[Catlord] Joe [Macirowski]
@joemmac.bsky.social
ADHD, cats, Apple, web, Zelda, music theory, tired
The method taught is unhyperbolically exactly how LLMs work and exactly why LLMs are completely incoherent proportional to how far below “critical mass” (the Large in Large Language Model) the training data (or mandatory teacher in this case) is and why they can’t self improve
I had previously read that lots of kids had been taught to read in a very ineffective way, and I was like oh, that might be why so many folks struggle with spelling.
What I had not grasped is that those kids were actually taught to *pretend* to read.
It’s, uhhhhh, not great.
What I had not grasped is that those kids were actually taught to *pretend* to read.
It’s, uhhhhh, not great.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The method taught is unhyperbolically exactly how LLMs work and exactly why LLMs are completely incoherent proportional to how far below “critical mass” (the Large in Large Language Model) the training data (or mandatory teacher in this case) is and why they can’t self improve
This might be a basal trait of animalia as most baby animals have been observed to jump several times their body length proportional to how much danger they’re jumping towards
little known fact but human babies can jump 10x their body length vertically after birth, I seen it
October 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This might be a basal trait of animalia as most baby animals have been observed to jump several times their body length proportional to how much danger they’re jumping towards
One of my favorite petty things is how San Francisco’s early 2000s parking enforcement vehicles are an enemy in Sonic Adventure 2 based on the developers frequent run-in’s, like being unable to follow the inscrutable parking rules regardless of whether English or Japanese was their first language
October 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
One of my favorite petty things is how San Francisco’s early 2000s parking enforcement vehicles are an enemy in Sonic Adventure 2 based on the developers frequent run-in’s, like being unable to follow the inscrutable parking rules regardless of whether English or Japanese was their first language
My favorite unintentional tradition of especially academic institution associated websites is the mountains of commented out code - not COMMENTS - commented out code in the "we didn't end up doing it this way but it wasn't meritless and thus might be revisited" way and it's literally fine to do that
September 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My favorite unintentional tradition of especially academic institution associated websites is the mountains of commented out code - not COMMENTS - commented out code in the "we didn't end up doing it this way but it wasn't meritless and thus might be revisited" way and it's literally fine to do that
The key to good internal software development is what I call ‘the Taco Bell menu’ during meetings - all new solutions should comprise largely of existing components and all new components should have obvious hypothetical uses.
Having ADHD that forces any two thoughts to connect helps…😬
Having ADHD that forces any two thoughts to connect helps…😬
September 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The key to good internal software development is what I call ‘the Taco Bell menu’ during meetings - all new solutions should comprise largely of existing components and all new components should have obvious hypothetical uses.
Having ADHD that forces any two thoughts to connect helps…😬
Having ADHD that forces any two thoughts to connect helps…😬
Someone actually said “can’t you just use chatgpt to get that from my [inconsistent thing]”
Bruh we’re literally trying to beg upwards to not eliminate your position and it would legally be fraud to submit untruthful information, do you really want to put on that red shirt
Bruh we’re literally trying to beg upwards to not eliminate your position and it would legally be fraud to submit untruthful information, do you really want to put on that red shirt
July 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Someone actually said “can’t you just use chatgpt to get that from my [inconsistent thing]”
Bruh we’re literally trying to beg upwards to not eliminate your position and it would legally be fraud to submit untruthful information, do you really want to put on that red shirt
Bruh we’re literally trying to beg upwards to not eliminate your position and it would legally be fraud to submit untruthful information, do you really want to put on that red shirt
The “a hookup but we” do something that is basically intimate when an introvert shares it is …interesting… to think about how often I’d take another introvert of mutually compatible sexuality (one or both of us not-single and disclosed) to escape a loud thing and special interest somewhere private
July 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The “a hookup but we” do something that is basically intimate when an introvert shares it is …interesting… to think about how often I’d take another introvert of mutually compatible sexuality (one or both of us not-single and disclosed) to escape a loud thing and special interest somewhere private
A fun thing about getting old is seeing some make an age/experience related mistake you’re personally familiar with.
Less fun, more horrifically awkward, is seeing someone older than you double down on “baby’s first rodeo” level mistakes you personally corrected as inner monologue at half their age
Less fun, more horrifically awkward, is seeing someone older than you double down on “baby’s first rodeo” level mistakes you personally corrected as inner monologue at half their age
July 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A fun thing about getting old is seeing some make an age/experience related mistake you’re personally familiar with.
Less fun, more horrifically awkward, is seeing someone older than you double down on “baby’s first rodeo” level mistakes you personally corrected as inner monologue at half their age
Less fun, more horrifically awkward, is seeing someone older than you double down on “baby’s first rodeo” level mistakes you personally corrected as inner monologue at half their age
Keira will be angrily snuggling (making 👿 ears at me from my lap) until temperatures improve
January 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Keira will be angrily snuggling (making 👿 ears at me from my lap) until temperatures improve
My advice from 15yrs of internal-use software development - which I learned by year 5 but it’s worth harping on - is it’s usually the right call to build the arbitrary condiment passing system because my 0-15yo crap has had to keep running with drifting requirements over time. m.xkcd.com/974/
xkcd: The General Problem
m.xkcd.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My advice from 15yrs of internal-use software development - which I learned by year 5 but it’s worth harping on - is it’s usually the right call to build the arbitrary condiment passing system because my 0-15yo crap has had to keep running with drifting requirements over time. m.xkcd.com/974/
I asked a new provider of mine how they like [healthcare system] using the internal shibboleth (which isn’t derogatory, just a disambiguating shorthand that only needs to exist between employees) and upon verifying I work here completely went off about EVERYTHING 🤣
January 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I asked a new provider of mine how they like [healthcare system] using the internal shibboleth (which isn’t derogatory, just a disambiguating shorthand that only needs to exist between employees) and upon verifying I work here completely went off about EVERYTHING 🤣
The amount of things I’ve scheduled with great difficulty due to each other seem to also share an affinity for last minute cancelations requiring the whole puzzle to repeat 🙃
January 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The amount of things I’ve scheduled with great difficulty due to each other seem to also share an affinity for last minute cancelations requiring the whole puzzle to repeat 🙃
I love doing new things in the “boring” baseline languages (C, php, perl, JS, CSS, etc) with zero additional dependencies because not only do you know exactly how far back in time you could’ve done something but it’s so much easier to be talked down from imposter syndrome
January 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I love doing new things in the “boring” baseline languages (C, php, perl, JS, CSS, etc) with zero additional dependencies because not only do you know exactly how far back in time you could’ve done something but it’s so much easier to be talked down from imposter syndrome
I dreamt that something happened with Right to Repair that we called “The Spudging”
January 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I dreamt that something happened with Right to Repair that we called “The Spudging”
A thought: Halo 4 is how to do your own Death Star:
The dogfight is a disaster. The best they can do is blow a tiny hole only fighter crashes its way through.
Comms offline, its pilot takes the warhead to the core on foot and detonates it.
Their survival is a cruel twist of fate.
The dogfight is a disaster. The best they can do is blow a tiny hole only fighter crashes its way through.
Comms offline, its pilot takes the warhead to the core on foot and detonates it.
Their survival is a cruel twist of fate.
December 17, 2024 at 4:59 PM
A thought: Halo 4 is how to do your own Death Star:
The dogfight is a disaster. The best they can do is blow a tiny hole only fighter crashes its way through.
Comms offline, its pilot takes the warhead to the core on foot and detonates it.
Their survival is a cruel twist of fate.
The dogfight is a disaster. The best they can do is blow a tiny hole only fighter crashes its way through.
Comms offline, its pilot takes the warhead to the core on foot and detonates it.
Their survival is a cruel twist of fate.
Swords meme: the 00’s Bruce Faulconer score for the US DBZ dub (in its non-mangled Cartoon Network release) does have one major improvement over the original Japanese score: there’s more of it. More leitmotifs. The original is like stretching Halo 3’s like 5 theme soundtrack into 300 episodes.
December 13, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Swords meme: the 00’s Bruce Faulconer score for the US DBZ dub (in its non-mangled Cartoon Network release) does have one major improvement over the original Japanese score: there’s more of it. More leitmotifs. The original is like stretching Halo 3’s like 5 theme soundtrack into 300 episodes.
Wife, concerned: “How do you know [the cats] like wearing ties”
They literally treat each other as outsiders when “naked”. I don’t know if it’s because it makes them too quiet (we don’t use collars with bells so it’s just swishing sounds?) or they literally think it’s a tribal mark but it’s real
They literally treat each other as outsiders when “naked”. I don’t know if it’s because it makes them too quiet (we don’t use collars with bells so it’s just swishing sounds?) or they literally think it’s a tribal mark but it’s real
November 15, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Wife, concerned: “How do you know [the cats] like wearing ties”
They literally treat each other as outsiders when “naked”. I don’t know if it’s because it makes them too quiet (we don’t use collars with bells so it’s just swishing sounds?) or they literally think it’s a tribal mark but it’s real
They literally treat each other as outsiders when “naked”. I don’t know if it’s because it makes them too quiet (we don’t use collars with bells so it’s just swishing sounds?) or they literally think it’s a tribal mark but it’s real
I’m still starting [especially 1on1] meetings with an invitation to have a meltdown, schedule a meltdown for later, or let me know to not bring it up, and I will probably have to continue to until 2029 bc as a white-ass man it especially feels like I should
November 15, 2024 at 1:21 PM
I’m still starting [especially 1on1] meetings with an invitation to have a meltdown, schedule a meltdown for later, or let me know to not bring it up, and I will probably have to continue to until 2029 bc as a white-ass man it especially feels like I should
As a millennial in IT, I enjoyed when we came up with using “muggles” to refer to everyone else but stopped using it because *gestures obviously*
I’ve recently had the idea to instead steal Disney parks’ “Backstage” label for us to keep the magical theming.
I’ve recently had the idea to instead steal Disney parks’ “Backstage” label for us to keep the magical theming.
May 24, 2024 at 12:36 PM
As a millennial in IT, I enjoyed when we came up with using “muggles” to refer to everyone else but stopped using it because *gestures obviously*
I’ve recently had the idea to instead steal Disney parks’ “Backstage” label for us to keep the magical theming.
I’ve recently had the idea to instead steal Disney parks’ “Backstage” label for us to keep the magical theming.
Normal person: *asks any normal question about PDFs*
Me: “first, a history of virtual memory, .gzip, USB, PostScript, and Unicode”
Me: “first, a history of virtual memory, .gzip, USB, PostScript, and Unicode”
February 20, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Normal person: *asks any normal question about PDFs*
Me: “first, a history of virtual memory, .gzip, USB, PostScript, and Unicode”
Me: “first, a history of virtual memory, .gzip, USB, PostScript, and Unicode”
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I cracked the code. Told my boomer dad that having motion smoothing on his TV 'makes it work twice as hard' and will 'wear it out faster' and now hes obsessed with making sure its off.
December 24, 2023 at 1:45 PM
I cracked the code. Told my boomer dad that having motion smoothing on his TV 'makes it work twice as hard' and will 'wear it out faster' and now hes obsessed with making sure its off.