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Do we measure volume of skeets in flounces?
December 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Do we measure volume of skeets in flounces?
One per wheel, presumably?
November 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
One per wheel, presumably?
If DD has an analog in literature review - I think it does - maybe you'll enjoy what Terence Tao has to say: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1153850...
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
I am increasingly of the opinion that the most productive near-term adoptions of AI in mathematics will primarily come not from applying the most powerful models to the most challenging problems (alth...
mathstodon.xyz
October 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If DD has an analog in literature review - I think it does - maybe you'll enjoy what Terence Tao has to say: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1153850...
Skateboard
xkcd.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Yep, put your left foot firmly on the hi hat pedal and just smush the closed cymbals with the stick. There's an analog of pop sci v actual science here somewhere. "Yeah, that's rhythm!" You could feel a bit of the real thing with legitimate noises. Maybe make some boop-boop noises vocally :)
October 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Yep, put your left foot firmly on the hi hat pedal and just smush the closed cymbals with the stick. There's an analog of pop sci v actual science here somewhere. "Yeah, that's rhythm!" You could feel a bit of the real thing with legitimate noises. Maybe make some boop-boop noises vocally :)
More data for you: when my wife and I ate in the Ferengi cafe, I apologized to the waiter for my clothed female: "if I don't let her every now and then, I don't get my oo-mox." Blank stare from the waiter. Best bit was the dark chill just before rematerializing on the bridge at the finale.
August 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
More data for you: when my wife and I ate in the Ferengi cafe, I apologized to the waiter for my clothed female: "if I don't let her every now and then, I don't get my oo-mox." Blank stare from the waiter. Best bit was the dark chill just before rematerializing on the bridge at the finale.
Maybe something about seeing people achieve what they hope to achieve close-up, getting to try the parts they can see so far, and comfortably appreciating that they haven't developed the skills for the rest /yet/.
August 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Maybe something about seeing people achieve what they hope to achieve close-up, getting to try the parts they can see so far, and comfortably appreciating that they haven't developed the skills for the rest /yet/.
I think things that make it not obvious include not spending enough time gaming out the categories of reception a tweet might get. People fire off in their own direction, not yours, and those directions form a rat's nest that can't be unpicked by tweets. Chaotic good.
July 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I think things that make it not obvious include not spending enough time gaming out the categories of reception a tweet might get. People fire off in their own direction, not yours, and those directions form a rat's nest that can't be unpicked by tweets. Chaotic good.
It's not a flash in the pan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZ2...
Ilya Sutskever, U of T honorary degree recipient, June 6, 2025
YouTube video by University of Toronto
www.youtube.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It's not a flash in the pan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZ2...
I suppose it's the wild type.
July 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I suppose it's the wild type.
It's not wild, it's normal. The burden's on us to work out how and why they end up thinking that way, and to help them see what could be better. They're not going to - can't - do the change work for themselves without the necessary perspective being evoked in a way they can emotionally engage with.
July 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It's not wild, it's normal. The burden's on us to work out how and why they end up thinking that way, and to help them see what could be better. They're not going to - can't - do the change work for themselves without the necessary perspective being evoked in a way they can emotionally engage with.
Wellllll, by definition, it's completely ordinary - our perspective is tiny and weird. Beaks and teeth had variously cohabited the face in the evolving codebase, but teeth weren't worth the weight for small flying things. Later we saw some not-teeth that helped in a convergent-evolutioney way?
July 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Wellllll, by definition, it's completely ordinary - our perspective is tiny and weird. Beaks and teeth had variously cohabited the face in the evolving codebase, but teeth weren't worth the weight for small flying things. Later we saw some not-teeth that helped in a convergent-evolutioney way?
Dune: the shake and vac
July 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Dune: the shake and vac
It's safer to back away from a thoroughfare than into it. The inconvenience is symmetric, but the risk of dangerous collision is significantly reduced.
July 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's safer to back away from a thoroughfare than into it. The inconvenience is symmetric, but the risk of dangerous collision is significantly reduced.
I'm laughing because you made a joke pertinent to my interests.
July 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I'm laughing because you made a joke pertinent to my interests.
People are built of the patterns they experience. If they don't meet good patterns, or their existing patterns stop them from seeing them, they stay bad. Someone who happens to know better has to put the effort in to show them. Nobody realized for themselves that they should be wearing a nappy.
July 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
People are built of the patterns they experience. If they don't meet good patterns, or their existing patterns stop them from seeing them, they stay bad. Someone who happens to know better has to put the effort in to show them. Nobody realized for themselves that they should be wearing a nappy.
That's not how you educate people. You educate people by showing them something they haven't seen yet. There was a time when you didn't know why or how blowing on something cools it. You're complaining about having to teach. I won't say you should know better. You just didn't yet. Now you do.
June 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
That's not how you educate people. You educate people by showing them something they haven't seen yet. There was a time when you didn't know why or how blowing on something cools it. You're complaining about having to teach. I won't say you should know better. You just didn't yet. Now you do.
Would you be looking for differently educated guesses?
June 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Would you be looking for differently educated guesses?
It's a reference to garbage corrections and implies a wookiee's balls all made spicier by the apostrophe turmoil
June 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
It's a reference to garbage corrections and implies a wookiee's balls all made spicier by the apostrophe turmoil
And pricing control.
May 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
And pricing control.