My parents were contemplating a holiday in Sweden in October, and pointed out it was recently 30°C in Abisko

Ah, köttbilar, the famous Swedish meat cars.

LLMs would make great conspiracy theorists though. I was trying to identify the the hashing function used to map an identifier to a directory path, and the model claimed that my system is compromised because the output didn't match the prediction. Nope, my guess about the input was wrong...

Wouldn't want anyone's PMDD to go away, so they can "feel their emotions".

I'm more bemused by the lack of exterior blackout shutters. My grandma's house in Germany was nowhere near as warm as my apartment in Cambridge last week, even though it had hit 36°C there. It's as though I never left my top floor Philly row house apartment that didn't have window AC in the kitchen

That's roughly how my maternal grandfather who was born in Transylvania pronounced it...

Not the first accidental cnidarian :) academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

68-year-old men who are on gear?

It's a bit of a theoretical one ;)

We wrote about encoding amino acids as ambiguous observations of codons (and the resulting loss of information) here: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic... @uperron.bsky.social

Old lettuce and no tomatoes.

I think you can keep the topology fixed in FastME if you tell it to only optimise the branch lengths

There was an edited extract from the O'Sullivan one in the Graun a few days ago (a bit too anecdotal for my personal liking).

'tis an enigma.