Marianne

On the limitations and horizons for visualizing high-dimensional data, and the semiotic decisions we make as "information cartographers" when we train or use embedding models and dimensionality reduction methods.

You may be wondering how one could come into possession of such an image. Let's just say I've got a nanobanana guy.

— Jikan

Those were the reasons, that was New York We were runnin' for the money and the flesh And that was called love for the workers in song Probably still is for those of them left

if I do your meme it means you are winning, son

After spending only a week back in the IRL, you URL people don't make any sense anymore and I don't want to know what a dinergoth is

@_rabbi and women 🥺

It actually takes a lot of courage to be unemployed. NEETs might be the bravest men of our generation.

@workflowsauce a game-theoretically optimal strategy rooted in Love

If you want to win, learn the path of love.

My accelerator cohort colleague Josh wrote a breakdown of running non-frontier models: benchmarking @modal vs Groq, self-hosting with Ollama, and why Modal's serverless GPU model is his pick for anything beyond pure inference.

@AhQFish I think you're right! The resilient ones.

@thrialectics It’s going to be up to those of us who have learned from enduring the psychosis waves of the past first hand, like the adderol era, who already have bits of stable foundation amongst the chaos of the abstract mind space to anchor the masses.

How are we preparing for the mass psychological impact of ontological disorientation at scale? Right now we're protected by adoption curves, I think. Are dynamical systems experts smarter than me already on this, I hope?

@AhQFish Crazy because it's a Leonard Cohen reference so that's what I would have expected.

@thrialectics And I’ll have Frankie valley stuck in my head for three weeks now just from reading your name. CMON MARIANNE!!

@IvanVendrov hmm there's this saying, "beware wishful thinking."

CEO friend of mine really hates doomerism & cultural pessimism. Used to be much more ok with it but something about being an executive made him realize those thoughts are actively value-destroying. is the selection here for wisdom (focus on what you want) or for blindness?

@psukhopompos currently building my lore as the girl version of that one guy.

@thrialectics hell yea

Urgency is the sense you get when you're running very late; it is an acknowledgment of one's behindness. Immediacy is the orientation of someone who is right on time, exactly where they are meant to be.

@psukhopompos grateful to have someone on the level!

On the limitations and horizons for visualizing high-dimensional data, and the semiotic decisions we make as "information cartographers" when we train or use embedding models and dimensionality reduction methods.

@alphamemelabz Ahhh. I've been lucky to find people doing real science I can learn from.

@thrialectics A lot of people are building fictional narratives. What youre doing feels like it has a purpose and scientific grounding. It feels real.

@alphamemelabz Thanks, I think?

@thrialectics I’m very happy to see you found value in semiotics. It appears it’s focused your path and given your perspective some solid bones.

@christophcsmith Yeah. I'm freelancing for a guy who has been a "technology solutions consultant" for decades. He was *very* confused by the deliverable I whipped up for him in ~4 hours. Relying on word of mouth from him, because I don't even know how to communicate these capabilities to people.

I spoke at a joint event put on by the RPI Google Developer Group and their AI club last night, and only two people in the room had used Claude Code or an equivalent. Y'all on this app make me feel late, but then I go out in the world and realize I'm very early.