@brahmonaut.bsky.social
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It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!
March 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!
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Great anecdote here from former FT editor Richard Lambert on the time Manmohan Singh came to the FT to talk with him and Martin Wolf. H/T @andymukherjee70.bsky.social
December 31, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Great anecdote here from former FT editor Richard Lambert on the time Manmohan Singh came to the FT to talk with him and Martin Wolf. H/T @andymukherjee70.bsky.social
Anand Akela in andaaz apna apna attending the wedding of ravina and Prem.
Always a treat to find my favorite name: Ilī-wēdêku. His name means "my god, I am alone".
Here, Mr. My-God-I-am-alone is witness to a marriage between Sin-iqišam and Ninlil-ninam in Nippur ca. 1830 BCE.
TMH 10, 1 (P503174): cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/50...
Here, Mr. My-God-I-am-alone is witness to a marriage between Sin-iqišam and Ninlil-ninam in Nippur ca. 1830 BCE.
TMH 10, 1 (P503174): cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/50...
December 16, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Anand Akela in andaaz apna apna attending the wedding of ravina and Prem.
And now my Archive is complete! Swallowed this whole over the last 24 hours. Will do a slow read once more before the winter ends!
So glad I reread the earlier books. There was a lot that I had forgotten.
So glad I reread the earlier books. There was a lot that I had forgotten.
December 8, 2024 at 1:23 AM
And now my Archive is complete! Swallowed this whole over the last 24 hours. Will do a slow read once more before the winter ends!
So glad I reread the earlier books. There was a lot that I had forgotten.
So glad I reread the earlier books. There was a lot that I had forgotten.
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What an amazing statistic.
Planes are so safe that passenger safety can be measured in light-years!
Planes are so safe that passenger safety can be measured in light-years!
Sometimes, the most important news is when something isn’t happening.
In my new @OurWorldInData article, I highlight that US airlines have transported passengers for more than two light-years since the last plane crash.
ourworldindata.org/us-airline-t...
In my new @OurWorldInData article, I highlight that US airlines have transported passengers for more than two light-years since the last plane crash.
ourworldindata.org/us-airline-t...
US airlines have transported passengers for more than two light-years since the last plane crash
Sometimes, the most important news is when something isn’t happening.
ourworldindata.org
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 PM
What an amazing statistic.
Planes are so safe that passenger safety can be measured in light-years!
Planes are so safe that passenger safety can be measured in light-years!
This is pretty metal! The blood-brain barrier may not be as insurmountable as previously thought to be and our brains might just have their own microbes www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-...
Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? | Quanta Magazine
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 2, 2024 at 10:55 PM
This is pretty metal! The blood-brain barrier may not be as insurmountable as previously thought to be and our brains might just have their own microbes www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-...
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so tired of centrists blaming leftists for centrists losing elections
December 1, 2024 at 5:36 AM
so tired of centrists blaming leftists for centrists losing elections
Tonight’s sunset! Truly California has the Mandate of Heaven!
November 30, 2024 at 5:11 AM
Tonight’s sunset! Truly California has the Mandate of Heaven!
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Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
J R R Tolkien: Now it is time to drink the cup of farewell. Drink then, and let not your heart be sad, though night must follow noon, and already our evening draweth nigh.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
J R R Tolkien: Now it is time to drink the cup of farewell. Drink then, and let not your heart be sad, though night must follow noon, and already our evening draweth nigh.
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Margaret Atwood: The cup is a dystopian symbol. Its contents may be limited, but the question is whether you will drink from it or question the authority that decides how much it should hold.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Margaret Atwood: The cup is a dystopian symbol. Its contents may be limited, but the question is whether you will drink from it or question the authority that decides how much it should hold.
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
M Night Shyalaman: What if God put the cup there so you would one day later use it to fight naked, water-soluble aliens with a baseball bat?
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
M Night Shyalaman: What if God put the cup there so you would one day later use it to fight naked, water-soluble aliens with a baseball bat?
November 29, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
J R R Tolkien: Now it is time to drink the cup of farewell. Drink then, and let not your heart be sad, though night must follow noon, and already our evening draweth nigh.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
J R R Tolkien: Now it is time to drink the cup of farewell. Drink then, and let not your heart be sad, though night must follow noon, and already our evening draweth nigh.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
George R. R. Martin: The cup holds dark ale, thick as blood, brewed by northern monks. The foam clings like snow on the Wall. Half is gone—spilled in a brawl or drained by a scheming lord. In the game of cups, you drink or you die.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
George R. R. Martin: The cup holds dark ale, thick as blood, brewed by northern monks. The foam clings like snow on the Wall. Half is gone—spilled in a brawl or drained by a scheming lord. In the game of cups, you drink or you die.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
November 29, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
George R. R. Martin: The cup holds dark ale, thick as blood, brewed by northern monks. The foam clings like snow on the Wall. Half is gone—spilled in a brawl or drained by a scheming lord. In the game of cups, you drink or you die.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
George R. R. Martin: The cup holds dark ale, thick as blood, brewed by northern monks. The foam clings like snow on the Wall. Half is gone—spilled in a brawl or drained by a scheming lord. In the game of cups, you drink or you die.
Just realized that the fifth and final book in Brandon Sandersons Stormlight archive arc 1, The Wind and Truth will be out on this December 6th. Now planning to re read all the books starting today. Have forgotten a lot. Hope I am able to catch up in time.
November 29, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Just realized that the fifth and final book in Brandon Sandersons Stormlight archive arc 1, The Wind and Truth will be out on this December 6th. Now planning to re read all the books starting today. Have forgotten a lot. Hope I am able to catch up in time.
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Marc Andreessen whining that "the left" treated "Big Tech" with contempt is kind of interesting, because the kernel of truth in it is that it was quite shameful the extent to which the mainstream of politics seem to be prepared to let him get away with the ICO and NFT episodes.
November 29, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Marc Andreessen whining that "the left" treated "Big Tech" with contempt is kind of interesting, because the kernel of truth in it is that it was quite shameful the extent to which the mainstream of politics seem to be prepared to let him get away with the ICO and NFT episodes.
Wonderful! t.co/GKikpzMpqG
https://www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-salmon-on-your-head-is-back-in-fashion-for-orcas-after-a-37-year-break-76971
t.co
November 28, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Wonderful! t.co/GKikpzMpqG
This is a wonderful account of Bill Harding and his management style which led IBM to invent the automated fab. Such a good read. Pretty incredible that they managed to cut down the complex month long process to a single day! spectrum.ieee.org/semiconducto...
The Forgotten Story of How IBM Invented the Automated Fab
Fifty years ago, a brash middle manager had a vision: a chip in a day
spectrum.ieee.org
November 28, 2024 at 3:29 AM
This is a wonderful account of Bill Harding and his management style which led IBM to invent the automated fab. Such a good read. Pretty incredible that they managed to cut down the complex month long process to a single day! spectrum.ieee.org/semiconducto...
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I saw a number of people sharing a Guardian piece that suggested Trump had a better grasp of the ground game than Harris. He … didn't. The piece conflated some very different things in a weird way!
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Column | The Harris campaign’s ground game was not the problem
A recent assessment of the 2024 presidential contest suggested that Democrats needed to emulate right-wing outreach. But that’s different from turning out voters.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:50 PM
I saw a number of people sharing a Guardian piece that suggested Trump had a better grasp of the ground game than Harris. He … didn't. The piece conflated some very different things in a weird way!
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I know it’s all noise on social media but Magnus was bang on when he said Gukesh doesn’t make these moves by hand. His point about intuition or calculation is subtle and about to get misconstrued a lot. There is a fabi podcast (don’t know which one) which more or less brings up this point as well.
November 28, 2024 at 2:26 AM
I know it’s all noise on social media but Magnus was bang on when he said Gukesh doesn’t make these moves by hand. His point about intuition or calculation is subtle and about to get misconstrued a lot. There is a fabi podcast (don’t know which one) which more or less brings up this point as well.
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Rare footage of a footnote being born in the wild.
November 27, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Rare footage of a footnote being born in the wild.
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i will also die angry at the genAI crowd for deliberately causing the general public to conflate the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine with USEFUL forms of machine learning, like that wildfire early-detection system they're using around Kelowna now
"You sneer at data-scraping our posts, but machine learning is why we can take cameras the size of a fingernail."
Yes, those are two things that are true. Two tangentially unrelated things, sharing no causal connection. There is no big tech innovation lurking behind plagiarism remixers.
Yes, those are two things that are true. Two tangentially unrelated things, sharing no causal connection. There is no big tech innovation lurking behind plagiarism remixers.
November 27, 2024 at 3:12 AM
i will also die angry at the genAI crowd for deliberately causing the general public to conflate the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine with USEFUL forms of machine learning, like that wildfire early-detection system they're using around Kelowna now
Nice!
Every one of these news stories is a tiny hit of dopamine.
French oil giant TotalEnergies has announced a suspension of new investments in Adani Group companies due to ongoing US bribery charges against the conglomerate’s founder, Gautam Adani.
www.siasat.com/french-oil-f...
www.siasat.com/french-oil-f...
November 26, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Nice!
Next time you goof up and somebody calls it a childish mistake, correct them that it’s actually a chaldees mistake.
A few more possible math mistakes from 4,000 years ago to remind us that we all struggled to learn stuff at one point or another.
Here, a student is multiplying numbers by themselves (squaring calculation) but put a 7 instead of a 5 in part of the answer cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/25...
Here, a student is multiplying numbers by themselves (squaring calculation) but put a 7 instead of a 5 in part of the answer cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/25...
November 24, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Next time you goof up and somebody calls it a childish mistake, correct them that it’s actually a chaldees mistake.
The full name is of course Coal king Adani green energy gallery.
😂😂😂
The @sciencemuseum’s sponsor #Adani is mired in allegations of bribery and fraud, with charges brought by US prosecutors and an arrest warrant out for the Chairman Gautam Adani.
And the museum tells The Art Newspaper it is “monitoring the situation”… 🙄
www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/22/c...
And the museum tells The Art Newspaper it is “monitoring the situation”… 🙄
www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/22/c...
November 24, 2024 at 6:10 PM
The full name is of course Coal king Adani green energy gallery.
Never getting tired of these blues. Happy to live in a place where even late Novembers look like this.
November 24, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Never getting tired of these blues. Happy to live in a place where even late Novembers look like this.
Generally agree with this take. Web devs are the worst. Front end web devs among them even more so. Embedded devs on the other hand are pretty close to engineers.
It think the profession of software development is practiced not as engineering nor as science in many companies.
It's more like builders.
I watch a lot of YouTube videos of home builders, and it seems exactly like modern software work. A lot less formal than you'd think. Just, "get 'er done."
It's more like builders.
I watch a lot of YouTube videos of home builders, and it seems exactly like modern software work. A lot less formal than you'd think. Just, "get 'er done."
November 24, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Generally agree with this take. Web devs are the worst. Front end web devs among them even more so. Embedded devs on the other hand are pretty close to engineers.
I am sure everyone’s read Rhoades How to Make an Atomic Bomb but have you read this amazing review?
Not every review is just feedback—some are high art. This was meticulously crafted, it felt like reading a symphony in prose. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Not every review is just feedback—some are high art. This was meticulously crafted, it felt like reading a symphony in prose. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Manny's review of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
5/5: I am being sarcastically criticised (you know who you are) for including too many details in this review. Note that each bullet point below represents about thirty pages of text; large pages, nar...
www.goodreads.com
November 24, 2024 at 5:33 PM
I am sure everyone’s read Rhoades How to Make an Atomic Bomb but have you read this amazing review?
Not every review is just feedback—some are high art. This was meticulously crafted, it felt like reading a symphony in prose. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Not every review is just feedback—some are high art. This was meticulously crafted, it felt like reading a symphony in prose. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...