Notices by HalvarFlake (halvarflake@mastodon.social)

Current events:

LLMs are reshaping software dev. I don't buy "the end of software dev": Project ambition will grow dramatically.

Ancient Egyptians could build the Pyramids but not the Empire State Building.

Pre-LLM software will be viewed like we view the Pyramids.

I have often stated that well-implemented memory tagging will be a game changer for memory corruptions. And it seems that with the next iPhone it's finally here: https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/

@whitequark good point. Advanced Biological-life-centric?

I wrote a short rant about what irks me when people anthropomorphize LLMs:

https://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html

Farewell Pepe, you were an inspiration: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mujica

I'm looking for a good book that treats high-dimensional geometry. I am in particular looking for something on the geometry of high-dimensional polytopes.

Any recommendations? Please retoot for reach.

My contempt for anyone involved with this drivel knows few limits. Conflating issues and fear mongering because a Chinese company dared to publish an actual open model:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/openai-calls-deepseek-state-controlled-calls-for-bans-on-prc-produced-models/

And trying to talk about copyright after training in Libgen.

Hypocrisy, lies, grifting :-( - the level of despicable behavior is just out of this world.

Insanitywolf idea: Buy a bunch of AMD stock, then try to fix their software stack.

As a dreamer and product person, I have written up what I'd like for Christmas for the European startup ecosystem: A smooth workflow for starting and managing early-stage companies:

addxorrol.blogspot.com/2024/12/what...

The summary is: A website that allows company formation, basic cap table management, payroll/social security contributions, basic tax filing up to a certain revenue threshold, and management of employee stock grants.

If this existed, and was smooth to use, ...

@jzilske Not sure if it was fun or just gall? :) I was never a big fan. I did make statements about that entire field being wedded to deriving value from scarcity, and that I think the key to both individual happyness *and* a better world is the advice to "work on abundance, not on scarcity"

Dear neurodivergent Twitterverse, I suspect one of my kids might have/be ADHD. I am suspicious of self-assessment tests, and would like to learn more about the SotA for testing (ideally quantitative tests without practice effects). What outside of TOVA exists? Anyone with experience with any such tests?

Also: while I think it's unlikely, I'd be interested to see what reliable tests for neurodivergent traits exist that are for adults?

Next time management asks you to stack-rank the members of your team, buy an electrical motor assembly kit, drop it on their desk, and ask them to rank the parts by importance/performance.

I heard something today that is reasonably profound in analyzing communication failures:

Having thought something isn't having said something. Having said something isn't being heard. Being heard isn't being understood. Being understood isn't agreement. Agreement isn't change. Change isn't permanent change.

Keeping this list of possible failure points in mind is helpful in analyzing communication failures.

2h 38 minutes delay on a trip of 1h 44.

There is no unreliability like travelling Deutsche Bahn. How can one train system be such a shame?

There's not much to love about FRA airport but the mechanical flight table simultaneously taps into my childhood emotion of "daddy is coming home" and young adult "let's see the world".

I am in trolly mood, so I used some SDXL on TPU image generation to generate images of Sundar Pichai smiling in front of a burning building.

My internet connection got upgraded from 7 Mbit/s to 400 Mbit/s, and it makes a difference.

@WowSuchCyber Rural france.