Tim Dobbs

Revelation Kettlebell

Bits aren't interesting! *Waves* are interesting!

To the extent that I have a brand here, it's not "Writes technical science + AI blogs with a bent towards owning and running your own models", but that is a thing I did! Getting the First 69% For Free With Decision Models www.autobio.blog/p/ec8bcdbe-2...

Reboot! (2022, not the 90s CGI one)

We need to invent an llm chatbot that doesn't feel like shit to talk to

Everyone is doing performance art all the time now, and I'm torn, because it turns out I did want *some* people to actually do practical things with material value

I really do think there's an opportunity here to put the careful, time-consuming, expert work into building consensus around data interchange standards. Then every just writes their own fine beautiful mess of a runtime software package.

When you're high as hell on rooibos tea

Once again: AI is the reverse printing press that makes asynchronous communication impossible

Once again, happy birthday to all those people whose birthday reminders have migrated through all my phones over the years and whom I no longer know.

My favorite was when Calypso told him to stop eating the lotus and he said "But I like it!"

Once again, this is not an important question, nor does answering it tell you anything about any useful moral question

Overheard: "It's spanning across space and time - that's two of my favorite things to span!"

Hey friends, it’s that time of year. I teach high school science including bio, advanced bio, and infectious diseases & global health! I share most things with my department. There are some dream items on here I don’t expect to get, but anything helps! Thank you! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

I keep saying this

Ok, it's happening, tomorrow at 11a PT I'm gonna start reading game design manifestos until Pepper gets antsy for her walk. It's on the rarely acknowledged 2nd channel for subscribers who don't vibe with live stuff, so feel free to subscribe there for notifs www.youtube.com/live/95fiK2z...

The more general version of the question has interested me for a while. Specifically, why does anyone of any political persuasion care about the opinions of 20 year college students right this second? This book was the closest to an answer I've found: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Poach us please! We have a successful project, the Mothbox, used by dozens of researchers, being invited to workshops give keynotes around the world! But not enough people realize: A) we are out of $$$ + mostly volunteering b) YOUR group can claim the Mothbox by just hiring us to keep working!

Last week the bioGraphic team learned that, owing to an ongoing financial deficit, the California Academy of Sciences—where we’ve made our home for the past decade—will no longer be able to provide us with financial support, including support we were expecting this year.

Confident I'll need this later. Unclear why

Considering entering the Plane of Forms. Might do it tomorrow

If anyone ever hacks my Bluesky account, they'll find that I've bookmarked a lot of pictures of possums, in case I need them later

Wait, I still want this!

Watching a show from 2015 with references to Iran trying to build nuclear weapons is a real trip in 2016. Also, this is an excellent show. @lukeburbank.bsky.social

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Brent Butt!

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Truly incredible. Also, they are reading their emails? What is on their calendar? "Working Elsewhere"?

Get a PhD so you can do weirder things

“We don’t have to live like this!” @nonbinary.computer kept saying this phrase in their talk and i vote we start saying this instead of “we can just do things”

In this interview Wes Moore says "We have about three quarters of a million kids that are receiving Summer food from artificial intelligence" My brother, that simply is not an accurate model of what's happening pca.st/episode/023f...

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Went back to Sec 6 of Stochastic Parrots today (in the context of answering a query from a journalist) and was reminded how thoroughly we grounded that part in a discussion of language use -- y'know as communication between people.

Well, it's another morning thinking about lying as a kind of technology

Bring back those little keychain things

Damn, back to asking what a game even is

Why haven't I spent my whole life asking people for drawings? Pretty fun

This is why I got so annoyed when they panicked and gave Swanky Kong a hat

Man, took me awhile to realize this isn't, like, a slime mold.

Tech’s signature move is to turn an oncoming coordination crisis into a career ladder, and it’s fun seeing it happen in real time

Legitimately wondering if this actually had an impact on the company though. I think maybe these products have taken off so hard because actually most companies don't operate in a way where it matters if they have good information.