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Chris Concannon

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Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Wile E. Coyote, genius.

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The butler’s story of regret haunted his decision.

17.01.2025 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

08.08.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2889    πŸ” 582    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 16

I’m trying to think of a pointless, badly-motivated, ignorant, contemptible and tragic rejection of a demonstrated public health advance with the same promise and on the same scale as RFK Jr’s mRNA vaccine decision. It’s hard.

06.08.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1218    πŸ” 261    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 13

Carl’s great and all, but this pull-quote is a bit like the science equivalent of β€œThe Subway will soon be too dangerous to ride”. Which is to say, we have bad-faith political actors who’d like to leverage the real problems of a gigantic but mostly working system in order to cripple or ruin it.

06.08.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Poster stating 'Crime and Banditry Distress and Perplexity will increase in England until the bishops open this box'.

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 ...

02.08.2025 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 8
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This XKCD applies to 95% of this site’s political discourse

31.07.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 528    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

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

27.07.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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To break the doom scroll, remember the Christmas Tree Cannon, the distilled essence of German engineering

31.03.2025 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

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

28.07.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2921    πŸ” 587    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 22
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100%. Messaging needs to be clear and forceful. This is bad and it will not help workers.

03.04.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1417    πŸ” 204    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 9
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.

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

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 paperβ€”"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.

10.02.2025 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

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

09.02.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

16.11.2024 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
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bird sounds

16.11.2024 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 29589    πŸ” 6048    πŸ’¬ 206    πŸ“Œ 228

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