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Here is the 3rd person action shot view of this photo

I have a friend who has a hobby of searching out hentaigana (archaic hiragana variants) on street signs, etc. around Japan.

This place had some hentaigana type, which was a pretty neat find imo.

We also visited a letterpress museum, which was awesome.

A couple of months ago, I did a day where I blitzed all of the Tokyo museums that I had been wanting to see before I left, but hadn't been to yet. I visited the National Statistics Museum and they just happened to have a TV crew there filming.

We ended up getting on TV.

I started taking screenshots of funny paragraphs from this article, but it ended up being basically all of them.

This is truly an incredible read.

I started taking screenshots of funny paragraphs from this article, but it ended up being basically all of them.

This is truly an incredible read.

Waffle House bans Florida candidate for governor, he says Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback says Waffle House banned him from all locations, temporarily derailing his campaign plan.

boy am I glad I left florida, what a silly place.

@tylerachang.bsky.social and I will be presenting the Goldfish as an oral at #LREC2026 in Mallorca! 🌴

🦖🦅 (they don't have a pterodactyl emoji)

If you're a CS grad student in the US, I'll pay you a small fee to write for The Consensus. I'm especially looking for articles that compare the state of research to the state of what devs do in practice, because there are often interesting discrepancies.

theconsensus.dev/contribute.h...

ChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users | TechCrunch OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.

"everyone hates llms"

hundreds of millions (and growing) are using llms regularly. techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/c...

thread of claims continues...

Spotted a cutie

not a fan but at least it isn't my email

PSA: Save yourself a desk-reject. Don't use an LLM to populate your BibTeX file. Use dblp.org instead in "condensed" mode.

Of course the Luddites had other things they were protesting, but the modern usage of the term is synonymous with anti-tech. And stochastic parrots proponents have other legitimate concerns, but the feeling of the phrase is now just "anti-LLM", and I think that is going to morph into "anti-tech".

It's pretty clear that, as a technology, LLMs are both very useful and here to stay. Functionally, I currently do not care about the philosophical discussions surrounding them (are they sentient, are they just stochastic parrots, etc.; though of course this is interesting to me intellectually).

I'm not saying that there aren't many legitimate criticisms of LLMs (there are), but stochastic parrots has entered the public lexicon as essentially the rallying cry for the vehemently anti-tech crowd.

If there is a modern refresher for the term Luddite, it will be based on stochastic parrots.

"He is from [MASK] [MASK]" → "San York"? dLLMs fail because they ignore token dependencies. This Factorization Barrier arises from a structural misspecification: models are restricted to fully factorized outputs. We break this barrier with CoDD, enabling coherent parallel generation. 🚀

Are AI models effective collaborators, or mere assistants awaiting your next command? (Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.24188)

To find out, we make AI collaborate with itself, in private information games: tasks that require sharing private information, like this chess board ordering task.

Anyone in my network working on using open models in social science, public health, etc.?

Looking to connect someone.

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Stochastic parrots really will go down as this generation's "Luddite".

attn: @samwho.dev

Points on a Circle A walkthrough of a popular math problem. Drop N random points on a circle. What is the probability they all land in a semicircle? The answer uses mutual exclusivity in a surprising way.

Fantastic walkthrough and visualizations

pckt.blog A distraction-free space to write and share your story. Just you, and your words.

tell your friends about pckt.blog 😌

I'm cookin 👨‍🍳

My friends have been enjoying Badly In Love, but I am not sure if that will be the style of Japanese that you want to emulate (or maybe it is??).

hmm, an interesting search suggestion

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.