Samuel
another good example of “it doesn’t have to be like this”
Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com· 5 Oct 2025
i don’t like or understand ai. but it’s wild to see this person, who clearly DOES understand it and obviously knows a LOT about it, be repeatedly told they are stupid? i think a lot of bluesky thinks the simple solution to discomfort is bullying which is so weird given we were all surely bullied??
then: you don't need to "understand how the human mind works" on any level in order to make a computerized map of the connectome including every protein and cell. this is similar to how we do not currently understand how LLMs work but we can run them using opaque frozen weights. bluesky: We do know how LLMs work. What the fuck are you talking about? Lmfao. them: this is a common misconception about modern ai systems. they are grown, and not crafted; we understand the process that builds them but lack a paradigmatic understanding that answers the question "how do these 1 trillion floating point numbers do ‹x>". this has been the case since the DL revolutionthem: the way it actually works is that we initialize 1 trillion random floating point numbers as activation weights and biases in an enormous multilayer artificial neural network, give it tasks, and use vector calculus to update those 1 trillion neurons based on empirical task performance source: i am literally one of the engineers/ research scientists who builds and optimizethem: and when i say "we update the neurons based on empirical task performance", , the “we" is not any human at all, it is an automatic process called gradient descent the job of these engineers is to make the framework that grows the neurons and feed the pipeline that executes, measures, and backpropagates task pertormance geoffrey hinton won the nobel prize in physics in 2024 for his contributions that helped make this possible bluesky: i think you maybe unwell
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Samuel
quality of discussion is so poor it doesn’t even qualify as “discussion” anymore
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it’s a reanimated bug, but I need to figure out a minimal repro before I can start complaining about it
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me: oh I should tweak this eslint rule, it’s subtly ignoring some cases it should catch my ci tests:
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am very excited about Doll’s appview project. making relays non-archival was the key to making them affordable/easy to scale. Bluesky (the company)’s Bluesky obviously is archival, but for a community to run one cheaply this seems like a great way to keep costs manageable
Doll@dollspace.gay· 4 Oct 2025
The next feature is a configurable retention system. No more balooning database if you dont want it. You will be able to set the days it retains information and anything after that is pruned. You will of course be able to set it to retain all and backfill.
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People have talked about narrow sliced networks to keep costs low - basically make the same compromises as Mastodon. It’s actually way more interesting (imo) to instead compromise on history - you’re reading fresh posts 99.9% of the time after all, and it wouldn’t break feeds like narrow appviews do
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narrow vs shallow 🤔 a smart client could probably be clever and start hitting the PDS directly when it’s out of the archive window, then use backlinks or something to pull in old replies on demand. inefficient but the main hot path (viewing feeds) is still using the efficient atproto architecture
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>île-de-france >landlocked region what did they mean by this
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since internet arguments are zero-sum, it's pretty obvious that if one person gets to eat a delicious waffle in the process, they win by default
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🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 CLAUDE CODE v2 NOW INCLUDES A LITTLE GUY
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also this is nuts
React@react.dev· 1 Oct 2025
Performance Tracks are a new set of custom tracks in performance profiles that show more info about your React app. They include a Scheduler track that shows the priority of what React is working on, and a Components track to show which component is being worked on. react.dev/reference/de...
Screenshot of react performance tracks
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activity is absolutely huge for RN though, since you have to basically keep every screen in the history mounted. now they can be deprioritised without using hacks like react-freeze
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ok made it so it automatically does the PUBLIC_URL/HOST variables, now you only need the cookie string :)
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ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 extremely gullible
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to be clear I haven’t fixed every Android crash ever. but we can see from the stats there’s been a definite spike since version 1.107, and I now know why (it’s the new toasts)
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hn did it again > First sentence and I already see [Dan Abramov] never had dealt with true OSS
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