Joe Stein
charmalloc.bsky.social
Joe Stein
@charmalloc.bsky.social
Distributed Systems, Data, ML/AI, loves programming languages and baseball.
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Played Zork before? ai.charmalloc.com I found the MIT licensed code open sourced and created a chat bot to play it, enjoy!
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Heyman: Dylan Cease to sign a 7-year, $210M deal with the Blue Jays.
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Can you believe I wrote about manager READMEs again? medium.com/@skamille/re...
If you hate medium, you can also look at my ancient blogger where the formatting is a bit wonky: www.elidedbranches.com/2025/11/revi...
Revisiting Manager READMEs
Several years ago, I published a critique of manager READMEs that succeeded in stirring up a lot of feelings, pro and con. I’d like to…
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Played Zork before? ai.charmalloc.com I found the MIT licensed code open sourced and created a chat bot to play it, enjoy!
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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123 days until Opening Day
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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This is what we call in the legal profession an "admission against interest."
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?

Mamdani: I've spoken about --

Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Pretty much
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hey @schumer.senate.gov can you maybe let @chrismurphyct.bsky.social take over. Asking for a few million friends.
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Despots weaponize their opponents' compassion against them. Trump wants to use people's pain as extortion to get Democrats to fund his corruption. I didn't want the shutdown, but Democrats would be suckers to knowingly vote for a budget that destroys our democracy.
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is why we should teach poetry in kindergarten. And first… www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s... it is about all of us the first time it happens!
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The NBA’s all-time record for most offensive rebounds per-36 minutes over the course of a full season is :
6.6 by Moses Malone in 1979-80

Dennis Rodman’s career high was:
5.7

As of this morning, Mitchell Robinson is averaging:
13.0 offensive rebounds per-36 minutes.

13!!! Let’s go Knicks!
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
They won’t release them now saying under active investigation.
Breaking news: Attorney General Pam Bondi indicated she has appointed a prosecutor to examine the relationships between Jeffrey Epstein and other prominent Democrats, including former president Bill Clinton, as requested by President Trump today.
Bondi says Justice will investigate relationships to Epstein suggested by Trump
President Donald Trump suggested the relationships between the disgraced financier and several prominent Democrats deserve more scrutiny than his own connections to Epstein.
wapo.st
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
New white paper from Google on Agents www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-i...
Introduction to Agents
www.kaggle.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Spent the first day in 12 years working in C++ and found AI to be very helpful except when it came to gRPC and my Mac. Zero copy memory from Apache Arrow to GPU PyTorch arrow.apache.org/docs/python/... any pointers (no pun intended) for what I am venturing back in to are welcome!
CUDA Integration — Apache Arrow v22.0.0
arrow.apache.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Google Health Agent paper arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20148
arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
October 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
October 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
Breaking News: The U.S. military accepted a private donation of $130 million to help pay troops during the shutdown. The move is highly unusual and a potential violation of federal law.
Trump to Use $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops
It is not clear how far the gift will go toward covering the salaries of the nation’s 1.3 million troops.
nyti.ms
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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"New" Big L album coming soon. He was so far ahead of his time his parents haven't met yet.

Mass Appeal records is doing a service. Mobb Deep album, Slick Rick, and... Nas and Preemo. Been waiting for that at least two decades.
October 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Qlib is an AI-oriented Quant investment platform that aims to use AI tech to empower Quant Research, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diverse ML modeling paradigms, including supervised learning, market dynamics modeling github.com/microsoft/qlib
GitHub - microsoft/qlib: Qlib is an AI-oriented Quant investment platform that aims to use AI tech to empower Quant Research, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diverse ML...
Qlib is an AI-oriented Quant investment platform that aims to use AI tech to empower Quant Research, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diverse ML modeling paradigms, i...
github.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Now batting, fifth for the New York Yankees. Pete Alonso. I can’t wait to polar bear bobble night.
NEWS: Mets All-Star 1B Pete Alonso said Sunday he plans to opt out of his contract and will enter free agency shortly after New York missed the postseason.
September 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Last day of the regular season. Started rewatching SG1. And around we go. Also started the new Dan Brown book (exciting).
September 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I love CT
September 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM