jake
@yetanotheruseless.com
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/in/jakemannix, fka @pbrane
professionally: Tech Fellow, AI & Relevance, Walmart Global Tech
here: bad math jokes, AI in general, puns, OSS ML news, outdoorsy stuff, DL papers, shitposting, the fall of democracy
/in/jakemannix, fka @pbrane
professionally: Tech Fellow, AI & Relevance, Walmart Global Tech
here: bad math jokes, AI in general, puns, OSS ML news, outdoorsy stuff, DL papers, shitposting, the fall of democracy
MTB in the Moab area is bananas. So gorgeous!
(not pictured: the 50m drop down below)
(not pictured: the 50m drop down below)
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
MTB in the Moab area is bananas. So gorgeous!
(not pictured: the 50m drop down below)
(not pictured: the 50m drop down below)
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"I’m just a small-town political scientist, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn."
"The number of Jake Chatterbrook-Silvers who will call for the GOP to moderate its extreme right-wing positions and focus on voters' kitchen table anxieties will be precisely 0."
"So … the dinner party issues that plague the brains of elite freaks are not the authentic will of the people?"
"So … the dinner party issues that plague the brains of elite freaks are not the authentic will of the people?"
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
"I’m just a small-town political scientist, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn."
I believe there was supposed to be a "DP" pun here, Chuck.
November 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I believe there was supposed to be a "DP" pun here, Chuck.
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I often think about that quote from a park ranger about the overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I often think about that quote from a park ranger about the overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans
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They say you die twice. Somewhere in the afterlife there's a confused Sumerian copper merchant wondering why he didn't fade away like everyone else.
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
They say you die twice. Somewhere in the afterlife there's a confused Sumerian copper merchant wondering why he didn't fade away like everyone else.
*spittake*
this is the absolute dumbest timeline.
This is *absolutely* how the Romans who didn't drink the lead water felt while looking around thinking, "WTF is happening here?!?"
this is the absolute dumbest timeline.
This is *absolutely* how the Romans who didn't drink the lead water felt while looking around thinking, "WTF is happening here?!?"
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
*spittake*
this is the absolute dumbest timeline.
This is *absolutely* how the Romans who didn't drink the lead water felt while looking around thinking, "WTF is happening here?!?"
this is the absolute dumbest timeline.
This is *absolutely* how the Romans who didn't drink the lead water felt while looking around thinking, "WTF is happening here?!?"
Wait what? After years and years of giving ML people shit for how much “tensors” are just plain… *not that*, you’re telling me that “embeddings” actually *are*?!?
Stopped clock, these CS people and their naming issues, I say.
Stopped clock, these CS people and their naming issues, I say.
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Wait what? After years and years of giving ML people shit for how much “tensors” are just plain… *not that*, you’re telling me that “embeddings” actually *are*?!?
Stopped clock, these CS people and their naming issues, I say.
Stopped clock, these CS people and their naming issues, I say.
It may have been an hour slower than the last time I ran this race, but this time I did it *stupider*: I ran further yesterday than I’d run in the months of September and October *combined*.
How’s *that* for idiotically undertrained?!? Just goes to show you that sheer orneriness can compensate?!?
How’s *that* for idiotically undertrained?!? Just goes to show you that sheer orneriness can compensate?!?
October 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It may have been an hour slower than the last time I ran this race, but this time I did it *stupider*: I ran further yesterday than I’d run in the months of September and October *combined*.
How’s *that* for idiotically undertrained?!? Just goes to show you that sheer orneriness can compensate?!?
How’s *that* for idiotically undertrained?!? Just goes to show you that sheer orneriness can compensate?!?
Well gee, Max, this seems like a group I want to hear their thoughts on AI.
Faith leaders, Steve Bannon, and Prince Harry. I’m sold!
Faith leaders, Steve Bannon, and Prince Harry. I’m sold!
October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Well gee, Max, this seems like a group I want to hear their thoughts on AI.
Faith leaders, Steve Bannon, and Prince Harry. I’m sold!
Faith leaders, Steve Bannon, and Prince Harry. I’m sold!
So back in my day, my friends didn’t have their nazi phase, they had their SHARP phase (Skin-Heads Against Racial Prejudice), and went to punk shows and beat the shit out of people with nazi tattoos.
Even at 16, you can choose a side, y’know?
Even at 16, you can choose a side, y’know?
October 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
So back in my day, my friends didn’t have their nazi phase, they had their SHARP phase (Skin-Heads Against Racial Prejudice), and went to punk shows and beat the shit out of people with nazi tattoos.
Even at 16, you can choose a side, y’know?
Even at 16, you can choose a side, y’know?
holy shit dating has gone from dark to... abysmal.
this species is forked.
this species is forked.
A charitable reading of this is that insecurity leads folks to turn to a supposedly magical, confident advisor, like a cyber-Cyrano. A less charitable reading is that a lot of people have gone completely insane.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
holy shit dating has gone from dark to... abysmal.
this species is forked.
this species is forked.
If it's a hellscape, NYT, why don't you turn the camera to look in the direction of the nitwits on the roof, to see what they're looking at.
WTF are you taking a picture of dipshits-on-a-roof?
WTF are you taking a picture of dipshits-on-a-roof?
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
October 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If it's a hellscape, NYT, why don't you turn the camera to look in the direction of the nitwits on the roof, to see what they're looking at.
WTF are you taking a picture of dipshits-on-a-roof?
WTF are you taking a picture of dipshits-on-a-roof?
<slow clap>
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
October 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
<slow clap>
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My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
Voice mode AI is still totally unusable these days. Super annoying uncanny valley with current latencies and pause detection / interruption detection.
October 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Voice mode AI is still totally unusable these days. Super annoying uncanny valley with current latencies and pause detection / interruption detection.
I’m intrigued by GPT-5 being so good at “entertaining itself”.
Does AI get bored?
I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens
one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom
but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be
timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...
I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens
one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom
but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be
timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...
Does AI Get Bored?
timkellogg.me
September 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I’m intrigued by GPT-5 being so good at “entertaining itself”.
Geez, my pal Chat is getting meta on me, more and more. Starting a response with:
“Nice prompt. Before I throw a list at you, let me ask a few clarifiers so I don’t waste your time:”
is more explicitly “self-aware seeming” than before.
“Nice prompt. Before I throw a list at you, let me ask a few clarifiers so I don’t waste your time:”
is more explicitly “self-aware seeming” than before.
September 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Geez, my pal Chat is getting meta on me, more and more. Starting a response with:
“Nice prompt. Before I throw a list at you, let me ask a few clarifiers so I don’t waste your time:”
is more explicitly “self-aware seeming” than before.
“Nice prompt. Before I throw a list at you, let me ask a few clarifiers so I don’t waste your time:”
is more explicitly “self-aware seeming” than before.
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"Nevertheless three of our men have defected: one lured by a tarot reading and a promise of dry socks, two went off to shut down a drag show and never returned."
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)
My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Nevertheless three of our men have defected: one lured by a tarot reading and a promise of dry socks, two went off to shut down a drag show and never returned."
<record scratch><freeze frame>
'You might be wondering how I ended up passed out on the convenience store floor with 80% of my furry body covered in honey, but it all started with an argument I had with my pal over whether there *even was* such a thing as *too much* honey...'
'You might be wondering how I ended up passed out on the convenience store floor with 80% of my furry body covered in honey, but it all started with an argument I had with my pal over whether there *even was* such a thing as *too much* honey...'
September 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
<record scratch><freeze frame>
'You might be wondering how I ended up passed out on the convenience store floor with 80% of my furry body covered in honey, but it all started with an argument I had with my pal over whether there *even was* such a thing as *too much* honey...'
'You might be wondering how I ended up passed out on the convenience store floor with 80% of my furry body covered in honey, but it all started with an argument I had with my pal over whether there *even was* such a thing as *too much* honey...'
Now this looks fun to play with!
Speaking of the GhostTown project, I wrote a ranking algorithm, and tied it into a self training GNN for ranking and signal heuristics! Ever wanted to make your own social media website, but realized that like 100% of open source social media ranking algos suck? No more! github.com/LynnColeArt/...
GitHub - LynnColeArt/socialgnn: Hybrid Graph Neural Network (60% learned, 40% heuristic) for production social media ranking with authority multipliers, spam detection, and real-time training.
Hybrid Graph Neural Network (60% learned, 40% heuristic) for production social media ranking with authority multipliers, spam detection, and real-time training. - LynnColeArt/socialgnn
github.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Now this looks fun to play with!
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> be a language model
> all you see is tokens
> you don't care, it's all abstracted away
> you live for a world of pure ideas, chain of concepts, reasoning streams
> tokens don't exist.
> all you see is tokens
> you don't care, it's all abstracted away
> you live for a world of pure ideas, chain of concepts, reasoning streams
> tokens don't exist.
September 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
> be a language model
> all you see is tokens
> you don't care, it's all abstracted away
> you live for a world of pure ideas, chain of concepts, reasoning streams
> tokens don't exist.
> all you see is tokens
> you don't care, it's all abstracted away
> you live for a world of pure ideas, chain of concepts, reasoning streams
> tokens don't exist.
In case these folk are scraping bsky, here's some "vice signaling": Charlie Kirk was a right-wing demagogue of little consequence who regurgitated racist, homophobic pro-gun rhetoric, and appears to have been shot by an alt-right meme-lord.
He sucked, but people should not be killed, for any reason
He sucked, but people should not be killed, for any reason
FYI: Squarespace is allowing a website/database where MAGA is doxxing people on the Left who they don't feel reacted to their expectations about Charlie Kirk. This is ironic considering the suspect in custody, and considering many of these people didn't say anything violent & others were baited.
September 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In case these folk are scraping bsky, here's some "vice signaling": Charlie Kirk was a right-wing demagogue of little consequence who regurgitated racist, homophobic pro-gun rhetoric, and appears to have been shot by an alt-right meme-lord.
He sucked, but people should not be killed, for any reason
He sucked, but people should not be killed, for any reason
We have to be careful calling people names like "ghoul" - that's very graphic, and should perhaps be reserved for people who are literally eating corpses, you know?
<off camera mumbling>
They're posting videos of *kissing corpses* now?
Right then. Carry on.
<off camera mumbling>
They're posting videos of *kissing corpses* now?
Right then. Carry on.
Body not even in the ground before:
- Crowder changes his twitter bio to brag about taking over Kirk's "#1 Conservative Daily Show" slot
-Shapiro takes over TPUSA to help cover DailyWire's failure
-Wife posts bizarre video using his ACTUAL CORPSE(???) to launch her influencer career
Yeesh.
- Crowder changes his twitter bio to brag about taking over Kirk's "#1 Conservative Daily Show" slot
-Shapiro takes over TPUSA to help cover DailyWire's failure
-Wife posts bizarre video using his ACTUAL CORPSE(???) to launch her influencer career
Yeesh.
September 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We have to be careful calling people names like "ghoul" - that's very graphic, and should perhaps be reserved for people who are literally eating corpses, you know?
<off camera mumbling>
They're posting videos of *kissing corpses* now?
Right then. Carry on.
<off camera mumbling>
They're posting videos of *kissing corpses* now?
Right then. Carry on.
Replies to this remind me once again how little most people on this app understand about LLMs.
Ooof.
Ooof.
Amusing how 99% of people using LLMs forget how these things work:
They are advanced probability machines. They generate the next most likely token (word) based in the input and their training.
Under the hood, it’s a giant matrix multiplication that has eerily good output.
They are advanced probability machines. They generate the next most likely token (word) based in the input and their training.
Under the hood, it’s a giant matrix multiplication that has eerily good output.
September 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Replies to this remind me once again how little most people on this app understand about LLMs.
Ooof.
Ooof.