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nostalgia for the “computer room” is often sentimentalism, but I do think the core dynamic it represents - making the digital a discrete realm; something partitioned from the rest of life and voluntary, rather than intruding, unasked, into every waking moment - is something genuinely laudable

Worker safety agency NIOSH lays off most remaining staff Laid-off employees ranged from those working in firefighter health programs, to those approving new respirators.

THE entire NIOSH engineering group has been fired among most ALL of NIOSH. It is devastating. www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...

I mean, same could be said of anyone who uncritically holds such an opinion without giving it a second's worth of bare critical self-reflection.

The Ring.
720 million white dots.Each dot is a root of: 10𝑥¹⁸ - 10𝑥¹⁷ + (500i t₂¹¹ - 500t₂¹⁰ + 500t₂⁹ - 500t₂⁸ - 500i t₂⁷ - 500i t₂⁶ + 500i t₂⁵ + 500t₂⁴ + 500i t₂³ + 500i t₂² - 500i t₂ - 500i)𝑥¹¹ + (500i t₁ - 500)𝑥¹⁰ - 𝑥 + 1
t₁,t₂ ∈ ℂ, |t₁|=|t₂|=1

It’s very common for leadership at top labs to be in the know of other lab’s release schedules, so the simplest explanation to Meta releasing today is that next week is going to be bonkers, or at least plausibly outshine llama 4 (and they wanted to release last week, but other news was too big).

pre-ASI: why waste money on a fake degree in literature. its of no value to the market. theres no wages in that any more. get a real degree- in STEM

post-ASI: why waste money on a fake degree in STEM. its of no value to the market. theres no wages in that any more. get a real degree- in literature

this is what a loss landscape looks like btw

God, that was hard to bear. Students told a physics town hall that grad schools have rescinded admission. NSF proposals are censored for words like “bias,” even when the meaning is technical. Physics curricula are being banned by school districts for encouraging girls. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

A standing ovation for federal workers by the thousands of physicists who are meeting in Anaheim this week, supporting their colleagues in science agencies who couldn’t afford—or weren’t allowed—to come. Sorry, no pictures, in part out of green-card holders’ fears. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch

Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.

with muscle: pulse trains debug, long duration tension turns on autopilot.

i find it interesting. and the degree to which i find it interesting means that it's important.

YouTube video by Simons Institute Intelligent Technology and the Attention Economy: A Buddhist Perspective on the Risks of...

and www.youtube.com/watch?v=kROx...

YouTube video by Simons Institute Strong Generalization from Small Brains and No Training Data

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnMl...

agreed although I would also add:

- JetBrains IDEs for when I'm the coder, Cursor for when {Claude/o1/Gemini} is the coder

that third thing? higher order triangles (simplicial complexes)

The secretary of agriculture canceled a meeting on biodiversity The secretary of agriculture bragged about canceling a biodiversity conference because she thinks biodiversity is DEl-related. I wish this was a joke. It's just the level of stupidity and "confidently incorrect" we're at right now.

And here it is, my Joker moment.
I am insane now.

because who needs anything to work, ever

beating sota with zero customers is a unique path to woe

ringing in the square wave fourier spectra

feeling happy must be a symmetry or gauge equivariance of/in a lie group/algebra of noumena. and monoid homomorphisms are what makes the precognitive grasping nature at the moment of binding senses into familiar objects feel very lucid. but their magnitudes might just be an artifact of misperception

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idk if this is woo or not but i've heard people describe the fascia, tensioning connective tissues, as springs; but they tether not only tissue, but also close a feedback loop of mental state to the body. under great stress it might be like a spring pulled so far back that u embody a new shape

PleIAs/common_corpus · Datasets at Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Announcing the release of Common Corpus 2. The largest fully open corpus for pretraining comes back better than ever: 2 trillion tokens with document-level licensing, provenance and language information. huggingface.co/datasets/Ple...

This is The Great Day of His Wrath (1853) by John Martin, part of his apocalyptic triptych. Alt-text: A dramatic, apocalyptic painting by John Martin, depicting a cataclysmic scene of destruction. A massive chasm splits the earth, with rivers of molten lava and dark storm clouds filling the sky. Fiery lightning bolts streak across the background, and gigantic rocks tumble from above. In the foreground, tiny, desperate human figures are seen fleeing, falling, and struggling amidst the chaos, emphasizing the overwhelming scale of the disaster. The painting is in Martin's signature grand Romantic style, evoking a biblical or divine judgment.

Feel like my timeline needs more landscape painting and natural sublimity, so here's John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath (1853).

"if you liked that, then you'll love this.."

I think it’s really, really important that people on Bluesky understand that what you post is public, DMs might as well be public too

ok revisiting this and basically i just meant: do adaptive clipped beta tilting of the new policy ratio scaling of the adaptive clipped advantage