The inability to see our own hypocrisy is the true universal human trait.

Where there is pain, there is opportunity. www.generativevalue.com/p/a-primer-o...

It would seem we’re all paying for AI subscriptions one way or another. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

Thanks to the power of LLMs and AI, my git commit messages are more descriptive than "update".

These algorithms would be an interesting basis for a set of homeworks and labs for a parallel programming course. bleuje.com/physarum-exp...

Anyone try out this keyboard? My gut is that I want it, a wireless version of the Ergodox, but the price gives me pause. naya.tech

I'm jealous I didn't figure it out myself. www.educationprogress.org/p/speedrun

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu postanly.substack.com/p/the-calm-l...

"We sometimes think humans operate by a hedonic or utilitarian logic. We seek out pleasure and avoid pain. ... And I think we do operate by that kind of logic a lot of the time — just not when it comes to the most important things in our lives." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/o...

Every May is brain tumor awareness month and I spent part of last month working on BrainTumorNet-43M, a PyTorch side project we'll release to Hugging Face that predicts brain tumors from MRI scans with >95% accuracy. Check out our code! #BuildInPublic #ML github.com/npho/GrayMay...

Helps explain why hiring has been soft, no financial incentives. Hopefully Congress will repeal the Section 174 change soon. qz.com/tech-layoffs...

"We live alongside death. It speeds down highways recklessly and blooms clandestinely within our bodies. We have no idea when we will meet death, or how." Beautiful prose and a reminder to live your best life in the limited time we all have. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

If you want to know why donors are hesitant to give unrestricted donations. www.npr.org/sections/the...

If a news outlet is going to discuss a new scientific publication, could you at least include a link to it so I don't have to Sherlock Holmes the thing based off of the lead author's name and hope it's the same one?

"These and other contributions of medicine to the relief of humankind are more thrilling to [a person] of science than all the wars of selfish kings." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

So you're telling me I could've saved a bunch of money by increasing local node SSD capacity instead of buying a massive flash-based parallel file system? 🤔 blog.glennklockwood.com/2025/02/llm-...

TIL "The Magic School Bus" show of my childhood was funded with an NSF award?! www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Interesting take on the changing dynamics of space-based logistics. If we could deliver anywhere in the world under an hour, I would prefer we revolutionize commercial airlines instead. perfectingequilibrium.substack.com/p/starship-t...

They say the best revenge is a life well lived.

"It’s a funny thing, ageing. You get clearer on who you are, while also realising how much you still don’t know." www.katycowan.co.uk/blog/getting...

On navigating your career journey, sometimes you need to reinvent yourself and that's scary but OK. #MidlifeCrisis cluesdotlife.substack.com/p/what-happe...

"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be ... you will never become anything, and that is your reward." ― Oscar Wilde

I must admit I also fell victim to the white vs brown egg bias without knowing it. It's interesting to know the full back story, worth a read! #TheMoreYouKnow🌈 slate.com/life/2025/04...

A thought provoking piece by @kdpham.bsky.social in @aeon.co today about non-Western perspectives on anti-colonial discourse and its intersection with traditional political economy theory. I am not a social scientist but know enough to appreciate reading the essay. aeon.co/essays/how-v...

I think I got this link from Hacker News but looks like a great set of course notes if you're planning on taking MATH 300 at the University of Washington. alistairsavage.ca/mat1362/note...

Reading the paper reporting heavy metal absorption properties of tea. Looking beyond the headlines (to Figure 1), it's surprising how much absorption takes place over longer steeping periods. Brew the tea overnight and you effectively treat the water. doi.org/10.1021/acsf...

A more nuanced take on the likely trajectory of AI in the coming years. dynomight.net/smart/

Reviewing Slurm job data to better architect our infrastructure to support #HPC #AI research. It appears single GPU jobs dominate, specifically the newer L40S cards. Any thoughts on areas of further investigation?

"... character isn’t tested only by poverty and hardship, but equally—and perhaps even more dangerously—by success ..." You can really see who someone is in circumstances on the ends of the spectrum.

10X engineers are the result of a great organization, not the necessary pre-requisite. spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer

A reminder to use our limited time wisely 🥲 tolstoyan.substack.com/p/youth

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Like a family tree but for probability distributions. www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/char...

1. Whatever the work is, do it well—not for the boss but for yourself. 2. You make the job; it doesn’t make you. 3. Your real life is with us, your family. 4. You are not the work you do; you are the person you are. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/nu... The Nulls are unfortunate cousins to Little Bobby Tables.

"Leibniz’s weary secretary once complained that his boss tried to do everything and could therefore finish nothing." I feel attacked, I should probably finish my thesis...after reading these papers that might not have anything to do it 🙂 #AcademicSky www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

At least PubMed still works for now 🤷 #AcademicSky #EduSky

Spooky 💀 caneuro.github.io/blog/2024/st...

Practical tutorial of several #OSINT tools for network analysis. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Great talk about a pipeline that identifies & develops technical talent in the US into a @defcon.bsky.social team that regularly out competes Russian and Chinese hackers. We need to scale these programs. #Cyber #InfoSec #H1B #CTF www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vj9...

Geoff, Jensen, and Fei-Fei. www.understandingai.org/p/why-the-de...

How would you prove you didn't use AI if falsely accused? Start the assignments right away, work on it regularly, and document work progress with version control? #EduSky #AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Given the practice of "upcoding", it makes me wonder how much medical research done using EHR is still valid given the noise in the data #MedSky www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Computer architecture summary of NVIDIA GPUs. Rediscovered this goodie explaining the nuances of SIMT being in between SIMD and SMT. yosefk.com/blog/simd-si...

I feel like a lot of these traits and habits can be cultivated if one was purposeful about them. www.wired.com/story/thirte...

Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.

Thoughtful take on the reality of the new creator economy, I guess we all need to be more active on the socials. www.profgalloway.com/people-are-t...

Story on the origins for the laws of war, first I've learned about Hugo Grotius. www.economist.com/internationa...

Does anyone else feel academic papers are unnecessarily verbose? Why do we do this to ourselves? #AcademicSky

An amazing ride, thank you for sharing your story.