Dima Petrov

looks good to meme

Living Internet Theory is the idea that some of the people interacting with this post, and/or the person who posted it, might be real physical conscious human beings

The more I do ML (or AI, whatever) the more I am impressed how energy efficient our brain and vision is for performance we get out of them

Funny enough, in the age of AGENTS.md and agentic workflows importance if data acquisition and processing is as high as ever

sounds about right

I have used 16 agents to build a house and I lived it for 2 weeks and then it suddenly collapsed and killed everyone inside.

moltbook is just linkedin on steroids

I’ve got a very rare Charizard Pokemon card if anyone wants to trade for a Nobel Peace Prize.

How 2026 is going so far

it is funny that Hooded Horse choose to work with studios backed up by shady russian money (Unfrozen and GEM Capital) but pushes back against AI art

We lackin on brazil postin

Doing a PhD is - at heart - one long discussion with your mentor. The discussion changes over time - with unexpected turns and ups & downs - but through it all is a pair of people discussing a topic endlessly to make sense of it.
PhD students: choose someone you like to talk to!

I think Vincke sees GenAI as way to increase scope of the game while spending same amount of resources as before. I don't think it is an inherently bad idea

“game awards”, better known as trailer slop

the only thing that is worse than ”the game awards” show is watching it

Uncertainty in the LLM era - Science, more than scale Today's AI narrative is anchored in scale, and models are far from textbook statistical modeling. And yet, the plague that are hallucination shows us th…

Great talk by Gael Varoquaux -- one of founders of modern open source scientific python infrastructure

speakerdeck.com/gaelvaroquau...

A thing to understand about escalating peace talks is that in ~1.5 months duration of Russian-Ukraine war will exceed official length of WW2 in Russia.

If there won't be peace, Putin will have to face harsh comparison: why USSR defeated Hitler and Russia could not defeat Ukraine in this time span

everyone is talking about Gemini 3 and SAM3 and I am still amazed by how good DINOv3 is

it has been a year since I have moved to UK from US and I regret approximately everything about this decision

My hardest irrelevant take for today:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 should win Best Score & Music at Game Awards.

Ghost of Yōtei should win best Audio Design.

Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in my ability to assess people. Let me just throw a couple of algorithm questions at a candidate an...

You probably have more experience in this but I would like to respectfully disagree. When you give candidates single hard problem to solve you actually lower your signal-to-noise ratio in the interview

erikbern.com/2018/05/02/i...

A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.

His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org

Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

EU set to further tighten visa rules for Russians Russians will generally only be eligible for single-entry visas once new rules take effect.

I wonder if EU is also set to not buying Russian gas and oil that fund this war (in 2024 19% months f EU gas was from Russia).

www.politico.eu/article/eu-v...

one non-obvious advantage of llms with respect to search engines is that they can run search in non-english languages which gives you access to knowledge in non-western parts of the internet

Why axe and spear are S but halberd (axe + spear) is B?

dear sirs and madams, are you big-endians or little-endians?

since when conda needs user registration to download installer?

I feel like smaller conferences are way to go for good discussion in current buzz dominated landscape -- too much glory and pride at both sides of the process at big conferences

However, almost no one lists 3DV in lists of desired conferences in job postings 🤷‍♂️

transport fever 2, eurotruck simulator, sunless sea and sunless skies, dredge

megabonk ftw

It is amazing to observe how small developers are pressuring AAA teams:

Borderlands 4: made by ~1000 people, costs >$200 mln, needs high end hardware

Megabonk: solo dev, costed sack of potatoes, runs on potato machines.

Power of open but well-regulated platform (steam)