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Mitch Harris

@maharrit

NLP/ML/AI/Data Science, Teaching/Consulting/Advising Non-strategic leader Non-systems thinker (https://bsky.app/profile/adamjkucharski.bsky.social/post/3mbfgadfu7s22)

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My hot AI take is that it is mostly web/app developers seeing any benefits at all from LLM coding, and this is because:
a) web/app coding has a lot of boilerplate and repetition
b) there are far more web projects in the training data
c) web code is often shorter functions with limited scope

09.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0

there's nothing like melting snow to make you realize how much garbage people put in snow

09.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜Daylight saving time’ is also sometimes called β€˜daylight saving,’ β€˜daylight savings,’ β€˜daylight savings time,’ or β€˜daylight time.’

So, listen to your heart.

08.03.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 669 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 32
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09.03.2026 10:01 πŸ‘ 3183 πŸ” 660 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 75

I heard Conway had his own password checker on his computer, find the two prime factors of some 16 digit number.

09.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

11.02.2026 09:27 πŸ‘ 3161 πŸ” 520 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 21

I don't speak as a Trekkie, or even as someone who would watch "Star Trek" at home. But I've had it on when I was unpacking or washing my hair in a hotel room and there was nothing else on the box that wasn't a car chase or a preacher. (1982)

07.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
Scientific paper published in PubMed. 

Heading: Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don't read it.

Authors: Rebekah C White et all.

Autism, 2018 May.

For those curious, here's the original paper: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053878/1/Personification%20in%20autism_final%20accepted.pdf

Scientific paper published in PubMed. Heading: Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don't read it. Authors: Rebekah C White et all. Autism, 2018 May. For those curious, here's the original paper: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053878/1/Personification%20in%20autism_final%20accepted.pdf

Nobel Prize For Titles. Right away.

07.03.2026 09:36 πŸ‘ 145 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

Use your words.

06.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 781 πŸ” 126 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 23

The first three albums I ever had.

They totally deserved it and I would do it again.

03.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

haha I did have an LP smashing party though just myself a hundred years ago when I was 20.

Sgt Peppers soundtrack was in fact the first to go.
Then Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door
and Supertramp Breakfast in America.

03.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If there were an LP smashing party, I wouldn't bring that. But first in line would be the soundtrack to Sgt Peppers. God that was awful. I feel gross thinking about it.

03.03.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, that one doesn't fit perfectly on the list.

03.03.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My criteria:
Famous artist
I had the album and listened to it a lot as a kid
Nobody ever really mentions it
I didn't like it then but thought I did and somehow felt compelled to listen to it

03.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
the B-52's β–Ά MesoΒ·poΒ·tamia (Full Album)
the B-52's β–Ά MesoΒ·poΒ·tamia (Full Album) YouTube video by DBC - Dead Beat Club β™ͺ

The B52s, Mesopotamia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_wg...

Talking Heads, More Songs about Food and Buildings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_pc...

Jimi Hendrix, Bold: Axis of Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4g...

Beatles/BeeGees Sgt Pepper's soundtrack
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP8C...

03.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Second Rate Albums by First Rate Artists

Wings, Venus and Mars
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cG7...

Pink Floyd, Animals
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KQ...

Led Zeppelin, Presence
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi2D...

The Doors, all albums
...

03.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

A gentle reminder that contemporary neural networks are only an abstraction built upon Boolean logic

And that said neural networks are only an echo of a whisper of what organic neurons are.

01.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5
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How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

How far back in time can you understand English? A story where each paragraph travels back in time.

Unless you’ve studied middle English I doubt you (like me) will make it back further than 1200.

22.02.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5
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dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

21.02.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know about the king, but some sort of British English (Southern Standard BrE)? @lynneguist.bsky.social

20.02.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

18.02.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 23726 πŸ” 5066 πŸ’¬ 486 πŸ“Œ 641
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Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

19.02.2026 02:21 πŸ‘ 8583 πŸ” 1052 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 36

β€œWe don’t know if the models are conscious”

Yeah, we do. They are not.

16.02.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

footnotes should have room for footnotes

15.02.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Students need to remember that Inigo Montoya method for emails and greetings:
"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

Polite Greeting
Name
Relevant Personal Link
Manage Expectations

Keep it BRIEF.

10.02.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Blue–green distinction in language - Wikipedia

Roses are red
Violets are grue
In Ancient Egyptian,
Pashto, and Zulu

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2...

14.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 599 πŸ” 173 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 18

Roses are red
You wear a bandana
Time flies like an arrow
Fruit flies like a banana

14.02.2026 18:24 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

"They’re writing TypeScript that compiles to JavaScript that runs in a V8 engine written in C++ that’s etc etc etc... all while npm pulls in 400 packages they’ve never read a line of.

But sure. AI is the moment they lost track of what’s happening."

www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_th...

11.02.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0