Mick Dekkers

Backend JavaScript Engineer at Lab Digital • Coding side projects with Rust 🦀

[taoki @justalexoki]

this is actually just straight up good shit. genuine art. what is happening

[GOG.COM @GOGcom]

if only there was a storefront that actually lets you own your games............

[Ryan Cavanaugh 👉 searyanc.dev on bsky @SeaRyanC]

@garybernhardt I'm excited to stop writing code and start writing machine-readable specifications of precise intended behavior

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

Using their own example code, I made a simple demonstration of how horrible "Clean Code" ideas are for software performance:
https://t.co/dO3UyaNdf6

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

This is color sorcery 🪄

1) The website is so fun to use
2) The colors come out incredibly every time

[Mick Dekkers @mickdekkers]

@robertskmiles @computer_phile Have you read the paper "Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback"? What's surprising to me is that RLAIF actually seems to perform better than RLHF, while also requiring far less human attention to train. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it! https://t.co/RCYJh7gv0r

[Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf]

I’m sorry, I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this.

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

LastPass attackers now know all websites you have passwords stored for and the blobs, encrypted only by your master password https://t.co/Wdbt6mWe8C

[317070 @317070]

Did you know, that you can build a virtual machine inside ChatGPT? And that you can use this machine to create files, program and even browse the internet? https://t.co/15IwHwr2on

[Ben Tossell @bentossell]

All the best examples of ChatGPT, from OpenAI:

[Sam Altman @sama]

today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here:

https://t.co/uWra8LKFMN

[gabby @GabriellaG439]

One piece of advice I sometimes give as a technical mentor is: you are not your code

The mental image I'll invoke is: treat a pull request like an interesting new animal that happened to walk into the room that both the author and reviewer are studying for the first time

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We've trained a neural net called Whisper that approaches human-level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition. It performs well even on diverse accents and technical language. Whisper is open source for all to use. https://t.co/ueVywYPEkK

[Xander Steenbrugge @xsteenbrugge]

"Voyage through Time"
is my first artpiece using #stablediffusion and I am blown away with the possibilities...

We're crossing a threshold where generative AI is no longer just about novel aesthetics, but evolving into an amazing tool to build powerful, human-centered narratives

[Matt DesLauriers @mattdesl]

AI tool to generate colour palettes from any text prompt —

#stablediffusion #ArtificialIntelligence

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

THREAD: The evolution of Pokémon cards through history, as generated by DALL·E 2

For starters, here’s what DALL·E 2 thinks 21st century Pokémon cards look like, using prompts like “A Pokémon card from 2001”

[Madi Hilly @MadiHilly]

MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem"

REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment!

Here's what you need to know:

[Dan P @copumpkin]

In the past security bugs got CVEs. Then they got domains and logos. But today marks the start of a new era in bug branding: https://t.co/WMeJur609b

[Pinboard @Pinboard]

The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy