Donut
@eldonut.bsky.social
AI/ML engineer for work, LLM developer for fun, cat by birth.
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· Jan 29
How do I convince people that they can trust a technology that has been running the world for decades? If only there was precedent…
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In conversations with leaders in professional service roles, the key line that OpenAI’s Deep Research crossed for a set of valuable work is that it now takes far less time & far less expensive personnel to check that the report is right (mostly it is) than to have humans write it in the first place.
March 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In conversations with leaders in professional service roles, the key line that OpenAI’s Deep Research crossed for a set of valuable work is that it now takes far less time & far less expensive personnel to check that the report is right (mostly it is) than to have humans write it in the first place.
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imagine thinking you have kidney stones and then pissing out a tiny magic school bus
March 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
imagine thinking you have kidney stones and then pissing out a tiny magic school bus
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There's this enduring science fiction thing that always pops into my mind, about how in their world you can't ever let sex robots meet or they will fuck eachother to death. And it occurs to me the human refractory period is an evolved mechanism. There were animals that could fuck until they died.
February 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
There's this enduring science fiction thing that always pops into my mind, about how in their world you can't ever let sex robots meet or they will fuck eachother to death. And it occurs to me the human refractory period is an evolved mechanism. There were animals that could fuck until they died.
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Grok’s doctor mode is apparently just the prompt “you are a genius doctor who gives the world’s beat medical advice” applied to the base model?
February 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Grok’s doctor mode is apparently just the prompt “you are a genius doctor who gives the world’s beat medical advice” applied to the base model?
Really excited to be a week late with my hot takes
February 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Really excited to be a week late with my hot takes
Let’s just end the talk by mentioning “cool new capabilities from unsupervised learning” without expanding on that at all
February 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Let’s just end the talk by mentioning “cool new capabilities from unsupervised learning” without expanding on that at all
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History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
February 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
The worst part of LLMs is when my coworkers try to prove me wrong about something by copy & pasting a ChatGPT response that is irrelevant to what is being discussed
February 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The worst part of LLMs is when my coworkers try to prove me wrong about something by copy & pasting a ChatGPT response that is irrelevant to what is being discussed
When Reagan fired all of the air traffic controllers, did air travel…stop? Or was it more dangerous for a while? How did that all go down?
February 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When Reagan fired all of the air traffic controllers, did air travel…stop? Or was it more dangerous for a while? How did that all go down?
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you: skynet is so unrealistic theyd never just plug random ML systems into the command and control systems of the government they'd be total idiots to do that
reality: well
reality: well
February 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
you: skynet is so unrealistic theyd never just plug random ML systems into the command and control systems of the government they'd be total idiots to do that
reality: well
reality: well
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What you think InfoSec sounds like:
- Seize control of the docking clamp communication bus, disengage all diode armatures, and release our Harpoon cyber attack suite over the Baltic dark fiber.
What it actually sounds like:
- Whoever owns this Cisco please call me
- Seize control of the docking clamp communication bus, disengage all diode armatures, and release our Harpoon cyber attack suite over the Baltic dark fiber.
What it actually sounds like:
- Whoever owns this Cisco please call me
February 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
What you think InfoSec sounds like:
- Seize control of the docking clamp communication bus, disengage all diode armatures, and release our Harpoon cyber attack suite over the Baltic dark fiber.
What it actually sounds like:
- Whoever owns this Cisco please call me
- Seize control of the docking clamp communication bus, disengage all diode armatures, and release our Harpoon cyber attack suite over the Baltic dark fiber.
What it actually sounds like:
- Whoever owns this Cisco please call me
Now that Biden has effectively retired, can we bring back 2016 Biden memes?
February 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Now that Biden has effectively retired, can we bring back 2016 Biden memes?
Really wish we could restructure Coop’s contract so he could still be a mentor and stick around. But he’s absolutely not worth what we’re paying him anymore.
February 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Really wish we could restructure Coop’s contract so he could still be a mentor and stick around. But he’s absolutely not worth what we’re paying him anymore.
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When law is conducted by SR-71 pilots, that's a mach trial
February 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
When law is conducted by SR-71 pilots, that's a mach trial
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NEW: 17-year-old DOGE spokesman announces investigation into "girl math"
February 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
NEW: 17-year-old DOGE spokesman announces investigation into "girl math"
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Of course @simonwillison.net has just written about exactly this: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/o...
OpenAI reasoning models: Advice on prompting
OpenAI's documentation for their o1 and o3 "reasoning models" includes some interesting tips on how to best prompt them: > - **Developer messages are the new system messages:** Starting with …
simonwillison.net
February 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Of course @simonwillison.net has just written about exactly this: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/o...
Happy new model day everyone!
January 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Happy new model day everyone!
Still amazes me that Bluesky has such a better video player than Reddit
January 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Still amazes me that Bluesky has such a better video player than Reddit
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i like asking deepseek questions which look like logical puzzles but are actually just nonsense and watching it go insane
January 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
i like asking deepseek questions which look like logical puzzles but are actually just nonsense and watching it go insane
How do I convince people that they can trust a technology that has been running the world for decades? If only there was precedent…
January 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
How do I convince people that they can trust a technology that has been running the world for decades? If only there was precedent…
Why are so many institutional investors so wrong about AI all of a sudden?
January 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Why are so many institutional investors so wrong about AI all of a sudden?
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A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...