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dr_a

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<p>Maker of sculptures, software, hardware, altar goods, bling, and messes. Hammer aficionado. Skull fairy. </p><p>Not particularly nice, working hard to be kind.</p><p>Feel free to follow me if you want pretty pictures, light gardening, snark, rage, and a bias towards being kind.</p><p>Most posts auto delete.</p>

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    I&amp;#39;m reviewing risk management guides for generative AI, and i realized I need to form a band named &amp;quot;inappropriately anthropomorphizing&amp;quot;

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    today’s mild annoyance: the chrome on my locker lock flaked off. it’s worse than grabbing a razor blade. on the plus side, i now know i have a good sense of touch and can differentiate between the barious cuts

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    i wonder what Turing would make of the state of the world and the state of computing

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    Put in most of the garden today. Rip my gloves that gave up the ghost while i was mixing in composted chicken manure.

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    The mountain is out along with the rhododendrons

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    Doing some reading about agentic systems, and a striking issue is how hard it is to get a non-deterministic system to behave safely. For humans we build systems to help us be safer but we seem to want to throw away those lessons. Vast amounts of work have gone into making our tools reliable, and now we&amp;#39;re hellbent on throwing that away.

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    Tulip time!

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    one of the joys of my allergies clearing is i can smell ball point pen ink sitting at my desk. can&amp;#39;t say i&amp;#39;m thrilled with the olfacotry breakthrough, but given the number of pens on my desk, I can&amp;#39;t say it&amp;#39;s surprising.

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    pro-tip: work gloves where the grip layer has worn off and all that’s left is lycra should be binned

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    i’m calling this piece “nature hates you”. i’ve pulled about 25kg of Himalayan blackberry, english ivy, and bamboo. all of this grew into mu yard from various neighbors.

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    Cutting the out a feather layer from a recurring form

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    Also testing the 3d wing construction using bamboo bones.

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    Cutting some feather blanks. https://youtube.com/shorts/2dEI3qSNqII?si=eFe3OSMvbLcGQazv

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    Caught my first puncture of the season. Holly leaves are surprisingly sharp.

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    just finished fixing the flat. i’ve got to admit, a bolted through axle makes the while process of remounting the rear wheel a lot easier.

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    Holmes has things to say

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    Freshly assembled tax feather

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    These are the first 5 secondaries, only 35 more feathers to go.

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    also, the mountain was out this afternoon.

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    i was thinking about the causes of my distaste for agentic ai comes from. a non-trivial amount of my youthful reading was Heinlein’s competence porn. i dodged the military worship, but caught the desire to be good at what i do, and to be able to do a lot. agentic ai appears to reward not being competent in a lot of cases, and that is galling.