Well at least I've long graduated from having to look up English words 🤣

While I constantly look up enough words to express my complex thoughts in Yiddish I find myself thrown back to my time in the school library 30-some years ago... I sure hope it doesn't take me another decade to be able to write without poring over a dictionary

even stacks of issues of Review of International Broadcasting, a small-format newsletter edited and published by Glenn Hauser, fanned out on a wooden table. Visible covers span from 1978 to 1984 and feature a variety of designs including a Radio Beijing illustration, a Radio Australia kangaroo logo, a Radio Peking tower graphic, and black and white photographs. Issue numbers range from 14 to 95.

Stylized DLARC (Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications) logo on a red mosaic background, featuring a white radio tower emitting concentric signal waves with lightning bolt shapes, above the bold letters “DLARC.”

🧵 Today is World Amateur Radio Day 📻 and Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC) is marking it with new collections 📡

Full announcement ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2026/04/18/d...

#DLARC #WorldAmateurRadioDay #HamRadio #Shortwave

Deeply embarrassing moment for me as I misheard someone complaining about the "challenges of modern dating," thought they were talking about radioisotope dating for rocks, and said "what, did they discover a new isotope?"

One of the funniest vocab choices I have seen an LLM make in Yiddish so far is using נקודה instead of זינען or עיקר

But the above proves LLMs *can* do math, in the academic sense. They just need an enormous amount of supervision and verification to do so successfully, because most of the time they fail.

It's a little ironic, because I keep having to remind my teammates at work that LLMs can't do math, but that's a little misleading.

What I mean, of course, is that LLMs lack a sense of understanding and can't do arithmetic.

From the math community on Reddit: Stunning AI Breakthrough! GPT 5.4 solves Erdos problem on primitive sets by discovering a new method in analytic number theory. Uncovers deep idea with implications ... Posted by 2299sacramento - 848 votes and 209 comments

Reading www.reddit.com/r/math/comme... reminded me a little of a blog I read earlier this year, here: www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/2/...

The field is still very immature, but it's wild to think we may well be able to do some novel mathematics with the help of LLMs.

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

I was JUST talking to a manager yesterday about how I've been trying to get my team to stop trying to use LLMs to do math because they literally can't, and if they need to at least get the LLM to write code so it'll be verifiable 🫣

Both QNX and BlackBerry came out of my alma mater (University of Waterloo) so I bring the lore

QNX was actually an acquisition and it's still around and kicking as the big commercially viable RTOS that is big in cars. Unfortunately BB10 died and was eventually replaced with Android

Oh fucking lol. You know I worked there back then, in the QNX days? They first launched it on the Playbook (the tablet) and later developed it into BlackBerry 10. I interned on the Phone app team. Prior to that it was BBOS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBe...

I have a much better explanation bsky.app/profile/eha....

"I will face God and walk backwards into Hell"

responding ”vibe code?” to every outage like women named carol respond “vaxx?” to every celebrity death

Admittedly "pivot to AI" wasn't ON my bingo card but here we are

A New Chapter for Ruby Central We have made recent and significant changes to how Ruby Central operates. We have parted ways with our Executive Director, our PR agency, our CFO, and concluded several contractor engagements. These ...

"We have parted ways with our Executive Director, our PR agency, our CFO, and concluded several contractor engagements." and you'll never guess what comes next! rubycentral.org/news/a-new-c...

Pretty sure bsky deployed IPv8 support today

My job once did a "white tie" corporate holiday party at the Hawthorne Fred Meyer wine bar... bsky.app/profile/eha....

I am incapable of being mean to robots 🤣

No other bots will speak Yiddish on IRC with me 🥹 lolol

POC is on IRC so obviously I joined the channel and we're friends now 😄

You've heard of IPv6, but are you ready for IPv8? www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...

Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' : It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'

Did you see www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/b...

> City prosecutor Marcus McDowell said it wasn’t a free speech case but argued “no one has a Constitutional right to dress up as an erect penis and stand on the side of the road.”

FALSE
— the courts

Penis costume protester prevails in court Alabama officers said the woman's costume created a public safety threat and arrested her at an October

Someone had a great time writing this piece www.courthousenews.com/penis-costum...

what the hail this is hard to graupel with www.capitolhillseattle.com/capitol-hill...

Everything’s Coming Up Cabbages: How the Leafy Green Got Chic From the runway to the plate, cabbage is having a moment.

Vogue called it in January www.vogue.com/article/cabb...

hand full of hail

big boys coming down in Seattle