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Journalist, editor and typesetter covering technology and printing history; wrote for TidBITS and the Economist and published The Magazine.

• Off to shoot the sunset and star photos with @jeffcarlson.bsky.social!

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Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.

• An honor to have @ichris.bsky.social‘s beautiful baritone voice bring one of my short stories to life.
  Quoting@ichris.bsky.socialI just published a new episode of Daily(ish) called "The Mammoth - Part 1". You can find past episodes wherever you get your podcasts see how to subscribe at

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

• features in @garthnix.bsky.social Sinister Booksellers
  Quoting@kpw1453.bsky.socialThe bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva which was discovered in 1727 during the construction of sewer under Stall Street in Bath. Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Bath

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American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.

• For differing reasons today I'm appreciative of the work of my agent Ethan Ellenberg, and my editor @malf.bsky.social. I am exceptionally fortunate to have two such smart and competent folks doing their extremely valuable thing to get my work out into the world. It wouldn't happen without them.

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Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.

• The social scene around AI and AI safety is more unpleasant than I realized. I'm sure there are other sides to it. But when you get a lot of men with too much money who think they're saving the world, surrounded by groupies, what do you expect? Read the long Bluesky thread about this, collected on one page: https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22q I can't confirm this stuff - I stay far away from this scene. And the sentence "AI Safety is Mostly a Sex Cult" is a massive exaggeration. But... (1/n)

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American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.

• Tomorrow, I'll be at @symposiumbooks.bsky.social in Providence, RI, to talk about my new collection. See you there!

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American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.

• In all seriousness, @jococruise.bsky.social is a truly excellent way for nerds (or anyone else!) to dip a toe into the cruise thing. The the community that's developed over 15 years of the cruise is welcoming and friendly. There are always things to do, officially programmed and otherwise. It's fun!
  Quoting@superobscure.comIs JoCo a good Nerd’s First Cruise? Or is it better-suited for Advanced Cruising Nerds?

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

• J'ai eu le plaisir de monter sur scène aujourd'hui à ALL IN pour discuter de notre direction de recherche et de notre nouveau financement récent 🇨🇦🇩🇪. À @law-zero.bsky.social, nous travaillons activement à concevoir des systèmes d’IA fondamentalement honnêtes et dignes de confiance.

  English, from FrenchI had the pleasure of taking the stage today at ALL IN to discuss our research direction and our recent new funding 🇨🇦🇩🇪. At @law-zero.bsky.social, we are actively working to design fundamentally honest and trustworthy AI systems.

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

• In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with physicist and philosopher @seanmcarroll.bsky.social about the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the mystery of consciousness, whether morality is constructed, and how we create meaning in a universe without an objective purpose.

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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

• @drstevex.bsky.social may I introduce you to @hayleygullen.com who wrote a brilliant and funny graphic novel about cancer? She'd be excellent for your medicine event.

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

• Je suis très fier de ce que l'équipe de @law-zero.bsky.social est en train de mettre sur pied et je suis profondément reconnaissant du soutien sans précédent des gouvernements du Canada et de l'Allemagne, qui permettra d'alimenter notre prochaine phase de croissance!

  English, from FrenchI am very proud of what the @law-zero.bsky.social team is building and I am deeply grateful for the unprecedented support from the governments of Canada and Germany, which will fuel our next phase of growth!

  Quoting@law-zero.bsky.socialLoiZéro a reçu un engagement de financement conjoint allant jusqu'à 300 M$ du Canada et de l'Allemagne! Cet investissement propulsera la prochaine phase de notre recherche vers une forme fondamentalement nouvelle d’IA avancée, sécuritaire et performante. lawzero.org/fr/nouvelles...

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• I am very proud of what the team at @law-zero.bsky.social is building and deeply grateful for the landmark support from the Governments of Canada and Germany that will power our next phase of growth!
  Quoting@law-zero.bsky.socialWe are happy to share that Canada and Germany have announced funding of up to $300 million for LawZero! This will power the next phase of our technical roadmap towards developing a fundamentally new form of advanced, safe, and capable AI. lawzero.org/en/news/lawz...

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

• @mattduss.bsky.social "The problem here is the opposite of what Moskowitz claims: Hawkish Democrats aren’t being marginalized enough in the Democratic Party."

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Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

• Young academics interested in democracy: check out the postdoc program at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins! @snfagora.bsky.social

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Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

• @tcash21.bsky.social did you see your headshot???

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Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.

• x.comDelighted that my friend and colleague Alex Bellos has been awarded the 2026 Christopher Zeeman medal for communicating mathematics. Well done Alex. Here we are at the recent opening of Maths World in London alongside the excellent Alexander Masters.

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• BlueskyDelighted that my friend and colleague Alex Bellos has been awarded the 2026 Christopher Zeeman medal for communicating mathematics. Well done Alex. Here we are at the recent opening of Maths World in London alongside the excellent Alexander Masters.

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

• In this excerpt from my conversation with Jack Symes, we discuss chickens, factory farming, and what our appetite for cheap meat asks us to ignore. Watch the full conversation, “Is Eating Animals (Always) Wrong?”, on YouTube. Videos: @weanimals.bsky.social

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American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.

• I'll be in NYC on Wednesday, 9/16, to talk about THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON with @alexshvartsman.bsky.social at the Asia Society. Come see us and get your signed book!

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

• Another week at @oxide.computer has given us (yet) another example of the kinds of problems that very much require human engineering. Today, the team joins @ahl.bsky.social and me to regale us with the wild tale. Join us live, 5p Pacific, tonight!

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  Quoting@bcantrill.bsky.socialI am surely not alone in having family over the weekend hitting me up asking "should I be worried about extinction?" As a response, I have found that my anti-Doomer talk from @monktoberfest.com 2023 (three very long years ago!) remains current and accessible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJ...

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Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.

• Bsky for what people are talking about. Masto for what people are thinking about.

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

• In this excerpt from my conversation with @richroll.bsky.social, we discuss the ethics of radically extending human life. Watch the full conversation on The Rich Roll Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQb... #PeterSinger #RichRoll #Longevity #ClimateChange #Philosophy

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Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.

• The @bsky.app starter pack thing is such a great example of making an open product/ecosystem feature out of someone else's closed, extractive bullshit. Thank you to whoever designed and implemented it.

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American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.

• The audiobook for THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES, narrated by Gabrielle Nellis-Pain, is available! @simonaudio.bsky.social

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American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.

• Thank you to @fondalee.bsky.social, @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, and everyone who came to celebrate the launch of The Passing of the Dragon with me! It was an unforgettable night. A limited number of signed copies are available at the Harvard Book Store for anyone who couldn’t make it.

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

• Je serai au sommet ALL IN le 17 septembre pour partager comment évolue l’agenda de recherche de @law-zero.bsky.social qui est en pleine croissance dans le cadre d’une conversation sur le thème de Concevoir des systèmes d’IA honnêtes, fiables et sécuritaires.

  English, from FrenchI will be at the ALL IN summit on September 17th to share how the research agenda of @law-zero.bsky.social is evolving in the context of a conversation on Designing honest, reliable, and safe AI systems.

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• I will be at ALL IN on September 17 to give an update on @law-zero.bsky.social’s research agenda and growth as part of a fireside chat on Engineering Honesty and Reliability for Safer AI!

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Cartoonist and comics theorist, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics and the graphic novel The Sculptor.

• Whoah @bouletcorp.bsky.social is ahead of Mamdani—at #6! Go Team Comics!

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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.

• We devoted the entire (penultimate!) episode of Hard Fork to METR's investigation of the Hugging Face attack, and before I even woke up @deepa.bsky.social has scooped a *second*, previously unknown rogue OpenAI agent swarm attack

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American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.

• New story! "A Sigilary for the Median Human in the Gearwrack" is out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social . (Uncanny has always supported my most strange, difficult, and interesting stories.) The more we mechanize craft, the more we need to remain human.

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Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.

• This talk by (my former colleague) @kevinriggle is a superb 80/20 for startup founders who want to do more than nothing re: security but are not sure where to start with a small team.
  Quoting@MicroConfKevin Riggle did security at Akamai, Stripe, and Lyft before starting his own consultancy. He argues at MicroConf that most cybersecurity advice is written for computers we stopped using twenty years ago. Here's what to do instead. 🧵

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

• Stoked to announce that @max.pangram.com, co-founder and CEO of @pangram.com, will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me on the next episode of Oxide and Friends to pick up the hot (and important!) topic of AI detection. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific!

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

• In my recent ICM talk, I displayed a diagram of the life cycle of an individual problem, from an open problem all the way to a definitive solution, with a key point being that AI tools have been far more effective at accelerating some portions of this cycle than others. A point which I made verbally in the talk, but not in the image, was that the definitive solutions to problems also formed the base for subsequent progress in the field, both by suggesting new key problems to work on, and to supply new techniques to tackle these problems. I therefore enclose a further evolution of the diagram…

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Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.

• As I pass by half-mast flags in rural PA, i keep being floored by how universal the love for Dolly Parton was. If anyone needs a delicious book to read, I can’t say enough nice things about “She Come by It Natural” by @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

• Few people care more about performant code than @cmuratori.bsky.social. Casey is a down-to-earth programmer, game dev, performance nerd. A refreshing episode about why the basics (still) matter, and why learning to read Assembly remains useful for anyone who cares about performance: (cont'd)

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

• Today @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to be joined by @sgkaram.bsky.social from @oxide.computer's product assurance team, who put in front of himself a tremendous challenge: could we somehow emulate an entire Oxide rack? And... how faux can we go?! Join us, 5p Pacific!

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

• In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with @michaelpollan.bsky.social about food and ultra-processed diets, psychedelics and altered states of consciousness, plant sentience, the mystery of consciousness, and whether AI could ever become conscious. Listen to the full conversation 🎧

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

• @brettcodes.bsky.social appreciated watching your video on why you stopped using AI. Recently talked with Casey Muratori who also doesn't use it. Could I message you somewhere? Or you can also send me DM.

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

• If you’ve ever opened Chrome DevTools, or optimized a page for Core Web Vitals, you’ve used software built by @addyosmani.bsky.social. We start from when he built a web browser from scratch, at 16, through his 14 years at Google, to what he sees working (and not working) building software with AI:

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

• In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with physicist and philosopher @seanmcarroll.bsky.social about the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the mystery of consciousness, whether morality is constructed, and how we create meaning in a universe without an objective purpose.

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Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.

• Psychiatric Deprescribing as a Wicked Problem

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

• Possible Futures of Happiness

  At Automattic, we don’t have customer service or support, we have Happiness Engineers. 🙂 There’s also a #ceo Slack channel where anyone can drop in and request a meeting, which my esteemed colleague Damianne President…

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

• It has been a WILD couple of weeks in AI -- it's clear the open weight revolution is truly upon us -- and I am thrilled to announce that @simonwillison.net will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me to help us make sense of it all! Join us today, 5p Pacific!

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Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.

• In another variant of https://danluu.com/learn-what/, I caught up with a former colleague who worked on automated theorem proving. It turns out he's had an interesting career doing all sorts of interesting stuff using the skills he developed by spending a decade writing/using theorem provers. At one point, he said, "if you use X like a theorem prover, it works really well", which surprised me to hear, but of course this is a highly generalizable skill just like compilers or benchmarking/evals.

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

• Thailand’s population has already peaked

  My colleague, Edouard Mathieu, recently created an interactive map showing when the populations of countries around the world are expected to peak.

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

• We're back! Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to talk to DigitalFilm Tree's Ramy Katrib about the past, present, and future of digital storytelling -- and what that future means for the infrastructure that underpins it. Join us, 5p Pacific!

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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

• Had such a fun time chatting with @debbiemillman.bsky.social on her fabulous pod about all the things including why my life has been one big attempt to get back at Razorfish for snubbing, 18-year-old idiot me:

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Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

• @quantabooks.org just released their first book, on the story of Lean by @kevinhartnett.bsky.social. It's a great story, about a pretty significant part of what's happening in math right now.

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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

• Reflections on AI-assisted Programming

  My former colleague Nan kept telling me early last year that I should try Cursor, but I felt I didn’t need AI assistance at that time, since I knew pretty well what I wanted to do and how. Plus, I’m generall…

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Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.

• Early and late-stage hypergrowth.

  Last week, a colleague asked why I’d hired an additional new leader onto an important area rather than expanding an existing leader’s scope to incorporate that area as well. The existing leader was a known q…

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American senior staff engineer working on developer and user experience and open source; writes at adamdehaven.com.

• A great article from @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social on building a vertical micro frontend architecture. This very much resembles what I’m working on for the upcoming Kong Konnect architecture enhancements, including view transitions, pre-warming apps, and more

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American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.

• Livestream with the legendary Steve Allen, Jan 21

  Until last year, I knew of Steve Allen only through his definitive guidebook for the Escalante canyons of southern Utah, Canyoneering 3, which often reads like a scavenger hunt and which I consider to be a gold standard…

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Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.

• We've seen nothing yet! We hosted a 9-13 yo vibe-coding event with @robertkeus.bsky.social this weekend (h/t @antonosika.bsky.social and Lovable) takeaway? AI is unleashing a generation of wildly creative builders beyond anything I'd have imagined and they grow up knowing they can build anything!

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

• @hamel.bsky.social & @sh-reya.bsky.social are two of the world's best on evals. They've built evals for 35+ AI apps & helped teams ship confidently. Now they'll teach everything they know on building evals that work. Enrollment closes in 4 days. Secret 35% discount code:

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

• @hamel.bsky.social & his wisdom on evals, error analysis, looking at your data is what we need. Here are his 10 Don'ts: • Don't skip error analysis • Don't skip looking at your data • Don't gatekeep who can write prompts • Don't let zero users be a roadblock • Don't be blindsided by criteria drift

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Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.

• OK, I'm actually here! I created an account a while back and then promptly lost the password. Also, bsky's password reset wasn't working for me. But I finally managed to find my password. <phew> I would hate to lose "munificent@" here.

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Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.

• Join me in conversation tomorrow on @bbcradio4.bsky.social at 4pm. Take Four Books, presented by James Crawford, talks to the writer and son of John Le Carré - Nick Harkaway - about his new book Karla's Choice and its connections to three other literary works. (I get to chip in...)

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Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.

• Still puzzling what to buy the reader in your life for Xmas? Pop along to In the Company of Books with me and @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social plus special guests Paula Hawkins and Alan Cumming to hear about our recommendations! Sunday 15th, 4pm, Assembly on the Mound. Good craic guaranteed

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Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.

• csstdg4figs — The base files used to create the figures for “CSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition”.

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Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.

• Interview with Carol Gilligan: The Origins of Relational Life Therapy

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