Macneil Shonle

Saying "I haven't seen Severence" is the new "I haven't seen The Wire."

Unpopular Opinion: E/c = m*c

Hmm, one application could be to use for a lossy text compression system. Start it off with a few hashtags and words, and then use entropy encoding like ANS to store the probabilities for the dynamic top-K.

You'd need a larger model to have the embeddings (to set how "lossy" it is).

So, anyone have plans for 9pm Pacific time? #Severance

How can you tell if someone has availability bias? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

My hanzi never looked beautiful, but we were mostly practicing stroke order just to help us read characters. We used pinyin first which I think is the way to go.

Wait, what? How did handedness come in?

I suppose I would have said "Zhongwen" if I meant the language alone. Whenever I try to say "I studied Chinese language (Mandarin) for a year" ("Zhonggua Hua") speakers think I said that I was in China for a year… but if that were actually the case my pronunciation and grammar would've been better!

Well, I took a year Mandarin in college, but that was 29 years ago. I was really into Taoism at the time.

Hi y'all, I'm interested in China!

There's no validity to "Blue Monday" (the so-called most depressing day of the year in the US and UK), but boy do we have a whopper of one coming.

1.239x, skeettag wakandaforever

My cat says hi but she stepped out of her box by the time I opened up the camera

We are closer in time to the Year 2038 Problem than we are to the Y2K Problem.

There's only 11 more days this year where the American and European ways of writing dates agree with each other 🤝 — make them count! Let's meet again at 2/2/2025 (*unless it's -40 degrees).

If someone talks about "Linux," and they don't mean the kernel, I'll take extra pains to say "GNU/Linux" and—as an extra bonus—if I'm not talking about ice or steam, I will say "liquid water."

This is not a hill that I will die on. It is the hill I will drink my liquid water on until I win.

Heads up: Talking about the binary dwarf planet system Pluto–Charon as just "Pluto" is like showing a map of the world without New Zealand. In the sense that everybody does it and it's now a good inside joke, so keep on…

Google Gemini wisely stays above the fray when it comes to critical questions…

Ah, there was the time of screen savers and the time of Matrix screen savers, and when you watched The Matrix again it felt like the equivalent of seeing the "DVD" logo bounce around every screen.

Is this working?

Is that why you leave my high fives hanging, because you can't stoop that low?

I don't know the character limit on Threads but it appears to be just right. At least, now that I'm experimenting with posts and cross posts

Imagine being a five-carbon sugar and literally having oxygen but then Big Ribose decides you deserve the nickname "deoxy"?

I'm trying to give Bluesky a go, but I have to say that the 300 character limit really ought to be 20% more generous.

Kind of annoying that after you do jury duty and learn the legal meaning of "circumstantial evidence" that there are situations when you want to describe something that term, but you can't because if you say it the person might think you mean the exact opposite of what you were thinking?

At pillar of salt factories, do you think they use lot numbers?

Totally misread that as the Maga legal department

Found out about the nyctographic alphabet and kept clicking on links about how the inventor was this ordained deacon named Charles Dodgson and all of the creepy controversies surrounding him and that was just a whoosh through so many subjects I wish there was a term to describe that kind of state.

If it's ever -40 degrees out, and least you can complain about it to American and European audiences without having to specify any units