Edouard Leurent

Or great egret maybe?

Photo of a tv. Onscreen a woman holds an axe with a periodic table visible behind.

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.

(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

Dreams - Su Shi (trans. Arthur Waley) Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

Here's a poem by one of the old Chinese scholar bureaucrats that I think captures a certain Vibe very well

It is has not ceased to be weird that I can put Rilke’s First Elegy into Suno and get out a coherent 8 minute performance with music (can only do 3 here)

You might not like the interpretation, but it is genuinely amazing that this audio, with apparent emotion, is all 100% AI from the verses alone.

Démarchage téléphonique : les nouvelles règles Le démarchage pour la rénovation énergétique est désormais interdit

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It's #WorldGiraffeDay! 🦒 When we celebrate the tallest animal on the longest day (or night) and raise awareness about the threats faced by this incredible animal. For more beautiful giraffe images, check out our giraffe collection on #Flickr: www.flickr.com/search/?user... #StandTallForGiraffe

Vu dans le centre de Londres il y a 5 jours (mort)

Wow

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Utiliser les mesures du gyroscope pour estimer et corriger les rotations ?

Figure sorting packages with Helix, their end to end action model. The robot flips packages to scan them and flattens them out. The future is approaching fast

Good news, falcons have never been more free.

Bad news, anarchy is loosed upon the world, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned

Stochastic vs deterministic Lotka-Volterra: smooth theory vs randomness! Individual realizations (Gillespie algorithm) show populations can crash or go extinct despite stable deterministic cycles or equilibrium. Randomness changes everything! 🦌🐺🧪
Made with #python #numpy #scipy #matplotlib

Icarus Truth

Rest of comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/icarus-2

#smbc

The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)

(Any resemblance to real events is purely coincidental)

Writing a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER with Gemini Diffusion and its Instant Edit tab

Excited to share what I've been up to: bringing text diffusion to Gemini!

Diffusion models are _fast_, and hold immense promise to challenge autoregressive models as the de facto standard for language modeling.

Y a-t-il un enregistrement, est-ce qu’on peut la retrouver quelque part ? 🙏

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

David Lynch: no

#fungi #mycology

Screenshot of Greek text, showing an English translation above less common words.

I've been wanting to build something like this for a while – a machine translator that leaves the original text in place but annotates "less common" words with a translation. Had never gotten it to work decently, but Gemini 2.5 Pro does it pretty well after some prompt engineering.

Being a philosopher means looking around at this strange and beautiful world and thinking, "Wot's all this, then?"

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Theorem: there is a theorem whose proof is shorter than its own statement.

Proof: I could have said "this one" and stop there, but just for fun, I will refer to the next one instead.

Theorem: there is a theorem that says nothing and still has a proof.

Proof: this one.

If no single piece of the original ship remains in the current ship, is the ship still the Ship of Theseus?

And if one percent of all my body's cells get replaced every single day, is it really me who, two months ago, accepted your review request?

"Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental, create a comic that illustrates the first stanza of Tennyson's Ulysses" (and I pasted in the stanza, and also the next couple.)

Not perfect, but having the LLM being able to directly create images opens up lots of new opportunities and directions.

What busy people did before AI....

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”

👍🏻

Selected Early Writings of the Poets   I the roses are red and all the violets are blue oh look, a haiku - Basho II Roses are red, unlike those daffs, I wander lonely as a giraffe cloud. - William Wordsworth   III Look – the roses are red! They make my heart sing! They fill me with hope – Like a feathery thing! - Emily Dickinson IV ROSES ARE … NO! WHAT HAVE I DONE? I MUST HAVE LEFT MY CAPS LOCK ON - ee cummings V Roses are dead, see how they droop. All of us die: life’s only truth. - Philip Larkin VI The roses had gone (unlike my bunion) so got this instead – here, have an onion. - Carol Ann Duffy Brian Bilston

If you’re struggling to write a poem for a loved one for Valentine’s Day, take heart: even the great poets had to start somewhere.