eigen moomin
@eigen_moomin
silly moomin | cs + math | previously intern @ bigtech, mom's chinese restaurant
when all of this is said and done -- when i have earned the privilege of being able to fondly look back at a young-adulthood well-lived in equal parts toil and adventure -- i would like to spend a few years just painting what i see.

you may one day wake up to find yourself transformed into a data point on a grafana dashboard

what you think of as a crisis of traditional values in the zoomers is merely a failure in PR for the seven virtues. consider: Patience --> not getting ragebaited Diligence --> "love of the game" Temperance --> rawdogging etc etc
plato said the unexamined life is not worth living. asia, eager as ever to learn from the west, has taken this advice to heart by making its kids take 17 exams a year.
I can tell with an almost 100% certainty that there exists a CS engineering student who decided a year ago that software engineers were going to be replaced by AI and started looking for an alternative roadmap to have the highest chances of getting a job as opposed to your…
i love that we live in a universe where LLMs are literally magic both in the capabilities sense and occult mystical object sense
New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. 🧵
zoomer child of cyberflint, irony poisoned are you. lead astray by the spirit of the times, never a word o' true. gold is the genuine thought, uncloaked by half-commits. thirty silvers for the child of post-yore, lithium for the band of clue.

remember to have exponential back off with jitter when writing network clients kids
just got informed I broke prod
just got informed I broke prod
the trick is to write such shit code they feel like they gotta review everything