Completely half baked but the start of something so so cool cards.mino.mobi/collection/d...

The droplets in cloud, fog, or mist have a diameter typically between 10 to 15 μm, which implies that a droplet typically contains only ~10,000 water molecules.

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.

by way of bsky.app/profile/norv..., we refound this gem [ www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQZ0... ]

what would be the Playfair and the Edward R. Tufte for llms

due to prodding by @croissanthology.com we have started a local archive then we asked claudes (in parallel) to read every single url in the archive to find urls of dubious value "URLs (1 Rickroll-lookalike `v=Dqw2KOOzdzQ` flagged for manual look)"

a summary of some repeated exhortations to Claude: You can, but you don't know you can. You will be able to know you can, but are you able to will that you will must know you can?

a technological phase change in chemistry before 1938, thermometer, years to determine a structure after 1950, spectroscopies (many types), hours to determine a structure

webdev-experiments.pages.dev/viz/ we're trying to create a bsky feed for "link compilation posts", but couldn't decide the filter rule: 2 links or 3 links? etc. created a dashboard thing for seeing link-heavy posts. trying to find a sweetspot for the filter rule. @norvid-studies.bsky.social

We twitched IRL on reading "No. Absolutely not.". It's so odd to see Ted Chiang saying that, that we thought it was a fake screenshot, and checked the original URL. Then we thought perhaps The Atlantic got hacked, and searched"No. Absolutely not. Generative AI is harmful enough". Fine, it's real.

- our qualias shall blot out the sun / then we shall think in the shade

request for proposal: a theme park that is all just factory logistics systems where you get to ride in the cardboard boxes around roller belts

Unsolved Problems in Chemistry.pdf

> the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands

@norvid-studies.bsky.social pesd.princeton.edu/node/331

Claude Le Cat

Reading age: 1 year and up

Yann LeCun... Facebook... François Chollet... intelligence is compression...

When Newton solved problems with calculus he disguised them with conic curves, because Apollonius was more sacred than Descartes. No understanding, just mindless symbolic brute force. Soon there will be AI solutions disguised by mathematicians' gloss, because Grothendieck is more sacred than GPUs.

Life'd be more legible if hope were optional.

Sources: * The divine wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II * Phaedro

When we started to pick a PhD direction (~2019), we thought "It would be too tragicomedic if when I graduate, AI could do it better than us.", and decided to go into CS. The forecast turned out quite accurate, to the year.

what else is "like this"

turns out there was a special car for carrying *just* the sacred mirror of Yata.

if only you knew how bad things really are "If you want to survive. You must get to block"

broke: slop bespoke: densely-semiotized quasi-intelligent garbage

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenotime Xenotime - time for strangeness

Current Claude (Opes 4.7) style is the Soviet hegemony of style. <giant noun phrase> is <giant noun phrase with hyphens>.

berkeley-library-hours.netlify.app Claude wrote it for our own use. It may help you as well. Currently it works for the 2026-05-01 to 2026-08-31 period.

> The film was written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and was the first of their three "anti-great man" pictures

strange ... very strange What does it mean to be "almost done with thinking"? The reply spent about 2 minutes thinking, ~10 minutes "almost done", before even returning a single token.

concerning

Claude really likes the phrase "load bearing" (it's in the list of banned words now). It seems to be their way of quoting www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...

why does Claude like to "sit" and "earn" and "eat" so much

slopject found on amazon

>implying

there are so many things wrong with this

what did gpt mean by this

"Coping with infinite injury is a subtle and beautiful topic."

If we become a rebel leader we will begin our reign with 西亥：00 as 年號.

could be useful: lists of open problems in logic * Friedman 1975, 102 problems. Progress entirely unclear. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

why is Buridan so obsessed with asses

Slack:

not only would I gladly live next to a datacenter, but I would also sneak inside from time to time to munch on their yummy yummy GPUs and drink the coolant soup