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A yellow box for LaMar’s Donuts and Coffee. Top line reads “Celebrating 90+ Years” but the plus sign is superscript, the notation for a pseudo-inverse.

I think I’ve spent too long looking at linear algebra that I thought this donut shop was celebrating the pseudo-inverse of 90 years.

Well don't I feel stupid

Do it for the job security, or the mountain view. I’m not judging!

a big hamburger

Just saw Mario turned 40 this week and so, once again, I present to you: the first level of Super Mario but all the sound effects are farts.

At some point either cause VC funders or other realise this is a complete waste of money or AI growth falters in another way, its going to make the dot-com crash look like a picnic in comparison?

Spending on AI data centers is so massive that it’s taken a bigger chunk of GDP growth than shopping—and it could crash the American economy As Rusty Foster, author of the widely read media blog Today in Tabs, puts it: “Our economy might just be three AI data centers in a trench coat.”

Why do I point this out? Well in the US, the dogma of hyperscaling to make the next big leap in model performance means capital expenditure on AI was larger than all consumer spending this year.

finance.yahoo.com/news/spendin...

DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning - Nature A new artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek-R1, is introduced, demonstrating that the reasoning abilities of large language models can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning, removing t...

I wouldn't normally link to an AI paper but the DeepSeek paper in Nature has one astonishing stat in the supplementary. The cost to train on top of the base LLM was below $300k. I think the cost of the original model was only 10x more.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

RIP CTF system, ur wiv the angles now.

You can tell SPM is uncomfortable about turning 30, it’s spent all year telling everyone it’s 25!

Having flashbacks of using that back in 2013 (I think) when it would only update once every second on our ancient hardware!

Laurent is fantastic to work with and never short of inspiring ideas. Please apply or spread the word!

Are we allowed to post Dave Grohl anymore, just trying to work out which of my teenage listening habits I am allowed to talk about.

YouTube video by themcrookedvultures Dave Grohl in FRESH POTS!

We've got a very jet-lagged niece staying with us for a fortnight, so this will be me for the forseeable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdC...

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

What a first six seconds for the Eagles, an injury and a sending off!

Its a complex feeling to receive two papers in the same week for comments, both including authors who sadly passed away too soon in 2025. Hopefully these papers in small part help their names echo though the ages that little longer.

Turns out instead of just voxel and world coordinates, there's a secret third way too?

I've got 99 problems and they are all related to how FreeSurfer stores mesh data.

One thing I wasn't expecting to have regularly to look up is what the Americans call paracetamol.

Volume conductor models for magnetospinography - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Volume conductor models for magnetospinography

Pleased to see this paper finally published. We investigated which conductive models are appropriate for source analysis of spine electrophysiology. Turns out modelling the bone is quite important! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No problem, happy to answer more questions if you have any!

You are correct. Typically the spherical symmetry of the head (and that fact radial sources are silent) means we can approximate the head without considering the skull. It’s a nice to have in MEG where it might be essential for MSG due to the morphology.

Thanks!

Volume conductor models for magnetospinography - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Volume conductor models for magnetospinography

Pleased to see this paper finally published. We investigated which conductive models are appropriate for source analysis of spine electrophysiology. Turns out modelling the bone is quite important! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Standing perfectly still so I don't accidentally spend money

This years @meguki2025.bsky.social is the first I’ve not attended since 2012. The fear of missing out is real!

Just written what cnly be descriped as a response to reviewers... to the property disputing issues found with the flat I vacated last month.

Less hoping for paper acceptance and more hoping I get some deposit back!

Screenshot of Logi Options+ showing the charge status for a mouse on the left and on the right a button to access the "Logi AI Prompt Builder" which allows you to summon ChatGPT from your mouse.

WHY DOES MY MOUSE SOFTWARE INCLUDE ACCESS TO AN LLM, IN WHAT WORLD IS THAT EVEN A USEFUL IDEA?

I’ll take panel D for my office.