Base-model Montana farm kid somehow now working on AI and data infra in The Swamp.™ Opinions my own.
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November exercise: every day this month, I’m gonna post about something or someone I’m grateful for. Conventional wisdom is that hedonic adaptation comes for everything eventually, but that hasn’t really been my experience: sometimes I feel almost overflowing with gratefulness for the things that surround me. But I’m not good at all about expressing this stuff out loud, so people who know me often get the impression that I’m severe and critical. Let’s go!
2/30. I’m thankful for katydids! There weren’t any katydids around where I grew up in California and Montana, and I’ve found them endlessly charming since moving here. Every summer I await their arrival and enjoy their serenades on night walks. (My partner and I take bets in the spring on the first night we’ll hear one.)
Photo of the one time I was blessed by a katydid finding its way inside.
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Debbie Ann and Giancarlo Paolucci, 32 and 35, pictured here outside their home in Forest Hills in 1986.
First truly shocking finding in LLM research for a long time
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
Just installed Obsidian 1.15 and first thing I did was check on Pele's (new Mermaid engine) rendering of my "white whale" software architecture diagram. Layout is SO MUCH BETTER it's crazy (and rendering is instant). Excellent work from @kepano and the Obsidian team.
Obsidian 1.15 is now available! Some highlights:
1. Mermaid diagrams use our new rendering engine, Pele, which renders up to 500 times faster and uses your theme's colors and fonts.
2. Voice capture on iOS: record and transcribe voice notes as you speak, even from the Lock Screen.
4. PDF export on mobile.
5. Smarter list editing: indenting or moving a list item now moves nested items too.
6. Accent-insensitive search: cafe matches café in suggestions.
7. Community plugins load faster when the app starts.
1/30. I’m thankful for my health, and conversely also for the opportunity that illnesses can provide to grow empathy for others’ experiences. I’ve been sick with this awful rhinovirus or whatever that’s going around for ten days now, and the accompanying anhedonia (mostly passed now) has given me maybe a small glimpse of what depression can be like. It’s strange that a virus should be able to kill my ability to enjoy and want things that I usually enjoy so much.
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I hate SF Halloween, what do you mean you're the sankey diagram from Aella's birthday gangbang
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I wonder how much raspberries get off on us doing that thing where we press our tongues into their holes
An old family friend in Montana was telling me recently about the great time she had as a 17-y.o. visiting NYC with her friends back in the late 70s:
she: “Of course my dad would never have let me do that today…”
me: “… what do you mean? Why?”
she: “Well, it’s so dangerous now!”
My brain almost melted. The 70s!! Right-wing media is monstrously effective at creating a wholesale alternate reality.
Serious liability of knowing a bunch of memes from TV but not watching TV is that it can be near impossible to find the right GIF. Case in point: the older slender gentleman in a suit jacket putting his palms up and saying, "Don't do that": has it disappeared from the internet!?
