deny it if u want but this is what peak musical performance looks like

Sometimes, your preorder shows up early. So excited! 😁 @alepresser.com @kbspangler.com

It's like glitter...it's been hundreds of years and we're STILL finding Vikings everywhere 😆

Same trip to the mountains of NC, different waterfall. I can't remember the name of this one, but it was a bit of a scramble above another falls... whose name I also can't remember 😕 #photography #waterfall

Two shots of the same waterfall (Schoolhouse Falls) in the mountains of NC. I'm still not sure which I prefer. #photography #waterfall

Showing this to the LLM fanboys in my company and asking if this is their god

"how can you get more accurate answers" from an LLM? that's like asking "how can you get more love from a prostitute." that's just not the service provided. — Thomas' words of wisdom

Listen, Roko's Basilisk is essentially Calvinist Satan in transhumanist drag. Which implies the existence of transhumanist Calvinism. From which we get to transhumanist salvation-peddling televangelist-style grifters and transhumanist Seven Mountains Mandate Dominionism. Are we scared yet?

This has always been my assumption

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

I put Humans need to take rest periods on the general action list.

JD Vance right now

No musician has had a greater impact on Titus Andronicus than that of Dan McGee and his incredible band Spider Bags To me, this man is the 🐐, the OG of OGs, carved in stone on my personal Mount Rushmore He also has as big a heart as anyone Please help if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/dan-mcgee-...

My vote is for aperiodic tiling phys.org/news/2023-03...

Fentanyl is very much like a weapon of mass destruction in the sense that Republicans like to lie about finding it and then use that lie as a justification to do ruinous, destructive things

Medicaid covers 60% of all nursing home stays in North Carolina, providing essential support for nearly 35,000 residents. The GOP's reckless budget cuts will devastate these facilities, putting seniors at risk of losing the care they need to survive. NC families deserve better.

this was my exact thought

It's not the worst part, but my mind is blown by Trump confusing the national debt ($36T) with trade deficits.

I think it was someone on here, maybe @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social who posted something I now can't find about two Zen questions for finding clarity: 1. What is this? 2. What is my work? The answer to #1, I think most of us are clear on. The answer to #2 is personal. But probably not "scrolling."

"Their response was far less confused about the bishop's meaning than it had been about the billionaire's: As far as they were concerned, it was a vicious attack. And it was an attack, because any expression of decency is an attack against indecency." www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-a...

Finally!

I'm involved in tech hiring. I've interviewed thousands of engineers. And I'd like to tell you about a disturbing trend I've seen in tech in the last 10 years 🧵

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This whole thread is great and also applicable to papers vs posters (which presumably David also teaches). I attended a poster session recently and half of the posters were literally cut and paste blocks of text from the students' papers.

On why Silicon Valley turned right, and the problems with the Andreessen-Smith-Yglesias "pounded progressive ally" thesis www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-did-si...

I was just chasing this down last night - how many "tech" CEOs are actually engineers anymore. Of those you hear about, it's surprisingly few

We're also believers in the Trinity en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_tr...

Best thing I’ll eat all week: bánh mì made by @chrisecramer.bsky.social

Timex Sinclair 1000 with a 16 KB memory expansion. A tape recorder for storage had to use batteries because our house power supply was too noisy and corrupted data

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Eek! I almost missed it this year, but instead I get to donate as an early birthday present to myself :-)

The arc of history isn't going to bend itself.

optimizations will continue until the perf improves

Halloween costume! I blame @sarahmackattack.bsky.social though I suppose we did get her the squid facts t-shirt, so I guess this is on us 😀

@chrisecramer.bsky.social and I voted!!!

This is just cruel. Yes, I scored a 0 😢😢

It's time for Mystery Beer! A month ago, my local homebrew shop decided that they weren't making their margins and rather than sign a lease for another year (speculation), they needed to close.  #homebrew

we fucked up as a society by deciding that the arts and math/science are opposite and adversarial things. if i told you how much everything is part of everything else you'd throw up

One of my favourite ever Columbo moments is him and Dog.

"Let them eat scripture: Prioritizing the Ten Commandments over feeding hungry children says so much about Gov. Jeff Landry’s faith," new on Substack by me. robertmann.substack.com/p/let-them-e...

I'm not sure how active the Princeton Election Consortium is right now, but I'm having trouble squaring the distribution in this graph with the median of 221 EVs. The graph looks like a median in the 260 range and 221 would be off to the left of the y-axis @samwang.bsky.social - any thoughts?

If you see this, post a bird

Feel free to tag yourselves. I’m assuming I’m one of the pricks, but that may just be a GBV reference

So, what’s everyone else doing today?

Once again, McSweeney’s nails it. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...

This is incorrect. The real secret to a perfect grilled cheese is to skip the butter and instead put a layer of mayo on the outside of the sandwich. The mayo doesn’t burn as quickly and still fries the bread

I’m just saying that if you cancel any of these herbs, I don’t want to eat at your house. Stand in herb solidarity!

tbh I was only pretending to have march madness. it's just regular madness.