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sociotechnical mathematician. complexity scientist.
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great day to remind theater nerds that Mel Brooks has not in EGOT club but has multiple tonies 🏆

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

“It’s too hot!”

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

periodic reminder that inverse square laws have us completely surrounded

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

On real problems, one cannot define away the complexity of the world in the interest of devising an elegant solution. - preface to Software Fundamentals, Parnas.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

periodic reminder to wait a little while before changing DNS settings again when you're updating SSL/DNS settings. I think this is working correctly now: ecology-chris.com

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I really need to stop making up names for ppl it doesn’t matter if they’re hilarious

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Just put that box of SSDs in the server room with all the others, I'm installing them as fast as I can...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

"Zeus always rolls the dice well" ἀεὶ γὰρ εὖ πίπτουσιν οἱ Διὸς κύβοι #proverb

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

Even Mother Nature is done with Felon47’s bullshit.

submitted 13 days ago • 992 comments

Annoying broken record, but: this is I think the single best thing I've ever read about our profession and I expect I will never stop tediously monotonously evangelizing it. how.complexsystems.fail

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Whew. Shit.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

E aho laula 🏄‍♀️

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

and more ppl taking the intermediate option. I still jump on beginner content on occasion as review, which can be fun. It’s when the advanced content is still mostly review that the existential dread can really start to set in 💀

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I am pretty sure this is a tomato plant growing out of a gap in a sidewalk in front of a restaurant. It doesn’t look like it was planted on purpose. Maybe someone was goofing off while eating their lunch, maybe it was inadvertent 🤔

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I find it funny that neither AI doomers nor AI enthusiasts understand that AI doesn’t exist and that both are anthropomorphizing linear algebra.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

This is exactly what I mean when I say that it is impossible to reduce friction, only to move it around. The text-making-up machine dropped the friction of "research" to zero, but every single person downstream of that "research" who has to act upon it now shoulders a double workload.

submitted 39 days ago • 18 comments

shoutout to the atlanta tsa agent who, after i got flagged and needed an arm pat down while trying to hustle to make a flight, said “it’s because you’ve been working out, machine thinks you’ve got guns.” best city

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments