Happy birthday Jess!!

Thanks, John! It was your amazing foundational work which got me interested in trying this in the first place, and I really appreciate your openness about everything! I think solitons in hollow-core fibers are going to do a lot of work in attosecond and ultrafast optics in the coming years :)

Every new GPU release strengthens my resolve to keep using my 6-year-old board until it crumbles into dust

To be fair to the 6502, why would you want more than 255 of anything? That is too many things.

Jess!!!!!

Since the last place I lived in the US was in Schenectady, my absentee ballot still counts there, and Tonko is the only part of it that I don't feel like I'm holding my nose to check off

Remember, carrier-envelope phase may significantly affect the balance and ergonomics of your ultrashort potato masher

AI people argue that it's not plagiarism, that it's like learning and then making something new. But all of the artwork that goes in defines the space where the model operates, and it will never redefine that space. Only people can expand that sphere, and the world will feel dead if they don't

I'm pretty sure the swish sound effects played in real life in 1995... or maybe that's just a memory of angry modem noises