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xkcd: Reading a Big Number

Me every day: Reading a Big Number xkcd.com/3102/

‘Murder map’ sheds light on medieval homicides in London, York, Oxford - The Washington Post The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.

Medieval! Murder! Maps! www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

Why LLMs make certain mistakes - Marginal REVOLUTION Via Nabeel Qureshi, from Claude 4 Sonnet, from this tweet.

Ooh, interesting: Why LLMs make certain mistakes marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Fear, hope and loathing in Elon Musk’s new city: ‘It’s the wild, wild west and the future’ | Elon Musk | The Guardian Starbase in Texas, where the world’s richest man has a rocket-launching facility, was incorporated this week. Mars obsessives are flocking there – but some long-term locals are far from happy

Not an original thought by any means but the photo accompanying this guardian article gives off big Ozymandias energy www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Will Pope Leo XIV still pay U.S. taxes as head of the Catholic Church? - The Washington Post As a U.S. citizen, the man formerly called Cardinal Robert Prevost technically is required to file returns to the IRS.

Will the new Pope have to pay US taxes? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency | Techdirt We generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something t…

Trump is a hallucinating LLM www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/t...

A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why? : ScienceAlert Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

I love this: an OCR error in scanning an old pdf has led to the fairly frequent citation of a completely made up scientific technique called Vegetative Electron Microscopy www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-ph...

molson 🧠⚙️ (@Molson_Hart) on X I am more and more concerned about the White House’s trade negotiations, to the point where I feel I need to sound an alarm. The White House needs new members on its team for trade. In ~3-6 months we are going to start having shortages of transformers, pumps, air conditioners,

Yikes x.com/Molson_Hart/...

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James Meek · ‘Everything is possible’: In Greenland The immediate effect of Trump’s menaces, and the visit to Nuuk in January of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, was to...

Awesome article from LRB about Greenland, Trump and all things independence/climate change. Highly recommended. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I had to share this wonderful article on the process of learning a new language https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-language-learning-edition

A lil' plastic Buddha

We finally set up the 3D printer that was my joint Christmas and Birthday present today! This was our first test print. It has obvious layers but we're pretty happy with it

We Never Stop Growing I may have shared this before, but here it is again in case it helps someone. A couple of years ago, I was telling my therapist ab

Via https://kottke.org/24/11/we-never-stop-growing
"We never stop growing" and "What you're feeling is appropriate for the developmental stage you're in right now". The second one has really good motivational poster energy IMHO

Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech From jealous spouses to paranoid bosses, 19th-century pedometers quantified suspicion and reshaped the dynamics of surveillance.

In today's "Nothing new under the sun"- wearable tech and surveillance concerns from the 19th Century: https://buff.ly/3ZIAsfM

Mum Does The Washing, by Joshua Idehen from the album Mum Does The Washing EP

This, this, this is awesome

International roughness index - Wikipedia The international roughness index (IRI) is the roughness index most commonly obtained from measured longitudinal road profiles. It is calculated using a quarter-car vehicle math model, whose…

Today I learned about the International Roughness Index, for measuring how bumpy roads are https://buff.ly/4eFzpBQ. Last week I learned about the concept of a Rough Ride measurement on trains. https://buff.ly/3Ol0LCr . I see a pattern emerging here...