Martin Jambon
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Martin Jambon
@mjambon.bsky.social
· Sep 16
Topics on which I'm able (and willing) to have expert-level conversations:
- programming, software engineering, OCaml
- art
- general biology, mycology, mushroom hunting
- psychedelics
- rowing, running, trail running
- epistemology, artificial minds, hypothetical societies
- programming, software engineering, OCaml
- art
- general biology, mycology, mushroom hunting
- psychedelics
- rowing, running, trail running
- epistemology, artificial minds, hypothetical societies
To be clear, there are way better explanations of entropy if you need one. I'm a little fuzzy on the limits of its applicability in physics, though.
Explain entropy:
Everything eventually turns to shit and evens out—but here and there, highly organized anti-shit emerges producing even more shit around it in the process.
Everything eventually turns to shit and evens out—but here and there, highly organized anti-shit emerges producing even more shit around it in the process.
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
To be clear, there are way better explanations of entropy if you need one. I'm a little fuzzy on the limits of its applicability in physics, though.
Explain entropy:
Everything eventually turns to shit and evens out—but here and there, highly organized anti-shit emerges producing even more shit around it in the process.
Everything eventually turns to shit and evens out—but here and there, highly organized anti-shit emerges producing even more shit around it in the process.
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Explain entropy:
Everything eventually turns to shit and evens out—but here and there, highly organized anti-shit emerges producing even more shit around it in the process.
Everything eventually turns to shit and evens out—but here and there, highly organized anti-shit emerges producing even more shit around it in the process.
Revenge is not ok. It never is.
Ask for payback or forgive but do not destroy value.
Ask for payback or forgive but do not destroy value.
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Revenge is not ok. It never is.
Ask for payback or forgive but do not destroy value.
Ask for payback or forgive but do not destroy value.
Please say something when you witness vengeful behavior, especially when directed at OCaml community members, regardless of how wrong or annoying they may be on some issue.
#ocaml
#ocaml
I don't quite understand why 19 people downvoted the apology note and nobody gave it a thumbs-up (I believe this was before the PR was closed because emoji reactions are now locked). This kind of mob behavior is not typical of the OCaml community and is concerning. #OCaml
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Please say something when you witness vengeful behavior, especially when directed at OCaml community members, regardless of how wrong or annoying they may be on some issue.
#ocaml
#ocaml
Fast mass transportation in dense environments benefits from constrained and coupled trajectories. That's why in cities, trains work better than cars and cars work better than helicopters (unless you have the sky to yourself, obviously).
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Fast mass transportation in dense environments benefits from constrained and coupled trajectories. That's why in cities, trains work better than cars and cars work better than helicopters (unless you have the sky to yourself, obviously).
Little alien spaceships - Psilocybe allenii fruiting abundantly in the San Francisco Bay Area today
#mushrooms #psychedelics #fungifriends
#mushrooms #psychedelics #fungifriends
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Little alien spaceships - Psilocybe allenii fruiting abundantly in the San Francisco Bay Area today
#mushrooms #psychedelics #fungifriends
#mushrooms #psychedelics #fungifriends
Last year, I learned that my birthday is also the anniversary of the first synthesis of LSD by Albert Hofmann (1938). This year, I learned it's also the birthday of Terence McKenna (1946). Is it a coincidence or is it a message from the mushroom aliens?
Pictured: the latest mushroom pic on my phone
Pictured: the latest mushroom pic on my phone
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Last year, I learned that my birthday is also the anniversary of the first synthesis of LSD by Albert Hofmann (1938). This year, I learned it's also the birthday of Terence McKenna (1946). Is it a coincidence or is it a message from the mushroom aliens?
Pictured: the latest mushroom pic on my phone
Pictured: the latest mushroom pic on my phone
This is my latest painting. If you like this, follow me on Instagram.
www.instagram.com/martinjambon
www.instagram.com/martinjambon
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is my latest painting. If you like this, follow me on Instagram.
www.instagram.com/martinjambon
www.instagram.com/martinjambon
Why procrastinate now when I can procrastinate later?
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Why procrastinate now when I can procrastinate later?
TIL the Maori name for France is Wiwi ("oui, oui").
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
TIL the Maori name for France is Wiwi ("oui, oui").
The idea that we could live in a simulation is amusing but what is a simulation exactly? It seems to imply a distinction between the substrate or the support for the simulation and the actual events occurring on that substrate. Another defining aspect of a simulation is that it's intentional.
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The idea that we could live in a simulation is amusing but what is a simulation exactly? It seems to imply a distinction between the substrate or the support for the simulation and the actual events occurring on that substrate. Another defining aspect of a simulation is that it's intentional.
Recreational mussel harvesting season for human consumption is now officially open in California! Yesterday, we could have gotten domoic acid poisoning but not today! 🎉
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domoic_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domoic_...
Domoic acid - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Recreational mussel harvesting season for human consumption is now officially open in California! Yesterday, we could have gotten domoic acid poisoning but not today! 🎉
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domoic_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domoic_...
I'm excited to have made a Lazy_with_output replacement of OCaml's Lazy module that captures and restores stdout and stderr. I'm just not 100% sure it will be useful. The goal is to share computations/context-building among several tests of a test suite and ensure they all get the same log.
#ocaml
#ocaml
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I'm excited to have made a Lazy_with_output replacement of OCaml's Lazy module that captures and restores stdout and stderr. I'm just not 100% sure it will be useful. The goal is to share computations/context-building among several tests of a test suite and ensure they all get the same log.
#ocaml
#ocaml
On the subject of shutting annoying people up:
"Please do something useful or learn something useful. You don't seem to be doing either"
"Please do something useful or learn something useful. You don't seem to be doing either"
October 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
On the subject of shutting annoying people up:
"Please do something useful or learn something useful. You don't seem to be doing either"
"Please do something useful or learn something useful. You don't seem to be doing either"
Do what you want with your body but preferably do what you want.
October 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Do what you want with your body but preferably do what you want.
Reposted by Martin Jambon
And speaking of #cannabis, Carl Sagan, writing as Mr. X, shared his perspective on it in this essay included in Grinspoon's book Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). I'd read it before, but it was interesting to revisit with new questions about how cannabis experiences overlap with psychedelic ones.
Mr. X (Carl Sagan) on Marijuana
This account was written in 1969 for publication in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). Sagan was in his mid-thirties at that time. He continued to use cannabis for the rest of his life.
marijuana-uses.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
And speaking of #cannabis, Carl Sagan, writing as Mr. X, shared his perspective on it in this essay included in Grinspoon's book Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). I'd read it before, but it was interesting to revisit with new questions about how cannabis experiences overlap with psychedelic ones.
My doctors don't use no stinking AI, OK?
October 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
My doctors don't use no stinking AI, OK?
Ok kids, listen. Promising things is foolish. Promises are unpaid contracts. Why would you constrain your life in exchange for nothing? Just don't. This will increase your reputation and the trust others place in you. And they'll help you succeed.
October 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Ok kids, listen. Promising things is foolish. Promises are unpaid contracts. Why would you constrain your life in exchange for nothing? Just don't. This will increase your reputation and the trust others place in you. And they'll help you succeed.
If you see this, post a random photo (or meme) from your photo gallery without explaining it.
October 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you see this, post a random photo (or meme) from your photo gallery without explaining it.
I'm very happy with my workflow with Graphite. I posted about it a couple weeks ago: dev.to/semgrep/a-gu...
It allows me to manage a queue of changes that I can rework independently. In the screenshot, you can my queue or so-called stack of PRs.
It allows me to manage a queue of changes that I can rework independently. In the screenshot, you can my queue or so-called stack of PRs.
October 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I'm very happy with my workflow with Graphite. I posted about it a couple weeks ago: dev.to/semgrep/a-gu...
It allows me to manage a queue of changes that I can rework independently. In the screenshot, you can my queue or so-called stack of PRs.
It allows me to manage a queue of changes that I can rework independently. In the screenshot, you can my queue or so-called stack of PRs.
"fake scientist" lol
Science History Institute makes public multimillion-dollar collection, including Rosalind Franklin’s famous DNA image, assembled by fake scientist
After bizarre journey, prized history of molecular biology archive finds new home
Science History Institute makes public multimillion-dollar collection, including Rosalind Franklin’s famous DNA image, assembled by fake scientist
www.science.org
October 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"fake scientist" lol
The unusual pigments that evolved in parrots are this month's molecules.
www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/psittac...
#science #chemistry #biology
www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/psittac...
#science #chemistry #biology
October 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The unusual pigments that evolved in parrots are this month's molecules.
www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/psittac...
#science #chemistry #biology
www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/psittac...
#science #chemistry #biology
Reposted by Martin Jambon
Le meilleur moyen de ne pas devenir fou est d'être déjà fou au départ.
October 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Le meilleur moyen de ne pas devenir fou est d'être déjà fou au départ.