Star Formation xkcd.com/3222/

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

While developing an ATProto app, I went down a rabbit hole around the odd way Bluesky defines "character limits". I have a challenge for anyone who knows a lot about languages: mastodon.social/@mcc/1161050... If you don't like reading, you can just play around with: data.runhello.com/bs-limits/

Silksong first playthrough video playlist, just finished uploading Part 24a, where I got to another ending! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Cogwork Waltz: Cogwork Dancers but it's in 3 instead of 4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1oS...

She's learning #silksong

Silksong first playthrough video playlist, just finished uploading Part 14d, where I got to an ending for the first time! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

毎日ホロナイ1234日目 見果てぬ夢を見てる この先、きっとキミに会える夢を

'Cello' comes from 'violoncello'. This Italian word has a funny literal meaning: "little big viola". That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola': viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola). The part '-cello' is only a suffix. Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':

It’s squirrel appreciation day! Squirrels are not literally dark matter. Thanks @xkcd.com

About 20 Pounds xkcd.com/3085

I do like the sky

"Ascend" Here's my take on Hornet from Hollow Knight: Silksong ✨ I hope you aII Iike it! 😄

What looks to be an interesting paper (outside of my area of expertise) on LLMs and hallucinations: "hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded -- language models are optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance"

Night Migration Oil, 30x20in, 2024 at @ixarts.bsky.social Art Show next month! In our night sky there is a dark band that runs through the Milky Way, known as the Great Rift. This darkness is where the stars of our galaxy are obscured by vast clouds of interstellar dust and geese … er, gas.

today I fixed a hard-to-find bug in C# code that would *not* have taken this long to find if this were all Rust code

Hey everyone! Exciting to be finally releasing Silksong with @teamcherry.bsky.social on the 4th! The soundtrack album will be available on Steam, GOG and Bandcamp on day one, with other music platforms to follow soon after! Album price: USD 11.99 | EUR €11.79 | YEN ¥1200 Cheers :)

Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September. Release times: 7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST Game price: USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY ¥2300

Rainbow

Autumn is near 🦊 🍂

GoldyLocs

I just made a guide for using the auto-hit-counter built in to the Default Hollow Knight autosplitter: Hollow Knight Auto-hit-counter Guide: LiveSplit + HitCounterManager www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC5...

I made a mapping from all the possible toki pona syllables into musical chords: toki pi kalama musi www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1vm...

Young Eagle spotted at the Lake

Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s

Well, here we go. After well over two years, here's a new version of my programming languages book, PLAI (v3.2.5). As always, free of cost! Can't thank enough all the people named in the acknowledgments. Enjoy! www.plai.org

Swept Away Somedays my brain is too fried from everything going on, so I just doodle some mindless wiggly lines that make me happy #art

Our decades-old microwave oven is finally breaking down so we're buying a new one, and I thought it interesting how now instead of discussing desirable features in appliances we discuss undesirable ones: network connectivity, talking, any AI that isn't the actual point, etc

My 30 day algorithmic listening challenge is over and now when I wake up in the morning I’m excited to find out what I get to listen to while drinking my morning coffee. I’d say it was a success. Idk if I’ll continue to post daily but if you’re wondering: July 1: youtu.be/WtEQsOSVkbM?...

My favorite Alphabet Song: I genuinely find it the most useful alphabet song for singing to myself while sorting things alphabetically, when I need to remind myself which letter comes where in the order. Because it goes so fast, it gets to the point more quickly.

There is no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might write a comment, say thanks, post on HN, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people reading and remembering the author, posting on HN, etc. That is, it totally destroys the incentive structure.

If you have an iPhone and you hit the lock button five times the phone can only be unlocked with the numeric code or password. Touch/Face ID won’t work. Cops can get your face or fingerprint but they can’t compel you to put in a code. Saying this for no reason at all. Talking into the wind.

Rainbow bug friends 🐌🌈🐛 #art #traditionalart #cuteart #pridemonth

Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/

A map of some time zones, showing negative UTC offsets on the left, positive UTC offsets on the right, Northern Hemisphere DST on the top, and Southern Hemisphere DST on the bottom

Rainbow

More on this btw. Potential way to kick it from your servers. The ID is 1153984868804468756 Remember, never believe an AI bot's claims that they won't train your stuff without permission. They will. #Discord

"Bias Automation" Source unverified via FB group against AI #ai #ethics #bias #academicchatter

Midnight burn #art #dragon #moon

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Turns out this is fixed in newest version of terra. Also I found this video, "Mr. Incredible learns the truth about floating point numbers". www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Fs... #Rstats #python

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

[Patron of Spring]

0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Happy 8 Years, Hollow Knight! I bring to you today, a look back through the rich history of its most popular speedrun. It's a 2 month project, and I'm happy to finally share it with you! Enjoy! The World Record History of Hollow Knight Speedruns: WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=s4yR...

There is a uservoice about it. twitch.uservoice.com/forums/93381...

twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92842... here's a uservoice post telling twitch not to do this in the kindest words i could muster so we can yell at them from all sides