Godzilla vs Erin Brockovich

They tried so hard to make this headline shorter but there just wasn’t a way to do it.

Balance restored: the loud cars on the return trip are occupied by AFAICT the entire 9th grade of Lexington High School going to Washington.

And I don’t think there’s a chorus anywhere this could be my big shot!!

Or maybe a baby will be crying and they’ll all team up to calm it down with the final chorus of the Matthew Passion I JUST DON’T KNOW!!!

Feeling buyers remorse for booking in the quiet car now that I’ve realized the giant group boarding the loud cars is the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

OpenAI, a research non-profit based in San Francisco, says its "chameleon-like" language prediction system, called GPT–2, will only ever see a limited release in a scaled-down version, due to "concerns about malicious applications of the technology".

This is a fun read. I posted in the company Slack and the first response was appropriately yeah, 'scientists.' www.sciencealert.com/scientists-d...

Geez so the fake researcher Lazljiv Izgubljenovic was invented by the real researcher Osmanovic Thunström and I’m supposed to believe these are not both names made up by clone of Charles Dickens raised by EU bureaucrats in Brussels?

Yeah there’s like 2001-2003 which is where they start having arrangements with publishers… but then in like 2006-2008 things get *really* own-tail-eaty because all these print on demand publishers start selling… reprints of google books scans.

I did not realize it was you who did that! Remember that and all the imitators very well!

All 11.333.878 buildings in the Netherlands

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it!
Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings

How many Republicans not named Donald Trump or Ron Johnson have won a statewide election in Wisconsin in the last nine years? Just one: Brian Hagedorn in 2019

It’s a log event trigger, not part of the control flow… makes sense that if you have a metric/dashboard tracking users getting irritated at a model you would want an extremely lightweight indicator, because accuracy isn’t important, you just need to know if it’s getting worse/better.

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

TBH I thought all families did this.

So…

Why **do** you have that box?

When a Schmidt dies, we take all the USB cables they accumulated in life, chain them through older and older ports, back to a splitter on my great-grandfather’s telephone jack… and so back through the generations, across the sea. Each grave flickers with power from a waterwheel in the old country.

If my grandmother had wheels, she’d be pip-installable.

Martin Luther, this plus shit jokes.

Bought a copy of the Paganini Variations at the Strand, have tried to play the one from the movie, can confirm this is true.

I think of him more as a Caddyshack guy

…oh god does the fact I can't see it mean that it's me?

Who is the quintessential Groundhog Day guy?

I love that there are people walking behind him with signs saying "Corporation" and "Government," it's like a Thomas Nast cartoon of a political theorist

Still thinking it would be worthwhile to set up for a reading group/panel or something to revisit the Theory of Communicative Action in the time of LLMs. I can't remember it all, but my guess is that it would cast a depressing view on speech coming from non-subjects as system colonizing lifeworld.

RIP Jürgen Habermas! His work was central (in hindsight, weirdly so) to my college education, so much so that I rushed to meet him when he was on campus for an honorary degree…

Today is the one-year anniversary of my departure from the library referenced below. It is disheartening to see how that organization's leadership has continued to marginalize subject-area expertise and promote overly simplistic narratives about the history of science & tech.

#histSTM #histsci 📜 🗃️

Reminder: You can watch the DOGE bro depos on YouTube!

(I’ve seen a lot of clips compiled by news orgs, but some of them don’t link to the full videos.)

And somehow they lucked out because 'we built AI that won't fall into the trap of some asinine blog post from 2019' turned about to be the same technical problem as 'your customer service chatbot won't start screaming racial slurs'