Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

okay I started doing this this evening instead of scrolling in the interstitial moments and it is SO fun

Someone loves sand a lot magnifiedsand.com and I love that they love sand a lot

♫ psycho killer, cat cassette ♫

Dog: I have incredible hearing! Also Dog: I admit I was laser focused on trying to eat scraps out of the rubbish bin, which I am not allowed to do, which meant I did not hear the boss walk up behind me

My straits? dire (Too current??)

Hey, so, shitty news. I have just had my contract terminated because of lack of available work. This is super a bummer, as I cannot afford to, y'know, live now. Any leads on work-from-home transcription work much appreciated.

Huh. People have actually tested the fuel thing, in NZ no less. This lovely PDF has so many numbers! www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/resou... For Hastings to Levin they report around 15% difference in fuel use between 80km/h and 100km/h target max speed

Oh no! TikTok is attacking us @melbailey.bsky.social!

What a fascinating read ( www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/pap... ), Donald Knuth talks about a solution Claude came up with to an open problem he was working on, and perhaps more interestingly what it tried before it got there.

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.

Kind of the opposite for me, taking notes in a meeting distracts me from engaging in the conversation. Having someone else or a recording or llm handling that lets me be really present in the discussion

Why up uping they whos!?

I often read stuff and I don't understand anything.

DWARF CONTRACTOR: *on the phone* alright so tell me this, BEFORE hand, how greedily were you digging.. uh huh... and how deeply? okay, I don't even need to come out, I can tell ya right now you gotta balrog. I'm gonna be honest with ya, does this mine hold any sentimental value

I mean, my column was satire, but I wasn't wrong.

Slightly diminish a game Partial Annihilation

A Short Walk

On the 15th of December this year, Aotearoa New Zealand passed the 2.5 year mark for Self-ID. As we always said, there have been zero issues arising from this. Not a single incident recorded formally or informally, not a whisper of a problem. The anti-trans activists lied to everyone.

Oh my god…

The topic of the day appears to be "Is Santa GDPR-compliant?" which...says something about the kinds of people I hang out with

ya'll aint ready for the discourse happening on the wall of my local punk bar in 2018

Tool time!!

Here's an idea, double parking fees (from $1 to $2), raise utility taxes by 1%, and make buses free. Iowa City did that and reduced traffic by 5,200 cars and emissions by 24,000 metric tons of co2/year.

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

I have never seen such a perfect image

I am baffled by the coordinate system of the PXL instrument of the Mars rover, if any of you is an expert and has 30 min to spare for a call

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

Lee-Anne is now running a Boosted campaign to support publication of Too Young - if it's something you agree is worthwhile and you can afford it, she'd really appreciate any donation you can make. www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

I'm attempting to raise money to make a limited series podcast looking at how the campaign to get New Zealand to pull out of the Paris climate accords, we've a little over a third of the way toward the goal, can you help make this happen? www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Samurai Pizza Cats!

Ok so you see Mark Hammil and Malcolm McDowell on there and you’re thinking “amazing, incredible”. Alright let me tell you: John “Gimli Rhys Davies is in this game. Tom “Biff” Wilson is in this game. Mark Dacascos is in this game. Casper Van Dien is in this game. WALTON GOGGINS IS IN THIS GAME

I remember when the top of the news cycle for like a week was the Vuvuzela

Helping a missile with performance anxiety while your friend tries to figure out which of his guns keeps saying “I love you!” Is Very Borderlands

Make a band singular Once

This is a pretty good bit

That's a paddlin'

But did Avocado Day pass or not!?

ChatGPT is not your friend! real relationships challenge you toward personal growth, as with Mavis Beacon, a beautiful lady professional who taught me to type really fast.

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-... I know this is only a small part of a complex problem but god it's nice to see something positive in the climate space

I laughed.

Slowly watching the coders I knew who were (quite reasonably!) skeptical about AI coding drift into using it constantly. We crossed some kind of utility line a little while back I think

o/~ goodbye darkness my old friend / fucking morning's here again / interupting my deep sleeping / the comfy things that I was dreaming