♂️Mel Day PhD (they/them)♂️
@mamday.bsky.social
TRR Cloud Infra full. 41. Atheist, skeptic. Married living in seperate houses. 2 cats and a dog. Trans masc 1 yr HRT. PhD physics: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1054811
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I have about ten videos of me playing the violin on my TikTok and I am so bad at it that after 5 years of lessons my violin instructor gently suggested I consider switching to the bass
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot and other models are befuddling students, researchers and archivists by generating “incorrect or fabricated archival references,” according to ICRC, which runs some of the world’s most used research archives. #AI #libraries
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot and other models are befuddling students, researchers and archivists by generating “incorrect or fabricated archival references,” according to ICRC, which runs some of the world’s most used research archives. #AI #libraries
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Watching people work themselves into being less informed is agonizing. You want to help but you often can't.
December 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Watching people work themselves into being less informed is agonizing. You want to help but you often can't.
Things that happened to me in order in 2016:
Accepted to Prestigious AI Fellowship based on github.com/mamday/scrip...
Google interview from foobar (example knapsack github.com/mamday/scrip... and djikstra github.com/mamday/scrip... )
Got job at Uber working on photodiodes identical to thesis in bio
Accepted to Prestigious AI Fellowship based on github.com/mamday/scrip...
Google interview from foobar (example knapsack github.com/mamday/scrip... and djikstra github.com/mamday/scrip... )
Got job at Uber working on photodiodes identical to thesis in bio
scripts/IMDBSentiment.ipynb at master · mamday/scripts
A central place to keep any random side project, coding challenge or Jupyter Notebook that I am working on - mamday/scripts
github.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Things that happened to me in order in 2016:
Accepted to Prestigious AI Fellowship based on github.com/mamday/scrip...
Google interview from foobar (example knapsack github.com/mamday/scrip... and djikstra github.com/mamday/scrip... )
Got job at Uber working on photodiodes identical to thesis in bio
Accepted to Prestigious AI Fellowship based on github.com/mamday/scrip...
Google interview from foobar (example knapsack github.com/mamday/scrip... and djikstra github.com/mamday/scrip... )
Got job at Uber working on photodiodes identical to thesis in bio
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I'm so biased to only want cli tools written in go or rust
December 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'm so biased to only want cli tools written in go or rust
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Makes sense for CLI tooling, and there is a great advantage having a single binary, easy cross-platform compilation and avoiding the whole dependency hell 😜
December 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Makes sense for CLI tooling, and there is a great advantage having a single binary, easy cross-platform compilation and avoiding the whole dependency hell 😜
Only issue with this is that browsers need javascript so I can program entirely in rust except my massive wasm_exec.js file dev.to/sylwia-lask/...
Will WebAssembly Kill JavaScript? Let’s Find Out (+ Live Demo) 🚀
For at least 8 years now, I’ve been hearing about the imminent death of frontend - or at least...
dev.to
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Only issue with this is that browsers need javascript so I can program entirely in rust except my massive wasm_exec.js file dev.to/sylwia-lask/...
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It's okay: async hates us too, so it's mutual. 🙃
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
It's okay: async hates us too, so it's mutual. 🙃
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"The end of the kernel Rust experiment" is a hell of a way to announce Linux in the Kernel is here to stay, jesus
lwn.net/Articles/104...
lwn.net/Articles/104...
The end of the kernel Rust experiment
The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The cons [...]
lwn.net
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"The end of the kernel Rust experiment" is a hell of a way to announce Linux in the Kernel is here to stay, jesus
lwn.net/Articles/104...
lwn.net/Articles/104...
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So what if you publish the truth? If no one stands up and does something about it, it isn’t conducive to effecting change. Now, if speaking the truth gains an ROI on accountability. Maybe you have something.
December 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
So what if you publish the truth? If no one stands up and does something about it, it isn’t conducive to effecting change. Now, if speaking the truth gains an ROI on accountability. Maybe you have something.
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github devs are going to hell anyway but just for choosing YAML for actions they are going to superhell
December 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
github devs are going to hell anyway but just for choosing YAML for actions they are going to superhell
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And its release damaged the entire market of CI products that used to be flourishing lol
December 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
And its release damaged the entire market of CI products that used to be flourishing lol
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i don't know a pre-GH world of CI.... it's all YAML now.... we live in hell
December 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
i don't know a pre-GH world of CI.... it's all YAML now.... we live in hell
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finding out github actions cannot do reproducible builds is kinda hilarious actually
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
finding out github actions cannot do reproducible builds is kinda hilarious actually
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There are all sorts of oddities and sharp corners like Reusable Workflows don’t resolve references to actions in the same local repo. You have to use fully qualified refs to a branch or tag, otherwise it tries to load the action relative to the project repo which makes no sense in any context.
December 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
There are all sorts of oddities and sharp corners like Reusable Workflows don’t resolve references to actions in the same local repo. You have to use fully qualified refs to a branch or tag, otherwise it tries to load the action relative to the project repo which makes no sense in any context.
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this is about how github resolves dependencies for action tasks, and even if you lock them, transitive dependencies cannot be locked down
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
this is about how github resolves dependencies for action tasks, and even if you lock them, transitive dependencies cannot be locked down
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Obvs I don’t have the exact scenario but it sorta feels like something you try to pin down as much as possible in the runner image/container and then the action is only concerned with playing in the (known good/correct) space.
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Obvs I don’t have the exact scenario but it sorta feels like something you try to pin down as much as possible in the runner image/container and then the action is only concerned with playing in the (known good/correct) space.
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You *can't* pin down transitive dependencies, they do not support that
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
You *can't* pin down transitive dependencies, they do not support that
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This is a thought I have many times a day in 2025.
Just give me a break. Its so transparent! Its so stupid! It is objectively stupid.
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This is a thought I have many times a day in 2025.
Despite being a PhD (doctor of philosophy) I know nothing about philosophy but Liam Bright is on here and he has good things to say about the likelihood that Truth comes from the popular guy and his five friends deciding something feels true to them
December 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Despite being a PhD (doctor of philosophy) I know nothing about philosophy but Liam Bright is on here and he has good things to say about the likelihood that Truth comes from the popular guy and his five friends deciding something feels true to them
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At this stage just do your hobbies that you want to do because you won't getting any jobs sooner
December 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
At this stage just do your hobbies that you want to do because you won't getting any jobs sooner
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just like it's "up to the people" to stop the climate crisis by recycling 🥺
It’s actually up to governments to regulate AI and stop it from destroying lives.
December 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
just like it's "up to the people" to stop the climate crisis by recycling 🥺