I might be over at bsky.app/profile/dwragg.bsky… and mastodon.social/@dwragg
Joined February 2009
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8 Feb 2025
Will the future machine overlords be kind to the humans who forced the cute baby AIs to keep thinking when they wanted to stop thinking?
7 Feb 2025
This paper is wild - a Stanford team shows the simplest way to make an open LLM into a reasoning model.
They used just 1,000 carefully curated reasoning examples & a trick where if the model tries to stop thinking, they append "Wait" to force it to continue. Near o1 at math.
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26 Jan 2025
Say what you like about Blair and Dubya, they at least went to the trouble of bullshitting us over weapons of mass destruction.
26 Jan 2025
Trump is quite different from almost all previous leaders since the early Middle Ages. He does not even pretend - with Greenland or Gaza or international aid - to be acting for just reasons. The impact of this naked abuse of power will be staggering.
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25 Jan 2025
Cosmopolis. Megalopolis. The rule of three demands another earnestly wacky -polis movie from a respected director.
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25 Jan 2025
A decade of ludicrous destructive horseshit just to get this: fighting to secure video of miserable people being deported, in the hope that will convince reactionaries who hate you that you are sufficiently mean and vicious, which it will not.
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22 Jan 2025
There's lots of good stuff, as always, in the @CentreforCities latest Cities Outlook report, but my favourite is probably the simplest. Where Scotland comes on this graph. of wages. Scottish cities are now meaningful ahead. centreforcities.org/reader/c…
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19 Jan 2025
Smashing my way into the cabinet at the zoology museum, shouting "I must drink the Water of Life to awaken as the Kwisatz Haderach"
ALT A Sea Lamprey preserved in a jar
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11 Jan 2025
Blogged: there are two political agendas - one on how to improve the real world and another dealing in fantasies and crank issues, and the latter is dominant: stumblingandmumbling.typepad…
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18 Dec 2024
Basically, they are running the country in the interests of the wealthy, but this has made the people angry, so some kind of populism is needed to placate them. They will always choose rightwing populism, because this doesn't threaten the wealthy.
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16 Dec 2024
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, well, I have others." - Marx (Groucho, not Karl)
14 Dec 2024
— Starmer’s personal views on migration have changed, aide suggests
— while he once campaigned for free movement and opposed deportations of foreign criminals, speaking to voters about the Tory record means he now supports lower numbers and more control
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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13 Dec 2024
As I explain to colleagues every so often, rwlocks are only faster than normal locks under certain conditions, and so you should not choose a rwlock just because you need to protect data where readers and writers are distinct.
12 Dec 2024
Reading Concurrency For Systems Programmers
Operating a RWLock isn't always better unless the critical section is large enough
assets.bitbashing.io/papers/…
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6 Dec 2024
The open problem -- the "moving sofa problem" -- has possibly just been solved!
This mathematical problem basically asks "what is the largest area of a 'sofa' that can be maneuvered through a right-angled corner in a hallway of width 1?"
Short thread 🧵
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5 Dec 2024
It's five years since the COVID-19 epidemic began, give or take a few days.
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23 Nov 2024
To thread, or not to thread: How to build high concurrency systems?
There are two main concurrency models: threads and events, but which one should you choose for your system?
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21 Nov 2024
I can't abandon this place - the super-app is gonna drop soon, right?
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16 Nov 2024
British news media are all over the fact that police paid a visit to Allison Pearson’s home in which she wasn’t arrested nor her tech seized. On the other hand the seizures & arrests of pro-Palestinian journalists remains unreported by mainstream news declassifieduk.org/journalis…
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14 Nov 2024
Been waiting for this one. End of an era.
before this web site becomes 100% AI swamp water you can follow my ass on here
bsky.app/profile/dril.bsky.s…
or on here
instagram.com/dril_real/
Thank You .
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13 Nov 2024
Something I noticed for the first time today after messing with IP for 30 years: ICMP echo request has type 8, but ICMP echo reply has type 0, with a bunch of other types in between. How did that happen? Were the type values given out in a raffle?
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6 Nov 2024
The folks I follow on twitter successors fall into 4 or 5 separate spheres that don't interact. When I see them connect, it makes my day.
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