GavinAnderegg

I dunno, I'm still really impressed by the "Sparks of Weight-Space Programming" idea. Perhaps its because I didn't know that LLMs could do understand or successfully modify weights at all previous to reading it. However, I think the examples provided in the original piece were eye-opening. I'm sure humans can build tooling to also modify weights, but the author here agrees that it's tough. The examples where Astra was modifying raw weights are still very impressive to me.

Author here: as I wrote in the piece, I've recently dumped Photoshop for Pixelmator Pro. It doesn't currently support AVIF. Photoshop does, but not in a way that makes it easy to optimize an image for web export. JPEG XL is also exciting to me, but it's not generally available across browsers. WebP is the current best image format for my use-case, but I'm hoping others supplant it soon.

Author here: I'm also very much looking forward to using AVIF (and also JPEG XL), but it's another tooling question. I'm really hoping that Pixelmator Pro (now owned by Apple) will support them both soon. Photoshop (which I've recently dumped) supports WebP and AVIF, but not through the "Save for Web" or "Export As" flows. Having a nice export flow where you can easily compare compression vs. quality levels is really important to me, and I suspect to many others.

This also affected me (with Firefox specifically). Looking into it, I ran across this blog post. It looks like macOS 27 has specific app data that it’s now preventing unexpected reads from. https://wojciechregula.blog/post/golden-gate-appdata-protect...

I agree that this seems like a good thing. I really don’t need Firefox (or any app!) trying to check another app’s data without explicit permission.

It's telling that the copyright notice at the bottom of the page hasn't been updated since 2018.

G’day b’y! Who’s yer fadder? Newfoundland is a very special place. Here’s an example of that “right some t’ick” accent if you haven’t heard it before: https://www.dialectsarchive.com/newfoundland-5

To me, LinkedIn is a write-only site. It’s a pain to automate LinkedIn posting (it requires app verification and manual token renewal every 60 days), so I see the site whenever I have a blog post that fits there. Even then, it’s barely worth doing.

I do sometimes have interesting connections through the service, but they’re so hard to spot against the constant stream of nonsense notifications. Every time I turn off a notification type I’ll never care about (“X is celebrating Y years at Z!”, “It’s been more than a week since you posted!”, “Give us your passport to validate your existence!”), it feels like two more are created. Maybe there are LinkedIn warriors out there, but I don’t think I’d want to bump into one at a party.

I really enjoyed this 2025 video from The Retro Collective explaining this technology (with some rather fun arts-and-crafts examples) and showing off a Konami arcade board (sadly nonfunctional, but still cool to look at) that used it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVJ9ED8mWt0

Author here. My hosts file was written to without notice. The Adobe Creative Cloud app runs as admin, and does automated updates (when it's working as intended) without further requiring a password. The only reason I knew that it was happening was because of a Hacker News post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664205). I linked to that same OSNews article in the piece. It seems like Adobe has reverted this change since then because of the pushback (and insanity) of this sort of change. But there's nothing surprising about the mechanism here. The Creative Cloud app and its helpers can do whatever you can do with admin privileges after you enter your admin password. The only unbelievable bit is that they'd choose to do this.

Scorched Earth taught me the concept of software versions. It was the first program that I ever knowingly interacted with more than one point-release of. I had version 1.0, but a friend had version 1.2. My very young mind was boggled by the concept of software being updated.

I'll state it plainly, then: Python is more widely used and supported. It has more examples, and more people understand it and can debug it. I hope that helps you.

It's strange to me that this blog post was written in English. If AI is available, why aren't we all communicating in Lojban? [0] It's an obviously superior language. What does it matter that many people already communicate in English and much of computing depends on that language? AI doesn't care about that. Plus, if you ever need to edit Lojban without AI, you should be able to pick it up in a few weeks, right?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

Author here: to be clear, I was trying to relay the best version of the argument from the Mozilla blog post I linked to. They specifically wrote:

    The defects are finite, and we are entering a world where we can finally find them all.

I'm not sure if I buy that either, but that's the argument they were trying to make.

I’ve been hit by this when posting links. If you edit the post, you can re-add the stripped word and it will stay. “Why” is another that is often stripped.

There's also an HTML version here: https://financial-ai-bubble.pagey.site