I put the R in RDMA. All posts based only on information from within my past light cone.https://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mv2jwmlfdk2uTaking the worst possible case for OpenAI - they built a system that when guided by mathematicians, if fed huge amounts of compute and stolen ideas from other researchers, produces a formalized resolution to one of the most significant open questions in mathematicians - isn't that still interesting? [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Sep 2026 02:54 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv2jwmlfdk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3muzogmhx5c2oDebugging in general! I had an annoying bug uploading photos with Firefox on Ubuntu, before coding agents I probably would have just thought, “eh I'll just use Chrome instead, maybe I'll pull together a bug report when I have the energy.” Now: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/2134 [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Sep 2026 18:42 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzogmhx5c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3muzjderqnc2oHuh, clustering multiple chips to scale inference? I hope someone has some experience with RDMA networking.... https://spectrum.ieee.org/rivian-self-driving08 Sep 2026 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzjderqnc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3muzgw7spzs2oPOV you're still adding value [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Sep 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzgw7spzs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3muvonlo3hc2yI hope Anthropic or some other lab makes a serious effort to formalize Mochizuki's claimed proof of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture, it would be really interesting to see how AI could define the shape of the gap (or, maybe, bridge it) https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem07 Sep 2026 04:35 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3muvonlo3hc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3muvm3naebc2yNGL the Jedi and all the clones shit feels problematic to me [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Sep 2026 03:50 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3muvm3naebc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3muplya7vmc2fInference is a “normal” industrial process, in that the up-front capital cost of data center-class hardware is much higher, but having that hardware makes the marginal cost of serving inference at large volume much lower. There is something to the “token factory” framing that Nvidia pushes. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 18:32 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3muplya7vmc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mun7cso7f22zarcprize.org/blog/astra03 Sep 2026 19:40 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mun7cso7f22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mump2evfks25I feel 1Password and Neovim got way more backlash than Cloudflare ... As far as I know Cloudflare have not stopped their support? They still have a page up with a DHH quote just like Neovim used to? https://blog.cloudflare.com/supporting-the-future-of-the-open-web/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mump2evfks25https://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mukjvowjx22gHas Google said anything recently about what's up with their pro models? Gemini 3.5 Pro was supposedly “testing with partners” back in July but since then we've just gotten 3.6, 3.7 and now 3.8 Flash releases? https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/02 Sep 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukjvowjx22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mufebxewus2dSome good replies pointing this out but I think it's worth emphasizing that data centers really have changed. A 2021 data center with 5000 × 10 kW racks isn't much different from “normal” light industry like a big metal fabricator. A 1 GW data center campus with 200 kW racks is a *LOT* bigger! [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2026 16:47 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufebxewus2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mudt6uwuj22oDon't turn down that job offer from Google in December 1999 [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2026 02:09 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mudt6uwuj22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mua7633y5c2kIn contrast, Anthropic co-founder: https://xcancel.com/NotTomBrown/status/2093541294027280657 [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Aug 2026 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mua7633y5c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mu3s7u27ts2sLmao the emacs users were right all along!! https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/issues/50127 Aug 2026 21:30 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3s7u27ts2shttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtyvtbhres27I get this feeling looking at sensor configs on cars. Yeah it would probably be easier to drive if I had six eyes, four imaging radars and a lidar. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyvtbhres27https://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtymqmp35c27I just have a few words to say here: “MagNeatOhz Large Devil Horns for Helmet | Made in USA | Magnetic & Interchangeable Horns for Motorcycle, Bike & Ski Helmets - Pair” [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtymqmp35c27https://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtyl4s646k27Wild a 256GB M5 Ultra would run this at 120+ tok/sec?? [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyl4s646k27https://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtwaqo6o7k27The ability to drive bsky discourse that the new @playboy.com has by just relaying basic tiktok trends is pretty impressive25 Aug 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwaqo6o7k27https://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtth4ia5j22zA bunch of it is on my laptop and I swear I'll get it cleaned up and into merge requests for people to review this week [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Aug 2026 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtth4ia5j22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mttgyjechs2zI feel like we need a new modern word to capture this specific insidious type of op - paying influencers to expand the market for a product - if it's not too awkward a coinage, perhaps “marketing” captures it? [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Aug 2026 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttgyjechs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtryknveys2v [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Aug 2026 23:57 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtryknveys2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtpn3dzvl22zWelp blocked but I do think “reverse Gell-mann amnesia” about AI among programmers is interesting to consider. We probably over-generalize AI capabilities from seeing it e.g. synthesize sparse ambiguous information to find subtle bugs - but a lot of non-programming tasks do seem similar! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Aug 2026 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtpn3dzvl22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mton53cats24I think this is exactly backwards for a lot of AI users - expert programmers have seen AI tools get uncannily good at many difficult complicated tasks in our domain. So if anything the risk is in over-extrapolating capabilities to domains we know less well, where we can't vet the output as easily. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mton53cats24https://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtoja4rogc24Holy shit it may not be financially responsible, but it goes really hard when you're working with Claude on Linux support for some complicated hardware and you say, “oh FYI Fable - the RTL for this block is in ~/rtl-repo.git”22 Aug 2026 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtoja4rogc24https://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtmjgyxlvc2lMuch more efficient to keep your arm swing in the front to back plane - minimize rotation while running https://www.balancedrunner.com/how-you-should-swing-arms-running-the-balanced-runner-keys-series/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmjgyxlvc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtk2urvqfk2kHad the privilege of attending the ribbon cutting for a new segment of the Bay Area Ridge Trail this morning - very cool to see the Bay from a new angle https://www.sfpuc.gov/learning/come-visit/peninsula-trails/skyline-watershed-ridge-trail20 Aug 2026 20:17 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtk2urvqfk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtjxidp56s27Is it not widely known that @bencollins.bsky.social and the Onion are a tech billionaire's hobby project? https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/26/area-man-twilio-co-founder-jeff-lawson-buys-the-onion/20 Aug 2026 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjxidp56s27https://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtjfgfzmok2jAnd this isn't even mentioning the complexity that went into Twilio's business, which made the money for Jeff Lawson to pay for all of this! [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjfgfzmok2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mth7ttezis2yIt's kind of ironic, given the content of this post, that Ben Collins has fallen into lazy middlebrow takes because audience capture by normies fried his epistemics [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mth7ttezis2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rbd.bsky.social/post/3mtfnvfxmmk2yFuture is gonna be wild www.cerebras.ai/cs4 https://www.cerebras.ai/cs419 Aug 2026 02:14 +0000at://did:plc:sa2yiupgrjk625bb6fmv23ww/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfnvfxmmk2y