Probably a long shot but does anyone on here have a good contact info for Thomas Wildenberg, an independent historian who has written extensively on Billy Mitchell and naval aviation? Would be grateful for any leads on how I can track him down!

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My contribution to The Discourse: Before writing the quoted blog post, I tried to build the thing that I describe in the post. I couldn't figure it out. I've been writing Python professionally for a decade, but it was beyond me.

Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.

I am hiring 4 postdoctoral researchers for up to 4 years each. Topics include ice sheet reconstruction, GIA, spatial stats, and satellite geodesy. Based in Tasmania. All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below) 1/n

I need an emergency reviewer for a paper in semantic similarity and embedding model interpretability, please let me know if you can help! #NLProc

five months of @autonomynews.co. :') we've got a story coming out tomorrow and multiple investigations in the works. Can we get 50 people to drop us $5? Or 5 people to give $50??

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Posting as a total shot in the dark - Does anyone in Western Washington have an electric piano with weighted keys that they no longer use and would be willing to give away for free? I have a ten year old ADHD kid whose heart is set on one for Christmas but it's just not in our budget this year.

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028. Here's a link for $10 off premium. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

I figured out a uv recipe for running tests for any project with pyproject.toml or setuppy using any Python version: uv run --python 3.14 --isolated --with-editable '.[test]' pytest I've wrapped it in a uv-test script: uv-test -p 3.11 Full details here: til.simonwillison.net/python/uv-te...

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University. Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

I sent him an email, since he clearly hadn’t seen it…

In 2011 I wrote a review of Alan Turing's 1948 paper Intelligent Machinery where he considered the case for embodied intelligence. My review was intended for a 2012 centenary celebration of Turing's birth, but no proceedings were published. So here it is. rodneybrooks.com/alan-turing-...

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My youngest daughter "discovered" the transitive property of holding hands: "Dada, when you are holding my hand down the stairs, I am holding your hand down the stairs!"

It’s been a little overshadowed by the slightly unexpected mental health issues that hit me very hard yesterday afternoon, but for what it’s worth here’s the GAMLSS regression post I’ve been working on for the past month #rstats blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

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I’m especially proud of this article I wrote about Gaussian Processes for the Recast blog! 🥳 GPs are super interesting, but it’s not easy to wrap your head around them at first 🤔 This is a medium level (more intuition than math) introduction to GPs for time series. getrecast.com/gaussian-pro...

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the only thing better than TS getting engaged will be when they have their wedding on a day where Trump wants to announce something 🤣

Hi, are you an academic biology lab in the Boston area? I am a lab manager at a local biotech and I will be getting rid of a lot consumables in the near future (as will many of my colleagues, unfortunately). If you would be interested in free consumables, please reach out to me!

Folks, give @victoria.ca a follow on this platform. Our comms team is facing the reality of going from 40,000 X followers to 978 Bluesky followers. We’re doing the right thing by ditching the toxic platform, but we need those followers back. bsky.app/profile/vict...

@chadtopaz.bsky.social You know about this? 🤣

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

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So who is doing the "Start with a Gaussian Process, but when the data gets big, switch over to a deep neural network and retain consistency" work?

Tell me you do not understand how a lot of Americans get informed about things without saying you do not understand how a lot of Americans get informed about things...

Here's the link. My DMs are open. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Jim Hansen has a substack. His first post is good. Jim is one of the greatest climate scientists and his work in the 1980s through 2000s set up the frameworks that we still use today for thinking about forcing and feedbacks. open.substack.com/pub/jimehans...

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

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I know some of my climate colleagues have been downloading documents and website content from both climate.gov and globalchange.gov websites before they were stripped of content or shut down entirely. But is there a single new mirror site that has these all together? Anyone know?

If you think Gillibrand should apologize for and/or resign for her racist meltdown attacking Zohran Mamdani, tell her. Racism has no place in New York, even from sitting US Senators, and especially not from the sitting DSCC chair. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

Did a dog write this? Seriously though: fuck fireworks!

here are the phone numbers of tina kotek: 503-378-4582 (she's the governor and leader of the dems) and mark meek: 503-986-1720 (he's the dem holdout) i encourage you to give them a ring-a-ding-ding today and tell them you DEMAND they call a special session and DEMAND they pass HB2025

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Genuinely, if you happen to be near 21st and Bryant in San Francisco in the next hour, feel free to come and grab a couple of stickers…

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On that note, I'll be looking for postdocs, students, and likely a computational lab tech/lab manager or research software engineer. Please share, and if this kind of work (and the prospect of helping get a new lab off the ground) sounds interesting to you, please reach out!

Hiring a postdoc to scale up and deploy RL-based planning onto some self-driving cars! We'll be building on arxiv.org/abs/2502.03349 and learn what the limits and challenges of RL planning are. Shoot me a message if interested and help spread the word please! Full posting to come in a bit.

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TIL you receive a store credit at Staples when you bring in used batteries for recycle!