uzumaki hours up here www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Good, cheery reading to close out the year:

Martin McDonagh should adapt “Waiting for Godot,” but make it Irish.

Simplest recipe ever, and a big hit with family: buy a basic olive oil focaccia, top with sliced mozzarella di bufala, grated asiago, fried zucchini slices, thinly sliced red onions, oregano. Bake at 350 for 10 min, then finish off by broiling at 500 for 2 minutes.

afternoon, y’all

One of the trick-or-treating kids tonight was dressed as a pair of cards, six and seven of diamonds. Iykyk.

Dave’s Hot Chicken is basically System of a Down of fried chicken joints.

Next year I’ll go as Big Yud (wear a sequined fedora and a tshirt that says “If anyone builds it, everyone will die”).

🎶 average American, average American average American hates median American they have a fight, average wins average American 🎶

Prompted by @fintanmallory.com's paper on LLMs as stochastic measuring devices, I propose adopting a metrologist's view of machine learning in general -- it's all measurement systems, always has been. realizable.substack.com/p/the-metrol...

Turns out my daughter loves fried zucchini, so I’ve now added spaghetti alla nerano to our regular dinner rotation.

we are witnessing a genuine decline in the taste of american elites

Lily Allen’s West End Girl >>> Taylor Swift’s Diary of a Showgirl

got my Halloween reading all lined up for this year

The Vengaboys are Dutch???

Autocorrect on my phone almost replaced “token” with “golem” just now.

Look at the list of names on this thing, it's a confederacy of grifters (plus cranks and true believers). www.agidefinition.ai

It’s happening, people! www.theverge.com/news/799312/...

evening, all

Speaking of Thiel-funded outfits, whatever happened to Inference Review?

I hope he quotes Arendt‘s “The Human Condition” next.

closing of the spritz season

Leuchtturm notebook with 120g paper (dot grid) and Sailor Kiwaguro ink. Nice!

Through the largely forgettable NYT piece about “the disappearing novel-reading man,” I came across this chemically pure sample of a book critic inventing a new Type of Guy To Get Mad At and then proceeding to get mad at it verbosely. lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

McDonald’s fries generously sprinkled with truffle salt, as accompaniment to a bone dry martini.

Your periodic reminder that Mirowski’s _Machine Dreams_ is a phenomenal book:

what a difference 10 years make

“What am I, a tailor?”

This is one of more beautiful album covers I’ve seen recently: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Rudolf Kalman put it nicely (and provocatively): link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

There is this very Silicon Valley phenomenon of LARPing an engineer/philosopher type, where the engineer part is "everything is computer" and the philosopher part is "everything is Bayes rule." Many such cases.

@supermeyn.bsky.social is a skilled cocktail photographer

The new Divine Comedy record: a perfect 10.

uh .... doge.allen-zhu.com

I saw this circulating on twitter, I thought it was a joke but it’s real

I found a clinic for ailing AIs

I was giving a quick intro to Kolmogorov axioms of probability in my stochastic control class today, so I said that the sample space Ω consists of Kantian things-in-themselves, and random variables defined on it are our access to phenomenal reality.

We are now faced with the truly Heideggerian question: what does it mean to authentically live on the internet?

How much more Midwest can we get? The answer is, none. None more Midwest.

News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n

Excellent review by @ositanwanevu.com in NYRB of Sam Tanenhaus' tome on William F. Buckley: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

More Stochastic Gradient

I’m for bourbon abundance. Just sayin’.

This book has never been translated from French. Time to bite the bullet and learn the language of Diderot and Voltaire? www.amazon.com/querelle-uni...

Bergson: "We instinctively tend to solidify our impressions in order to express them in language. ... we are now standing before our own shadow: we believe that we have analyzed our feeling, while we have really replaced it by a juxtaposition of lifeless states which can be translated into words."

what we do in the shadows

Lunch of champions: p’tit basque, roasted almonds, and chilled Crenshaw melon.