Jeremy Blackburn
@mrjimmyblack.com
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for AI and Society at Binghamton University. I work on building a quantitative understanding of assholes on the Web @idrama.science. 4 kids, 2 wolfhounds, 2 Löwchens.
And just like that, the code works and we be steering. Revelation!
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
And just like that, the code works and we be steering. Revelation!
Been working on some LLM inference time experimentation using mistral-rs and candle (vllm and PyTorch equivalents).
1. Compile times are pretty annoying, but not that terrible (~10 minutes for a release build).
2. Type system helps understand wtf is going on.
3. My experiments hard failing,
1. Compile times are pretty annoying, but not that terrible (~10 minutes for a release build).
2. Type system helps understand wtf is going on.
3. My experiments hard failing,
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Been working on some LLM inference time experimentation using mistral-rs and candle (vllm and PyTorch equivalents).
1. Compile times are pretty annoying, but not that terrible (~10 minutes for a release build).
2. Type system helps understand wtf is going on.
3. My experiments hard failing,
1. Compile times are pretty annoying, but not that terrible (~10 minutes for a release build).
2. Type system helps understand wtf is going on.
3. My experiments hard failing,
idk if this type of issue would be obviously apparent in C/C++, but it's starting to become clear to me that claude is lacking when it comes to multithreaded stuff. It's wanting to fix concurrency problems by just moving the serial bottle neck to a different part of the code.
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
idk if this type of issue would be obviously apparent in C/C++, but it's starting to become clear to me that claude is lacking when it comes to multithreaded stuff. It's wanting to fix concurrency problems by just moving the serial bottle neck to a different part of the code.
Without something like a traditional CS background, I don't see how AI code assistants are going to be particularly useful. This is Nth time I've had to push claude in the right direction wrt performance.
November 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Without something like a traditional CS background, I don't see how AI code assistants are going to be particularly useful. This is Nth time I've had to push claude in the right direction wrt performance.
We have hit the need for a "sophisticated approach" that is related to the only (required) unsafe code I've written (in Rust of course; I've written plenty of unsafe code in C).
November 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We have hit the need for a "sophisticated approach" that is related to the only (required) unsafe code I've written (in Rust of course; I've written plenty of unsafe code in C).
Now we're cooking with fire.
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Now we're cooking with fire.
I didn't realize that progress bars and live stats were so out of distribution, but claude has not figured this out in several days and I got tired of watching it fail.
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I didn't realize that progress bars and live stats were so out of distribution, but claude has not figured this out in several days and I got tired of watching it fail.
Hrm. Claude """"""""""sees"""""""""" me.
November 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hrm. Claude """"""""""sees"""""""""" me.
One of the killer app type of features of code assistants is that they have the context of your code base. Yet, I find myself having to forcibly "re-educate" when existing code base already has a solution for the task at hand. Not good news for clueless human users.
November 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
One of the killer app type of features of code assistants is that they have the context of your code base. Yet, I find myself having to forcibly "re-educate" when existing code base already has a solution for the task at hand. Not good news for clueless human users.
Some more examples of Claude trying to do dumb things that you need to know wtf is going on to catch.
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Some more examples of Claude trying to do dumb things that you need to know wtf is going on to catch.
Trying to use claude with a more out of distribution project starting with a code base that makes pretty heavy use of concurrency to maximize throughput (both wrt async code and blocking code). I haven't touched it in a year or so. I've caught several poor architectural choices claude made so far.
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Trying to use claude with a more out of distribution project starting with a code base that makes pretty heavy use of concurrency to maximize throughput (both wrt async code and blocking code). I haven't touched it in a year or so. I've caught several poor architectural choices claude made so far.
I burned trees to verify I'm not delusional. Look at that. Not even gemini is dumb enough to mention reliability concerns and instead mentions the ride quality. Also, for good measure, the Audis and Mercedes in its super hatch list are both automatic dual clutch transmissions vs the RS's 6 speed.
October 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I burned trees to verify I'm not delusional. Look at that. Not even gemini is dumb enough to mention reliability concerns and instead mentions the ride quality. Also, for good measure, the Audis and Mercedes in its super hatch list are both automatic dual clutch transmissions vs the RS's 6 speed.
Almost time for winter tires to go on.
October 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Almost time for winter tires to go on.
NB: the attached image doesn’t have the full list of conspiracy theories she is into. Have to scroll to get to the last one (deep state satanic rituals).
October 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
NB: the attached image doesn’t have the full list of conspiracy theories she is into. Have to scroll to get to the last one (deep state satanic rituals).
I definitely have plenty of old and tattered T-shirts, but it is weird to me how some people have one specific outfit that they think is special and wear to every event for the past 10+ years. I wonder if they realize how obvious (and sad) it is?
October 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I definitely have plenty of old and tattered T-shirts, but it is weird to me how some people have one specific outfit that they think is special and wear to every event for the past 10+ years. I wonder if they realize how obvious (and sad) it is?
Someone made the mistake of posting a Hasan meme in the group chat and wasn't really familiar with my game...
October 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Someone made the mistake of posting a Hasan meme in the group chat and wasn't really familiar with my game...
I was also using Claude in the VS Code plugin vs web ui with Gemini. That said, Claude seems to have performed much better. I hit session limit pretty fast and it took over 2 hours to get the app running tho. Still need to read through code; seems like a lot of rust LOC for a relatively simple app.
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I was also using Claude in the VS Code plugin vs web ui with Gemini. That said, Claude seems to have performed much better. I hit session limit pretty fast and it took over 2 hours to get the app running tho. Still need to read through code; seems like a lot of rust LOC for a relatively simple app.
When k8s works it is for real magic.
August 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
When k8s works it is for real magic.
And just in case anyone has illusions as to what 2A really means to extremists in the gun community, it’s not an unalienable right and they are perfectly happy to implement restrictions as long as they target the right demographic.
August 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
And just in case anyone has illusions as to what 2A really means to extremists in the gun community, it’s not an unalienable right and they are perfectly happy to implement restrictions as long as they target the right demographic.
Babka is doing her first show this week. She has won every time she’s been in the ring!
August 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Babka is doing her first show this week. She has won every time she’s been in the ring!
Ok. I might be in too deep now.
August 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Ok. I might be in too deep now.
I’m getting too deep into the AI companion stuff. The male consumer crowd seems focused on image/video generation vs voice/text that the female crowd seems to be interested in. Makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is why the images produced by male crowd have the most vulgar, 90s style “bolt ons.”
August 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’m getting too deep into the AI companion stuff. The male consumer crowd seems focused on image/video generation vs voice/text that the female crowd seems to be interested in. Makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is why the images produced by male crowd have the most vulgar, 90s style “bolt ons.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK2z... The first album I ever heard from Turbonegro is pretty intense.
August 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK2z... The first album I ever heard from Turbonegro is pretty intense.
I just burned like 50 trees to make this image of a clanker breaking up with its toxic human girlfriend.
August 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I just burned like 50 trees to make this image of a clanker breaking up with its toxic human girlfriend.
Having a nightmare of a trip with Delta. Flights cancelled, rebooks with 2 connections. Rebooked flights getting delayed resulting in getting rebooked again. Etc.
August 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Having a nightmare of a trip with Delta. Flights cancelled, rebooks with 2 connections. Rebooked flights getting delayed resulting in getting rebooked again. Etc.