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• Post #472500

  I hope you’re feeling better! I’m also a slow-fire for these sorts of topics. I appreciate the effort in your reply, especially with health issues on top - my carefulness was partly due to illness, as is the delay in this one. Bodies surely are fun. To clarify, I certainly don’t condemn you for choosing substack, there are few avenues to choose for long-form writing not backed by significant capital. It’s an issue that echoes part of the problem of trust allocation, which I’ve been considering...

• Post #468310

  Someone at work accidentally enabled the copilot PR screening bot for everybody on the whole codebase. It put a bunch of warnings on my PRs about the way I was using a particular framework method. It’s suggested fix? To use the method that had been deprecated 2 major versions ago. I was doing it the way that the framework currently deems correct. A problem with using a bot which uses statistical likelihood to determine correctness is that historical datasets are likely to contain old informati...

• Post #451850

  Image description: A paparazzi photo of former prince Andrew Mountbatten Windsor trying to lower himself in the car in an effort to hide from photographers, immediately after his release from police questioning. His face looks terrified. The image has been edited to add a crushed crown on his head. This crown is one of the damaged items recovered from the recent Louvre Heist, dropped by the thieves as they escaped. The text surrounding the photo reads: “How did they know I wasn’t at Pizza Expres...

• Post #257967

  Another research poet drops, this time Zoë Hitzig from Open AI archive.is/dfuzP Are research poets a thing I just didn’t know about? She’s quitting because of the introduction of ads, but falls short of either realising or just admitting that OpenAI never cared about safety - they cared about hedging expensive legal risk. Is buying into the idea of corporate principle declarations something people do as a mental health protection mechanism? Are they genuinely naive enough to think self-gov...