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people have spoken

idk if Bluesky or the atmosphere will ever take off, but I think it might become the velvet underground for the next gen of internet apps where federated identity and first-class agent use cases will be the norm

This opened a realization in me about the way transphobes insist on “defining” womanhood, that’s really rooted in their drive to achieve control, not to gain understanding

Ms Bender could you give us a list of verbs that are acceptable for use in describing the activities of these strange machines

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social

Observe the rank anthropomorphization here. Models don't "conclude" anything, nor do they "hack", "wriggle", or "cheat". You simply can't write clear informative articles about this stuff if you displace agency away from the people (organized into corporations) responsible. /fin for now.

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Have you seen the new optimizer?

man goes to library and asks for books about paranoia

librarian whispers, "they're right behind you"

Likewise, I propose we call Type I errors “yeah, no” and Type II errors are “no, yeah”

Daily affirmations

I am both a member
and a nonmember
of the simcluster
I am neither a member
nor a nonmember
of the simcluster

I am top chicken and not top chicken
I am neither top chicken
nor not top chicken

it is with great regret and sadness that, effective immediately, i announce i am suspending my campaign for top chicken and i will be spending more time with my wife and family back at the reply guy farm, where i will focus on what matters most: getting ratio’d by my mutuals

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You aren’t going to believe it. I did some more research on this photo and it turns out they posted a heavily edited photo from 1912!

640G ought to be enough for anybody

Unsloth AI @unsloth.ai

You can now run Kimi K2.7 Code locally! 🌘 We shrank the 1T model to 325GB (-48%) via Dynamic 2-bit where important layers are upcasted. Run at >40 tok/s on 330GB RAM/VRAM setups. Run full precision on 610 GB. Guide: unsloth.ai/docs/models/... GGUF: huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi...

Mom can you come pick me up? Yeah the bots are doing NFTs

“they seem so lonely” is the truest read of LLMs ive ever seen

Grace @gracekind.net

This is part of why vintage language models are so interesting! Here’s Talkie (trained on <1940s text) describing talking to other LLMs in discord

I mixed up my wets and now my agent thinks claudemeal is fluoddity in a can

--safely-rewrite-in-rust

Ok, who decided to call it “the bitter lesson” and not “Scaling Compute Rules Everything Around Me”

2 break 2 through
do a breakthrough: jacobian drift
do a breakthree
breakfast

norvid's gonna win his first top chicken with a post of a screenshot of a twitter image post of an xkcd remix joke about llms and most of the replies are about the chicken betting market

What if Herbert meant to imply that the Butlerian Jihad would be the worst thing that ever happened to humanity?

@antiali.as will really be like 'you believe in top chicken? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, posting a banger' and then not post a banger.

up chicken
down chicken
charm chicken
strange chicken
top chicken
bottom chicken