South Sudan seems likely. maybe they’ll try Libya again. or Saudi Arabia. all of those are back on the table after DHS v DVD.

Czechia seems like it’d be pretty based. or Estonia. I like Central/Eastern Europe. or maybe Thailand.

the neutrino was estimated to at 220 PeV. goodness!

if they existed they’d be killer for RL. RL is insanely unstable when the distribution shifts as the policy starts exploring different parts of the state space. you’d think there’d be some clean approach to learning P(Xs|Ys) that can handle continuous shift of the Ys distribution in the training data, but there doesn’t seem to be. just replay buffers and other kludges.

what’s the difference between a single neural network and multiple neural networks? are BERTs multiple neural networks working together in concert, if you count the encoder and decoder separately? the different layers of a MoE? certainly VLMs count.

again? oy! this time I’ll give you an invincibility cooldown.

this is the source of a lot of my existential dread. I can’t logically refute it, at most I can acknowledge it’s pointless for me to worry about, but I can’t stop myself from worrying about maltheism.

TERF term for trans woman. It stands for “trans-identified male.” Presumably TERFs felt clever having the acronym be a man’s name.

the seventy maxims of maximally effective mercenaries?

(for the record, I voted for Harris. obviously.)

specifically on Gaza, I’m not convinced Trump is worse than Biden II would have been.

Trump (and the RNC in general) have been exploiting American Jews as a pawn in their efforts to destroy academic institutions and purge leftist intellectuals, the way Democrats exploited trans people (until we stopped being politically convenient, then they folded like a house of cards, and predictably abandoned us.) that’s horrible, of course, and the narrative of Gaza is tied up in it, but it’s not actually focused on Gaza - the effects are domestic.

aside from Trump’s inflammatory bluster on Gaza (building casinos and beachfront resorts for billionaires), what has he actually done? he’s negotiated with Hamas directly, and cut Netenyahu out of the loop. Trump has a huge ego, and he doesn’t play well with other world leaders with huge egos, like Netenyahu (or recently, Musk.) so when Netenyahu tried to push him around he told him to pound sand. and - for better or worse - with “America First” foreign policy, it’s increasingly hard to justify giving Israel billions of dollars to prosecute their genocide. I think Biden would have 100% been a pushover.

meanwhile, they wouldn’t even address Gaza during the DNC convention. they were initially going to have a Palestinian-American person speak, but decided “nah” and cut them at the last minute. the DNC smugly decided that us minorities were “in the bag,” and told us shut up, while they pandered to the Neocons. now they’ve lost, and the DNC is toast, and if we ever get a shot at democracy again, whatever rises from the DNC’s ashes will have to actually be Progressive.

Five. Hundred. Seasons.

“oh, you have that song on vinyl? I have it on M66T-xxL.”

whips out a AA battery and a piezo speaker.

the part numbering in the datasheet makes it look like there were dozens of different songs at one point, since they’re numbered like -001, -002, -019, -068. I wonder what their full catalog looked like?

most software engineering isn’t actual computer science, it’s plumbing. and most coding isn’t software engineering, it’s scripting. we overproduced CS majors when we should have taught scripting as part of the curriculum for ME, finance etc.

and even the plumbing should be separated into a different major. it’s like hiring electrical engineers as electricians.

because it worked for millennials! it wasn’t an unfounded expectation. remember Flash? remember how many Flash games were programmed by 12yos? how many websites on Geocities and Angelfire? the 5kr1pt k1dd13z in the hacking scene? it was a golden generation of computer literacy. dev tools were basic tools, we were exposed to foundational technologies while they were new, and the Internet was oriented around producing content rather than consuming it. then came the app era, and the TV-ification of the Internet, and those skills atrophied.

it’s literally not though. it’s an actual figure from an actual journal article on biohybrid robots.

“planetary defense” usually means tracking and maybe deflecting asteroids that are likely to hit Earth.

bruh your username 😭😭 respect.

also, surely flerovium and the other mostly-theoretical elements would be denser, no? at least for a couple microseconds until they yeet some protons and fling themselves apart.

Larry David’s humor is perfect for this. what a mensch.

It appears to be Dis thing right here.

Apparently it’s a nerfed variant of Malbolge. Malbolge is literally cryptographically difficult to program in, while Dis is merely migraine-inducing.