Caleb Moses

I cannot imagine learning how to tie my shoes without a pair of chopsticks

It’s cool how taking an image of the moon at half-moon phase is arguably better than a full moon because the full moon doesn’t show the shadows in the craters so well.

YouTube video by LunaLust Bust-A-Groove: Kitty-N's Song (English Version)

Kitty-N’s theme is top tier Eurovision music

youtu.be/pcLox-o5GKU?...

I’m not, but I should probably look around for courses. So far I’m just self-studying, for about 90 mins a day.

I look forward to learning about this (Spanish is next lol)

*similar to te reo than to English

There's also something about the way French handles plurals that seems more similar to te reo than to French in my mind.

I think it's that both languages mark the plural on the possessive and not just the noun as in English. In Mãori it's more like "mys shoe" but in french it would be "mys shoes".

An obvious example is that te reo has the a/o category system, which splits nouns into classes similarly to gender.

Another example is that te reo has a kind of verb-adverb agreement such that if you passivise one you have to do the same to the other, and there are many similar things in French.

There are more similarities between te reo Mãori and French than I would have expected

Foil would probably be sufficient. Like a faraday cage. The point is to block the phone from sending or receiving any kinds of signals.

"If anyone builds it everyone dies" but the "it" is colonialism

C Thi Nguyen has a paper called "Transparency is Surveillance" which is about how forcing expert decisions to be made in an explainable, transparent way can have worse results.

Sometimes vibes are just expertise in a trenchcoat. Other times it can be unconscious bias, but there is no free lunch.

(Often, but of course not always). We have steered students away from other professors but it’s all word of mouth.

My supervisors are both high powered academics and excellent supervisors. They both take supervising their students very seriously and have a similar mentorship philosophy.

I honestly just got lucky. I made the decision based on not a lot of information, mostly vibe. Talking to their students if you can (I wasn’t able to) is certainly recommended.

Also perhaps it’s good to be willing to trade things off. Often the really high powered academics are bad supervisors.

Looking for a PhD program? It all starts with great supervision. Choose wisely.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"so much depends / upon / a whitespace: Why Whitespace Matters for Poets and LLMs" by Sriharsh Bhyravajjula, Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Maria Antoniak

When you read a poem, do you wonder how the poet structures it through whitespace between/before words and lines?

We did! Our findings on whitespace - how to measure/preserve it, how usage varies across form/time, how it affects LLMs - now in an #EMNLP2025 (main) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.16713
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Hana-Rawhiti accepting the Time Magazine award in NYC is a great example of how the world is really not paying attention to the NZ govt at all.

They can go lose in their Oxford Union debates and kiss up to Trump all they like but they won’t get anywhere near that kind of attention.

Release: Targeted tax to grow the economy and fund free doctor’s visits

#nzpol Labour is proposing to create a Capital Gains Tax on property - excluding farms and the family home. That income will help make GP visits free for the majority of people. Is that a better policy than continuing tax-free profits on, say, someone's seventh property? Absolutely. A🧵

my 17yo niece is part of a choir that won an international championship earlier this week, just casually singing at the montserrat benedictine monastery

she has had a hard start to life and when i was 17 looking after her we would sing phantom of the opera over and over (even the organ parts)

This sums up my week for sure

A more progressive Labour would be better for everyone not just in terms of policy outcomes but also electability

Totally, it's the opposite. The money was there so it would make more money. Now it's going to cover for $2.9 billion dollars in budget deficits that they created by giving tax breaks to landlords and tax cuts to the wealthy.

I grew up visiting my friends and family nearly always unannounced unless it was for some kind of occasion.

I wish we would all drop by each others places more often. In my family, if you just drive past it’s considered rude if you don’t say hi.

Maybe it’s too much for some but I liked it.

If you’re my friend and I’m inviting you over I probably enjoy spending time with you so I don’t mind if you come however early.

"Take no notice of my twice blinking"

Imagine one of the kindest humans who ever lived, who had love and compassion in her heart for all of God’s creations alike being asked for her last words and her choice was to point right at you like “I don’t like that guy”

I wonder what it felt like for Elon to be publicly rebuked by Dr Jane Goodall from beyond the grave

Toitū Te Tiriti's Eru Kapa-Kingi rules out starting rival political party after split from Te Pāti Māori The activist hopes the split will spur Te Pāti Māori into creating genuine change from the inside.

hate to say it but people like sina and i who’ve been around more than 5 minutes have been warning about the direction TPM’s been travelling in since at least 2023. it’s a highly divisive party, especially within māori society itself. solidarity with eru www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

All of the rhetoric about people pushing Māori down peoples throats in the media etc leads down this same road

They are, and they're also fun. I think that people don't assign much value to actually knowing which dialect they speak. Consequently most people speak a mish-mash (which is what standard kinda is) and otherwise don't think about it much.