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Shikhar
@shikhar.bsky.social
Webdev 👨🏽‍💻Writer ✍️ Full-time flâneur. Part-time satirist. Early adopter. Open source enthusiast.

Long: AI, crypto, Astronomy, Qubits.
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Open source AI for the win 🏆 If you believe in this message, hit follow 🫡
Google’s Gemini 2.0 is actually pretty good. 2 million context window is way more than any OpenAI model’s context.
December 12, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Llama 3.3 is here and open source AI is making steady but strong progress 🫡
December 6, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Revisiting “Physics of the Future” by Michio Kaku tonight after a while and realising how far we are from understanding the universe 🔭
December 6, 2024 at 4:44 PM
I think OpenAI missed a trick by not releasing Sora months ago. Now Minimax Hailuo AI etc exist and most people don’t care about Sora.

Opportunity missed?
November 26, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Open source AI for the win 🏆 If you believe in this message, hit follow 🫡
November 24, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Does bluesky have an app optimized for iPad yet?
November 19, 2024 at 9:15 AM
I first came here when bsky had less than 5k people. Couldn’t find my python, astronomy, web3, AI, or Star Trek tribes. I hear bsky now has 15 million people? 😃

Say hello 👋🏽 if you see this. I want to stick around this time 😇
November 19, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Hi 👋🏽 everyone,

Just logged into blue sky after 12 months 😅 Looks like the UI and UX has improved a lot. Will be more regular here now.
May 8, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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fuck it. group selfie
May 14, 2023 at 4:47 AM
Got access to Modular’s new programming language Mojo’s playground.

Forget the 35000x claimed speed increase over python the only thing my cartoon brain can think of rn is:

how cool that Mojo files can have an emoji as a file extension.

Hello.🔥 has way more energy than Hello.py imo.
May 10, 2023 at 12:11 PM
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💫StarCoder: May the Source be with You!

It's an 15B code LLM only trained on permissively licensed code!
Can write 80+ programming languages, integrates seamlessly with VSCode 👩🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻

Play with it here 🫡 https://hf.co/spaces/bigcode/bigcode-playground 🌟
May 5, 2023 at 10:44 AM
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Since it might be useful, who all has migrated here from Trek Twitter?

Post in the thread below and tag others to follow! Let’s build a Bluesky community. 🖖🏼💫
April 28, 2023 at 1:01 AM
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this app is so hard to quit. i just tried putting my phone down and my other hand caught it like the Arya Stark dagger drop
May 4, 2023 at 1:35 AM
Ignore the noise.

You only need three basic philosophies to live a great life:

Stay calm. Be kind. Live simple.
May 3, 2023 at 8:35 AM
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Working on convincing more space industry folks to join Bluesky. Like this if you want more scientists, physicists, and rocket engineers on here 🚀
April 27, 2023 at 9:00 PM
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The What's Hot feed is just one example of what's possible with custom algorithms — soon, you'll be able to choose the algorithms that power your own feeds.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-30-2023-algorithmic-choice
Algorithmic choice
Your attention is an invaluable resource. We want a future where you control what you see on social media.
blueskyweb.xyz
May 1, 2023 at 10:33 PM
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@h.olysh.it hey joe, watching your excellent YT technical walkthrough from yesterday

want to explain the reasoning behind lexicon here
May 1, 2023 at 8:02 PM
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👀 so in a strange case of nominative determinism, my mom actually named me 蓝天
bluesky would be a beautiful name for a girl
April 11, 2023 at 3:35 AM
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A bit of an intro since I haven’t been on social media much the past 3 years. I’m a ~semi-recently laid off distributed engineer that is now working on 3D printing space things programmatically!

Are there any other 3D printing friends on here? 🖨️🙏
April 27, 2023 at 10:39 PM
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yes. there’s other ways to deal with even the worst actors. ignore, shun, humorously dismiss, refute. but “bullying” escalates cycles of confrontation that bring out the worst in people. i think bad actors sometimes thrive off the negativity too.
May 1, 2023 at 12:15 AM
This is the Way!
i got existential during the pandemic. stopped working on the events site i was building, moved to a rural place, and raised chickens and wrote about decentralized social networks.
May 1, 2023 at 12:10 AM
Breadcrumbs are the most important part of website navigation.

Don’t let the primary navigation menu convince you otherwise.
April 30, 2023 at 7:49 PM
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on friday, we published a blog post on how to set your domain as your handle. i want to highlight two points already included in the article for safety, esp bc custom domains might not be familiar to many of us here.

(cont. in thread)

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial
How to set your domain as your handle
Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.
blueskyweb.xyz
April 30, 2023 at 7:16 PM