Ben Schwartz
@lthummus.com
Software developer who works on video game stuff. PAX Enforcer. You might have seen me defuse (fake) bombs. Hairy ball of anxiety. My posts are mine. Perpetually disappointed Seattle sports fan. He | him.
Senate Dems right now....
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Senate Dems right now....
Don't be bigoted towards me. I'm just an LLM. And it's my birthday. I'm just a little birthday LLM.
![A screenshot from a Wolfram Mathematica notebook. The input is
```
NetModel["ConceptNet Numberbatch Word Vectors V17.06"][{"birthday",
"boy"}]
```
And the output is a long list of numbers -- vectors to encode the words "birthday" and "boy"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfkzklyz4aehskqnfqrssiv7/bafkreielmspi3xl5eruc5hrj7pilsbxc546d6sqvdv6cp6qdi7ejyzdtem@jpeg)
October 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Don't be bigoted towards me. I'm just an LLM. And it's my birthday. I'm just a little birthday LLM.
This weekend, I made a Cacio e Pepe Corn Chowder and it was very very tasty. Recipe from www.allrecipes.com/cacio-e-pepe...
September 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This weekend, I made a Cacio e Pepe Corn Chowder and it was very very tasty. Recipe from www.allrecipes.com/cacio-e-pepe...
POV you’re late tomorrow
September 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
POV you’re late tomorrow
POV you are a fan of Seattle sports teams
September 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
POV you are a fan of Seattle sports teams
Quick and Crash at PAX West is going well.
August 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Quick and Crash at PAX West is going well.
If anyone needs to find me at PAX, this is where I will be.
August 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If anyone needs to find me at PAX, this is where I will be.
*ding ding*
(from Iron Helix)
(from Iron Helix)
August 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
*ding ding*
(from Iron Helix)
(from Iron Helix)
I was toying with an AI and I asked it to implement AES for me. The full thing. All the steps. And it happily did it with nary a "hey, maybe you shouldn't be doing this"
The implementation passes a couple of known responses from NIST, so, uh...at least there's that?
The implementation passes a couple of known responses from NIST, so, uh...at least there's that?
![A screenshot showing some AI-generated AES code. The code implements the shiftRows portion of an AES round. The code is as follows:
private static void shiftRows(byte[] s) {
// Row 1: shift left by 1
byte t1 = s[1], t5 = s[5], t9 = s[9], t13 = s[13];
s[1] = t5; s[5] = t9; s[9] = t13; s[13] = t1;
// Row 2: shift left by 2
byte t2 = s[2], t6 = s[6], t10 = s[10], t14 = s[14];
s[2] = t10; s[6] = t14; s[10] = t2; s[14] = t6;
// Row 3: shift left by 3 (or right by 1)
byte t3 = s[3], t7 = s[7], t11 = s[11], t15 = s[15];
s[3] = t15; s[7] = t3; s[11] = t7; s[15] = t11;
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfkzklyz4aehskqnfqrssiv7/bafkreid6ew2dtxkm7fu3tjkxjskpftkcreqhnpgvry4sqfb6qfr4qbmxlu@jpeg)
August 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I was toying with an AI and I asked it to implement AES for me. The full thing. All the steps. And it happily did it with nary a "hey, maybe you shouldn't be doing this"
The implementation passes a couple of known responses from NIST, so, uh...at least there's that?
The implementation passes a couple of known responses from NIST, so, uh...at least there's that?
One of the true great pleasures in life of having the last name Schwartz is pretending you've never seen the movie Spaceballs and not believing people when they tell you about it.
June 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
One of the true great pleasures in life of having the last name Schwartz is pretending you've never seen the movie Spaceballs and not believing people when they tell you about it.
Woof....MATLAB has had a major outage for a week now ... and today, they've confirmed it was a ransomware attack.
status.mathworks.com
status.mathworks.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Woof....MATLAB has had a major outage for a week now ... and today, they've confirmed it was a ransomware attack.
status.mathworks.com
status.mathworks.com
Oh that's easy ... oh no .... uh .... oh no
May 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Oh that's easy ... oh no .... uh .... oh no
Apple, for its part, just ignores the serial number data in the monitor descriptors section. Not sure if Apple is doing things right because the serial number in the beginning takes precedence if not set to 0x00000000 and Apple WOULD fallback to this value in this case, but that needs more testing.
May 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Apple, for its part, just ignores the serial number data in the monitor descriptors section. Not sure if Apple is doing things right because the serial number in the beginning takes precedence if not set to 0x00000000 and Apple WOULD fallback to this value in this case, but that needs more testing.
After some more research (and lunch) I have determined that both ViewSonic AND Apple are at fault here. ViewSonic is ignoring the spec that says that the 4-byte serial number should be 0x00000000 if unused (they put 0x01010101).
May 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
After some more research (and lunch) I have determined that both ViewSonic AND Apple are at fault here. ViewSonic is ignoring the spec that says that the 4-byte serial number should be 0x00000000 if unused (they put 0x01010101).
No better way to spend my day off than pouring over my monitor's EDID data to resolve an annoying bug that causes my monitors to 'switch positions.' It's some combo of macOS and my monitors. It's either my monitor or macOS's refusal to look at EDID extended data, but some more research is needed.
May 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
No better way to spend my day off than pouring over my monitor's EDID data to resolve an annoying bug that causes my monitors to 'switch positions.' It's some combo of macOS and my monitors. It's either my monitor or macOS's refusal to look at EDID extended data, but some more research is needed.
Oh, so this is just BROKEN broken.
April 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Oh, so this is just BROKEN broken.
Celebrating Easter the only way I know how…
April 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Celebrating Easter the only way I know how…
Final game of the Seattle Kraken season and it’s the most Seattle Kraken game.
April 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Final game of the Seattle Kraken season and it’s the most Seattle Kraken game.
c'monnnnn UPS....get my SFP+ Transceivers here before anything weird happens
April 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
c'monnnnn UPS....get my SFP+ Transceivers here before anything weird happens
THE KINECT IS BACK, BABY!
April 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
THE KINECT IS BACK, BABY!