The john legend tweet but for getting people to extrapolate AI capabilities 6 months.

I'm surprised at the number of people confidently predicting that Nolan will for the first time in his life make a bad movie.

Inflation must be terrible for California city finances, because all your costs go up but your property taxes can't.

I had to see it myself with some 490nm LEDs, wow that’s cyan as hell

"Social Deduction Party Games have a long and significant history, dating to the first century AD. The very first round of the genre ever played was so successful that it founded a major world religion, kicked off with the now famous words, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.'"

t's gotta be a song that was as much of a tentpole as Smells Like Teen Spirit was for gen x and the elder millennials, and for that I think there are only two possible candidates. Lose Yourself, and Hey Ya. They are the only two songs with anywhere near the same level of enthusiasm.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Normally deleting things from the context is taken to be more expensive than it is worth because it requires invalidating the kv cache, but I wonder if just keeping the remaining bits of the kv cache and ignoring the changes induced by the deletions would work.

It is a lovely coincidence for apartment decor that the tropical understory is so similar to a dark dingy apartment. A huge range of low light adapted plants to choose from.

If you want to imply that something extends to Infinity in a vector diagram, is it better to cut it off with jaggies or to have it fade out? I am neutral about it stylistically, and just want to use the one people consider most clear.

I need to make a catalogue of the objects you should seek in order to see the forbidden colors.

Layers to understanding induced demand 1: Adding lanes reduces traffic. 2: Adding lanes doesn't reduce traffic. 3. Adding lanes increases throughput at same latency. 4. Congestion causes far suboptimal throughput and latency. 5. So congestion price it. 6. Pricing only works if transit is competitive

Inverted slumdog millionaire plot structure where the foreground story is of the main character fucking up over and over again, and the background story is one of that character's ancestors surviving and having descendants because of that presently-maladaptive instinct.

These are also the exact frequencies that fall in the trough between the blue LED and yellow phosphor that "white" leds are made from. If you want to see 480nm light, you gotta go outside. The cyans are outside only.

How do even professional politicians get infected by this kind of brainworm? It's so so dumb.

Memes I wish I had made.

Blue morphos' wings have a big range of unrepresentable cyans. It's structural color, so pure frequencies, and all squarely in the blue green region screens can't show you. They look nothing like this.

Little did we know that the triangle centers were the names of god.

I hope that the internet being trigger happy about possible pandemics bleeds over to health officials being overzealous about them, because that is definitely the direction we want them to err. We want the ambient climate of opinions to be conducive to the officials being unreasonable.

Your audience will most likely shoehorn it into the greater political happenings of the time for you. You probably don't need to do that part.

Preparing to make myself blind accidentally by building super bright lights at frequencies at the edge of human vision.

I was thinking of trying to build a chromaticity diagram by placing LEDs at their wavelength position around the outer curve, shining down at a white piece of paper, but then I realized the white paper would fluoresce and screw everything up.

The bluesky feed demonstrates why we won't get a democratic Rogan. Y'all are monomaniacal about politics.

GENTLENESS (1997) Acrylic on Canvas - 11” x 13” Not a classical Virtue, but based on observing my young son with our aging family cat. It's how I hope we'll care for all the earth's creatures. www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ge...

AI sceptics have long dismissed short or medium timelines as speculation with no basis in data. But recent revenue growth undercuts this argument. It's now the AI sceptics who have to show that current trends will break. www.update.news/p/the-tables...

When you sleep on a problem and it suddenly becomes trivial it feels like leveling up in a videogame.

ACAB includes the speed of light.

TIL why so many white objects glow under black light. There is a whole industry of taking things that are naturally yellowish, and making them appear white by adding compounds that convert UV to Blue. This whole time I thought it was something about white. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical...

Sapir-Whorf Total victory that my whole life I have thought of green traffic lights as green instead of a cyan too intense to represent on a conventional screen, which is what they actually are.

The cosmic speed limit is the C in ACAB

REPTILE UNFAZED BY BULLYING: Bro, you have no chill.

We are all leading cyan deficient lives. I can't even show you what you're missing.

ACAB includes the human condition.

Teaching is so fun for me that I mistake it for a universal human urge.

Unfortunately Will is too nice to do the thing that would actually work, calling out the harassers by name and directing an equivalent stream of abuse at them.

I think it's very hard to tell how Elon actually spends his time. He's tweeting all hours of the day, but appears to put zero thought into each tweet.

When you speak the last word of the incantation that summons the art nouveau fairy.

It worked!

Man I'm super proud of this. This feels like it should be an exploratorium exhibit.

Something cool that I noticed a few years ago when painting with fluorescent paints for Halloween. Fluorescent paints use additive rather than subtractive colors for mixing, because the color is determined not by what they absorb but by what they turn it into when they re-emit it.

20 years after the invention of the smartphone, we're finally getting good papers on the effect of banning smartphones in school. www.nber.org/papers/w35132

it seems sort of bad that empirical research on education is extremely low quality at the exact moment that we need reliable data on the promise and peril of a novel technology

I'm collecting 5/4 songs. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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I don't get why 2nd graders in 2025 still show lower reading ability than before the pandemic. www.nwea.org/research/pub...

Just vibe coded something. I haven't tried it yet, but I think it's correct. If you print this on a top and spin it, it should show you the full spectrum of fully saturated colors in a rainbow.

There's also a clear plausible mechanism of action for it to be unhealthy. We didn't evolve detailed sensitivity to everything we need, instead we evolved broad categories of hunger which are correlated ancestrally. If you're craving vitamin C, and eat fruit flavored candy, you aren't getting it.

Post your 5/4s if you gotem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=upWD...