A comics about generating infinite energy from a rotating cat with a
"It is a common misconception that taping a buttered toast to a cat would allow the generation of infinite energy. While understandable from a purely Newtonian perspective, this intuition does not survive a careful path integral analysis of the problem's constraints. In this paper, we will..."
Yes.
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I don't think this guy realized that LLMs solved an actual problem here. This is a problem that has existed since the beginning of software. There are a lot of capabilities in software that are not worth the time to master for people who now can utilize those capabilities with natural language.
Artists, meanwhile, are getting screwed on both sides of this equation: we don't have a functional social safety net, the copyright system is (and always has been) a TERRIBLE substitute for one, and their closest-aligned "allies"--publishers--have different enough interests to screw them.
choose your faction:
- I made a vape that's also a hammer
- Hammers are going to become god & change everything
- I tried holding the hammer by the head and it didn't work, this is bullshit
- Hammers are useful tools sometimes
- Hammers? You mean murder-tools, as seen in the documentary The Raid 2?
We know have a positive knowledge that there is a virus running around that *will* irreversibly fuck up your brain, heart, and lungs given enough expositions. Just install the damn air filters
I get why people generally don't want to mask everywhere for all of eternity, but I want to outline how insane is the fact that HEPA air filters aren't legally mandated in every public and professional space
Yeah, I’ve never quite got over the profound moral injury aspect of watching so many Americans absolutely refuse to even mildly sacrifice to help others during Covid - watching MAGAs somehow become even more evil was radicalizing.
And now the bastards are trying to destroy MRNA research.
Look I just don't think that someone who spent half of their self-perceived life shitting themselves and making gooey noises should be trusted with infrastructure
"Sure it's bad to kidnap prostitutes and force feed them drugs, bit what if the KGB discovered how to do it before us?"
Someone, at some point, probably
Project MKUltra
If only there was public transports for most people's daily routes !
It's incredible how short the cognitive distance between "i'm against the fascists" and "everyone who is against me is a fascist" is
There is probably a Wittgenstein quote abou that, but I'll leave it to your imagination
Man, real shame people in Europe have no electrified alternative to flying to their summer holiday.
This is the first oil crisis in which clean alternatives to oil and gas — solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries — are both inexpensive and widely available.
clean technology flying off the shelves already...
nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...
I can't wait to take a Calculus class in the UK and let the prof know that it is my opinion that the derivative of sin is sin and they're not allowed to penalize me for it.
Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told.
These fools are about to be absolutely fuckass mad, just infuriated and offended beyond all belie, when they find out that truth does not consist in a proposition corresponding to facts but rather is a disquotational device used for blind ascriptions.
Sure, and I think this push is at least part due to self-preservation from the basic fact that life/society can be unfairly cruel
Same kind of dynamic that lead people to make a lot of noise about mental health, while also aggressively denouncing the personal failure of anyone "fails to cope" with their poor mental health by showing any symptom whatsoever
I think there is a strong appetite for a certain type softcore libs to see oppression as something that doesn't really affect people, as a way to justify in advance not having to cope with any of its predictible consequences
I'm still pretty far from the 5000 citations, but I can see the same trend in my own citation pattern.
What predicts citation count / speed is not the quality of the piece, it's how engaging it would be to field-adjacent non experts !
I'm reflecting on reaching 5000 career citations. I've seen both sides of citation inequality: my first paper cited 9 times in 17 years, my most recent cited 37 times since November. The meaning of a citation is very different in philosophy and computer science, so tallies for philosophers... (1/2)
Thank you sir, I'm gonna blow up any outlier I damn please
If this was true, how could we do ethical research in social psychology ?
𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆
Excellent paper about purposiveness in biology. Important critique of the dynamical systems approach as a "simple" solution to the computationalism approach.
Highly relevant to the enactive approach too.
doi.org/10.1177/1059...
the cerebellum is differentiated by the fact that it handles high frequency features, this is why all the things it impacts have otherwise nothing in common
This is lowkey one of the most important things happening in the Middle East rn and very few people are paying attention to it
Not really, it's a bit too technical to my liking. But the papers are great !