Ok, time for some recap, with context.
I have been on the dating apps lately, and they are awful. Just wretched. There is the insinuation that they are that way deliberately, to maintain their income stream, but theories like that are outside the scope of my little survey.
There was one trick question on the survey: “No, I’m not attracted to trans women”. Surprise, trans women are women. If you can’t see that, we don’t want you date you anyway, so well done self-identifying!
“No, I’m not attracted to women” is very clear.
“Yes, absolutely”: i should have surveyed some more questions, such as “are you on the apps?” and “Are you open to dating?” Because qualitatively Fedi is so much better than the apps for interaction.

I know it’s difficult out there, trying to find attraction, romance, sex. Everyone i know who’s playing the field seems to be struggling, no matter their interest. But once again, male-attracted trans women feel relegated to being the on-the-DL fetish or hookup, and straight men still have the privilege.

Maybe I’m just reacting to the world of dating after many years in monogamy. But fucking hell fellas, you just have to be sweet. A few compliments, being happy to see us … is that too much to ask? Is it really that shameful to be seen in public with us?

Anyone/everyone, comments are open. Restrict the visibility of your replies as you see fit.

"Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but..."

-sigh- Do I have to tap the sign again?

STOP ANTHROPOMORPHIZING AI EXECUTIVES.

For fuck's sake, they just keep overselling these things. Do they *really* expect us to believe, 4 years into this tsunami of horseshit, that an AI executive can "sympathize" with human concerns now?

Sam Altman is as capable of sympathy as your toaster is.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/117541041673781022

❝ STOP ANTHROPOMORPHIZING AI EXECUTIVES ❞

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117433142286370236

you don't need to do something every day for it to count! you don't need to reach any special threshold for it to count! just find some time to learn a new skill any time in November, and you've won in the only way that will ever matter!

#NewSkillNovember

@david_chisnall

While I've not thought about this with the same depth, this is a belief I've held for a while now. I'm surprised it's not a common lament:

"...while the concept is clearly proven, and these Coding Agents/Assistants work, I find the idea clunky and inefficient... the Coding Agent paradigm feels like a leaky abstraction... performance and Context management issues are still apparent. Which leads me to feel there's a false economy here."

https://raskie.com/post/we-have-ai-at-home

@davincihmkay

i guess the discussion is also around determinism vs non-determinism

In some cases. But non-determinism isn’t always the problem. There are places where non-deterministic classical machine-learning techniques such as simulated annealing can deliver amazing results for a tiny fraction of the compute budget of a huge feed-forward neural network, for example.

Many applications of LLMs are really state-space exploration. But permuting a text stream based on training data from a load of sampled text and a prompt to try to nudge it into a particular region of the latent space is not usually the best way of non-deterministically exploring a state space if you understand anything about the shape of the space.

@gbargoud @MonniauxD

And where, if your grant application said '$100K of cloud compute time to run theorem provers with brute-force strategies' you'd be laughed out of the applications process, but when OpenAI throws $20M of compute at the problem everyone says 'Wow, AI is magic!11eleventyone'

@MonniauxD @david_chisnall

There are also all of the math problems where Anthropic and OpenAI are spending tens of millions of dollars on tokens to solve a problem where researchers have been struggling to get grants.

The most depressing thing about the current bubble is that so many of the flagship ‘look how amazing AI is!’ things are things where LLMs are a pretty poor fit and other techniques work much better, but the baseline for comparison uses well under 10% of the compute, often under 1%. If you threw 10% of the memory and processor capacity at the non-LLM approach, it would work much better than the LLM approach. Yet it’s easy for OpenAI or Anthropic to burn $10M on a tech demo and incredibly hard to get anyone to spend $1M on a good solution to the same problem.

As long as money is flowing to these companies, they’re starving interesting research of resources because there’s no incentive to build efficient systems when a company is willing to set fire to investors’ money to run the horribly inefficient version for you.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117540788341445069

(or throw the millions of dollars at human experts, like mathematicians or cancer researchers)

🎬 Controversial "Musk" Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films - Showbiz411

https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/controversial-musk-documentary-pulled-from-almost-every-one-of-472-theaters-after-one-week-by-newly-sold-bleecker-street-films

#musk #censorship #tescreal

A good comment to Altman's interview on YouTube where he says he wants all the RAM of the world for himself: "It's Terrible for Sam Altman to have all those Organs in his body when better people could utilize them more efficiently"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMsUcCYNKqY

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This week I set up some spaces online for folks interested in #veilamp to talk about... Veilamp! I wanted to have multiple options available for people to reach out with issues, questions, or just looking to find fellow fans!

First, a signal group: https://signal.group/#CjQKINELSlCFfD-M_T-dL0HCsTOajPMJAfMLlHZq2XGdnyL5EhDVfBrxzjICqPB4hZvf0s4H

Second, our community website:
https://community.veilamp.com

looks like christmas came early

I saw someone reply to a slop email: ai;dr

I love it. Lets normalize ignoring all slop

I missed a golden opportunity to be fired in the most hilarious way possible today... apparently the office had a Mario bros themed Halloween costume party and they were short a Luigi.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jef/117531616612028855

some jackass said at Davos 10 years ago that the 1% needed to own eveything and NOT allow anybody else to own anything, ESPECIALLY COMPUTERS.

the top .1% are less than 3k people. explain to me why ar they still breathing?