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• Post #3613318

  Some nice words about LLMs pushing us apart https://notes.piercegleeson.com/researching-on-a-post-reality-internet/

• Post #3613317

  Ceci n’est pas about LLMs 1. Develop a broad, varied base of knowledge 2. Load context by closely reading a small corpus, developing models of what they say and how they relate to each other 3. Clearly & narrowly state the problem 4. Set constraints on the solution 5. Decide how you will evaluate the solution 6. Explore solutions in parallel, being careful not to let the assumptions from one solution-exploration poison the others, but also surfacing discoveries between them 7. Check yo...

• Post #3613316

  discord's block feature is 💩

• Post #3613315

  Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What’s the BIG DEAL? https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2024/papers/p63-helland.pdf

• Post #3613314

  Berlin SPD rightfully taking some licks for coalitioning with CDU. I think I like “Sozialstaat? Kann weg.” on the recycling bins better than this one.

• Post #3613313

  European status

• Post #3613312

  It's malpractice to write about giving up running because of injuries and not even mention strength training. It can't solve *everyone's* problems but it can solve a lot, and we need to crush the childish belief that just doing the sport itself (especially one as brutal as marathon+ distance running) is good training. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/well/move/running-loss-grief.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u1A.fo-Z.cq28dX7uvZOO&smid=url-share

• Post #3613311

  Currently enjoying the "text extruding" LLM metaphor. Serve words like soft ice cream from a tap Dairy sourced from the Great Milk Sea, formed by pumping the teat of ~all human writing Ancient taboo prohibits going near the milky reservoir ourselves Instead we fitted every nook and crevice of it with hoses, each leading to a sort of N-inputs Chinese room Flavor is steered by a leprechaun in the room, doing his best to pick the right combination of hoses according to your...

• Post #3613310

  🇺🇸 “In 1842, a young journalist interviewed 91-year-old Levi Preston, the last survivor of the battles of Lexington and Concord [and] expected to hear stories about unconstitutional government and oppressive taxes.”

• Post #3023179

  @gregburd I’m getting 404 on https://github.com/gburd/pg_mentat — is it perhaps still private? The announcement is intriguing :) https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg_mentat-130-released-datomic-compatible-datalog-inside-postgresql-3306/

• Post #3023178

  over/under to a police department using AI video modification to frame someone bidding starts at 8 years

• Post #3023177

  May 2026 basho has concluded, and now I have time to post some cool stuff from it, like Kotoshoho's patient underhook.

• Post #1860300

  "Somewhere through this web of satellite trails is Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS)..." https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260427.html

• Post #1704903

  LLMs enabling a developer to switch from emacs to vim might be the technology's greatest crime https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/04/26/

• Post #1657295

  Chouser released a beautiful UI over the very beginning of Clojure on IRC https://chouser.us/clojure-log/