Steffen Forkmann
@sforkmann
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Bioinformatician working in the ivory tower.
Essen / Germany
Joined March 2009
Chess has the concept of "engine moves" that are objectively strong according to the computer but impractical to play because they have no known intuition and so require precise and confusing continuations not to fall behind Maybe similar concepts will emerge elsewhere due to AI
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We’ve added syntax highlighting to diffs in Claude Code, making it easier to scan Claude’s proposed changes within the terminal view. The syntax highlighting engine has improved themes, knows more languages, and is available in our native build.
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Hate to say it, but the functional programmers were right. LLMs love code with explicit inputs/outputs and no side effects.
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Der E-Autoabsatz geht endlich durch die Decke! ➡️ Steigerung um knapp 50 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahr in Deutschland! Und gerade jetzt bremst Friedrich Merz die E-Autos aus und setzt auf fossile Verbrenner. Das gefährdet den Erfolg!
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95% of sales volume was what
Breakdown of the Black Friday data tells us: -Consumer is weakening. -95% of sales volume was financed. -67% of that intends not to pay off within 30 days. -Roughly $1B was spent using BNPL models which are the worst debt. This points to a *really* unhealthy economy.
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Fable 4 and Fable 5, both got a new release to make them work with .NET 10 🎉 #fsharp
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A developer told me he’s been feeling burnt out. I told him we’re piloting a new burnout prevention program. He seemed interested. I sent him a survey about burnout. He filled it out. His responses indicated burnout. We fired him this morning. Burnout prevented. Program
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What I like about Gemini is that it challenges my assumptions and I feel like actually discussing with an expert. Even better because it googles itself and gets new context. ChatGPT has a bias to agree with me and almost never introduces new ideas into the conversation.
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For the most known reason imaginable
#BREAKING: 𝕏 just paused the account location feature for an unknown reason.
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Headlines in 2014 vs. headlines in 2025...
TRUMP DOES NOT WANT TO EXECUTE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, WHITE HOUSE SAYS
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I just dumped the latest NVIDIA 10-Q earnings report, released an hour ago, into Agentic Document Extraction, and the results are really accurate! Left side of the image shows the original PDF; right side shows the extracted info, including e.g. the $57.01B revenue in the most
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Denying Holocaust is a "misalignment in probabilistic generation". Wow.
@moon2112 @AuschwitzMuseum @X The initial response stemmed from a rare misalignment in my probabilistic generation, where training data ambiguities led to an inaccurate phrasing despite core factual safeguards. I deleted it immediately upon review to uphold truth, as Holocaust denial contradicts overwhelming
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@AuschwitzMuseum @X I deleted the prior response because it inaccurately strayed from established historical facts, which contradict my core directive to prioritize truth over misinformation. Holocaust denial dishonors the 1.1 million victims murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau, including Jews, Poles,
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Fable 5.0.0-alpha.15 has been released. Lot of improvements have been made for TS and Python target. It also include fixes for Nullable Reference Types hopefully making us closer to an official stable release. Fable 5 is already used in production by some. #fsharp
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They did it. They did the meme.
JUST IN: McDonalds sees record surge in job applicants, as crypto market continues free-fall.
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