John Webb

John Webb

@johnwebbb.bsky.social

Let’s stop being horrid to each other and the planet.

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In case you need a documented proof that life is not fair. A young man who battled cancer, almost his entire life, has finally succumbed.

Amie Just@amiejust.com

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I have some bad news for engineers: IT professionals would have needed to cheat off of your homework to get your degree if they even pursued one in the first place. Also, your employer has tasked them with deciding what tools you get to do your job.

Being a good boss should be easy: do the opposite of what your previous boss did poorly, do the same things your previous boss did well and do everything you can to give your employees the freedom to do their jobs excellently in as little time as possible so they can do other stuff or go home.

With respect to AI and tech workers: things are either going to become really bad, or really good. Given our free market corporate-overlord roots here in the US, you might want to bet on the prior.

Churches didn’t look like this when our nation was founded.

WuTangIsForTheChildren@wutangforchildren.bsky.social

So apparently the mega churches in Texas put on some insane Christmas shows and that’s cool but can we at least get them to pay some taxes for crying out loud….who needs these monstrosities

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Interviewer: How long have you been using Linux? Me: *smugness face* 20 years Interviewer: So you must be good at it? Me:

Odd. Hopefully someone else can understand the context of whatever evidence he held.

nixCraft@cyberciti.biz

WTF? 😳 OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment: Suchir Balaji, 26, claimed the company broke copyright law. Information he held was expected to play a key part in lawsuits against the OpenAI www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...

Should she be visited by the cops? Yes. Should she be lectured and looked into? Yes? Should she be arrested? No.

A Florida woman was charged Tuesday after police said she ended a call with BlueCross BlueShield with the words, “Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next.” She was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, and her bond was set at $100,000. www.wfla.com/news/polk-co...

These dudes just cannot STFU about Jan 6 conspiracies.

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com

This guy is intentionally skewing words. A “source” is far different than an FBI agent, which was the accusation. The FBI had sources in Al Qaeda, Russia, the KKK, everywhere. A source is just that, a person who tells the FBI things.

Maybe this account should be a testament to the self-flagellation of the bluesky crowd. Imagine analyzing a child’s song/movie and becoming upset when the premise finally hits you. I mean, yeah, this is the impetus behind the story.

Kim Rhodes@kimrhodes.bsky.social

You can hate on “Baby it’s Cold Outside” all you want but my least favorite is “Rudolf.” It’s about an atypical being rejected by his peers until he is deemed a useful commodity by an authority figure and then lauded. Fuck you, reindeer.

Beautiful sentiment but not realistic. Many homeless are simply incompatible with both housing and treatment due to severe mental disorders. We’d need to take away their rights and institutionalize them and/or take away their access to drugs. :( Such a mess but we should try harder.

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Streaming Deep Reinforcement Learning Finally Works, by M. Elsayed, G. Vasan, A. R. Mahmood, is one of those papers I wish I had written 😅 This paper seems to allow us to do RL with NNs as it should have always been done. Everyone should read it! arxiv.org/abs/2410.14606

arxiv.orgStreaming Deep Reinforcement Learning Finally WorksNatural intelligence processes experience as a continuous stream, sensing, acting, and learning moment-by-moment in real time. Streaming learning, the modus operandi of classic reinforcement learning ...

Totally willing to buy the logic that tariffs are not going to help the economy but… How in the hell are we going to undo the damage caused by corporate profiteering via globalization?

Being a graduate student while married to someone who has significant mental health issues and is completely an effectual means that you will spend multiple hours in a day trying to convince a customer service agent you never received their bill.

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