protests, especially iterative ones, seize public space to: reveal the balance of forces, upend the “distribution of the sensible,” give people the affective charge of being with others in a new way, affirming they are not alone, and help people start to formulate the question: what’s next?
October 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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the entire field of ml is the idea of iterative refinement reasserting itself again and again, taking on new shapes, every major advance is just iterative refinement again (gradient descent, resnets, diffusion, CoT, RL), but tweaked and improved, iteratively refined
October 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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but wait also a second option: iterative methods for arrays (eg ruby’s .each)
October 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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My philosophy with it is essentially "time is money. There's lots of unbillable shit in my day and in my workflow that limits my billable time. There's also some miserable iterative rote tasks I just hate. Keep client information and specific information far away from it, use it to claim time back."
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Zero COVID is like zero TB. We haven’t achieved either globally… but we have achieved both in some jurisdictions. It’s a goal, rather than a permanent state. A commitment to iterative improvements.
October 15, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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I'm grateful that Jack Waudby gave me the chance to set the CTE record straight on his @disseminatepodcast.bsky.social. Hear us talk about what you can do with iterative queries in SQL, how efficient variants of recursion in SQL found their way into @duckdb.org, and how trampolines come into play.
October 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Great read doll, it perfectly matches my own experience starting with one-shot attempts to implement features, and moving to an iterative approach:
- research
- plan
- implement
- validate
- research
- plan
- implement
- validate
October 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The one specific instance I know of AI being used to help detect cancer definitely comes from an iterative process rather than a generative one. Doctors retrained an AI designed to sort pastries to detect breast cancer. www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-...
The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
In Japan, a system designed to distinguish croissants from bear claws has turned out to be capable of a whole lot more.
www.newyorker.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Here's an illustration of how Meek's method can go 7-8 rounds without eliminating a candidate, as votes transfer to elected candidates which creates an iterative process to converge on "keep values" until the count can progress
For the election nerds -- visualisation of Meek's method STV counting and how it iterates. This is round 66 of the Dunedin count. 34 candidates have been eliminated, 6 elected and 14 remain uncertain; 6 more must be eliminated to elect a further 8 councillors (total of 14, so 1/15th of the vote)
October 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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If this tech had been rolled out humbly as iterative features - web search is better, your IDE has auto complete, your voice assistant works, and you can make all the custom NPC portraits you want for your home D&D game, I think the response would have been far more positive.
October 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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The Xbox ROG ally is the example of why you don’t do iterative updates year on year for consoles like mobile phones
October 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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i love stumbling upon fansites for Older Versions Of Iterative Things because its always tinged with the nostalgia-bait of "BEFORE X THING TOOK IT OVER"
October 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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things I am referring to are like the tools scientists use to sift through massive piles of data, which they then still verify the results the model gives them, or iterative models that can be used to optimize things from traffic flow to building design
October 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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"One surprising thing about the study of language and linguistics: The more you learn, the less pedantic you become and the more you revel in the glorious, rip-roaring chaos of iterative creativity."
- @jesszafarris.bsky.social, Useless Etymology
My relationship with English in a paragraph.
- @jesszafarris.bsky.social, Useless Etymology
My relationship with English in a paragraph.
October 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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the last major tech advancements I can think of that genuinely improved many people's everyday lives are mobile check deposits and telehealth appointments. everything has felt wasteful, useless, and pointlessly iterative since
October 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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unloading the dishwasher or washing machine is basically benefiting from centuries of iterative technological development
the remaining physical labor humans have to do is considerable but that's because what's left specifically *is* that which is non trivial to automate
the remaining physical labor humans have to do is considerable but that's because what's left specifically *is* that which is non trivial to automate
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Olllld screencaps of Blazeon lol.
It's very funny to me how like. I can be really kind with mecha designers because mecha design IS very iterative and they will be inspired by one another constantly, but if you wanna see actual 'they stole a design' ethos, this game features it
It's very funny to me how like. I can be really kind with mecha designers because mecha design IS very iterative and they will be inspired by one another constantly, but if you wanna see actual 'they stole a design' ethos, this game features it
October 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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fiberscape
Main image is made from the two others (more info in alt text.)
#Abstract #Texture #Fibers #Mesh #Light #Pattern #Soft #Airy
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion
on actual stuff: aieris.art/featured/fib...
Main image is made from the two others (more info in alt text.)
#Abstract #Texture #Fibers #Mesh #Light #Pattern #Soft #Airy
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion
on actual stuff: aieris.art/featured/fib...
October 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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It's absorbing boundaries in an iterative process.
Maybe I haven't found the right language to uncover my students' misunderstandings, but I with what I said, and sometimes a version of "Once this lineage produces no offspring in the next generation, it's gone extinct", I don't get more questions.
Maybe I haven't found the right language to uncover my students' misunderstandings, but I with what I said, and sometimes a version of "Once this lineage produces no offspring in the next generation, it's gone extinct", I don't get more questions.
October 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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I think it's basically out of habit, yeah.
Everything has converged on just being specially-packaged computer parts, I thought we'd reach a point where they'd basically end the concept of "console generations" and just make iterative hardware upgrades every few years.
Everything has converged on just being specially-packaged computer parts, I thought we'd reach a point where they'd basically end the concept of "console generations" and just make iterative hardware upgrades every few years.
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Court administrators refuse to fix it. They keep citing a project with my old org, 18F, way back in 2021. We recommended they start building immediately! Instead the have been "approaching the development and implementation phase" for 4-5 years, building nothing. And lacking proper security.
![Recognizing the need to leverage outside expertise in the development of our ITinitiatives, the AO has used many of the recommendations made by the General ServicesAdministration’s 18F organization in 2021 in our preparations for modernizing CM/ECF.Although in your letter you state, “[w]hile the judiciary has solicited advice from leadinggovernment experts on establishing a modern, secure and efficient case management system, thejudiciary thus far has ignored that advice and has made no meaningful progress towards areplacement,” this is simply not the case.The AO remains at work in modernizing CM/ECF to bring it in line with currenttechnology practices. Substantial planning for the modernization effort began in 2022, and weare now approaching the development and implementation phase of the project. We expectimplementation will begin in the next two years in a modular and iterative manner. For the pastfew years we have been analyzing and developing operations standards while testing technicalcomponents. The AO is centralizing the operation and data standards for the system to allow amore secure environment and to ensure local rules and procedures are accommodated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2mpndi3qhexg5azmyrjtvvou/bafkreihtm3c2uallbhgbmzp6yl2ao4f6cu2yw6cjprku4ulkkqgfd3ny2i@jpeg)
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The struggle is the point. The difficulty is the point. Figuring out how to say something and tweaking it until it's just right is the point. This shit is iterative. An excised page or two can become the seed for something else. Ideas come up mid writing. Shortcutting the process disrespects it.
there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually
October 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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It has been making iterative fixes on the appview. Its an involved process and whoever thinks vibecoding a thing is easy isnt paying any attention.
October 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Pixelart practice: Gabumon with shading this time. THe iterative process
#pixelart #digimon #timestranger #gabumon
#pixelart #digimon #timestranger #gabumon
October 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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(I thought "oh, maybe he's talking about the utilitarian idea of 'ethical calculus'", but I looked up other quotes from him, and he does literally believe calculus is always about exact, non-iterative solutions)
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