Sequencing looks very complete! (and more expensive than I thought, but fair). It does cover the health conditions I am interested. Thank you very much!

Sorry if you've written about it elsewhere (feels wrong to google such thing), but may I ask whether you used a commercial service for genome sequence? Would you recommend?

An even more boring thought about this graph: Happiness is quite stable, but not during a pandemic with lockdowns.

Special stamps with the picture of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Germany is celebrating the late Queen!

A special stamp marks what would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday on 21 April. It honours her legacy and work towards reconciliation between the UK and Germany.

ah, a new possible addition to the canon of SIGBOVIK AI papers

"Cooking is a way of establishing ourselves as bodies in the world. In cooking, you need to let your intelligence escape the confines of the mind and take up residence in the senses, in touch and taste and smell. But cooking also answers deeper needs."

I always instinctively sided with the "fair use" argument. But this would be strong evidence that the use is less than fair. I guess I'll have to read the paper.

Let's coin the term **priority inflation** to designate the practice of making a list of priorities broad enough to cover pretty much anything, without acknowledging the lack of priorities. It is the act of opportunistically borrowing the gravitas of the word "priority" without actual commitment.

Most people would agree that epistemic bubbles are good

Lot of people are asking this and my $0.02 as someone who has built hundreds of feeds across every currently existing feed builder over the years as well as self hosting... building a good feed is hard and it is not very accessible. I'm not sure how they could really do it in another way that is -

Honestly, after micro the SI prefixes sound like Marx Brothers names

You have no idea who I am, I have no idea who you are. But the post came across my time and I feel happy for you. Congratulations!

(3) try to have a clear plan for your life after the PhD (a plan can be a contingent plan, not necessarily a final decision); (4) Talk to current doctoral students where you plan to study and get a frank answer to these questions; (5) evaluate to what extent you are a the whim of your advisor.

Advice to someone considering a doctoral degree (especially in Germany):

(1) Ask what is required for a thesis to be ready for submission and try to get concrete and verifiable criteria; (2) ask what is the realistic timeframe to finish and express your desired timelines. (1/2)

Hi. What is the strongest argument against the recent ruling? I read your thread this morning and you convinced me. But then I kept on reading and it seems that the ruling against Meta is primarily about the design of the app (scrolling, etc), not really the content.

(I am engaging in good faith)

Hidden in the depth of YouTube are videos of a poem by an underrated poet with 20 views in the last 10 years. An insightful video on the volatility of the ethylene spot prices (76 views, 11 years). The solution to exercise 33 of chapter 4 of an abstract algebra book from 8 years ago, with 10 views.

Gerd Faltings wins the 2026 Abel prize (Max Planck / Bonn). He has now won the two "Nobel Prize of Mathematics".

Hamburgers called Barfy

Always fun to find new examples of brands that sound awful in English. Hamburgers from my motherland ladies and gentlemen (seen on Reddit);

The subreddit r/wimmelbilder has occasionally good stuff.

training returns
training and robin

My attempt at articulating why I think LLMs are a clear net positive for all research, and it's a mistake to ignore it despite private concerns:

paulgp.com/2026/03/16/r...

Professor Graeme Clark awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering University of Melbourne Laureate Professor Graeme Clark AC has been awarded the 2026 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. The prize was announced by Lord Patrick Vallance, Chair of the Queen Elizabe...

A few weeks ago, Professor Graeme Clark (U. of Melbourne) won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for developing the cochlear implant and bringing "the gift of hearing to deaf children and adults around the world".

An magical achievement of bioengineering!

🙏

I’m the lead of the Quarto project. We work hard to make it easy for people to use.

It *thrills* me that LLMs got so good that they can take over much of the labor required.

We’ll always work hard to make it easy for people to use Quarto. But less total human frustration is good, actually!

With both AI haters & zealots flooding the zone with increasingly troll-ish posts, it's easy to forget most folks here are normal about the technology. Here's a thread of "normal folks posting about AI" that I enjoyed: 1/n

New blog post: LLMs are going to summarize your papers whether you like it or not — and they're going to drop your limitations every time.

Here's a proposal for how to fix that (and help with the reproducibility crisis at the same time!):

paulgp.com/2026/03/10/l...

This is great! I know that md files handle tables well. But we find it useful in our work to have the tables in their own folder, tables/ so that the code or the llm can reference a file name and not a table reference in the .tex file or .md file.

One of the most inexplicable things about BlueSky is the cluster of people who mostly post about how much BlueSky sucks. And every change -- even small ones -- is another indication that BlueSky sucks. And they keep complaining instead of closing the app.

I like the light font for the marginal text

Link.
kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squa...

(apparently many don't have proofs, only best attempts so far)

Packing squares into minimal square spaces. I would like to know the proofs of these patterns.