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현 정부한테 보여주고 싶은. 전세계에서 무의미한 AI 영상 숏폼 등을 가장 많이 보는 나라 1위.
너무 외롭다.... 이 외로움을 달래줄 수 있는 건 세후 50억 밖에 없겠지.....
HAL 9000 was better than modern "AI". HAL at least didn't allow Dave to do the things he wasn't supposed to do. AI happily claims to do what you tell them to do, but then does them wrong 25% of the time.
Hele jako sorry, ale tohle je fakt hrozná divočina. 
@noelreportsNOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 
@MAKS23MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 
@kravietzkravietz 🦇 @Tendar a všichni další toho dneska večer postujou tolik, že to ani nejde usledovat.
#Ukrajina - stojí vlaky bez elektřiny, v Křivým Ryhu (neumim to přepsat správně) to schytal barák, jsou tam raněný a #Zelenskyj varoval, že hrozí velkej útok
#USA - politici lžou o tom, co se stalo v #Minneapolis, místní náckové trollí truchlící protestující proti #ICE
#Irán - obrovský protesty, střelba na protestující, pokus o zablokování internetu, aby to nemohlo ven...
Nejen, že se svět začal točit blbým směrem, ale on ještě zrychluje! To fakt všem úplně švihlo?
gun fowl 🐔
최고귀여운 고양이 골골송
지금 감기약에 취했기도 하고 내일 새벽 출근이어서 이만 자러 갑니다 안녕히 주무시고 좋은 꿈 꾸세요 고양이 사진 투척
it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership failure, full stop.
Wait.. everyone looks exactly like their profile picture, right?
I'm trying to read a lot of ML papers at the moment but I have to admit I find a lot of the language alien. Sometimes I have this fantasy that it's all familiar stuff but buried under unfamiliar notation and I just need to unlock it with the right key.
Anyway, here's a nice example where that assumption paid off:
There's an important result about "denoising autoencoders" here: https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~vincentp/Publications/DenoisingScoreMatching_NeuralComp2011.pdf
There's this quasimagical step where you need a derivative of a smooth field but you have no access to the field, just values at a scattered set of points, and yet they get the derivative by introducing a new random variable.
Then it clicked.
This is smoothed particle hydrodynamics in disguise. In SPH you simulate fluids with lots of particles and you get fields by splatting a little Gaussian kernel over every particle and summing them all. Now you can take the derivative.
The notation is very different, and so is the language of conditional and marginal probabilities. But it's much the same method. A Gaussian kernel around every data point.
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothed-particle_hydrodynamics
"Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) has announced effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem... after deadly shooting by ICE officer in Minneapolis"
https://mastodon.social/@GovTrack/115859998188030279
extremely angry rant about puritans
Bose recently did an unambiguously good thing, by publishing the API for the audio hardware they were originally going to brick: https://www.theverge.com/news/858501/bose-soundtouch-smart-speakers-open-source
However, I've seen some people say "don't praise Bose for this, they didn't do this until there was backlash".
SHUT UP. Shut the FUCK UP. I'm DONE living in a society where you get dragged through hell if you make a mistake, EVEN AFTER YOU CORRECT THE MISTAKE. I'm so fucking tired of hearing stupid excuses for this kind of puritanism like "they should've known better" NOBODY KNOWS BETTER UNTIL *AFTER THEY MAKE THE MISTAKE*. THAT'S HOW LEARNING *WORKS*.
And before you say "Companies aren't your friend" PUNISHING THEM FOR FIXING THEIR MISTAKES WON'T MAKE THEM DO THE RIGHT THING EITHER. If other people, or companies, see someone get punished for both messing up AND fixing the mistake, they just won't bother at all!
People HAVE to be allowed to make mistakes. They HAVE to be given a chance to improve.
わーあめふってきたー
HAL 9000 was better than modern "AI". HAL at least didn't allow Dave to do the things he wasn't supposed to do. AI happily claims to do what you tell them to do, but then does them wrong 25% of the time.
"Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) has announced effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem... after deadly shooting by ICE officer in Minneapolis"
https://mastodon.social/@GovTrack/115859998188030279
Je suis encore étonné que Philipp K Dick a voyagé qu'une fois à l'extérieur du continent Américain, et c'était..pour un festival de science-fiction à #Metz en 1977.
À la médiathèque Verlaine, lors d'un événement SF il y a quelques années, on pouvait revoir des affiches de ce fameux événement.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/051147-000-A/les-mondes-de-philip-k-dick/
Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin
Link: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/rubin-platform-ai-supercomputer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544016
I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".
I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇
It’s 2026 and text-based web browsers still do not know how to handle (not so) recent additions to HTML.
(throws tomatoes and a cow into black hole)
spaghettification bolognese
capybara reading a good book
If any of you don't yet know about the Scottish gritters - zoom in and enjoy: https://www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-tracker
My favourites both sound like Carry On film names or characters:
- Spready Mercury
- On Her Majesty's Slippery Surface
More names can be found here: https://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/scottish-gritter-names-tracker-january-severe-weather-5464270
I'm in a situation where it's very important I know immediately if someone speaks in a particular Slack channel. I need my phone to beep when someone speaks in this Slack channel.
My Android phone has Slack installed.
My phone's in DND, but Slack is set as a DND exception (all notifications).
Slack has all notifications enabled.
I go into Slack. I enter the channel. I tap the name at the top, click "Settings & details". It says "Notifications: All new posts".
So why is my phone not beeping?
The monthly SWICG GeoSocial Task Force meeting is about to start if you have thoughts on location data use cases and the social web.
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20260108T130000/
Notes from the 2026-01-08 #SWICG #GeoSocialTF meeting:
- 
@evanEvan Prodromou’s Personal Places API proposal
- Discussion of how an overlapping W3C Community Group and Working Group might function
- The FOSDEM Social Web track is going to be even more awesome this year
I've been saying for a while that our inability to measure or value these models' lack of a viewpoint/theory-of-own-mind/rich internal goal and value structure will be the shoals a lot of the more "creative" outputs break on.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:565ebob5f6hw33hjdkxty6qj/post/3mbwem6vjbs2u
The value-destroying potential...
RE: https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@revpermanente29/115859130832647541
Je sais pas si tout le monde se rend bien compte du degré de dégueulasserie de cette mesure : le téléphone portable est le dernier outil de contact avec la famille, les amis, toute personne qui peut aider ou donner des conseils, le seul moyen d'appeler au secours...
Ce pour des gens qui ont vécu l'enfer durant leur parcours et sont dans une grande vulnérabilité...
RE: https://social.coop/@Wtebbens/115860069680612667
#publicai doet prachtige dingen, onder andere:
⁃ alles #opensource
⁃ transparante system prompts
⁃ privacy-first
⁃ publiek beheerd, zoals een nutsbedrijf
zie: https://publicai.co/stories/utility
En ze bieden een chat-interface: https://publicai.co/chat
Bedankt voor de tip, 
@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂!
RE: https://social.coop/@Wtebbens/115860069680612667
#publicai doet prachtige dingen, onder andere:
⁃ alles #opensource
⁃ transparante system prompts
⁃ privacy-first
⁃ publiek beheerd, zoals een nutsbedrijf
zie: https://publicai.co/stories/utility
En ze bieden een chat-interface: https://publicai.co/chat
Bedankt voor de tip, @WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂!
Marchfelder Sonnenreis, Naturreis im Trockenanbau und dadurch klimafreundlich und Arsenfrei im österreichischen Marchfeld angebaut. Dazu Chana Masala.
#vegan #arsenfrei #tTrockenreis #veganuary #ReisAusÖsterreich #OhneFeigeAberMitReisEnte
하 오늘도 한심하게 시간을 보냈군
정신이 처힘들다
ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ
A data model for Git (and other docs updates) https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/08/a-data-model-for-git/
cute floof!
#MAGA activist in #Minneapolis screaming in front of police cordon:
The storm is here! Listen all you communist liberals. No one can stop what is coming! We executed one of you yesterday!
I have another very similar video, another place, another time. Will post it next.
ひと作業終えたので寝ますよー
あした吹雪がくるらしいけど
出勤できるんかな
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