David
@yonderdavid.bsky.social
Tomorrow ere fresh morning streak the east
With first approach of light, we must be risen,
And at our pleasant labour, to reform
Yon flowery arbours, yonder alleys green
With first approach of light, we must be risen,
And at our pleasant labour, to reform
Yon flowery arbours, yonder alleys green
Pinned
David
@yonderdavid.bsky.social
· Dec 6
Neither victims nor executioners but a secret, more complex third thing.
Ever wonder what birds really look like without the Mercator projection?
www.cfpayne.com/work-1/peopl...
www.cfpayne.com/work-1/peopl...
December 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Ever wonder what birds really look like without the Mercator projection?
www.cfpayne.com/work-1/peopl...
www.cfpayne.com/work-1/peopl...
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When I say that AI is using all of our water, I just mean that I think irrigation control systems are intelligent.
March 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
When I say that AI is using all of our water, I just mean that I think irrigation control systems are intelligent.
Chocolate chip cookies not only with browned butter but with browned, cooked down pumpkin purée and a little pumpkin spice and a sprinkle of flaky salt on top.
November 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Chocolate chip cookies not only with browned butter but with browned, cooked down pumpkin purée and a little pumpkin spice and a sprinkle of flaky salt on top.
Who called it "symmetry breaking" and not "going chiral"?
Chirality is such a useful word for how rarely it is used in normal conversation.
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Who called it "symmetry breaking" and not "going chiral"?
Big weekend for moon-gazers.
September 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Big weekend for moon-gazers.
Everybody wanna be a transfluvial salt merchant, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass.
August 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Everybody wanna be a transfluvial salt merchant, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass.
Sadly this revenue did not materialize. That was a difficult earnings call.
August 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Sadly this revenue did not materialize. That was a difficult earnings call.
One of the oppositions I feel most strongly is to the idea that we should indefinitely postpone what is good.
But more to your point, the idea that reward taints achievement so it's wrong to achieve until after reward has been abolished has the same shape as all the other eschatological utopian claptrap and we must emphatically reject the indefinite postponement of goodness.
July 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
One of the oppositions I feel most strongly is to the idea that we should indefinitely postpone what is good.
This reminds me of a thought from Boscovich.
July 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This reminds me of a thought from Boscovich.
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
Drop the "oft," "are," and "ngineer." Just SWEs. It's cleaner.
July 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Drop the "oft," "are," and "ngineer." Just SWEs. It's cleaner.
It slightly bothers me that the name of the person who wrote this came to refer to a voluptuary or gourmand.
July 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It slightly bothers me that the name of the person who wrote this came to refer to a voluptuary or gourmand.
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running a vending machine is a solved problem. the solution is called 'a vending machine'.
July 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
running a vending machine is a solved problem. the solution is called 'a vending machine'.
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Fulke Greville has some great lines, like the first 4 here:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47683/...
Or the last 4 here:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56368/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47683/...
Or the last 4 here:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56368/...
July 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Fulke Greville has some great lines, like the first 4 here:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47683/...
Or the last 4 here:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56368/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47683/...
Or the last 4 here:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56368/...
"First mover advantage" sounds like a premise to an ontological argument.
July 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"First mover advantage" sounds like a premise to an ontological argument.
I'm a big fan of the Awkward Lunch Date trilogy: Surviving Lunch (2019), The Long Goodbye (1973), and We're Going the Same Way (2018).
my favorite trilogy is the Men trilogy: Children of Men (2006), Men (2022), and No Country For Old Men (2007)
June 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I'm a big fan of the Awkward Lunch Date trilogy: Surviving Lunch (2019), The Long Goodbye (1973), and We're Going the Same Way (2018).
I would have gotten so rich from this offer. I can't even get the model in question, or any of its cousins or competitors, to correctly state and apply modus ponens to mathematical results from my specialty even when they examine papers which answer my questions.
June 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I would have gotten so rich from this offer. I can't even get the model in question, or any of its cousins or competitors, to correctly state and apply modus ponens to mathematical results from my specialty even when they examine papers which answer my questions.
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Lester R. Brown wrote and revised in several editions a book titled "Plan B," "Plan B 2.0," etc. In it he talks about desertification in Iran, which he attributes to overgrazing. I got curious whether this happened.
April 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Lester R. Brown wrote and revised in several editions a book titled "Plan B," "Plan B 2.0," etc. In it he talks about desertification in Iran, which he attributes to overgrazing. I got curious whether this happened.
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Each of Myus, Priene, and Miletus was a port city in its day and declined after becoming landlocked by the siltation of the bay.
March 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Each of Myus, Priene, and Miletus was a port city in its day and declined after becoming landlocked by the siltation of the bay.
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Some time ago I ran across a claim on Twitter: that Europe has recently reforested, gaining 90,000 km² of forest between 1990 and 2015 by downsizing agriculture. I got curious and it turns out this claim is both true and false, in different ways.
January 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Some time ago I ran across a claim on Twitter: that Europe has recently reforested, gaining 90,000 km² of forest between 1990 and 2015 by downsizing agriculture. I got curious and it turns out this claim is both true and false, in different ways.