Alena Jacíková

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My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

What a great headline

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.

It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛

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There are so many courses with substantial Black Friday sales, so now is your chance to get your hands on them, support the creators, and upskill.

Stock up now while they're all so heavily discounted, and you'll have great content to sink your teeth into year-long.

🧵 Some of the best:

we don't need componentDidMount; we have connectedCallback at home

California farms applied millions of pounds of PFAS to key crops, study finds ‘Forever chemicals’ sprayed on almonds, grapes, tomatoes and other crops as activists warn of ‘obvious problem’

One day we’ll look back on this as one of the stupidest things we’ve done.

THIS

It saves a tremendous amount of overhead (money) and time (money) and complications (people who are eligible dropping out because they can't prove they are), but mostly it forecloses an extremely common form of fiscal parental abuse.

They did say 'Claude has the capabilities of someone with a PhD', they just didn't say which capabilities... (turns out it's the anxiety, burnout, and lack of executive function...)

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Scientists recently combined DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.

It went sideways real fast.

anyway 5 internet points for every @11ty.dev documentation page you read

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

"sycophancy induced psychosis"

Could be also what causes billionaires to be nearly uniformly awful

this guy has like 100 videos exactly like this. all too wimdy to hear him say anything and I love every one of them. might be the pinnacle of norwegian comedy

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)

Fish have committed credit card fraud

are you sick of generative AI slop?

why not fight back by adorning your home with gorgeous birds that only an attentive birder could draw? www.tommysiegel.net

🚀 Spatial Data Management with DuckDB: Book Release + Code Walkthrough Video!

Watch the walkthrough: youtu.be/RIJQ3WuGJkc
Book website: duckdb.gishub.org
GitHub repo: github.com/giswqs/duckdb-spatial
Table of Contents: books.gishub.org/duckdb/book-toc.pdf

A statue (still on a rectangular plinth) is neck-deep in the concrete beneath a zoology building. There's cracking around the stones or whatever of the flooring. An arched entrance is topped with the words "Zoology" and a luckier white marble statue still sits atop a promontory near a colonnade or whatever, I don't know what this stuff is called. "Stanford University zoology building with fallen statue of zoologist Louis Agassiz implanted (1906). Damage after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake in the University's Richardsonian Romanesque style Main Quad."

During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a marble statue of Louis Agassiz fell from 2nd floor of Stanford's Zoology building into main quad.

Professor Frank Angell reportedly quipped:
"Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete."

The statue was unharmed, returned to its perch...

When the cookies are so good you have the recipes carved into your tombstone For years, Rosie Grant has visited cemeteries and followed the cooking instructions engraved on some places of eternal rest — and now, she published them in a book

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Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...

A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.

Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.

Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend

Man who took Hamilton bus on joy ride 'did a great job' driving, left no dings, say police | CBC News He made several stops along the way, allowing passengers to get on and off, police say. He was then arrested.

This guy about to be the most popular man on bsky

What US Tech Did to Ireland — The Dial The country is alarmingly reliant on Meta, Google and Apple.

Ireland wooed US tech companies with favorable tax treatment and other incentives, and that decision has...fundamentally shifted the landscape

Good news guys I'm super drunk so you're going to hear about the last guy who got shot in the American Civl wWar

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

Do I know anyone who’s looking to hire a policy researcher / research manager? A friend of mine is looking - she’s super smart, she’s worked on some significant projects for the British Red Cross, Ada Lovelace and Which?. Open to perm and contract roles. Please share for reach ☺️

Being allergic to something doesn’t mean you can’t love it. It just means you can’t have a healthy relationship with it.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.