Scientific experts are the worst kind of experts, except for all the other kinds of experts.

“The bubble bursting was never going to be one event, but a series of sentiment shifts against technology that has never proven its worth outside of specious hype” @edzitron.com

It’s so stupid that all the “but what about fairness in women’s sports” people are always talking about Oh No What If Trans and never, like, paying women athletes more

@mailfence.com been getting no connection to mailfence, and a 503 "maintenance" message. What's going on? Is there some place I can check the status? Thanks

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Delightful story about a 17-year-old homeschooler who disproved the 40-year-old Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture. She decided to apply straight to graduate school, skipping the rest of high school and college. When she finishes, a PhD will be her first degree.

In a mini-series on the blog we highlight the work of our maintainers, component owners, and members of the larger community. This week we meet @jaimes.bsky.social an experienced software developer & system builder, and a component owner for the project: cloudnative-pg.io/blog/contrib...

@newsweek.com From last week, based on interviews with Yann LeCun, David Eagleman, and me. The three of us could be described as AI realists, and have devoted our lives to AI and understanding intelligence. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/04/a...

I promise you this GOP Senate bill is worse than you think 1) Biggest wealth transfer in American history 2) ~Trillion dollar cut to Medicaid 3) Nursing homes shutting down 4) Kills solar industry, raising prices 5) Grid blackouts Thread #TheyWantYouDead @thunen.bsky.social @mkblyth.bsky.social

This will put a grin on your face

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

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Knuth is always inspiring: > Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email...

@symbo1ics.bsky.social Feliciano fonts on your radar? Has a new iteration of Merlo out, and it's phenomenal, and cheap! Up there with Heldane, but renders better on Windows / Linux. felicianotype.com/typefaces/me...

Today's new blog post on how the hype around each of Generative AI and Humanoid Robots is driven by similar pressures, with some slight differences in emphasis. rodneybrooks.com/parallels-be...

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I often call this one to question.

Repost if you have tinnitus.

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You’re more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark.

Hello, I wrote a new talk that is ultimately about how misery is a dumb strategy egoless.engineering

I went to grad school at Columbia in the 2000's and could not be bothered to go to commencement. Instead, a few friends made our own graduation gowns and had our own ceremony at Battery Park. Today this is a proud memory.

Coding is like running: those who are still doing it in their forties are the ones that actually liked it.

Was thinking of taking a writing class. Looked at MasterClass, and they have Malcolm Gladwell in there teaching. Wonders never cease.

Hat tip mietek

My favorite quote from Sense and Sensibility was written by Emma Thompson for the 1995 movie adaptation, and not by Jane Austen. Huh.

My hope is that the slog that is Dune 2 will encourage people to watch the David Lynch version

My typography mania seems to have subsided. I've settled on Carot Mono, Graphik, and Arno Pro. I wonder what my next feverish obsession will be.

There's more thought in this fight scene of The Grandmaster than in the whole overlong Oppenheimer movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqjR...

The godlike Emily Wilson wrote winged words and I finally manged to read The Iliad in full. I still prefer The Odyssey.