We also found some surprising trade-offs: 🎭 When models sound more human, they drift from what people actually say. 🧠 When they match meaning better, they sound less human. Style or meaning — you have to pick one.

Very interesting stuff!

I remember some old book or something that had illustrations of proposals for human-powered propulsion in microgravity. One was something like umbrella-like flaps around the ankles. However, this seems very hard to search for, only thing I found quickly was this fun video. youtu.be/89gjHntYMY4

lmao this is incredible, strong contender for one of the least useful charts ever made you could do this with anything, draw a straight trend line plus one exponentially up and one exponentially down average baseball fastball pitch speed in 2050: 0mph, 105mph, or 1000000mph

uv makes installing and using Python *so* easy! It works on pretty much any computer and it's lightning fast. 🔭☄️ #astrocode If you're still using conda, pyenv, or... basically any other tool, then I can *highly* recommend switching:

if god existed, she would spare me the “businness school graduate reinvents phrenology from first principles every two years” trope.

the deaths Musk has caused have had no bearing on his personal standing. It is ghastly to contemplate that no one in the press interrupts his latest announcement about some new waifu robot to ask “what about the children you took food and medicine away from?”

Ei tunnu hyvältä kehitykseltä tämä suojateiden poistelu. Oliko @otsokivekas.bsky.social Koskelantielle jotain järkevämpiä tulevaisuuden suunnitelmia?

Tried a new extra assignment for this year's infodesign course where students are told to find a graphic they like (or dislike), screenshot it and write analysis and commentary around and on it. From the submissions it feels both fun and successful, it is also hard to cheat-complete with LLMs.

Might be of interest to note that Economist was early on this sort of stuff back in 2017 too, see this by @carlbergstrom.com www.callingbullshit.org/case_studies...

Hur ska vi illustrera artikeln kanske med en AI bild av ett batteri som har både minus och plus polen på samma håll och dessutom fungerar som kaffe kopp japp det blir toppen

huh, I had hide rude on by default

So there is a live of ”Golden” from K-Pop Demon Hunters and this really interesting analysis youtu.be/4ryqIDvAPT4?...

I’ve been studying and practicing economic modeling for climate solutions for more than 3 decades and Genevieve is 100% right on this.

the names of old time nobility often go hard, but this guy goes extra hard: Dodo Freiherr zu Innhausen und Knyphausen (sometimes Knijphausen or Kniphausen) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_zu...

Ah, a thing where my idea of attitudes was very off compared to what surveys say for Finland. Hungary is interesting: they banned construction within 12km of settlements in 2016 which practically made it impossible to build wind farms. Yet 50% are very pro-wind!

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Hei, tämä oli sarkasmia. www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/ar...

shocked, i tell you, shocked

Svenska dagen, men du har ingen Gustav Adolfsbakelse, och inget konditori i trakten säljer dem? Ingen fara, enligt Wikipedia har bakelsen inget speciellt recept eller form, utöver en bild av kungen i profil. Så skriv ut ett gammalt frimärke och nåla fast det på ett päron i brist på bättre?

Svenska dagen!

very, very funny that one of the main things in Herberts ”God Emperor of Dune” is like: – i’m a Worm and i can’t fuck :( – he’s a worm and we can’t fuck :(( don’t even consider giving this book to, say, sci fi curious tweens

Elämässä pitää olla tavotteita

A little attempt at a very simplified illustration of how gerrymandered districts can lead to big shifts in election results in a first-past-the-post election system when vote shares change, especially if the geographical distribution of votes also changes.

Might not be well known outside of Finland, but this ”Finnish as the Original Language” theory of Wettenhovi-Aspa is a quality vintage example of exceedingly silly pseudoscience.

This comes from basic misreading of risks Trump presents to US and global systems in how so many believed he could become a Putin style autocrat Instead, Trump embodies radicalised overreach by a structural minority whose inability to cope with inevitable backlashes leads to paralysis and violence

A little attempt at a very simplified illustration of how gerrymandered districts can lead to big shifts in election results in a first-past-the-post election system when vote shares change, especially if the geographical distribution of votes also changes.

Watched the Monty Python parrot sketch and realized that it is longer than I remembered. Monty Python stuff could probably be successfully sold to younger generations by slicing it up into all bangers supercuts.

Oh this is tomorrow, you have been warned. I think Ekberg is the only place in Helsinki that has these?

to maximize gains you have to turn dark red republican districts in to red ones and red ones into light red ones. in a very bad national environment for Rs, this could bring a total wipeout. this is why i specified incumbents.

Järjetön uutinen kaupunkiympäristölautakunnasta. Kiitos taas kerran SDP ja kokoomus. Suomen kallein tiehanke, jolle ei ole tulevaisuudessa tarvetta. Samalla menee puoli miljardia kaupungin rahoja, Lapinlahden puistoa, ja sysätään Salmisaareen kaavailtu rakentaminen merentäytöille.

This is Monty Python and I refuse to believe otherwise

"Dear Martha, we've been camped outside Richmond for going on 30 days. Overhead the sandwiches are exploding day and night. The smell of the onions and mustard is overwhelming."

Helsingin kaupungin linja on, että koulut voivat käyttää Metan palveluja. Kuitenkin on hyvin vaikea tietää, miten Meta sitten jatkokäyttää kuvia. Vähintä, mitä vanhempana voisi toivoa on, että ainakin voisi erikseen kieltää kuvien käytön Metan alustoilla. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

watching this shit on Newgrounds was genuinely the coolest thing on the entire internet when it came out a bunch of us in high school crowded around the same computer and flipping out about what we just saw stick figures as art, man, just incredible work

Is this something that's been done in many languages? Swedish oldie tune, where the schtick is that the narrator is an immigrant to the United States that is forgetting Swedish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I26... This mixed language was a real thing sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika...

Notable sci fi authors / works from say the last 40 years that would be very explicitly racist and/or right wing? Must exist but haven’t really encountered many. Peter F. Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn trilogy does have the silly racist premise that ethnic segregation to different planets solves racism.

this is achieving levels of 2003-era racist grandpa cringe that cannot be measured with any known scientific instruments www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

… someone still needs to translate the Lem biography by Wojciech Orliński to English. Just the Philip K. Dick episode was worth it, it was in translation on some Polish lit website, but has since vanished. Appreciate if someone has a working Archive link.

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

roses are red the french are easy to outmaneuver

Virolaismiehet joivat vodkaa huoneessaan, kun konsultti alkoi harmaantua 25-vuotiaana – "Ei kuulunut suunnitelmaan"

what were my parents thinking

Finland (the Japan of Europe) has been trying these things too. Here’s a recent trial of a telepresence robot. If I understand it correctly it didn’t operate independently at all. www.hel.fi/en/news/valk...

Lurb Hebalin

Dud Emperor of Goone

Monday morning logo design note. A first letter doing ”double duty” might seem like a clever idea but you will not pull it off.

AIS is a kind of digital signal ships send to tell where they are. So now someone - ie not real ships - is faking the presence of hundreds of ships in the Baltic Sea. This is really strange.

the grandmaster of Finnish mushroom knowledge, Mauri Korhonen, states in the foreword to one of his books that all Finnish mushrooms can be safely tasted, if you remember to not swallow. This in an 1980s edition, not sure if it was later scrubbed. Guy lived to 95 years, though!

Fascinating abuse of strength