Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

Friday was my last day at ChipFlow! I'm very proud of what we were able to achieve, including major updates to Amaranth, CXXRTL, and the RTL debugger.

going forward I will continue to work, now independently, on Amaranth and other projects in the FOSS FPGA/ASIC tooling ecosystem, as well as on projects like ThunderScope

The impending #TikTok ban is a free speech ban that protects US Big Tech incumbents. It's in no way fundamentally different or better than other countries banning US websites or apps to protect their incumbents.

If the US wanted to protect private information from the Chinese government, it could pass comprehensive privacy legislation and regulate data brokers.

Instead, if enforced, we'll see app store censorship and ISP-level blocks impacting millions, with no material privacy benefit.

Fellow Signal users ​✨:

In case you use Signal but haven't discovered yet the wonderful feature that the "Note to Self" is, know that there is a wonderful feature called Note to Self !

It is amazingly useful!

HOW TO ❓

1. Just send a message to yourself in Signal to start using it! 🗨️​

2. You can use it with the automatic Disappearing Messages feature for more #privacy 🔥

3. You can Pin it at the top of your conversations for more convenience 📌

4. You can use it to transfer links, texts, and photos between your phone and computer in a safe end-to-end encrypted way! 🔒

5. You can change the background and bubble colors of your Note to Self thread to avoid getting mixed up and sending random personal notes to a random Signal contact 😉​

6. Magic!✨

Why Gelsinger was wrong for Intel
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/08/why-gelsinger-was-wrong-for-intel/

@dev 🥰
https://masto.ai/@cybeardjm/113610662636294807

So it’s beginning. White pelple can afford to ignore stuff like this. It makes me scared to go outside. https://me.dm/@anildash/113612287392541124

Altro che "cancellata", Francesca Albanese è un fenomeno globale.
Ci hanno provato in tutti modi, a silenziarla. Vuoi per la sincera convinzione che fosse un pericolo pubblico, vuoi per gli attacchi incontrollati di bile che la sua retorica appassionata provoca, da un anno e un mese a questa parte, in chi ha perso il controllo della narrazione su Israele. Dal 7 ottobre a oggi, i gruppi di pressione più ricchi e potenti d’Occidente hanno fatto uno....
https://it.insideover.com/guerra/francesca-albanese-e-le-denunce-su-gaza-volevano-cancellarla-e-diventata-un-fenomeno-globale.html

oh my fking god. I am TRYING to do research for my book right now but I am getting DISTRACTED by the fact that I followed a citation from a paper into another paper and learned that they're interpreting EEG and eyetracking as a way to sort people into "in the flow" or "not in the flow" I AM GOING TO EFFING LOSE IT

Theory is an accident, a trifle, a bonus hobby, to some of this work. Psychological theory in particular is nothing but a shiny curiosity that you ornament your actual study with. Your actual study has no interest in engaging with the discipline, cites controversial and niche claims like they're established and well tested, and you get away with it because nobody cares, I think, to even imagine that the measurement of human beings could be a respected science in its own right

ML CLASSIFIER ON SIX DATA POINTS WHAT IS HAPPENING

perfectest babies ♥️ #caturday

“Of course, this could conceivably be a case of near unbelievable luck: A flawed analysis based on wrong assumptions gave an unusually large causal effect estimate – but the misguided result just happened to be correct. We can imagine how the research https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/07/of-course-this-could-conceivably-be-a-case-of-near-unbelievable-luck-a-flawed-analysis-based-on-wrong-assumptions-gave-an-unusually-large-causal-effect-estimate-but-the-misguided-result-just-hap/

#DecemberAdventure day 6
an area of sbt that likely few people know the details about is the thin client. let’s try reverse engineering sbtn to see how the native code is communicating with sbt 1.x.
```
$ socat -v UNIX-LISTEN:$HOME/.sbt/1.0/server/aaaa/proxy.sock,fork UNIX-CONNECT:$HOME/.sbt/1.0/server/aaaa/sock
```
that should able to intercept the UNIX domain socket, if you point sbtn to proxy.sock
https://eed3si9n.com/december-adventure-2024/#6

Learn more about what went into the database and how to use it: https://www.zenml.io/blog/demystifying-llmops-a-practical-database-of-real-world-generative-ai-implementations

To get a sense of the big themes and key learnings, check out this blog where I synthesised what I saw while putting this together: https://www.zenml.io/blog/llmops-lessons-learned-navigating-the-wild-west-of-production-llms

I've been throwing a bunch of coding tasks at the new o1 and it feels like it may be equivalent to Claude 3.5 Sonnet for the kind of code I write... but noticeably faster

Might become a daily driver for me

It's good to see Germany's @heiseonline finally suspend their X presence. There's no direct analog in English-speaking media to Heise's publications -- think WIRED but with less techno-fetishism and with a fair bit more technical substance and societal awareness.

X is a machine that produces fascism, but it can only do that when it reaches people who aren't already hooked on hate. Every single legitimate publication and organization leaving the platform matters.