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I'm not here anymore. Check out my links to figure out where I am.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

Has anybody seriously explored the possibility that Octavia Butler was sent back in time to warn us?

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

@JimDMiller @the_good_matty @mattbencole @zdeborova @giffmana You studied rhetoric getting your JD, right? Do you know if there's a formal name for the fallacy/cognitive bias where a person participates in a questionable practice, observes or teaches others to do the same, and so assumes that anybody who claims *not* to is, perforce, lying?

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

@JimDMiller @mattbencole @zdeborova @giffmana Even if we accept your premise, doesn't it make a pretty strong case for harshly cracking down on hallucitations?

If citing without reading the underlying paper were common, then entire fields could easily become virally infected with false premises supported by digital mirages.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

Came back to re-up this. Get off here, please. And also: if I follow you and you're still here, I hope you'll come over to the other place because I can't justify swimming in this sewage.

The owner of this site wants to warps brains, and all indicators are that it's working.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

Y'all, I don't post here any more, but I'm here to say:

Please, leave this site. Don't have to go to the butterfly, but X is cooking brains. We all think we're immune to propaganda, but even if you think you see how much worse it's gotten, you've been swimming in toxic sludge.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

Y'all, I don't post here any more, but I'm here to say:

Please, leave this site. Don't have to go to the butterfly, but X is cooking brains. We all think we're immune to propaganda, but even if you think you see how much worse it's gotten, you've been swimming in toxic sludge.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

With his manhandling of the government and seemingly no oversight, a lot of people are saying that Elon Musk is the real president and that he's treating Trump like a useless factotum.

I don't know if that's true, but if it is, Trump may have no power in DOGE's administration.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

@BiemanMike If you weren't very obviously a teen, I'd give you a hard time for never actually meeting any actual lefties. When you grow up and actually meet some, you'll see a lot of them like to say "fuck ". A lot of them actually like *to* fuck!

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

@BiemanMike It's really funny that you think the word "fuck" was a problem on twitter dot com, or that lefties are the ones who have a problem with cursing. If you were getting suspended for using the word "fuck", it was probably because of how you're using it to harass or threaten.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

@BiemanMike Speech and debate, two activities where famously spelling and typos are very important. 🙄

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

@brandttttttt @polosmarcos All those definitely real Cubans who can't tell the difference between 🇨🇺 and 🇵🇷. I love the follow up, too: "Yeah, that's what I meant. Cuban's didn't claim you because you're not Cuban." Cool, thanks for your contribution.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

(It's even more important for generative AI, given the larger potential for harm.)

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

A friend was served this in their @instagram feed. Glad to see all that responsible AI work at Meta is really panning out.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

How many times do tech co.s need to learn that procedurally-generated content should probably have a carefully curated input set, or at very least a robust and overcautious blocklist?

This isn't even just a generative AI thing. It's important even for like… username generators.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

@NYTGames is there any chance that you rank the difficulty of each group in Connections by giving it to a bunch mostly male newspaper employees? Because it really shows, if so.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

This would be a much more exciting crossword clue if @NYTGames knew what they were talking about. (Answer hidden for spoilers, but... 🫤)

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

Cop logic: a cop shot four people, including his coworker, over a $3 crime, and it's the person who jumped the turnstile who put everyone in danger.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Earlier today, one of our officers was shot while protecting our subway system. I am relieved to report he is in good condition now, and we have arrested the suspect who put so many lives in danger. I cannot thank these officers enough for their bravery.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

I mean, listen: I get it, I'm middle-aged and still think the 90s were like 20 years ago, but I'd at least do some math before tweeting how long ago things were happening.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

I've seen programmers try to describe their systems in English, and hoo boy does this seem like the wrong way to do things.

As @groby points out, natural language is actually pretty terrible for precision.

Also, Uncle, 30 yrs ago you were at IIM & I was learning AP CS in Java.

[ashu garg @ashugarg]

The hottest programming language is…English

One area where this shift is particularly clear is in software development.

AI labs are pouring resources into improving coding and reasoning capabilities, and the progress is rapid. AI has a unique advantage here: it can write code, run it, and verify it works, all without human intervention.

As AI's code generation improves, software development's value shifts to higher-level thinking and decision-making.

Envisioning code's purpose will now outweigh writing ability.

Developers become project managers, assigning tasks to AI assistants and focusing on key questions:

→ What problem needs solving?
→ What should we build, and how should we design it?

To put this in perspective: 30 years ago, all software was written in assembly code.

Each generation of programming languages has added a layer of abstraction.

Now, GPT and similar models enable natural language coding.

English is becoming the ultimate programming abstraction.

This democratization suggests that there may be more (not fewer) software engineers in the future, and that their job will look very different:

More conceptual design, less hands-on coding.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

*I know you still refuse to acknowledge that the Connecting Wall was an inspiration, even though you "refined" the concept by sending it around to a room full of professional puzzlers, a few of whom, statistically, had seen puzzlers' favorite quiz show.

[aprotim | অপ্রতিম | அப்ரதிம் | अप्रतिम @aprotim]

Dear @NYTConnections. Today's puzzle violated the implicit contract of the game. A full red herring group when you get strikes for any missed guess is BS. OC's Connecting Wall* might be able to get away with it because they don't have strikes until you've locked in two groups.