Triumph the insult comic dog

Mrs. Cadwallader: Edward Casaubon is great...a great bladder for dried peas to rattle in!

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iron maiden, not an amazing fit, but where the hardy model just smoothly goes up and down, the progress model has a sharp break from 5-6 that matches the observed counts way better

but abra ca dabra observed strokes don't have that dip at all. the progress model is completely wrong here and the hardy model is pretty good

Here are a couple more examples. For some games like Iron Maiden, I think it's getting at something real! But for every one of those, there's a something like Abra Ca Dabra where that 'dip' never happens. Is it something about the games and assuming ball scores are independent?

Two models of pin-golf stroke counts, one based on Hardy's simplified golf model, the other extending that idea of progress toward a goal as continuous. The progress model 'dips' at 6 strokes just like the observations where the Hardy model doesn't, which is nice, bot both are garbage elsewhere

So the 'progress' model of pingolf is definitely capturing something interesting, but since it's based on the distribution of (assumed independent) ball scores (here, chi-squared df 1), I don't know how to fit it in general. How do you make distribution families into a parameter?

Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!! 6:38 PM • Apr 1, 2026

Time Dilation kind of makes the whole “datacenters in space” idea more fun.



Technically… a GPS Block III CPU runs an extra ~7,000 clock cycles per day compared to the same machine on earth.



Extend to the extreme, and you get the whole subfield of CS+physics called relativistic hypercompuation.

"He had one caffeine-fueled week to prepare a full concept — playfield layout, characters, assets, mechanisms, and required audio/video clips."

That's so short. I'd be curious to hear how long other designers take to get a layout concept worked up, and how close to final the concept is.

And the problem is right there in the name, the colors have to make a cycle or there's going to be a harsh break. But if the colors cycle, then you can't distinguish between low and high values anymore. I said it was an interesting idea, not a good one.

“Wrestling’s fake!” Oh yeah? Then explain this

Here's the animation of a contour plot with the breaks shifting that gave me the idea to try palette cycling.

I was animating contour lines on a likelihood and had a fun idea to use the old palette cycling technique to animate a function. I don't think it works as well as cycling contour lines, but it was an interesting idea.

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the subtitles are off sometimes but she made it in like a day so idk spanakopedia.ordoliberal.com

The Calvin's dad explaining records meme. He is explaining that the two kinds of meme are Calvin's dad and Loss. Despite being a meme about Calvin's dad, this one is Loss.

welp this is becoming part of my vocabulary forever

I read Melville's 'The Bell Tower' today and wasn't expecting a pretty tight mystery! It's got creation, Babel, and Cain all mushed together. I don't know if this is what I'm supposed to take away, but one big difference between Bannadonna and God to me is, God rested.

Read Foner's Reconstruction and take a shot every time he says"upcountry yeomen."

Someone is going to write a Sneakers O'Toole version of Ozymandius and it's going to do big numbers.

John Popadiuk is the greatest pinball designer of all time. His use of magnets is unparalleled.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Characters from the Disney cartoon Fillmore!

Does ACAB include the X Middle School safety patrol?

War crime tribunals aren’t enough we gotta put him in a Harlan Ellison short story.

#InvisibleNetworks 4
what did you think "financial responsibility" meant

The first two sketches of The Encantadas were kind of a snooze, but then Melville's narrator breaks out his stand up routine making fun of birds. Pelicans have lugubrious expressions, penguins are nature's mistake, albatrosses are unpoetic. (I will fight him on that last one)

New kind of guy: a radical formalist who doesn't use page numbers because they're outside the text.

The Supreme Court ruled that nobody is a U.S. citizen

Chief Justice Roberts stated “No person can be in this country. We all have to leave. Now.” The judges packed up their robes and are getting on a boat

Handshake meme with David Thewlis as Johnny in Naked (1993) and Andre Gregory as Andre in My Dinner with Andre (1981), agreeing that "we're bored"

WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.

She accepted three.

One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
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Fabrications | Grove Atlantic “[Mason] writes with a mathematical precision that often crystallizes into lines of clean, poetic beauty.”—Wall Street Journal Far-sighted, darkly amusing, and haunting, Fabrications is...

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