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I might be a vampire. Or, well, a "vampire". As far as I'm aware, they don't really exist. There was a (screenshot of a) bluesky post I saw a year or so ago, from someone comparing the differences between transfems and vampires. The...
I don’t know how, when or why, but at some point in my life I got fat. Like, real fat, almost 3 digits (in kg obv). Actually, I do know the answer for all of that but I do like a dramatic start. It was after the pandemic. I got into a...
a couple of hours ago i hit #1 trending on the bearblog discovery page for my post, the freedom of writing anonymously. i hope you understand that this is my equivalent of winning an oscar, and here is my acceptance speech. thank you all...
Matt Levine is a genius. On GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's whacko bid to acquire eBay: [S]ometimes a potential buyer will lob in a bid without the money, and the target will say “okay do you have the money,” and the buyer will say “yes I have...
I saw a funny post earlier today where someone on twitter wondered what non-religious people do when they’re in despair. The OP asks where they go when they’re hurting, where they turn to when the pain becomes too big for them, if not a...
(The original article I wrote compared the current system to Nazi concentration camps. It was pointed out to me that this was an incorrect analogy so I've changed the article to compare the current system to the East India Company which...
I recently bought a new watch. It's the Casio MQ24-9B. I got it for ~20€. Here are some picture of it: I didn't expect much from the watch. It's extremely simple, and it only really does one thing, tell the time. I do like that, although...
For as long as I can remember, I have drawn. In the walls, in my books, in my homework, in any paper I could find. I was never a great artist, does not matter how much people around me tell me otherwise. To people who have never tried...
Getting married is often associated with spending eye-watering amounts of money. Allow me to challenge this notion with a simple observation: the expensive part of a wedding is nothing more or less than a voluntary party. Getting and...
Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve ever resorted to MANDATORY or DO NOT SKIP, you’ve hit the ceiling of prompting....
As I was packing for my month long trip to the Philippines, I cleaned my room. Not a deep clean, just the kind you do when you want to come back to something decent after being gone for a good while. I dusted the surfaces, vacuumed the...
I have recently had the domain renewal notice for skryblans. It is set to auto-renew annually anyway, it's just they let me know a couple of weeks before that's due to happen. Even though I haven't blogged for more than a month now, I...
IntroIf you're active at all when it comes to language model research these days, you almost certainly have an implicit mental model for what kinds of training have been useful for capability improvement in the post-o1 era. The...
The topic for this month’s Bearblog Carnival is “your favorite ______ in your niche hobby.” I’m a knitter and throughout the decade or so that I’ve been knitting, I’ve tried an impressive amount of project types, patterns, yarn weights...
I had a meeting with a local elected official today, which I had requested to discuss a specific issue. We got chitchatting about some other, unrelated local politics issues, and the official asked me my opinion on a few of them. I gave...