Jamie Gaskins
jgaskins.lol
Jamie Gaskins
@jgaskins.lol
I cry when computers do precisely what I asked them to instead of what I wanted
Miss your face!
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"That's not my lane"
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Found it, link goes directly to him talking about it youtu.be/9S6l_RZwuxM?...
Marty Haught — Sustained Open Source | Baltic Ruby 2025
YouTube video by balticruby
youtu.be
September 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Marty himself even mentioned in a conference talk a few months ago that developers were deploying from their laptops.
September 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I completely forgot ABEC-9 existed. Last time I changed the bearings in anything was over 20 years ago. ABEC-7 was the best I could find and it seemed like I could roll for daaaays. ABEC-9 must feel frictionless in comparison.
July 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The randomness means it's stochastic. The fact that it's regurgitating patterns from its training dataset means it's parroting.

Nobody's attacking them by calling them stochastic parrots. It's quite literally how they work.
July 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
They generate numbers based on statistical probability inferred from the training. The `top_p` parameter in the transformers framework sets the probability threshold. Framework chooses randomly from the numbers with the highest probability up to that threshold. Those numbers map to string tokens.
July 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
wait, so they took the coca *and* the cola out of coca-cola?
July 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Crimean war: Lord Cardigan purchased his rank (not General like the other two examples, but Lieutenant Colonel like these tech execs are getting) and lost ~40% of his force in the first 20 minutes of one assault.
June 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
WWI: Douglas Haig (UK) launched futile assaults against his advisors' counsel, leading to tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands of casualties.
June 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
lol I forgot about Dukakis, tbh. But no, actual casualties caused by wealthy elites:

US civil war: a *different* Massachusetts politician, Benjamin Butler, was a Major General with no experience. Lost multiple battles against smaller Confederate forces.
June 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is actually really funny to me. Before podcasts, I wanted to build an "internet talk radio" platform. Only reason I didn't was because web multimedia was nightmare tech back then.
June 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I would love to chat about this in a longer-form space if you're up for it?
June 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Haven't explored it, but something I've been wanting was basically embeddings of code. In order to be effective, though, I imagine that that requires embedding models trained specifically on code. An embedding model for natural language doesn't seem like it'd be as effective.
June 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
When I was in the army, our running cadence was 180 steps per minute. My lungs *hated* it.
June 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Me with my 1 cup of coffee for the day
June 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I hear you so much on this. "Put your best practices away" is something I say a lot when talking about coding for fun or exploration.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD0A...
Why the Lucky Stiff & The Thirsty Cups @ RailsConf 2006
YouTube video by Paige Ruten
www.youtube.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Maximum Jerry
May 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM