Good if make prior after data instead of before dynomight.net/prior/
December 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Good if make prior after data instead of before dynomight.net/prior/
Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities dynomight.net/chicken/
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities dynomight.net/chicken/
Underrated reasons to be thankful V dynomight.net/thanks-5/
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Underrated reasons to be thankful V dynomight.net/thanks-5/
I was skeptical of this "poetry jailbreaks LLMs" story. And yet, here is Gemini helping me take ducks home from the park.
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I was skeptical of this "poetry jailbreaks LLMs" story. And yet, here is Gemini helping me take ducks home from the park.
Make product worse, get money dynomight.net/worse/
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Make product worse, get money dynomight.net/worse/
Totally non-dystopian conversation:
"...So for other users, I spent a few hours helping [LLM] understand why it was wrong about tariffs."
"Noooo! That does not work."
"Relax, it thanked me and stated it was changing its answer."
"It's lying!"
"No, it just confirmed that it's not lying."
"...So for other users, I spent a few hours helping [LLM] understand why it was wrong about tariffs."
"Noooo! That does not work."
"Relax, it thanked me and stated it was changing its answer."
"It's lying!"
"No, it just confirmed that it's not lying."
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Totally non-dystopian conversation:
"...So for other users, I spent a few hours helping [LLM] understand why it was wrong about tariffs."
"Noooo! That does not work."
"Relax, it thanked me and stated it was changing its answer."
"It's lying!"
"No, it just confirmed that it's not lying."
"...So for other users, I spent a few hours helping [LLM] understand why it was wrong about tariffs."
"Noooo! That does not work."
"Relax, it thanked me and stated it was changing its answer."
"It's lying!"
"No, it just confirmed that it's not lying."
Thoughts:
1. Very good.
2. Better than Magnolia / Punch-Drunk Love / Inherent Vice.
3. But not quite as good as Hard Eight / Boogie Nights / There Will Be Blood / Phantom Thread.
4. Still don't understand The Master.
1. Very good.
2. Better than Magnolia / Punch-Drunk Love / Inherent Vice.
3. But not quite as good as Hard Eight / Boogie Nights / There Will Be Blood / Phantom Thread.
4. Still don't understand The Master.
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Thoughts:
1. Very good.
2. Better than Magnolia / Punch-Drunk Love / Inherent Vice.
3. But not quite as good as Hard Eight / Boogie Nights / There Will Be Blood / Phantom Thread.
4. Still don't understand The Master.
1. Very good.
2. Better than Magnolia / Punch-Drunk Love / Inherent Vice.
3. But not quite as good as Hard Eight / Boogie Nights / There Will Be Blood / Phantom Thread.
4. Still don't understand The Master.
how many of these have been made
October 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
how many of these have been made
why does everyone who posts here a lot eventually converge to some kind of incomprehensible glitterspeak
October 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
why does everyone who posts here a lot eventually converge to some kind of incomprehensible glitterspeak
Who among us doesn't find themselves sometimes saying, "This experience has taught me the true wretchedness of mankind. But I'm totally fine!"?
October 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Who among us doesn't find themselves sometimes saying, "This experience has taught me the true wretchedness of mankind. But I'm totally fine!"?
The correct ranking of previous PTA films is
Hard Eight
Licorice Pizza
Phantom Thread
Boogie Nights
There Will Be Blood
Punch-Drunk Love
Inherent Vice
The Master
Magnolia
(I definitely see how such rankings would be contentious...)
bsky.app/profile/econ...
Hard Eight
Licorice Pizza
Phantom Thread
Boogie Nights
There Will Be Blood
Punch-Drunk Love
Inherent Vice
The Master
Magnolia
(I definitely see how such rankings would be contentious...)
bsky.app/profile/econ...
i love that basically every film person loves PTA but no two film persons' rankings are even REMOTELY the same and we are all aghast at at least one aspect of each other's rankings
October 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The correct ranking of previous PTA films is
Hard Eight
Licorice Pizza
Phantom Thread
Boogie Nights
There Will Be Blood
Punch-Drunk Love
Inherent Vice
The Master
Magnolia
(I definitely see how such rankings would be contentious...)
bsky.app/profile/econ...
Hard Eight
Licorice Pizza
Phantom Thread
Boogie Nights
There Will Be Blood
Punch-Drunk Love
Inherent Vice
The Master
Magnolia
(I definitely see how such rankings would be contentious...)
bsky.app/profile/econ...
Me: Here's an argument, though I'm worried that it's so obviously correct that there's no value in saying it out loud.
Everyone: HAHAHAHAHA
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4545...
Everyone: HAHAHAHAHA
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4545...
October 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Me: Here's an argument, though I'm worried that it's so obviously correct that there's no value in saying it out loud.
Everyone: HAHAHAHAHA
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4545...
Everyone: HAHAHAHAHA
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4545...
Futarchy's fundamental flaw — the market — the blog post dynomight.net/futarchy-mar...
August 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Futarchy's fundamental flaw — the market — the blog post dynomight.net/futarchy-mar...
So you think you can heritable? dynomight.net/heritable/
August 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So you think you can heritable? dynomight.net/heritable/
My popular (?) demand, my fixed NumPy now exists as "real" (ish) package. If you use UV, you can try it by typing this one-liner:
uv run --with dumpy-numpy --with ipython ipython
pypi.org/project/dump...
dynomight.net/dumpy/
uv run --with dumpy-numpy --with ipython ipython
pypi.org/project/dump...
dynomight.net/dumpy/
July 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My popular (?) demand, my fixed NumPy now exists as "real" (ish) package. If you use UV, you can try it by typing this one-liner:
uv run --with dumpy-numpy --with ipython ipython
pypi.org/project/dump...
dynomight.net/dumpy/
uv run --with dumpy-numpy --with ipython ipython
pypi.org/project/dump...
dynomight.net/dumpy/
Had a dream where I was at some kind of blogger event and people were giving each other feedback. Freddie deBoer was assigned to me and he said, "The main thing about your blog is that it is very very very bad."
July 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Had a dream where I was at some kind of blogger event and people were giving each other feedback. Freddie deBoer was assigned to me and he said, "The main thing about your blog is that it is very very very bad."
This is what I used to think, but sum-utilitarians have strong counter-arguments that all other aggregation functions run into problems that are at least as bad.
I'm now pretty convinced that there's no function that doesn't lead to substantial weirdness.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/repu...
I'm now pretty convinced that there's no function that doesn't lead to substantial weirdness.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/repu...
Every time I get into a back and forth with utilitarians I have to point out that aggregation fns other than Sum exist. Consider Sum(x)/(1+Sum(x)).
Math doesn't have any requirement that shrimp utility be linear in shrimp, or does not have a global upper bound.
Math doesn't have any requirement that shrimp utility be linear in shrimp, or does not have a global upper bound.
July 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is what I used to think, but sum-utilitarians have strong counter-arguments that all other aggregation functions run into problems that are at least as bad.
I'm now pretty convinced that there's no function that doesn't lead to substantial weirdness.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/repu...
I'm now pretty convinced that there's no function that doesn't lead to substantial weirdness.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/repu...
seed oil theorists would love this amirite
July 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
seed oil theorists would love this amirite
New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes dynomight.net/colors/
July 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes dynomight.net/colors/
Reposted by dynomight
July 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
My 9-week unprocessed food self-experiment dynomight.net/unprocessed-...
July 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My 9-week unprocessed food self-experiment dynomight.net/unprocessed-...
Links for July dynomight.net/links-3/
eyes, money, nepotism, links, scribbles, futarchy, war and peace, yams
eyes, money, nepotism, links, scribbles, futarchy, war and peace, yams
July 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Links for July dynomight.net/links-3/
eyes, money, nepotism, links, scribbles, futarchy, war and peace, yams
eyes, money, nepotism, links, scribbles, futarchy, war and peace, yams
Do blue-blocking glasses improve sleep? dynomight.net/blue-light/
July 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Do blue-blocking glasses improve sleep? dynomight.net/blue-light/