A very dark signal for Bluesky: I installed an app blocker to block all my social media except blue sky and I still don't check out all that often
September 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A very dark signal for Bluesky: I installed an app blocker to block all my social media except blue sky and I still don't check out all that often
What is Blueskyism?
And why is it so toxic for political persuasion?
www.natesilver.net
September 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Shower thought: I wonder how many tenured professors would trade tenure for better job mobility.
August 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Shower thought: I wonder how many tenured professors would trade tenure for better job mobility.
My neighbor has what I can only describe as "Big Umbridge Energy"
July 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My neighbor has what I can only describe as "Big Umbridge Energy"
Has anyone figured out a good way to work with copilot tab completion vs positron tab completion?
July 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Has anyone figured out a good way to work with copilot tab completion vs positron tab completion?
Reposted by Gordon Shotwell
I'm finally reading this paper but my first thought is anybody on earth good at predicting how long a task will take them....?
Setting aside the small person sample, randomizing the tasks within developer is....super odd? Wouldn't we start to expect a lot of order effects?
Setting aside the small person sample, randomizing the tasks within developer is....super odd? Wouldn't we start to expect a lot of order effects?
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm finally reading this paper but my first thought is anybody on earth good at predicting how long a task will take them....?
Setting aside the small person sample, randomizing the tasks within developer is....super odd? Wouldn't we start to expect a lot of order effects?
Setting aside the small person sample, randomizing the tasks within developer is....super odd? Wouldn't we start to expect a lot of order effects?
I regret to inform you that textured vegetable protein really is the best breakfast cereal.
June 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I regret to inform you that textured vegetable protein really is the best breakfast cereal.
So far the best use for AI that I've found is "describe modelling problem -> get hyper-specific Bayesian regression model for just such a use case"
June 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
So far the best use for AI that I've found is "describe modelling problem -> get hyper-specific Bayesian regression model for just such a use case"
June 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Look I know it was a mistake to turn Haliburton and Fox into the norcal Bulls, but I think a series of nationwide protests is really kicking Sacramento when it's down.
June 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Look I know it was a mistake to turn Haliburton and Fox into the norcal Bulls, but I think a series of nationwide protests is really kicking Sacramento when it's down.
Reposted by Gordon Shotwell
there really seems to be a strange “green lantern theory of fascism” that some people on this website have internalized, in which the white house’s desire for martial law — it’s desire for organized repression — is tantamount to a guarantee that it will happen
June 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
there really seems to be a strange “green lantern theory of fascism” that some people on this website have internalized, in which the white house’s desire for martial law — it’s desire for organized repression — is tantamount to a guarantee that it will happen
The thing we need to survive the current time is a new season of Silicon Valley about Gavin Belson going to Washington.
June 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The thing we need to survive the current time is a new season of Silicon Valley about Gavin Belson going to Washington.
Reposted by Gordon Shotwell
One of the funniest jokes in TV history big RIP
June 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
One of the funniest jokes in TV history big RIP
I started reading Twitter like a min 2010s blogging platform where I follow no accounts but just open individual people's pages. Surprisingly good!
June 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I started reading Twitter like a min 2010s blogging platform where I follow no accounts but just open individual people's pages. Surprisingly good!
A year after leaving Posit I still can't believe how ridiculous it was that that job didn't work out.
June 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A year after leaving Posit I still can't believe how ridiculous it was that that job didn't work out.
Here's a @mattyglesias.bsky.social substack post idea:
- Climate change an birth-rate decline are very similar types of issues in that they're long term threats to our way of life with no clear solutions
- People who care about one tend to not care about the other
- That's weird!
- Climate change an birth-rate decline are very similar types of issues in that they're long term threats to our way of life with no clear solutions
- People who care about one tend to not care about the other
- That's weird!
June 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Here's a @mattyglesias.bsky.social substack post idea:
- Climate change an birth-rate decline are very similar types of issues in that they're long term threats to our way of life with no clear solutions
- People who care about one tend to not care about the other
- That's weird!
- Climate change an birth-rate decline are very similar types of issues in that they're long term threats to our way of life with no clear solutions
- People who care about one tend to not care about the other
- That's weird!
A really good way to maintain your R sensibilities as a Python dev is to get really twitchy and upset when people don't use list comprehension.
May 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A really good way to maintain your R sensibilities as a Python dev is to get really twitchy and upset when people don't use list comprehension.
R isn't dead, but it is SAS
May 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
R isn't dead, but it is SAS
Underrated source of male loneliness: women tend to form close relationships through parenting, but men generally don't. As men spend more time parenting they tend to shift time away from relationship-forming activities.
April 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Underrated source of male loneliness: women tend to form close relationships through parenting, but men generally don't. As men spend more time parenting they tend to shift time away from relationship-forming activities.
Reposted by Gordon Shotwell
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Reposted by Gordon Shotwell
DIG THROUGH THE DITCHES AND BURN THROUGH THE WITCHES
I SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY DRAGULA
I SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY DRAGULA
April 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
DIG THROUGH THE DITCHES AND BURN THROUGH THE WITCHES
I SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY DRAGULA
I SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY DRAGULA