J. Quicksall

Systems-obsessed word bastard. Narrative, design, neuropsych, games, AI, myth. Dad. Husband. Hillbilly. Edges included. PNW by way of PGH.

[J. Quicksall @JoshQuicksall]

@MaximeRivest As a photographer, I feel this to my very bones.

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@JAldrichPL Broadly agree, but some days, the ADHD, TBI, exhaustion means taking the model at face value because the alternative is getting fuck-all done. I’ve only got so much scrutiny in me. The real skill is knowing what actually needs checked, then checking the hell out of that.

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I spent 18 hours hand-engineering a report to prevent a spreadsheet from embarrassing me.

Control: fill in the fucking spreadsheet and send it.

Control won immediately.

Sutton’s Bitter Lesson has now been reproduced in humans.

Unfortunately, I am the heuristic.

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@MaximeRivest We’re old enough to remember when getting online sounded like a fax machine dying. Now we’re doing real work with agents from the woods.

Twenty bucks says five years from now we’re arguing over which completely ridiculous thing one of us called first.

Loser buys the beers.

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@MaximeRivest So may it be, brother. I’m pretty delighted with where we already are: I can throw in some earbuds, disappear into the woods for a hike, and get real work done with my agent over voice.

A nontrivial chunk of the “Star Trek future I’ve wanted since I was eight” is already here.

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@MaximeRivest And maybe that’s what I love most about this moment: two yokels somewhere in the rural North can do serious high-tech work while being eaten alive by mosquitoes big enough to carry off small rabbits.

Can’t beat the view, though.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

DSPy can now optimize your program's code, in addition to the prompt.

It's insane: GEPA took one task from 90% accuracy to 95%…while making 75% FEWER LLM calls.

Introducing Flex: https://t.co/FHlPeF0Xto

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I’m back. But mostly just to clap conservative cheeks.

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@cmeik And I NEED to write the press release for this. It will be my peak.

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Cool! I’m being INVITED to PARTICIPATE in my yearly staff performance evaluation. Even better? Step 1 = Self Eval.

Thnx, Capitalist Overlords! Can’t wait to do be part of another ritualized masturbatory justification of my value vis a vis meaningless metrics!

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@mynkgoel @jeffbigham Well when you do, you had better drop ya boy a line so we can get lunch

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@clegoues @krismicinski -homeowner
+life
FTFY

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@tim_libert Stealing this shit for a poster RIGHT NOW

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@oatesmeal FUCK THAT FUCKIN GUY

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@cmeik I believe it is a teal greenish block in the top left of the podcasts tab inside of your “Library”

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Me: "Hey, deviantart, do you have like a quick lineart pack for this mech sketch I'm worki-"

DeviantArt: "Yah no but I do have basically every goddamn thing you'd ever need to crank out MAD RULE 34 SKETCHES OF EVERYTHING. Especially if you're into Furries. So..."

Me: "..."

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This primer Marie bought for the kids speaks to me on a level that I struggle to express in words:

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Usually not the “airing of mental health woes on social” type but, for real y’all, I don’t even know what I feel or think anymore. Self-Analysis just yields more complexity that I then feel compelled to unpack and organize and prioritize and FUCK I STILL NEED TO FOLD LAUNDRY.

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My Five Year Old, for no discernible reason, has been screaming “MAMA MIA!!!” at random intervals throughout the day. We aren’t Italian. We don’t watch musicals. Best Guess: Mario?

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@NWSportsman @WDFW Saw that. What I am looking for is the official documentation of this rule. Not trying to be slippery but I’d like to be able to reference this rule directly.

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@WDFW Are Cambaridae like Procambarus clarkii (sp. Electric Blue) legal to sell in WA? Can’t find clear, recent guidance for this online.