Man, I remember those days. Scoring some Lyapunov exponents off a dodgy geezer in a pub; gathering at midnight on a disused airfield, five thousand strong, to bifurcate and bifurcate until the feigenbaums kicked in... It sounds so sordid now, but we were young and it was beautiful.
my uncle Spleen used to do kickflips off the woodshed. his job could best be described as "improvised dentistry." miss him so much. it's a shame what happened to him. shot point blank by his dog Rudy.
You know if you do something to make someone happy, it also makes you happier?
That means happiness is not conserved by local interactions
Which raises the question: which symmetry is broken by the Lagrangian to make this non-conservation possible?
[CONFERENCE ALERT]
May 5-7, EMBODIED COGNITION AND COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
Invited speakers: Louise Barrett, Lucia Jacobs, Susana MonsΓ³, Paco Calvo, Matt Sims & Aditya Ponkshe.
Check out the full program here: embodiedcomparativepsychology.square.site/program
if we want to better understand how the gap between potential and realization is crossed, we must focus on FRICTION, the gap itself
bsky.app/profile/aelk...
How does an orbiting spherical tissue suddenly break symmetry and sprout invasive strands? We can predict this behavior from the initial morphology!
Hi, Iβm @jiwon-kim.bsky.social from @ianywonglab.bsky.social.
Raindrops and temporal slices of kittens, Every third stitch in a pair of red mittens, Mereological bundles of string:
These are all perfectly reasonable things.
Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...
(fwiw the deception benchmark they're using in the SOO paper is suuuper sketchy. see Steven Byrne's critique in the comments here www.lesswrong.com/posts/jtqcsA..., or ask your nearest Claude. i still have plenty of hopium, but, this isn't solid grounds for it)
Department of Philosophy of Science at the Sharif University of Technology, Iran
i wonder at what point quirks of their self-training environment become the bottleneck for that
The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice finally has an SEP article! A major milestone by Silvia De Toffoli and Paolo Mancosu.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/math...
your blacklist has an interesting mix of grudges lol
New on the Archive:
Roberts, Bryan W. and Thebault, Karim P Y (2026) Semantic Completion: A View From The Boundary. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28938/
BONUS Thread:
Quick review of some fundamentals of Variational Calculus:
Part I
From the Stone and Goldbart textbook "Mathematics for Physics: A Guided Tour for Graduate Students" as well as notes I took in a Mathematical Physics course last semester.
(1/n)
Reminder:
500 tons of high-energy food was sitting in a warehouse in Dubai when Musk's DOGE let the food spoil.
The food was already paid for, as were the distribution personnel. We actually paid MORE to destroy it.
That story was repeated for 60,000 tons of USAID food across the globe.
Do different regions in the cell nucleus find each other by random motion or is there a directed component? In short: likely both. Below, I summarize a few predictions from a recently updated preprint from last June: doi.org/10.48550/arX.... (1/9)
#biophysics #theory #active #chromatin #condensates
@mutual-a.bsky.social
"The Moirai"
Watercolor, ink and colored pencil on heavyweight watercolor paper..2018
Llily Seika Jones, b 1989
American/Canadian illustrator, watercolorist, author.
Delta, British Columbia, Canada
#Art
Bruce Cohen (American, b. 1953),
"Interior with Powdered Blue Bearded Iris" 1993
Oil on canvas,
60 x 48 in.
#Art
imagining a WWE wrestler whose walkup song is Stupid Horse
Christopher Eldred, Fran\c{c}ois Gay-Balmaz, Vakhtang Putkaradze: Variational Neural Networks for Observable Thermodynamics (V-NOTS) https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09899 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09899 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.09899
non-bitter tdov post: my mom sent me this and it's really nice
Finally wrote about this
mbolotnikova.substack.com/p/ridglan-ma...
New on the Archive:
Roberts, Bryan W. (2026) A New Origin for Entropy: Jauchβs Conservation Law and the Geometry of Thermodynamics. [Preprint]
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28751/
And generally I have been discussing limits to the idea of unmediated priming from early on (doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...) : alignment is contextually modulated both in what gets aligned (doi.org/10.1177/0956...) and how much (doi.org/10.1111/cogs...). 5/
a photo of Elia Ayoub crouching in a blue jacket in front of a wooded trail, the words "The US-Israeli War with Iran Spreads, Nuclear Weapons, Lebanon & Anti-Imperial Solidarity (with Elia Ayoub) | TFSR 3-15-26β
@ayoub.bsky.social talks about the US / Israeli War on Iran, Iran lashing out across west Asia, challenges in Lebanon, the campist idea of the Axis of Resistance, Hezbollah, nuclear weapons and other topics
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/03...
trylobyte ass type of, f*cking, whatever. rrilobite. feel like cot damned stromatolite. c*d damn. stringed up by a trunked out wookie milf. jesus christ
drinking in the slurry of the inexpressible. collecting the grim honeys you spill when i sense you are fractured. i am also, according to the essence clock, transmuting into a divine vegetable. have you heard of "π½πππ©π¨"?
π£οΈ Yes. I'm familiar with π½πππ©π¨.
π‘οΈ [Attack]
