Cat Hicks

grimalkina.bsky.social

19 October 2026 23:02

try to carefully use an LLM to do a thing -> "you're an idiot" try to carefully describe the ways you tried to be rigorous about using an LLM to do a thing -> "well you're clearly not an average user" try to carefully describe the ways you try to help average users use LLMs do a thing -> 😡🔪🔪 etc

John Scalzi

scalzi.com

17 October 2026 23:37

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Gabor Csardi

gaborcsardi.org

15 October 2026 13:26

Third blog post about rig 0.11.0, the new version of the R installation manager, about managing R projects, virtual environments and standalone R scripts: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10... #RStats

JD Long

jdlong.cerebralmastication.com

15 October 2026 13:23

It’s awesome that GLM is a LLM model name and a generalized linear model. Because there was not enough confusion in the ML space.

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

lucystats.bsky.social

14 October 2026 13:34

🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I chat with @rdpeng.org about becoming a businessman 😅 & he points out that side quests are a path to innovation! “That’s why side projects are important, because you’re wasting time up until the point where it’s ingenious.”