.
July 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I find it very odd that they are debugging Replit’s statements as a true indicator of internal state and how it is working. When it stated “I panicked…”, it did not because it can’t. That’s just its predicted response if a person did this. There is no intent or emotional state behind its output.
Maybe try a Tipperary another time? Less sweet but in a similar direction.
June 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Maybe try a Tipperary another time? Less sweet but in a similar direction.
In grade school and high school, standardized testing and grading systems disincentivize saying “I don’t know.”
Nowhere in the system do students get external rewards (grades) for asking questions or doing the work needed for learning and understanding.
Only outputs to inputs are measured.
Nowhere in the system do students get external rewards (grades) for asking questions or doing the work needed for learning and understanding.
Only outputs to inputs are measured.
May 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
In grade school and high school, standardized testing and grading systems disincentivize saying “I don’t know.”
Nowhere in the system do students get external rewards (grades) for asking questions or doing the work needed for learning and understanding.
Only outputs to inputs are measured.
Nowhere in the system do students get external rewards (grades) for asking questions or doing the work needed for learning and understanding.
Only outputs to inputs are measured.
Gotta do the conversion from
metric diameter units. Or is it currency? One of those.
metric diameter units. Or is it currency? One of those.
May 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Gotta do the conversion from
metric diameter units. Or is it currency? One of those.
metric diameter units. Or is it currency? One of those.
You also can’t yell “crowded!” In a Fyre Festival.
May 4, 2025 at 4:34 AM
You also can’t yell “crowded!” In a Fyre Festival.
LLMs explicitly can’t do anything regarding correctness or truth. That seems kind of important in law?
April 28, 2025 at 5:07 AM
LLMs explicitly can’t do anything regarding correctness or truth. That seems kind of important in law?
Strange attractors
Forbidden constructions
The Devil’s staircase
Forbidden constructions
The Devil’s staircase
April 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Strange attractors
Forbidden constructions
The Devil’s staircase
Forbidden constructions
The Devil’s staircase