Coba
@cobalente.bsky.social
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what's up with benedictines and spas
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
what's up with benedictines and spas
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I personally use utilitarianism exactly where it's good (designing software utilities) and nowhere else
March 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I personally use utilitarianism exactly where it's good (designing software utilities) and nowhere else
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The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
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After repairing a bunch of old oscilloscopes, I melted down the failed wax capacitors and made up scented candles.
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
After repairing a bunch of old oscilloscopes, I melted down the failed wax capacitors and made up scented candles.
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And I will leave with this before NVDA earnings day tomorrow. Yowza.
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
And I will leave with this before NVDA earnings day tomorrow. Yowza.
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The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
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Many modern technologists and computer scientists are very cogent systems thinker because any sufficiently advanced technology *is people*, all technical systems are socio-technical. The capital T Tech dipshits talking about “alpha” are mainly cosplaying finance people, regardless of their training
This is absolutely the case. Tech Guys of previous generations, to the extent that that category can be read back into the 19th and 20th centuries, were shockingly well-read by modern standards
it’s also notable how the techbros of today really don’t read *books* anymore - this was really not the case for the Tech Guys of earlier generations, far as I’ve been able to tell
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Many modern technologists and computer scientists are very cogent systems thinker because any sufficiently advanced technology *is people*, all technical systems are socio-technical. The capital T Tech dipshits talking about “alpha” are mainly cosplaying finance people, regardless of their training
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man, can you imagine a world where we poured 1, 10, or 252 BILLION dollars[1] into maintaining/developing open source, programming languages, dev tools, teaching material, documentation, etc?
like, god damn. 1/10 of that, and AI would probably work better too.
[1]: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
like, god damn. 1/10 of that, and AI would probably work better too.
[1]: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
man, can you imagine a world where we poured 1, 10, or 252 BILLION dollars[1] into maintaining/developing open source, programming languages, dev tools, teaching material, documentation, etc?
like, god damn. 1/10 of that, and AI would probably work better too.
[1]: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
like, god damn. 1/10 of that, and AI would probably work better too.
[1]: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
They describe a shape with 90 vertices and 152 faces that they’ve named the Noperthedron (after Nopert a coinage that combines “Rupert” and “nope”). They proved that no matter how you bore a straight tunnel through a Noperthedron, a second cannot fit through.
www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine
After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
They describe a shape with 90 vertices and 152 faces that they’ve named the Noperthedron (after Nopert a coinage that combines “Rupert” and “nope”). They proved that no matter how you bore a straight tunnel through a Noperthedron, a second cannot fit through.
www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
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Frédéric Forest
Paris - 1
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Paris - 1
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2024
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Frédéric Forest
Paris - 1
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Paris - 1
January
2024
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does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags
Embroidery Trouble Shooting Page
Embroidery Trouble Shooting Answers to all your questions about Embroidery problems
web.archive.org
October 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM
does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags
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hex.pm/blog/announc...
The new hexdocs site has been rewritten in lustre! woulda been nice to get a shoutout but ah well, super cool ^.^
The new hexdocs site has been rewritten in lustre! woulda been nice to get a shoutout but ah well, super cool ^.^
Announcing new hexdocs search engine
A package manager for the Erlang ecosystem
hex.pm
October 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
hex.pm/blog/announc...
The new hexdocs site has been rewritten in lustre! woulda been nice to get a shoutout but ah well, super cool ^.^
The new hexdocs site has been rewritten in lustre! woulda been nice to get a shoutout but ah well, super cool ^.^
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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On grading prompts: "The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!"
important on LLMs for academics:
1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems
2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism
3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills
4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution
5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI
6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense
1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems
2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism
3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills
4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution
5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI
6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense
October 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
On grading prompts: "The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!"