philpax
@philpax.me
creative engineer · Rust, gamedev/modding, reverse engineering, writing, AI, XR, etc
a better world is possible · 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
a better world is possible · 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
lord help me I'm considering finally upgrading to the $100 Claude tier
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
lord help me I'm considering finally upgrading to the $100 Claude tier
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Opening the black box of character training
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
Opening the character training pipeline
Some new research from me!
www.interconnects.ai
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Opening the black box of character training
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
watched Hereditary for the first time for our movie night and I don't get the hype. it was fine, but not the masterpiece I was led to believe it was
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
watched Hereditary for the first time for our movie night and I don't get the hype. it was fine, but not the masterpiece I was led to believe it was
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At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes
December 3, 2024 at 4:58 PM
At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes
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Fun new variant on my pelican riding a bicycle SVG benchmark by BeetleB, who instead used "Write a POV-Ray file that shows a pelican riding on a bicycle" to get ray-traced pelicans: blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/O...
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Fun new variant on my pelican riding a bicycle SVG benchmark by BeetleB, who instead used "Write a POV-Ray file that shows a pelican riding on a bicycle" to get ray-traced pelicans: blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/O...
I'm glad I didn't give in and buy a MacBook: this 7-year-old ThinkPad is serving quite nicely for my use cases - the performance and battery life are better than expected - and being able to run an unburdened Linux is worth a lot to me
finally, window management and density that isn't ass
finally, window management and density that isn't ass
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I'm glad I didn't give in and buy a MacBook: this 7-year-old ThinkPad is serving quite nicely for my use cases - the performance and battery life are better than expected - and being able to run an unburdened Linux is worth a lot to me
finally, window management and density that isn't ass
finally, window management and density that isn't ass
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This has the ring of truth to me. I feel advantaged because the meta-cognitive aspect of working with LLMs seems to come naturally to me and I’m also a SME with a strong rate of recall on broad enough topics that I can work up/down the ladder. But even then I sometimes feel at the edge of complexity
I used to worry that AI would be monopolized by ~3-5 companies. Bt lately I think we can avoid that.
What still scares me is that we might replace a wide range of domain skills with a single abstract skill like “meta-cognitive engineering,” which may appeal only to a narrow subset of people. +
What still scares me is that we might replace a wide range of domain skills with a single abstract skill like “meta-cognitive engineering,” which may appeal only to a narrow subset of people. +
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This has the ring of truth to me. I feel advantaged because the meta-cognitive aspect of working with LLMs seems to come naturally to me and I’m also a SME with a strong rate of recall on broad enough topics that I can work up/down the ladder. But even then I sometimes feel at the edge of complexity
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some day everyone will have understood this all along
Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
some day everyone will have understood this all along
just spent the last 5 hours installing NixOS and promptly ricing it ama
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
just spent the last 5 hours installing NixOS and promptly ricing it ama
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they should make a scripting language with a real type system
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
they should make a scripting language with a real type system
this is a baffling default and i would love to know the reasoning for it
why would i want an extension to open a terminal of its own accord without me asking for it
why would i want an extension to open a terminal of its own accord without me asking for it
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
this is a baffling default and i would love to know the reasoning for it
why would i want an extension to open a terminal of its own accord without me asking for it
why would i want an extension to open a terminal of its own accord without me asking for it
another day, another Rust UI framework
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
another day, another Rust UI framework
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David Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK, and Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross's Oscar-winning score, turned 15 years old this fall. Here's some of my artwork for the album, created by manually corrupting images from the film by editing their raw hex data in a text editor, damaging them from the inside. 1/
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
David Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK, and Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross's Oscar-winning score, turned 15 years old this fall. Here's some of my artwork for the album, created by manually corrupting images from the film by editing their raw hex data in a text editor, damaging them from the inside. 1/
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best ending of all time, let's be real
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
best ending of all time, let's be real
my mum let me have two ThinkPads
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
my mum let me have two ThinkPads
another update he's too shy to make himself: he's started to load in the fixed vegetation, but there's a lot of procedural vegetation he's adamant he will not reproduce. we'll see about that.
the terrain textures require the shaders to be ported, so that probably won't be done any time soon
the terrain textures require the shaders to be ported, so that probably won't be done any time soon
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
another update he's too shy to make himself: he's started to load in the fixed vegetation, but there's a lot of procedural vegetation he's adamant he will not reproduce. we'll see about that.
the terrain textures require the shaders to be ported, so that probably won't be done any time soon
the terrain textures require the shaders to be ported, so that probably won't be done any time soon
winter is coming, time to find some training tasks to keep my GPUs warm
November 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
winter is coming, time to find some training tasks to keep my GPUs warm
Just Cause 3
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Just Cause 3
saying this about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... is very funny, but that's the level of discourse that AI usually foments here
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
saying this about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... is very funny, but that's the level of discourse that AI usually foments here
wanted to add a caption for an image on my website and I think the people who said Markdown was deficient might have a point
not sure if I'm ready to go full asciidoc but, uh, hmm...
not sure if I'm ready to go full asciidoc but, uh, hmm...
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
wanted to add a caption for an image on my website and I think the people who said Markdown was deficient might have a point
not sure if I'm ready to go full asciidoc but, uh, hmm...
not sure if I'm ready to go full asciidoc but, uh, hmm...
so @sk83rjosh.bsky.social has been working on loading the entire 1024km^2 map of Just Cause 2 into @godotengine.org, complete with terrain and location streaming, but he's too shy to post about it, so I will
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
so @sk83rjosh.bsky.social has been working on loading the entire 1024km^2 map of Just Cause 2 into @godotengine.org, complete with terrain and location streaming, but he's too shy to post about it, so I will
started rereading Neuromancer last night - felt like a good followup to Cyberpunk 2077 - and boy, that man can write
and Cyberpunk (the setting) really doesn't try to hide its inspiration, huh
and Cyberpunk (the setting) really doesn't try to hide its inspiration, huh
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
started rereading Neuromancer last night - felt like a good followup to Cyberpunk 2077 - and boy, that man can write
and Cyberpunk (the setting) really doesn't try to hide its inspiration, huh
and Cyberpunk (the setting) really doesn't try to hide its inspiration, huh
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death by a million geese bites
third installment of the @nagare.pds.bsky.ln4.net saga: ranking models, re-rankers, and the future of the project
#atproto
third installment of the @nagare.pds.bsky.ln4.net saga: ranking models, re-rankers, and the future of the project
#atproto
death by a million geese bites
in which one rando on the internet designs a general purpose feed ![million_geese.png] %at=2025-11-03T00:50:30.882Z #author_luna #recommendation_algorithms #bluesky this is an article about nagare...
l4.pm
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 AM
death by a million geese bites
third installment of the @nagare.pds.bsky.ln4.net saga: ranking models, re-rankers, and the future of the project
#atproto
third installment of the @nagare.pds.bsky.ln4.net saga: ranking models, re-rankers, and the future of the project
#atproto
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so glad I can be learning Rust from the experts at Adobe, their beautiful elegant code is really an inspiration 😊
![impl<'a> From<&'a dyn Stream> for StreamAdapter<'a> {
#[allow(invalid_reference_casting)]
fn from(stream: &'a dyn Stream) -> Self {
let stream = &*stream as *const dyn Stream as *mut dyn Stream;
let stream = unsafe { &mut *stream };
Self { stream }
}
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2zmxikig2sj7gqaezl5gntae/bafkreidb7urqadk6li75wsjwpi3ntv5majbbngkr2nhr54jkabkcshgf7y@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
so glad I can be learning Rust from the experts at Adobe, their beautiful elegant code is really an inspiration 😊