yesss Ronda Rousey doing what made her a legend

the fight with the two scrappers was stopped for too much bleeding which seems apt

Whoops, the courts were slow and Merrick Garland ran out of time... Whoops, can't do anything about Virginia because the midterms so close anyways... Whoops, Jared Polis is on his last 6 months of his final term... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Turns out a Navy willing to execute civilians in boats in the Caribbean to produce snuff films for the president is a Navy willing to let the FBI director treat a tomb as a fun frolic

Per Robert Fripp’s diary: “It was Butch [Vig] who told John that the CD found in Kurt Cobain’s player, following Kurt’s tragic death, was Red.”

I asked an LLM to give me the DOIs for some article citations a colleague dropped in an word doc comment and 2/4 linked to a different article in the same journal so I just did it myself

it’s weird how we are exactly where the rates of growth in 1826 said we would be now

*finishes workout and sees that I’m 75 on the leaderboard* I wonder if they have a badge for getting the top 50 of the leaderboard… *20 minutes later* Better see if they have a top 20 badge while I’m so close

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

given 95% intervals in each `step` (of x, sorted), find the first interval where `l` (lower value) is less than `.10` (some effect size benchmark) cross_10 = step[cumsum(any(l >= .10) & l < .10) == 1][1]

neat advice at the start of this video: give up and try again youtu.be/ZBa3BK4Efcw?...

two guys on the radio had to stop to clarify whether so-and-so was in support of the (song) “ban” or (music) “band” in Watertown

find me a threat that isn’t a test

one of my kid's books said a pteranodon was not a dinosaur or a bird but a secret third thing ("a flying reptile") and i'm still annoyed by this fact

a chancellor that emails more about their career journey than the university

We replaced a PyMC compiler with an LLM agent that transpiles to Rust. 3-7x faster sampling, validated against reference gradients, ~500 lines of scaffolding. 👉 Full technical dive: dub.sh/4QNM59l 🧩 Open source: github.com/pymc-labs/alchemize #PyMC #Rust #AgenticAI

I enjoy the Thragg meme because for some reason it makes me laugh so here are various examples

drinking coffee with hot honey

Gotta fit more interesting models, tj

i dont want my computer to fall asleep when i am fitting a model and i cant tell if it's sleeping or just slow to respond when turning the monitor back on

"gas prices went 14 cents overnight" is a pretty startling line to hear in the news

O.G. Scrubs understood something virtually no dramedy or comedy that gets serious or whatever has understood since: If you're going to bastardize the sitcom format to tug at the heartstrings every single episode, you'd better make me fucking laugh by any means necessary first

gotta insert that empty column into the ms word table to make things nice, y'know

they're all like 19-20-years-old screwing around with a dub producer but damn if that isn't a clean guitar sound www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBX1...

the first two curve albums still have never been on spotify

I guess I have 24 minutes for this youtu.be/3WEfQGHb46w?...

I learned them as “added variable” plots www.tjmahr.com/notes/2019-0...

McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.

Congress needs to make SCOTUS pay for their shit

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Things you didn't know you needed in your life: HEATHEN AX Thank you, @see-saw.fun and @ninacorcoran.bsky.social for bringing this into my life. johndwyer.bandcamp.com/album/heathe...

positron tooltip hangs out until the command finishes running

This is excellent. I particularly like the definition of the "Zombie Internet", which starts: "It’s people talking to bots, people talking to people, people creating “AI agents” and then instructing them to interact with people. It’s people using AI talking to people who are not using AI [...]"

I have been thinking about how happy this fish is for four days.

decided to see how fast I could a run a mile after a jog this morning and was 5 seconds slower than best from 2 years ago. which was a nice surpriseS something about that 40°F air is like a performance enhancer

why would i want to watch a podcast. podcasts are for when you are doing something else

Mildy PCR positive for the hantavirus, reminds me of mildly pregnant ....

so this puzzle is called “gone fishing” which tells me I should look for a “jelly fish” which is when the same number is constrained to the same columns/rows across 4 rows/columns. like here the blue cells are the only 7s in those four rows so 7 can only appear in a blue cell in those four columns

the dumbest Sudoku trick I know is that the 16-cell ring in blue and the four 2x2 cells have the set of same digits so the presence of 7/8/9 in the corners means that the four holes in the ring have 7/8/9 so I can place a 6 in box 5. it’s dumb bc some puzzles are intractable unless you know it

I bought some hot honey. I get the spicy part but why do you need to put honey on random shit

removing this guy from his position is the single most important errand facing American politics at present. the amount of damage he's doing is almost incalculable.

using a matrix multiplication to add the first column (intercept) to the second column (contrast)

[blah blah blah] That tells the reader [such and such]. [blah blah blah] That continuity is good scientifically. [blah blah blah] Those are genuinely important ideas.

A monad is something you can map-and-flatten with coherently. That is, a monad is a type constructor M<T> (like list<T> or optional<T>), such that for any function (say from T to S), and any number of applications of M, we have a corresponding map-and-flatten function from M<M<…M<T>…>> to M<S>.

Virginia Supreme court has thrown out the voter-passed redistricting referendum, restoring the GOP's seats - the day after Tennessee legislators steamrolled Dems to eliminate the last Dem seat vacourts.gov/static/opini...

need a todo list for albums to listen to. instagram is flooding me with cool stuff. there's this guy who posts his reactions to hearing heavy or weird bands for the first time, and the comments are like, "do ____ next!" or "they opened for _____! check them out too"

I was watching some YouTube garbage about a degenerate live streamer who regularly gets blackout drunk on stream and there was an oddly compelling part where he starts a stream having woken up in a hospital missing a shoe and streams himself that day trying to piece together what happened