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You'd be surprised how much gray matter is dedicated to the analysis of facial imagery. Shame to waste it on anything as—counterintuitive as residual plots or contingency tables.
sorry babe, i didn't get the job. i was only at 53% tenure and 71% publications
January 22, 2026 at 1:59 AM
sorry babe, i didn't get the job. i was only at 53% tenure and 71% publications
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I've been working on a new tool with @tonofcrates.bsky.social to make publishing easier called Rheo:
rheo.ohrg.org
In a nutshell, it lets you produce an EPUB, a PDF, and a static site (HTML) from a folder of @typst.app files. The Rheo doc site is naturally made with Rheo (PDF and EPUB linked).
rheo.ohrg.org
In a nutshell, it lets you produce an EPUB, a PDF, and a static site (HTML) from a folder of @typst.app files. The Rheo doc site is naturally made with Rheo (PDF and EPUB linked).
Introduction
rheo.ohrg.org
January 17, 2026 at 11:48 AM
I've been working on a new tool with @tonofcrates.bsky.social to make publishing easier called Rheo:
rheo.ohrg.org
In a nutshell, it lets you produce an EPUB, a PDF, and a static site (HTML) from a folder of @typst.app files. The Rheo doc site is naturally made with Rheo (PDF and EPUB linked).
rheo.ohrg.org
In a nutshell, it lets you produce an EPUB, a PDF, and a static site (HTML) from a folder of @typst.app files. The Rheo doc site is naturally made with Rheo (PDF and EPUB linked).
"isn't that just a roguelike?" - wife
January 13, 2026 at 10:13 PM
"isn't that just a roguelike?" - wife
"there are no documented cases of pieces over 50 words long being recalled verbatim in any oral tradition"
January 10, 2026 at 9:14 PM
"there are no documented cases of pieces over 50 words long being recalled verbatim in any oral tradition"
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the small handful of people who are actually using this stuff in a disciplined, thoughtful, and prosocial way are not the enemy. we will undoubtedly have to learn from them if we want to find ways for the human quest for meaning to survive into the future. that’s all i’ve got.
January 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM
the small handful of people who are actually using this stuff in a disciplined, thoughtful, and prosocial way are not the enemy. we will undoubtedly have to learn from them if we want to find ways for the human quest for meaning to survive into the future. that’s all i’ve got.
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…BUT, i think that deciding to react to these fears by moralizing through a callout post of specific individual open source authors who have used LLMs at least once to contribute to the public good isn’t helping anyone, and i don’t want to share an ideological position with the people behind it.
January 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
…BUT, i think that deciding to react to these fears by moralizing through a callout post of specific individual open source authors who have used LLMs at least once to contribute to the public good isn’t helping anyone, and i don’t want to share an ideological position with the people behind it.
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i like writing code by hand because it makes me feel good, and i’m scared there won’t be opportunities to do that anymore. and i think the imminent crisis of meaning that occurs when you can just ask the computer to give you whatever you want will be disastrous for the human species…
January 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
i like writing code by hand because it makes me feel good, and i’m scared there won’t be opportunities to do that anymore. and i think the imminent crisis of meaning that occurs when you can just ask the computer to give you whatever you want will be disastrous for the human species…
feeling validated that i ran an mturk study exactly once in 2021 and made a rule against ever working with participants i don't trust
We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
January 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
feeling validated that i ran an mturk study exactly once in 2021 and made a rule against ever working with participants i don't trust
ai generated code seems akin to plastic: revolutionary, cheap, moldable, and in a few years we will be desperately looking for ways to reduce reuse recycle
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM
ai generated code seems akin to plastic: revolutionary, cheap, moldable, and in a few years we will be desperately looking for ways to reduce reuse recycle
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Proposals for new types of "Cognitive Loads" for us to talk about in Software in 2026 because I'm tired of seeing the word Cognitive:
December 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Proposals for new types of "Cognitive Loads" for us to talk about in Software in 2026 because I'm tired of seeing the word Cognitive:
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is there actually any good source/community that works around workflows for coding LLMs, or are we all still figuring out how we feel about the different tools and workflows one at a time?
December 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
is there actually any good source/community that works around workflows for coding LLMs, or are we all still figuring out how we feel about the different tools and workflows one at a time?
i take great solace in the fact that my brother, the only true 10x software engineer that i know, has barely heard of IDEs let alone "generative AI"
December 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
i take great solace in the fact that my brother, the only true 10x software engineer that i know, has barely heard of IDEs let alone "generative AI"
to the median american there are exactly two forms of public transit: school bus and sky train
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
to the median american there are exactly two forms of public transit: school bus and sky train
desperate measures at the airbnb
December 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
desperate measures at the airbnb
claude is now citing neonazi wikipedia, very cool
December 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
claude is now citing neonazi wikipedia, very cool
goddamn /A Small Matter of Programming/ is such a good book. it was relevant when everyone was convinced that "visual programming" was the future and it's still relevant now that everyone is convinced "conversational programming" is the future
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
goddamn /A Small Matter of Programming/ is such a good book. it was relevant when everyone was convinced that "visual programming" was the future and it's still relevant now that everyone is convinced "conversational programming" is the future
woke 2 must include the abolition of the great male renunciation
search: "gifts for men"
-Beer coozies with sexist slogans
-a literal gun
-Utility knife made from a whiskey barrel
-Soap shaped like a gun
-Golf tees
-Anti-fart spray
-Underpants you can get your face printed on
-Beard oil that smells like guns
-Leather. Just leather.
-Beer coozies with sexist slogans
-a literal gun
-Utility knife made from a whiskey barrel
-Soap shaped like a gun
-Golf tees
-Anti-fart spray
-Underpants you can get your face printed on
-Beard oil that smells like guns
-Leather. Just leather.
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
woke 2 must include the abolition of the great male renunciation
lol it's cheaper to fly from boston to santiago, chile than to des moines
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
lol it's cheaper to fly from boston to santiago, chile than to des moines
wtf ciabatta was invented in 1982
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
wtf ciabatta was invented in 1982
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It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.
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“lazy use of unwrap blew up a process and took out the internet” bzzt. wrong. judicious use of unwrap blew up a process instead of allowing an Extremely Named CVE to happen and spraying your bank account credentials all over the public internet
People want a technical solution to what is ultimately a judgement problem.
People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.
People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“lazy use of unwrap blew up a process and took out the internet” bzzt. wrong. judicious use of unwrap blew up a process instead of allowing an Extremely Named CVE to happen and spraying your bank account credentials all over the public internet
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#rustlang hot take: We should rename .unwrap() to .or_panic(). (And .expect() to .or_panic_with().) "Unwrap" is a terrible name for the panicking function, especially since we also have things like .unwrap_or() and .unwrap_or_default() which never panic.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
#rustlang hot take: We should rename .unwrap() to .or_panic(). (And .expect() to .or_panic_with().) "Unwrap" is a terrible name for the panicking function, especially since we also have things like .unwrap_or() and .unwrap_or_default() which never panic.
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“No way to prevent this” says only language where this regularly happens
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“No way to prevent this” says only language where this regularly happens
