Larry O’Brien
@konakoder.bsky.social
ML for Earth (Currently: Low K-Shot Animal Re-Identification). Former Microsoft Azure ML, Xamarin, Gemini Observatory. Once magazines: Editor in Chief of AI Expert, Software Development. Disdained by Bill Gates. Also: DnD, SCUBA, Hawaii.
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That badguys pantse are NOTT flantering , @dieworkwear.bsky.social wouldenot approove
This tow truck driver is a true hero! He bravely took their vehicle while ICE GOONS were in the midst of kidnapping.
August 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
That badguys pantse are NOTT flantering , @dieworkwear.bsky.social wouldenot approove
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Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.
August 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.
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Ps: there are mRNA vaccines that are showing promise to FIGHT CANCER (including pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, and more)
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.science.org
March 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Ps: there are mRNA vaccines that are showing promise to FIGHT CANCER (including pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, and more)
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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
February 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
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A *2011* grant from NSERC Research Tools and Instruments, for 60000 CAD, to Geoff Hinton (@geoffreyhinton.bsky.social)
For "Large scale machine learning using GPUs"
Everything you're seeing now started from a pittance of cash given by the Canadian government for fundamental research
For "Large scale machine learning using GPUs"
Everything you're seeing now started from a pittance of cash given by the Canadian government for fundamental research
February 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A *2011* grant from NSERC Research Tools and Instruments, for 60000 CAD, to Geoff Hinton (@geoffreyhinton.bsky.social)
For "Large scale machine learning using GPUs"
Everything you're seeing now started from a pittance of cash given by the Canadian government for fundamental research
For "Large scale machine learning using GPUs"
Everything you're seeing now started from a pittance of cash given by the Canadian government for fundamental research
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Just one of countless unnecessary and intentional deaths due to the USAID nightmare.
Refugee dies after U.S.-funded clinic shuts, family says | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
A Burmese refugee with lung problems died after she was discharged from a U.S.-funded hospital on the Myanmar-Thai border that was ordered to close as a result of President Donald Trump’s freeze on fo...
www.staradvertiser.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Just one of countless unnecessary and intentional deaths due to the USAID nightmare.
In the early 21st century, a reality of writing airline reservation code was dealing with seat availability being restricted to 0-7. Because 3 bits was what early-60s SABRE established. Asking for 8 would give you 0 seats. Legacy programming is 100%about dealing with quirks.
February 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
In the early 21st century, a reality of writing airline reservation code was dealing with seat availability being restricted to 0-7. Because 3 bits was what early-60s SABRE established. Asking for 8 would give you 0 seats. Legacy programming is 100%about dealing with quirks.
It’s not that COBOL is a bad or overly-complicated language. Just the opposite: it’s a language that will lull you into taking things at face value. “This seems unnecessary complex to do the required thing.” Maybe! Or maybe it’s a crucial workaround some bizarre dependency introduced in 1967.
February 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It’s not that COBOL is a bad or overly-complicated language. Just the opposite: it’s a language that will lull you into taking things at face value. “This seems unnecessary complex to do the required thing.” Maybe! Or maybe it’s a crucial workaround some bizarre dependency introduced in 1967.
These 20-something DOGE coders have probably never even encountered EBCDIC before.
February 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
These 20-something DOGE coders have probably never even encountered EBCDIC before.
The chances of a 20-something engineer making a mistaken assumption injecting live code into a mainframe system is very close to 100%. It's not a knock on younger engineers, it's just that they almost certainly have never been exposed to the ways that such systems evolve. tl;dr: OMB is f***ed.
February 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The chances of a 20-something engineer making a mistaken assumption injecting live code into a mainframe system is very close to 100%. It's not a knock on younger engineers, it's just that they almost certainly have never been exposed to the ways that such systems evolve. tl;dr: OMB is f***ed.
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A problem with trying to communicate to so many of potentially reachable Americans that this stuff is patently racist is you have to try to talk about it in a way that breaks thru to millions of people who’ve been conditioned to think attacking affirmative action isn’t racist, who just apply that…
Very happy with the way @rollingstone.com and my boy @milesklee.bsky.social played this headline!
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump and Allies Default to Racist Explanation of Deadly Air Collision
President Trump blamed diverse hiring policies for a deadly mid-air collision between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people
www.rollingstone.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A problem with trying to communicate to so many of potentially reachable Americans that this stuff is patently racist is you have to try to talk about it in a way that breaks thru to millions of people who’ve been conditioned to think attacking affirmative action isn’t racist, who just apply that…
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Writing, in an educational setting, is not essentially valuable bc of style or personal expression. It is fundamentally valuable bc it is the simplest possible method for students to externalize and reorganize a complicated thought pattern, which is necessary for any other complex task.
January 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Writing, in an educational setting, is not essentially valuable bc of style or personal expression. It is fundamentally valuable bc it is the simplest possible method for students to externalize and reorganize a complicated thought pattern, which is necessary for any other complex task.
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Radical publishing notion, right here: if your publishers are making a living from publishing and selling your books, then you, the author, should be making a living from writing them.
January 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Radical publishing notion, right here: if your publishers are making a living from publishing and selling your books, then you, the author, should be making a living from writing them.
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One of the lessons of the mid-late last century is that consistent systems will beat smart people every day of the week.
the "DEI pilots" thing is not only untrue, but the opposite of true. The piloting profession in the late 20th century was so dominated by one Guy Type that they had to invent a new kind of training that forced pilots to listen to their first officers so they would stop flying planes into the ground
January 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM
One of the lessons of the mid-late last century is that consistent systems will beat smart people every day of the week.
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I BET DEI DID THIS
BREAKING: Debris seen over the Caribbean after SpaceX's Starship explodes during test flight
January 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I BET DEI DID THIS
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Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise
https://go.nature.com/4hDtGhL
https://go.nature.com/4hDtGhL
Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
Samples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life - but with a twist.
go.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise
https://go.nature.com/4hDtGhL
https://go.nature.com/4hDtGhL
Boggled that the market is tanking because "[Chinese] [ML] devs figured out how to optimize for the hardware available." Does no one remember how good USSR coders were by the late 80s-early 90s? #DeepSeek
January 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Boggled that the market is tanking because "[Chinese] [ML] devs figured out how to optimize for the hardware available." Does no one remember how good USSR coders were by the late 80s-early 90s? #DeepSeek
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Here’s the radiolarian model after removing the supports #sciart #3dprinting
January 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Here’s the radiolarian model after removing the supports #sciart #3dprinting
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📦 Repomix (formerly Repopack) is a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file. Perfect for when you need to feed your codebase to Large Language Models (LLMs) or oth...
📦 yamadashy / repomix
⭐ 6,556 (+115)
🗒 TypeScript
📦 Repomix (formerly Repopack) is a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file. Perfect for when you need to feed your codebase to Large Language Models (LLMs) or oth...
GitHub - yamadashy/repomix: 📦 Repomix (formerly Repopack) is a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file. Perfect for when you need to feed your codebase to Large Language Models (LLMs) or other AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
📦 Repomix (formerly Repopack) is a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file. Perfect for when you need to feed your codebase to Large Language Models (LLMs) o...
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January 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Well, DeepSeek R1 won't answer questions about censored events from Chinese history so that's fun
January 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Well, DeepSeek R1 won't answer questions about censored events from Chinese history so that's fun
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Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism.
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
January 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism.
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
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“Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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This is not the end. But it is *an* end.
Things will get worse. (Much worse.)
We will endure. (Not all of us. The losses will be profound.)
And we will, one day, build something better. (I hope.)
Things will get worse. (Much worse.)
We will endure. (Not all of us. The losses will be profound.)
And we will, one day, build something better. (I hope.)
January 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is not the end. But it is *an* end.
Things will get worse. (Much worse.)
We will endure. (Not all of us. The losses will be profound.)
And we will, one day, build something better. (I hope.)
Things will get worse. (Much worse.)
We will endure. (Not all of us. The losses will be profound.)
And we will, one day, build something better. (I hope.)
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With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier
Joe Biden Frees Leonard Peltier
The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.
www.huffpost.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier