Chris Concannon

there's a sort of pundit disease, made worse by the platform split, where everything is still framed as being the fault of the losers, and not as exercise of agency by the winners. If we're going to live in a world of shit, can we at least give them credit for the fact that it's what they truly want

idk i read in the free press that the real risk to free speech is three oberlin undergraduates who say geometry is ableist. this is pretty confusing to me.

YouTube video by A/V Geeks 16mm Films Protein Synthesis (1971)

Time for something completely different. "This film creatively illustrates the process of protein synthesis through dance, symbolizing the assembly of amino acids into proteins." www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GfW...

Cornhole concerns at the zoning committee: "The cornhole game leads to a continuous thunking noise as the beanbag hits the target. When one goes in the hole there's a loud cry of success."

TODAY is the FIRST of SEPTEMBER!

I am surely not the only person who sees these Chinese type cases (from the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz) and thinks "Cray computer"?

"when I was 24, the town centre was safe, you could have a right raucous night out with your mates and then stagger home. Now I'm 55 and it's a scary place, full of thugs drunk out of their mind and shouting"

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
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The butler’s story of regret haunted his decision.

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

Poster stating 'Crime and Banditry Distress and Perplexity will increase in England until the bishops open this box'.

Just leaving this here as a heads-up ...

This XKCD applies to 95% of this site’s political discourse

Does the Xenomorph have a soul would absolutely end up as the object of a quodlibetal disputation.

To break the doom scroll, remember the Christmas Tree Cannon, the distilled essence of German engineering

a big question i think that is increasingly relevant in almost every aspect of american life, from politics to the workplace to art to even just everyday social settings Are We Ever Going To Get Sick Of Being Bullshitted

100%. Messaging needs to be clear and forceful. This is bad and it will not help workers.

PCA can be thought of as fitting a p-dimensional ellipsoid to the data, where each axis of the ellipsoid represents a principal component. If some axis of the ellipsoid is small, then the variance along that axis is also small.

Figure 1b from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08531-5/figures/1

Amazing to me how useful looking at data in 2D PCA continues to be, even though the approach sounds crazy on paper—"p-dimensional ellipsoid", rantings of a madman. PCA is the cockroach of dimension reduction. I expect it to be present in any advanced galactic civilization.

I'm so used to whining about everything, I just can't believe they did an important thing well!

In retrospect; I had a drastically exaggerated view of Donatello’s contributions to the Italian Renaissance based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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