This is the Data Science I am HERE FOR!!

Galactic Arms race?

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Alwas appreciated that touch. Director didn't let it get down to 0:01

yeah, but still: 2 years of having the mortgage paid is probably better than paying rent! (also, apparently the pro move would be to have his friends live there too and then hand it off after he graduates). that gives you like 4-5 years of equity if you turn around and sell it...

Neither here nor there but i recently learned you can use a 529 to pay rent! (might think about buying a house there and having your kid rent it from you...)

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

do you feel like your Pull Requests to yourself are too big?

Can you elaborate? Are you talking about applied robotics? Or something like software agents?

Yeah my true intent is to implement a GPU accelerated truncated multivariate normal distribution. This is for Gaussian Process likelihoods...

awesome! thank you so much for this!

The more I look around the more surprised I am that there isn't a cuda version on the multivariate normal cdf.

Am I not looking in the right place(s)?

and like just projecting out a magnetic field into space! not a care in the world...

and bright!

That cannot be true. I refuse to accept that...

google docs?

P.S. I couldn't find a GoFundMe or other fundraiser for Renea Gamble’s legal costs - if someone knows of one, please post it!

We need to support folks who, by their own brave actions, demonstrate our first amendment rights to public assembly & free speech.

This is absolute trash. Kids are submitting their original art for AP Studio Art classes. Claiming copyright over that work is genuinely evil.

Need some Student-T for the wiiiiiiinnnn!!

Exactly. People that do this "just want papers published." But why? Any credibility you gain is based in the fact that previous authors took their time and painstakingly wrote the papers!

They want the status but do not want to put in the work

I have a theory about this: literally stress is the killer. Psychopaths and narcissists and purely selfish people have no stress! hence they outlive the mean...

My response would be, "GREAT! Let's get HER in here!"

I mean not JUST the RW. Centrist Democrats are also in on preventing this from happening!!

yeah I mean do you want someone else to presumably be able to replicate your exact install for some reason? It doesn't really seem like it in this case but ymmv

My default is: if it is just for me, ill do my thing, but if there is a possibility that others will use it, ill go docker or similar

Are you planning on sharing this with people who might want to use your stuff on a different platform?

bring back shorthand! Now THAT would be a skill the kids could use! (and shorthand texting would be 🔥)

man I am just blocking doomsayers left and right today. Like, idgaf if you want to give up. i get it. just keep that shit to yourself.

bsky.app/profile/oluf...