Stephen Aloysius Katze

@steppencat

Polytropos, Asshole with a heart of gold, bad milk blood robot, soy demon, he/him, leftist I guess Free Palestine 🇵🇸 (Redacted) all ICE agents Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Pfp: Cat with top hat and monocle Banner: Inflatable autopilot from Airplane!

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Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· 12d

My diplomatic response

Picture of hand making wanking gesture. Text says “[DISMISSIVE WANKING GESTURE]”

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· 12d

Babe wake up new phase of the war dropped

Newsweek article headline that says “U.S.-Iran conflict enters new phase a...”

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· 17d

Missed it by THAT much

Screenshot from Apple Health app that shows the average steps for the week and the average is 9999

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· 17d

Last night I had a vision of the moon pop into my head and told me I must print the moon. So I printed the moon. It came out quite nice

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· 18d

If you can make sense of this collection of words then congratulations you get to be the CEO of Microsoft and you should also probably seek help.

LinkedIn post by ceo of Microsoft Satya Nadella:

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In a world where software has real marginal cost for the first time, how do we ensure frontier benefits are diffused across the entire ecosystem?
The key is to optimize the cost-to-outcome frontier in real world context. In practical terms, that means using the right model for each task, and optimizing the context, skills, tools, and agent harness around it.
This is the motivation behind our MAI model family. These models have been built ground up with clean data lineage and optimized for learning transfer from generalist to specialized skills in enterprise RLEs. We continue to make rapid progress in this pursuit.
We can now take saturated frontier capabilities and deliver them at scale and

We can now take saturated frontier capabilities and deliver them at scale and at lower cost through models optimized for high-usage products, while continuing to use frontier models for frontier needs.
We are proving this out across our first party products, and thereby creating a template for every other Al native, Saas, or Enterprise company out there.
In our products, frontier models from OpenAl and Anthropic are part of the orchestration system alongside MAI. But the model is only one part of the hill-climbing system. Harness, memory, context, tools, skills, user interactions, etc. all shape the evals and performance of these agentic systems.
The other key criteria to ensure that you are in control, is your evals should continue to hill climb even when any given model has been removed.
Therefore we build RLEs where models learn inside the product system and are

$continue to hill climb even when any given model has been removed. Therefore we build RLEs where models learn inside the product system and are rewarded for completing the tasks customers actually care about. We train models against the actual product harness, interactions, and outcomes they will encounter. And strategically ensure that the harness, memory, context, skills are externalized outside of the model. Product-specific evals and model independence give us the control and a direct hill to climb, and to keep refining until we reach the right quality-cost target. We are now seeing MAI models outperform general-purpose frontier models in many use cases while using a fraction of the tokens. We believe the biggest opportunity is to optimize all of these layers together in the products where the world works every day. And we are beginning to route traffic across our first-party surfaces to MAI$

We believe the biggest opportunity is to optimize all of these layers together in the products where the world works every day. And we are beginning to route traffic across our first-party surfaces to MAI whenever our models match or outperform frontier alternatives.
We are seeing promising early results across GitHub Copilot, Excel, and Outlook and are beginning to take the same approach across Copilot Chat, PowerPoint, and more. And all these results will only get better as the entire system keeps hill-climbing!
What we are doing across our first party products is also what every enterprise customer can be doing in their real world agentic systems with their proprietary evals, their proprietary RLEs, workflows, and context. We are making all this available as part of Foundry and our toolchain.
Read more here: https://Inkd.in/
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Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· 20d

Whenever I shed this mortal coil I hope I go out like Chekhov

Excerpt from Anton Chekhov’s Wikipedia entry on his death:

Anton sat up unusually straight and said loudly and clearly (although he knew almost no German): Ich sterbe (I'm dying'). The doctor calmed him, took a syringe, gave him an injection of camphor, and ordered champagne. Anton took a full glass, examined it, smiled at me and said: 'It's a long time since I drank champagne.' He drained it and lay quietly on his left side, and I just had time to run to him and lean across the bed and call to him, but he had stopped breathing and was sleeping peacefully as a child
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Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· 21d

Once again posting this evergreen meme

People surrounding lobsters suggesting they are watching a lobster fight. Everyone is labeled “leftists”

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· 26d

Accept no substitutes

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· 28d

Plate or shrimp or “plate of shrimp”.

Miller from Repo Man bathed in the green glow of the alien infested Chevy Malibu

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· Jul 11

Let’s not jump to conclusions

PEOPLE could not independently verify the legitimacy of CNN's video, and it does not show the face of the person on the stretcher, who is under a blanket with their feet sticking out.

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· Jul 5

I’m no expert but I suspect this box I found on my walk today contained illegal fireworks

Box that looks like a Patriot missile launcher and has a picture of a cannabis leaf on the side and on the other side says “Blue Dream”, a popular strain of cannabis

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· Jul 3

Picture of Charlie and Mac from It’s Always Sunny in top hats mimicking crying

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· Jun 20

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons gif

Picture of Homer Simpson lying down instead of studying for a test. Three stereotypical nerds are standing next to him looking at him sadly. Homer is saying “I’ll hide under some coats and hope that somehow everything will work out”

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· Jun 19

Everything about the announcement on their page reads like fake bullshit but you had any inkling that this was real, “a spa in downtown San Francisco” should disavow those thoughts.

AI pics of some fake spa. Text says “The Midjourney Spa
The first Spa will be opening in the heart of San Francisco in 2027.
Our spa will have hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, and cozy rooms with pools of golden light which softly scan your body.
Concept renders of the Midjourney Spa.
It should be a place you love going, whether it's by yourself, or with friends. It should be available 24/7. The scans are a side-effect. You barely think of them when going to the spa. But suddenly, you have a huge library of data about your health.”

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· Jun 14

Steven Spielberg is an amazing director but such a mediocre writer that his movies are aggressively mid (at least everything made after Jaws).

Norman Rockwell painting of guy standing to make a statement meme

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· Jun 14

90 degrees but also high winds and thunderstorms and gnats. I’m not a religious man but this sure feels like a higher power trying to tell us something

Picture from Apple weather app of Washington DC weather report showing 90 degrees but also “severe weather” and thunderstorms

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· Jun 10

We visited the pier last night to say goodbye (also to the Chit Chat). Super bummed.😞

Picture of a pier sinking into the ocean.

Picture of a cafe that was on a sinking pier. The cafe wall is heavily cracked and warped

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· Jun 7

Maybe I’ll skip the World Cup this year

Politico headline that is truncated but what is visible is “How do you stop Ebola at the World Cup…”

Stephen Aloysius Katze@steppencat· Jun 4

Been on a 3D printing thing and a James Bond thing lately. Absolutely gleeful about my latest print. It comes apart into a pen, cigarette case, and lighter like the “real” golden gun.