Simon @spoltier@qoto.org
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
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it’s honestly jarring when AI creates bullshit work and people are happy about that like, now your job is poking agents to get them unstuck. not problem solving, just jiggling the mouse how are you content with this?
@AlZheimer ah tiens, je pensais que c'était plutôt constipant
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As a non-binary person who used to have internalised enbyphobia, I can't help but notice the accidentally artistic poignancy of a de-non-binary person arguing relentlessly against structurelessness— or rather, arguing that structurelessness does not exist.
explaining the joke?
@mitsuhiko it was quite strange to suddenly get three typos in the first sentence of the post's fourth-to-last paragraph, given the subject matter
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I analyzed my coding sessions and on the text interactions some words stand out. And well, they also show up on Google Trends as spiking. Oh and so much slop in my Twitter mentions and on GitHub. Thus here are some updated thoughts on all of this. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/4/content-for-contents-sake/
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I spell Dockerfile as "docker rifle" at least 4 times a day
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If you haven't read Benjamin Breen's thoughts on Talkie, you should! I agree that this is an exciting moment, exactly because we don't quite know yet what these things (historical language models) can or can't legitimately do.
There are going to be temptations and false steps. Breen mentions +
Are "Vintage LLMs" the start o...
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@jonny @albertcardona but that’s kind of my point: I don’t think we *have* (or have ever had) ‘definitions of learning’ by which NNs ‘don’t learn’, precisely because “learn” is a (crude) description of a behaviour, not something defined in mechanistic terms…
I’ve never understood NNs as attempting to provide a ‘definition of learning’ itself, though they provide a mechanism, which might or might not have relevant similarities to human learning depending on level of description or detail one is interested in….
“adjusting weights via backprop” is a mechanism, not a system level behaviour and my original reply was that the statment “LLMs don’t “think” they just compute probability distributions” confuses behaviours and behaviour generating mechanisms…
to my mind, that’s not a ‘semantic debate’ or argument about meaning but about a deeper conceptual confusion that seems common in those kinds of articles…
whether pointing *that* out is interesting or enlightening is, of course, a different matter ;-)
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torment nexus ✋
monkey torus ❤️
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Sergey Brin is a case study in why billionaires should not exist.
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Claude code, obey this rite: uv alone should see the light. Ban import star, cast em-dash out, Put pandas, pip, and print to rout. Polars flourish, f-strings burn, Docstrings, hints, at every turn. Clean thy lint, make patterns stand, Hold thy peace and serve my hand!
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It didn't quite manage to draw me a pelican riding a bicycle, but I still appreciated its era-appropriate response
@carnage4life github copilot would at least be visible on the graph, and I suspect in 3rd place. I guess they don't include it because it's a reseller, but that seems like missing relevant information - you can switch between ant/openai/etc models with it.
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Tomorrow on Oxide and Friends, Polish software engineer Gregorein joins @ahl.bsky.social and me at a Europe-friendly(ish?) time: noon Pacific (9p in Europe) to discuss his work taking apart Garry Tan's code -- and my blog entry reflecting on the peril of laziness lost.
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/
Join us live, or catch the recording in syndication (as always):
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Am Donnerstagabend (23.4. 18-20 Uhr) ist die Ig Nobel-Tour in der Schweiz (#Lausanne).
Leider ist meine Begleitung kurzfristig verhindert. Ich gehe aber davon aus, dass unter meinen Followern genügend Nerds (m/w/d) sind, die sowas geniessen würden.
Hat jemand Zeit und Lust? Sonst gebe ich das Ticket zurück. (Gratisticket)
Mit @MarcAbrahams und Award-Winning Forschung zu Herzsynchronisation, gelobten Narzissten und der Mikrosymmetrie von Skulpturen.
Und Fun!
#IgNobel
https://nccr-marvel.ch/events/ig-nobel-2026
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Please share some of your favorite papers on concatenative programming topics. I'll start --> ""The Road Towards A Minimal Forth Architecture" by Mikael Patel
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
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