David Petersen

You're saying you were FRAMED at the Louvre? Who ART thou?

Everytime I have a bad day, it turns out that I woke up that morning.

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

@alliegoertz.bsky.social Matt Groening gave you a quick mention on today's WTF interview about how you were his first podcast even though he'd promised Maron. But, your interview was better

a man with a mustache is talking to a woman with a knife . Alt: a man with a mustache is talking to a woman with a knife .

Because they're Cobra Kai

When we were in San Juan this summer, our Uber driver took us past the Paseo de los Presidentes and he said that it stopped at Obama. I told him that was enough and they didn't need to add any more.

The distance between Neptune and the Sun correlates with Burglary rates in the US (r=0.969)

The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades.

Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?

The SEVENTH president (Andrew Jackson) was elected TWICE, the first time in 1828. The angles of an isosceles right triangle are 45, 90, 45 and Michael Jordan was number 23.

2.71828182845904523...

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a man laying on a bed with the words " to the pain " on the screen Alt: a man laying on a bed with the words " to the pain " on the screen

"Your ears you keep!"

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*

Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when

An LLM just generates text

This does assume that each pair is symmetric, though. But, like, I know someone like Taylor Swift, but she wouldn't know me.

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RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

@k8nowak.bsky.social xkcd.com/3126/

If we could just believe women, we wouldn't need the files released.

Black men wearing boards that say "I AM A MAN" walking past US soldiers pointing bayonettes at them.

If you finish a video or some social media and you are left feeling angry or smug, make sure you analyze your reasons and question the media you just consumed. -- @escapethispodcast.bsky.social

And rewound music using a pencil

Entering a bank with a Victoria's Secret bag and shouting it's a C cup.

Girl pointing out parts of building she made with blue blocks usually used to represent place values in match education

Photo for reference

Text message bubbles reading: "Alice is still building a house/furniture/people with the blue blocks. And part of me wants to say 'these are for math, you're doing it wrong' but then she'll say stuff like 'this tv is huge it's...counts number of 10 sticks...sixty blocks!' Or 'these people are tiny. they're only 3 blocks tall. Wait, no, they're TWO blocks TALL, but they're made of three blocks. And I guess this is how she's going to learn match and I should just roll with it."

@triangleman.bsky.social Message from my wife while I work this morning.

Yeah, I mean, I get the math and numbers bits. But thinking about what it FEELS like is still a bit vague to me. Similar to how I don't really have a sense of 1 atmosphere of pressure because I live under that all the time.

So this is about the force your hand has to exert to keep the apple from falling, right? Which is still not intuitive to me because I think I am accounting for exerting to keep my hand up, too. What about like pushing/pulling? A light shove? Enough to tip over...something? Or get something rolling?

@rhettallain.bsky.social Hi, Rhett! Do you (or the physics community) have a standard example of what 1 Newton feels like? Like Wikipedia has that the force of gravity on an apple is about 2N, but that's still not too intuitive to me. So maybe how hard you'd have to push something common?

I think of 20% as 1/5, but I'd rather do 1/5 of 25 than 24. 1/5 of 25 is 5, and 25-5=20, so I'm expecting an answer a little less than $20 (which IRL is enough. I'd pay with a $20 bill). But if it's important to go further, then 1/5 of $1 is 20 cents, so instead of $5 it's $4.80 off. 24-4.8=$19.20

Usually it's the first 2 panels that make a good business card, but in today's comic it's the last panel that I want.

Better off dew'd.

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