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Richard Knepper
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Center for Advanced Computing
Cornell University
CASC
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Not my photo, but the UTEP sculpture "Mining Minds" by Michael Clapper goes really hard
An illuminated burnt-orange sculpture of a giant pickaxe head embedded in the rock in front of the UTEP Bookstore, perforated with illuminated zeros and ones. The pickaxe stands up in front of a brilliant blue sky.
September 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Save us, Giant Robot Hand!
Researchers in Japan and Switzerland demonstrated a giant robotic hand designed to aid disaster response, as part of Japan’s Collaborative AI Field Robot Everywhere (CAFÉ) project. The device, built in collaboration with Japan’s Kumagai Gumi, Tsukuba University, and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, and Switzerland’s ETH Zurich, is able to grip fragile or heavy debris with precision. The researchers paired the robot hand with an AI excavation system using reinforcement learning, which allows it to safely tackle hazards like natural dams from landslides.
August 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Continued. Excellence.
A screenshot of a bluesky notification reading "Beyonce followed you". This is not anything approaching the real Beyonce, and the actual bsky account name is beyoce, which seems like a pretty rough type for someone who is supposed bear the name.
January 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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As a mark of my continued excellence, I remain associated only with the most exceptional things
screenshot of results of a bing search entitled "Videos of Richard Knepper" - the results are "Wild Thing - Trailer" from Mar 16 2022 and "Getting Out" 1994, a crime drama starring Rebecca De Mornay on Chicken Soup for the Soul TV. What in the everlasting gobstopper is "Chicken Soup for the Soul TV"???
January 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Today, I have learned...
Screenshot of Wikipedia article text about the song "Turn Down for What", reading "'Turn Down for What' is written in the E Phrygian mode and is set in common time at a moderate tempo of 100 beats per minute."
January 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Under my tree was this lovely calendar by Natalia Naszczyńska and Sebastian Łuczywo, the artwork and text make me happy.
The front of a 2025 calendar in Polish, featuring artwork of Baba Yaga's chicken-legged hut.
December 27, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Mrs. Kn got me Dungeon Academy: No Humans Allowed by Madeleine Roux and these illustrations by @timprobert.bsky.social are so endlessly charming!
A black and white illustration of an adventuring party sitting around a campfire consisting of an owlbear, a diminutive dragon, and a young teifling. The illustrations has orange accents. Color illustration on a book cover with an owlbear, dragon, and tiefling girl entering a dungeon room.
December 26, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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The terror of every Christmas table has arrived, it is...
Meat Grinder packaging with the title "Die Fleischwolf!" in flamboyant cursive font. Die Fleischwolf hungers for your fingers...
December 19, 2024 at 1:47 AM
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Don't go in, it's a trap...
December 6, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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I had the most fortuitous meeting at SC24, unexpected but welcome
A giant statue of an Ultramarines Terminator power armor standing majestically. Banner for the World Championships of Warhammer
November 21, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Awwww yeah, #bookmail...
October 12, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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Music with disclaimers always makes for a good time.
Instructions for listening to a record that begin with "Make sure all your windows are closed so as not to annoy your neighbors." A picture for a record album featuring extremely vivid yellow, red, and green Shrine Club Steel Drum Band of Puerto Rico meeting where all of the club members seem happy, but one of them is looking somewhere off-camera.
August 27, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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The woman ringing up my copy of Elric at the End of Time was giving this @michaelwhelan.bsky.social cover REAL SCRUTINY but it's fully awesome
The cover of Michael Moorcock's Elric at the End of Time with a slinky Elric of Melnibone illustration by Michael Whelan, a pale white skinny dragon lord in a half crouching leggy sword embracing pose
August 25, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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Rest in PointingFinger
A picture of Donald Sutherland, exhibiting alien emotions, from the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Sutherland is outside, in front of leafless trees, in a city scene wearing a gabardine coat. He points at the camera.
June 20, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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This is it. This is where I get my office in the seedy part of town, with a bottle of rotgut in the desk drawer and a well-used davenport to lay low on. And that workstation-sized D-Wave machine.
An ad for a "Freelance Quantum Computing Researcher"
April 9, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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For real, this is an interesting way to get feedback on things...

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"Not all experiences are educational"
March 26, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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When I got into RESEARCH I was HOPING to be THIS GUY:
Two playmobil dolls dressed as scientists stand at a table with a microscope and test tubes in view. One scientist is a smiling woman with brown hair. One scientist has spiky gray hair, stubble, and multicolored rings around his eyes, which are looking in opposite directions. The statement of the author refers to the latter scientist/playmobil doll.
March 26, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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March 12, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Awww, yisss. Bookmail!
January 30, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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The Rush - great series by @sispurrier.bsky.social and Nathan Gooden. Loved it.
January 30, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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New year, new office calendar, can't resist a good Bosch
January 4, 2024 at 4:13 PM