It’s interesting to see people who are fairly realistic about the myriad problems with #AI still buy into #AGI as a serious/hypothetical outcome. Like, it’s still just ducking autocomplete. It’s cranked to the max and agent harnesses have found a variety of use cases where no ducks are given about the output, but fundamentally believing that this tech tree can produce AGI (if such a thing is even possible) makes one as much of a quack as anyone. 🦆

RE: https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/117158216969043364

I was a Ruby engineer for 8 years, and had written complex libraries for internal projects. I had to google argument order for common standard lib functions at least once a week. It’s ok just not to know sometimes. At every level, curiosity and humility always win.

@ivory just updated to the latest version on iOS and it lost my scroll position. Luckily I wasn’t too far back…

@hpj @djsundog

This Is Just To Say

I have shaved
the yak
that was in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
planning
to shave yourself

Forgive me
it was so tempting
so rough
and so hairy

Or maybe… #WordPress and #Rails are great (despite their owners) because of the community. Both platforms have revolutionized the web.
https://mastodon.social/@bitboxer/113310098598564429

Learning to stim again. Learning to regulate my sensory input. Learning to say no to things. Trying to get my family and friends to understand what I need and how (and when) to offer help…
https://neurodifferent.me/@theautisticcoach/112212114671675616

`else if`, `elsif`, `elif`. Who is brave enough to be the first to use `elf`?

As a distributed systems researcher, I’d like to thank the House of Representatives for demonstrating that leader election protocols can’t be guaranteed to terminate.