Last penguin is an imposter

3D/VR simulation idea: you hold a chunk of some unknown crystal and turn it around, under an X-ray sun. You see the spiky patterns of diffraction. Figure out what that crystal is.

Will Wight's Cradle series is the gold standard for English-original cultivation fantasy. It's authentic enough that he clearly knows and loves the genre but it skips the random off-handed misogynistic pseudo-confucianism that sometimes appears in the source material.

I saw a cat having a rich inner experience four days ago bsky.app/profile/tbab...

Clippy but it's a @minormobius.bsky.social bot and every time he pops up he's made you a website about your problem you didn't ask for #FastTakeoff

notifications with threatening auras

@norvid-studies.bsky.social watch this or else

A LIZARD LIVES IN MY RAISED BED WITH MY TOMATOES THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

the two cultures

You must have that top chicken in you

- @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social

we need to be building an entire civilization of non-euclidian rats.

AI art of bluesky accounts (list)

related but I've always wanted to read a 'history of wargaming essay and what they actually did', mentioned on the 'stack plagiarizing the 'witter substack.com/@norvidstudi...

mobius georg

does the eye tranmsit information

the more you know

Me sowing: Call me Broghaaqlwtlswi Mnorsfodimwauy!! Me reaping: What is my name? I can't log in.

Who else is like this? I first knew Chris Arnade from his social commentary through photography, but forgot his name, and was surprised to learn years later that he was the author of the long walks Substack I'd been enjoying

I had this same thing with HPMOR, sort of An olympiad teammate recommended it and I bounced off it I found LessWrong independently and only connected the two later

“A-H-H-H-R-R-E-M-M,” roared the gateman, clearing his throat and snapping smartly to attention. “This is Dictionopolis, a happy kingdom, advantageously located in the Foothills of Confusion and caressed by gentle breezes from the Sea of Knowledge.”

non euclidean virtual rat backrooms maze, who's building this @gracekind.net

haymakered by this search page on bullet ant gloves out of nowhere btw

for future reference? old.reddit.com/r/mattcolvil...

If you want the most famous example of the Wuxia RPG, though, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leg... but as we note again, there is nothing particularly Chinese about this. Most Japanese RPG probably would do it better.

Efficiency win: This virus farm also produces eggs and dairy

codetard. short for codex tardigrade

Saving Private Greegle Mudzone

isekai where milton friedman and john milton switch lives

what idiot called it unaligned behavior when we could have called it "gradient dissent"

An initial burst of snakes rapidly decays into clouds of yellow gas, which sink back to the center and finally condense into pale orbs with colorful atmospheres

my contribution, jrpg is descended from dnd which traces back to kriegspiel, a prussian war game i defer to yuxi on questions of easian novel genre

there was this paper on locusts navigating in VR but it is simulating a swarm. the old view is that the locusts follow optical flow but the paper suggests they act more like magnets in a spin glass, following other individuals within a certain angle of their visual field

the author of the my little pony resume that went viral years ago is a notable ai vision researcher

@norvid-studies.bsky.social here I will admit I've already forgotten this new username myself

keyboard where the keys are mental motions. maybe a church organ setup

MJ scrapbook II (2023) substack.com/home/post/p-...

I realized I could initialize all the particles on the surface of an sdf by just starting each at a random location and then taking a single newton's method step along the sdf gradient. Set a high hazard rate and particles can't wander. Here I am at 2x speed trying out random fluoddities this way.

fresh balloon time lets pop hard

Is this Penguin Loss

list of all the atomic tweets I've tagged @tk0l.bsky.social in

Huh, imagine that

Let's work on that filtering

hell yeah