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Them: You're the father of the xbox! Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent. theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee

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Through Darkest Europe: A Novel - Kindle edition by Turtledove, Harry. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Through Darkest Europe: A Novel - Kindle edition by Turtledove, Harry. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Through Darkest Europe: A Novel.

THROUGH DARKEST EUROPE is an alt hist set about now in a universe where Islam developed science, technology, and representative government while Western Europe got stuck in, well, piety. It's also a sort of meditation on terrorism.
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08.11.2024 12:44 — 👍 250    🔁 38    💬 13    📌 0
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Bourdain’s field notes: Iran On filming in a place rife with contradictions, where even Bourdain is careful about what he says.

Anthony Bourdain's field notes on his visit to Iran:

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28.02.2026 23:35 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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Sadly, brother, this has been more on my mind.

28.02.2026 23:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Working through this derivation also got me thinking about the Fokker Planck equation. The A & B terms come from our truncated Taylor expansion for |x-y| < epsilon but you could extend the expansion and add C, D, E etc terms corresponding to higher order statistics and have a lengthier “FP equation”

28.02.2026 22:51 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A simpler example that’s kind of reminiscent is Greens functions (made a thread about those last year). You do a bunch of stuff and “pluck out” the solution

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28.02.2026 22:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

27.02.2026 04:54 — 👍 742    🔁 228    💬 6    📌 9

Indeed. It didn’t feel like I thought it might.

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Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved The World,' Dies At 77 Petrov was on overnight duty in 1983 when computers indicated the U.S. had launched a nuclear strike against his country. He had only a few nerve-jangling minutes to act.

I drank a toast to Stanislav Petrov.

17.06.2025 01:59 — 👍 328    🔁 87    💬 2    📌 15

كل طفل هو كون

28.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 57    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 0

كل طفل هو كون

28.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 57    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 0

Actually the display is completely invaluable. I dearly love this thing.

28.02.2026 04:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would never touch a hermitian bike.

28.02.2026 04:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I commute to work on a bike, and am a road bike enthusiast, so I ride thousands of miles a year.

I have noticed that the majority of near-miss accidents with cars that I experience around LA comes from Teslas.

Today I pulled up to a really cool lady after she nearly killed me, and we chatted:

27.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 213    🔁 29    💬 10    📌 3

It’s mind blowing.

27.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I have one and it’s the best thing I ever bought.

27.02.2026 18:33 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Um, why do you ask?

27.02.2026 18:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh great. Now that’s invaded my brain also.

27.02.2026 18:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She told me that she believes that she (and other Tesla drivers) get too dependent on the screen, and that the screen doesn’t really see cyclists.

Ok WOW.

So, please, Tesla folks, look out for cyclists. I don’t think you’re evil or anything, just please don’t kill me please! Please!

27.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 222    🔁 26    💬 15    📌 4

I commute to work on a bike, and am a road bike enthusiast, so I ride thousands of miles a year.

I have noticed that the majority of near-miss accidents with cars that I experience around LA comes from Teslas.

Today I pulled up to a really cool lady after she nearly killed me, and we chatted:

27.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 213    🔁 29    💬 10    📌 3

Sorry! Been a bit.

27.02.2026 07:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Check with me first. Don’t pay anything!

27.02.2026 06:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Klogw.com

27.02.2026 06:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Bravo!!

27.02.2026 05:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have it in my website.

27.02.2026 05:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

27.02.2026 04:54 — 👍 742    🔁 228    💬 6    📌 9

They’re nuking it from orbit. Wow.

26.02.2026 21:42 — 👍 23    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

You are the best.

26.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Good lord.

26.02.2026 18:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We taught him wrong, as a joke.

26.02.2026 18:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

buggy mugspace occlusion. Wait, a buggy muggclusion map. Wait a mug-buffer fight.

26.02.2026 07:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0