fuuuuck, take it easy

a fluffy kitten sitting next to a cup of coffee on a table . Alt: a fluffy kitten with bad hair sitting next to a cup of coffee on a table and it says “good morning” in text

Smoke alarm went off in a kid’s room at 3am with beeping behavior that is not documented in the manual

ha we have a kitty-corn and that kind of baby doll too.

*that doesn’t seem possible* the fuck????

Wisconsin averages 1 tornado in the month of April each year but we’re here in basement with the third tornado warning so far this week

oooh it has a windows version now

Me: [idly looking up info on popes]

Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.

Me: wut?

Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

I write like a badly translated RPG because that is where I did most of my reading in grade school

as I'm working on my course notes (fusaroli.github.io/AdvancedCogn...) on categorization computational models, here is a shout-out to Andy Wills (not on bluesky?) and his fantastic work on standard implementations of categorization models. we need more common implementations and data!

“Madam I’m Adam”

How one programmer's pet project changed how we think about software YouTube video by CultRepo

love rich hickey talks so this will probably be good youtu.be/Y24vK_QDLFg?...

I thought FDR threatened to pack the court and *then* it started playing nice with the New Deal

a man wearing a hat and a ring is pointing at the camera . Alt: OutKast

this, like, 12 year old at boxing class asked the coach to play “B.O.B.” By OutKast

parent of the speaker

fox just had a banner referring to mamdani's planned grocery store as "trader zo's," and one must admit that's a good bit

bluesky's status page. it shows an orange dot with the headline "Some systems down". Further text says: "We are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos [sic]. We are experiencing further issues. We appreciate your continued patience"

9 hours investigating an incident in one of their reginos :(

table 2 from the paper with a prior from the context rich model and the posterior from a minimal context model being similar

finally writing about it, and i think it's cool that that your fill-in-the-blank model (prior of the maximum context model) is competitive with the classic neighborhood activation model (posterior that uses word frequency and phonetic similarity).

i kind of get annoyed by low-dependency or simple alternatives for X because the cruft in X was from them solving the hard design problems

What's new in R 4.6.0? Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes in the April 2026 release of R 4.6.0.

New blog post about R4.6 #rstats

www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n...

*misspells "Dischord" records* no, that's a mandela effect glitch

📚 Citation Classic

"Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants"
Saffran Aslin & Newport (1996)
Citations: 8600+

Groundbreaking study showing infants use transitional probabilities to segment words from continuous speech.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.274.5294.1926

#SpeechScience

"In keeping with views on the sanctity of family that long predated Galton, the Catholic Church unsurprisingly came down especially hard on eugenics, particularly the practice of forced sterilization. In the encyclical of 1930, Pope Pius XI stated in emphatic terms that the state had no business deciding who was fit to get married or have children, a sacrament that, according to Christian theology, was given to mankind by God, and that “public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects; therefore, where no crime has taken place and there is no cause present for grave punishment, they can never directly harm, or tamper with the integrity of the body, either for the reasons of eugenics or for any other reason.”

On the subject of popes and moral leadership, I was reminded recently that the strongest case I ever encountered against the eugenics movement was given by Pope Pius XI in 1930

soooooo this is why you had to research seeds. you need independent RNG between threads for a monkey typing demo 👀

the exposition about the modeling is pretty good compared to what you normally find

How adults understand what young children say Children’s early speech often bears little resemblance to that of adults, and yet parents and other caregivers are able to interpret that speech and react accordingly. Here we investigate how adult li...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Talking Heads - Lifetime Piling up (music video) YouTube video by Talking Heads

The chairs at gymnastics class are Lifetime brand so whenever I put my chair back with its buddies on the chair cart, I think of this song youtu.be/zJ3XE84bw6k?...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

anyway it hurts to turn a steering wheel in one particular direct or put my phone in my opposite front pocket. it makes me admire muscle recruitment in complex movements

I was fixing something, got confused and tightened when I thought I was loosening something and tried really really hard to loosen and hurt one of those small lateral rib muscles? And then a weak lateral the one on the opposite started to hurt from … overcompensating?