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MAGRERR CHRISMACKS
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
MAGRERR CHRISMACKS
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October 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This animation alone should win a science journalism award
October 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This animation alone should win a science journalism award
my local library is pushing pro-AI propaganda at children smh
October 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
my local library is pushing pro-AI propaganda at children smh
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Live footage of Nobel committee giving the Physics prize to quantum computing.
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Live footage of Nobel committee giving the Physics prize to quantum computing.
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Promo video for the recent HSBC and IBM Quantum breakthrough in finance, if it was directed by Scott Aaronson.
scottaaronson.blog?p=9170
scottaaronson.blog?p=9170
September 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Promo video for the recent HSBC and IBM Quantum breakthrough in finance, if it was directed by Scott Aaronson.
scottaaronson.blog?p=9170
scottaaronson.blog?p=9170
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"Just as Jay Gatsby is an enigmatic larger-than-life figure driven to accumulate wealth at all costs in a futile bid for the love of Daisy Buchanan, the Xerox 914 beats on ceaselessly, printing page after page, for reasons that readers cannot fully comprehend."
Book Review: The Great Gatsby by the Xerox 914 Photocopier
Amid the rise of artificial intelligence, technophobes and Luddites have continued to insist that machines “can’t really write”—at least not the wa...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"Just as Jay Gatsby is an enigmatic larger-than-life figure driven to accumulate wealth at all costs in a futile bid for the love of Daisy Buchanan, the Xerox 914 beats on ceaselessly, printing page after page, for reasons that readers cannot fully comprehend."
South Carolina
September 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
South Carolina
I've been doing some percolation calculations lately, and I decided that I was tired of letting my computer have all the fun
September 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I've been doing some percolation calculations lately, and I decided that I was tired of letting my computer have all the fun
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Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
#AI #GenAI #HigherEducation #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...
#AI #GenAI #HigherEducation #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
#AI #GenAI #HigherEducation #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...
#AI #GenAI #HigherEducation #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...
Good correction, which shows that I misremembered / omitted some context in my summary.
Weiss came up with the idea of an optical interferometric gravitational wave detector, which eventually became LIGO.
Much better to read his summary of what happened than mine:
www.kavliprize.org/rainer-weiss...
Weiss came up with the idea of an optical interferometric gravitational wave detector, which eventually became LIGO.
Much better to read his summary of what happened than mine:
www.kavliprize.org/rainer-weiss...
September 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Good correction, which shows that I misremembered / omitted some context in my summary.
Weiss came up with the idea of an optical interferometric gravitational wave detector, which eventually became LIGO.
Much better to read his summary of what happened than mine:
www.kavliprize.org/rainer-weiss...
Weiss came up with the idea of an optical interferometric gravitational wave detector, which eventually became LIGO.
Much better to read his summary of what happened than mine:
www.kavliprize.org/rainer-weiss...
1/ Rainer Weiss, who conceived of the idea of a gravitational wave detector (which eventually became LIGO), has died.
I was at MIT when the first gravitational wave detection was announced, and he gave perhaps the most inspiring colloquium I have ever heard.
news.mit.edu/2025/profess...
I was at MIT when the first gravitational wave detection was announced, and he gave perhaps the most inspiring colloquium I have ever heard.
news.mit.edu/2025/profess...
Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92
MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, a renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose groundbreaking work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed a longst...
news.mit.edu
September 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
1/ Rainer Weiss, who conceived of the idea of a gravitational wave detector (which eventually became LIGO), has died.
I was at MIT when the first gravitational wave detection was announced, and he gave perhaps the most inspiring colloquium I have ever heard.
news.mit.edu/2025/profess...
I was at MIT when the first gravitational wave detection was announced, and he gave perhaps the most inspiring colloquium I have ever heard.
news.mit.edu/2025/profess...
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The Mask of Sorrow is a monument located on a hill above Magadan, Russia, commemorating the many prisoners who suffered and died in the Gulag prison camps in the Kolyma region of the Soviet Union during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
August 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The Mask of Sorrow is a monument located on a hill above Magadan, Russia, commemorating the many prisoners who suffered and died in the Gulag prison camps in the Kolyma region of the Soviet Union during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
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here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 AM
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
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A great opportunity to contribute to the phenomenal science reporting by @quantamagazine.bsky.social
A great opportunity to contribute to the phenomenal science reporting by @quantamagazine.bsky.social
Seeking science journalists: @quantamagazine.bsky.social is hiring a physics editor!
A rare opportunity to join this great team and lead coverage of this foundational vertical. Please reach out with any questions and share widely
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A rare opportunity to join this great team and lead coverage of this foundational vertical. Please reach out with any questions and share widely
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Physics Editor, Quanta Magazine
POSITION SUMMARY Quanta is seeking an editor to contribute to the magazine’s award-winning physics coverage. This editor will be tasked with finding the most exciting developments in the world of the ...
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August 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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A great opportunity to contribute to the phenomenal science reporting by @quantamagazine.bsky.social
A great opportunity to contribute to the phenomenal science reporting by @quantamagazine.bsky.social
Alberta prairie town
August 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Alberta prairie town
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It's a Rothko night
August 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
It's a Rothko night
My four year old just asked me "Dad, is a bowl a plate?" and I'm not sure I'm ready to have the talk about topology already
August 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My four year old just asked me "Dad, is a bowl a plate?" and I'm not sure I'm ready to have the talk about topology already
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David Tong goes to a doctor.
David: I am not feeling too good, doc. Trying to learn a new area of physics but somehow can't get into it.
Doc: The solution is simple. There is this guy who writes the best physics lecture notes..
David Tong goes to a doctor.
David: I am not feeling too good, doc. Trying to learn a new area of physics but somehow can't get into it.
Doc: The solution is simple. There is this guy who writes the best physics lecture notes..
July 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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David Tong goes to a doctor.
David: I am not feeling too good, doc. Trying to learn a new area of physics but somehow can't get into it.
Doc: The solution is simple. There is this guy who writes the best physics lecture notes..
David Tong goes to a doctor.
David: I am not feeling too good, doc. Trying to learn a new area of physics but somehow can't get into it.
Doc: The solution is simple. There is this guy who writes the best physics lecture notes..
For no particular reason I am thinking today about the Simpsons joke about the struggling jazz musician who is ultimately made destitute because his income can't keep pace with his $1500-a-day habit: collecting Faberge eggs
July 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
For no particular reason I am thinking today about the Simpsons joke about the struggling jazz musician who is ultimately made destitute because his income can't keep pace with his $1500-a-day habit: collecting Faberge eggs
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I looked into the claim that chess grandmasters burn 6000 calories a day and found it was made up by popular author Robert Sapolsky
open.substack.com/pub/strandbe...
open.substack.com/pub/strandbe...
Chess Grandmasters Do Not Burn 6000 Calories Per Day
A Note on the Production of Facts
open.substack.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I looked into the claim that chess grandmasters burn 6000 calories a day and found it was made up by popular author Robert Sapolsky
open.substack.com/pub/strandbe...
open.substack.com/pub/strandbe...
All the "AI Safety" people seem to be focused on the possibility that we will build something dangerous to humanity.
Is anyone worrying about the possibility that we will build something capable of suffering and then abuse it horribly because it will be profitable not to acknowledge its personhood?
Is anyone worrying about the possibility that we will build something capable of suffering and then abuse it horribly because it will be profitable not to acknowledge its personhood?
June 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
All the "AI Safety" people seem to be focused on the possibility that we will build something dangerous to humanity.
Is anyone worrying about the possibility that we will build something capable of suffering and then abuse it horribly because it will be profitable not to acknowledge its personhood?
Is anyone worrying about the possibility that we will build something capable of suffering and then abuse it horribly because it will be profitable not to acknowledge its personhood?
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taking my vizier to the vizier park so he can scheme with the other viziers
June 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
taking my vizier to the vizier park so he can scheme with the other viziers
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Ask a caterpillar your question, and it will become the answer. Slime in a silky cradle, computing a reply; from god's own tongue, translated into butterfly
June 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Ask a caterpillar your question, and it will become the answer. Slime in a silky cradle, computing a reply; from god's own tongue, translated into butterfly
Sometimes I browse Bluesky looking for allergy advice. I call that rheumscrolling.
Sometimes I check on grammar pedantry groups on Bluesky. I call that whom-scrolling.
Sometimes I check on archaeology groups on Bluesky. I call that tomb-scrolling
June 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Sometimes I browse Bluesky looking for allergy advice. I call that rheumscrolling.