Jacob Beers

🎓 Launching skills.boxlang.io — the public, agent-agnostic AI skills directory for BoxLang, ColdBox & the Ortus world. ✅ 203+ curated skills at launch ⚡ 8,000+ installs pre-announcement 🔐 Security-audited community submissions 🤖 Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, OpenCode 📦 Install in seconds: npx skills add ortus-boxlang/skills → skills.boxlang.io

There are two buttons. One is red and one is blue. If you press red nothing happens. If you press blue the conversation about buttons continues. If more than 50% of people press the blue button the conversation also continues.

Getting ready for #ITB2026! Looking forward to some of the BoxLang workshops we have going on today.

@autumnrustle @opencode Basically 3x as much usage as you would normally get. I've been using it and haven't been able to hit the limits.

@JTBeers @opencode Hi! What exactly does 3x do? What does it give?

Okay it's official, Kimi K2.6 3x usage on Go for another week

@drantbradley I would also add in eco-activism. The obsession with the idea that the world is overpopulated and that we are on the brink of a Mad Max style apocalypse. Personally, I've blamed this perspective on Jane Goodall and Paul Ehrlich.

I can’t prove this but I’m more and more convinced that the anti-natalist trend today in the West is also downstream of the past 20-30 years of “New Atheism.” Not wanting children is a direct consequence of an atheist ontology, as David Benatar might argue.

@DanteJeffe14617 @drantbradley Sam Harris?

@drantbradley America never had any new atheism prominently.

@PrismML can you help answer this question?

What are the chances we have an open source 1.58bit sparse attention model with looped transformers by the end of the year?

@DreamMixGames @NuraPixel Reminds me of the Kirby Krackle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_Kra…

@NuraPixel Put black circles that rise alternatively on both sides, then erase them. Shade the border. Make sure to make the black circles conform to the flame shape as they rise.

How the hell do I animate fire in pixel art bruh 😭

Dang, I meant to say "Cole Allen".

The Henry Martines/Allen Cole stuff is at least very mysterious. I'm especially interested in the image and how it lines up with the Trump photo. This is the farthes Ive been able to trace it.unsplash.com/photos/a-multi…

I wonder if someone could reach out to Distinct Mind (the image uploader) and get him to spill the beans on how he made or came across the image.

@DimitriGilbert @TheAhmadOsman I have not yet tried it. Flash looks more appealing to me as well simply by virtue of being so incredibly cheap. Can you compare flash to another model in terms of feel/capability?

I much prefere flash to pro... it's faster, thinks less but the results are almost on par from the few things I tested... labs should stop focusing on benchmaxxing and absolute intelligence and recenter on efficiency smaller models are the way ! faster and less ram usage, even for cloud services !

DeepSeek V4 Pro, for how massive it is (1.6T Parameters), is quite undertrained (32T Tokens) Yes, undertrained It has less intelligence density than that of V3.2 which is like 1/3rd of its size

@jankulveit Well, the reasoning may or may not generalize. That is an assertion that I think needs some backing up. My actual point though is that you are very quick to dismiss other's perspective as "naive game theory" but then specifically engage a different situation that you prefer.

Sure, but the reframed situation leads to reasoning which mostly generalizes to the original framing. I.e. are you sure you would press red when 5 yo, when drunk, if your partner pressed blue, etc. People who argue for "lack of theory of mind is a virtue" face the problem that their different temporal selves than "me now on twitter" are different.

Funny little illustration of levels of understanding of game theory and rationality, or: why basic game theory is evil 1. Non-sociopaths going by intuition: blue sounds pro-social, blue 2. People who reason explicitly and use some naive game theory or naive rationality: red! 3. People who actually understand game theory: blue (if you want an explicit reason, because of trembling hand, Schelling points, theory of mind) A simple explanation of "why 3." is ...imagine you are forced to play the game tens of thousand of times, at random points of your life from birth to death. What strategy you want to play? "1." being in agreement with "3." often makes sense if you think about the origins of "1.". Unfortunately there are few pieces of knowledge which in expectation makes you more dumb and more evil if you don't progress beyond the basic level; some of the more prominent I know about are basics of game theory, especially prisoners dilemma; basic econ; Elephant in the brain

@EdLatimore Poor knee stabilizers? Can still handle a deadlift since the motion is primarily in the hip and the center of gravity stays low.

Trying to imagine how a person gets this distribution of strength.

@mattpocockuk I've really been enjoying your "5 skills I use everyday" skills. I noticed though that some of the install examples in aihero.dev/5-agent-skills… no longer work. It seems that some of the skills were renamed. Just wanted to give you a heads up.

@Bollognuh @Devon_Eriksen_ This is a fair take. After re-reading the OPs post I can see that I over simplified his stance to be "property > person" which was not what he said. I think we can value property and people (even vandals) - which does seem to be inline with his overall perspective.

@JTBeers @Devon_Eriksen_ I don't think your comment is clear. If you valued the vandal's arm more, you wouldn't condone concrete mailboxes or the comsequences that come from striking one. Seems to me like we're all in agreement, but the reality sounds too mean for you to admit.

The Mailbox Test, like the breakfast test, is an excellent way to tell who you can allow to wield power in your society. Goes like this: If someone is hurt trying to destroy someone else's stuff in order to take pleasure from their pain, do you sympathize with... The aggressor because he got hurt? Or with the guy who owns the stuff, because he wasn't the aggressor? You can have people in your society who fail the Mailbox Test. That's okay... they can work at hospices, or shelters for orphaned kittens, or something. But you cannot allow them to vote, or otherwise wield political power. Because if you do, they will open the gates of the city to the enemy. I am personally tired of everyone pretending that people who enjoy ruining things for random strangers are just kewt smol beans who are only aggressive because of all the complex socioeconomic factors and lack of resources. They knew someone would be hurt by what they did. They knew that someone had done literally nothing harmful to them. And those two ideas, in combination made them feel pleasure. And they went and did it. That is the sign of a rotten soul. Defending ourselves and our property is not just a right, it's a moral obligation. Otherwise, we just kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with, someone who may not be able to defend herself. I don't care if a vandal breaks his arms trying to destroy my stuff. Because I value my stuff more than a vandal's arms. And the fact that he tried to destroy somebody else's stuff shows that he, too, values his arms less than the opportunity to hurt somebody. We cannot allow such people inside the city, and we cannot give the keys to those who would open the gates for them.

@Bollognuh @Devon_Eriksen_ By natural consequences I meant "what will naturally happen after someone strikes a mailbox full of concrete". I clearly encouraged protection of property.

@JTBeers @Devon_Eriksen_ Do you believe that people who do evil will be punished by an omnipotent force? Because the majority of evil acts do not have "natural" consequences. The consequences are put in place by people seeking justice.