Computer science, or as I like to think of it, trying to sneak past combinatorics without waking it up

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tommorris/117417068515948406

LLMs will still write null checks for every fucking thing until the end of creation though

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117389779478775766

*laughs in studied metaheuristics*

We already have paperclip optimizers. We’ve always had them: smallpox, plague, anthrax…

Weaponized versions - sorry , I beg your pardon, “gain of function” versions - of these are almost certainly sitting in freezers all over the world.

But sure you keep worrying about a 50s radio serial scenario

heh

https://youtu.be/DlTNN0gvkLM

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117340104086670982

I need folks to understand how stupid, arrogant and willfully ignorant the MSL/TBD clique at Meta are

very

They are very these things

Still waiting to see the D 100 million drama leak out of etaMay. Not a peep so far. Was the most perfect foreshadowing of everything since.

Also it’s objectively hilarious

RE: https://kind.social/@wehpudicabok/117317910370913792

And it used to be a mega fan who has gone to the effort to figure out how to put something online. The glorious days of URLs with tildes in them

I badly miss having ask@pivotal

Adversarial human in the loop seems to be the norm at the moment

Just broke down and looked up this Jev thing. Incredible tech, they found a new way to launder hallucination

You’ve had thought leadership, but have you tried thought chain of command

RE: https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117300944757562382

The ol’ FAANG Savior Complex

*workshop

but worship is too good to change

Thinking about the madness of TESCREAL ubermeschen and their bonkers history and thinking only a magical realist writer could do this story proper justice and even then only after a generous helping of LSD.

Let’s worship titles. I’ll go first: “100 Years of Brolitude”.

Microservices got you down? Consistency too eventual for comfort? Flushed Postgres down your memory drain?

Then try Acme SAGA PATTERN™️!!

All the creature comforts of 2-phase transactions AND you get to write the transaction manager yourself!

I regret to inform you that “first principles thinking” is ignorantese for “I am ignorant and think that’s a good thing”

The witnessing destruction of economy, ecology and humanity to Luddite pipeline really got me yall

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@amcasari/117260854145450967

During my time interacting with maintainers from RubyGems and similar services in other ecosystems I argued that we should start pushing for CFAA prosecutions to cut down on the endless “oops, just legitimate research u guize teehee” bullshit.

Still time!

My understanding of this week’s events is that you can use guided fuzzers to surprise mathematicians just as effectively as you can for programmers.