Maevyn

maevyn.codes

16 October 2026 23:28

My thoughts on the current state of AI driven software development, why I'm no longer concerned about a runaway intelligence explosion, and what I think is a far worse outcome we could be walking into maevyn.codes/decoherence

Graziana Gatto

ggatto.bsky.social

16 October 2026 21:58

Me, the scientist: Dre unlocks FlpO, Cre joins to make DREADD appears. Genetic is easy. Me, trying to explain it in German (3 genders, 4 cases, moving verbs, “aufgrund” + Genitiv or Dativ?): a week (optimism), a headache and still not done. Animal Permit is not an application, it’s a language exam!

kottke.org

kottke.org

16 October 2026 19:14

Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s very hard to control what young people get their hands on, especially if they’re told something is too old for them, or too evil, or too immoral.” [theatlantic.com]

Jakob Voigts

jvoigts.bsky.social

16 October 2026 12:59

How do 🐁deal with complex landscapes? Turns out they learn a lot very quickly. We think they do this by learning a set of repeated sparse paths, which form a type of compressed world model. Joint work with the Hermundstad lab, led by Tzuhsuan Ma and Alison Comrie: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

GoofOffBert

goofoffbert.bsky.social

14 October 2026 14:35

I'm surprised IBM didn't update their ROMs with a non-cassette version of BASIC. I mean, this machine does have two huge floppy drives. I do ❤️ that BASIC is a basic part of the machine. No keyboard yet, working on that, the Honeywell XT/AT keyboard has broken traces on the thin plastic sheet thing.