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www.reddit.com/r/retrobattl... the 8 inch floppy disk coming into frame in the opening shot of this video (from r/retrobattlestations) plays like a perfect sight gag to anyone under the age of probably 45

submitted 7 hours ago • 31 comments

The Astronomy Picture of the Day website posted its first picture OTD in 1995. It was a computer-generated image showing how Earth would bend starlight if it had the density of a neutron star. APOD is thirty years old today! 🧪 🔭 apod.nasa.gov/rjn/apod/ap9... Image: Robert Nemiroff

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

#hpc is one giant thundering herd. See also - “I logged too hard”

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Programmer looking at LLM generated code: Where did you learn to write this kind of garbage? LLM:

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

"The painting of a man (George Washington) voluntarily walking away from the leadership of a powerful army rather than becoming a dictator hangs today in the Capitol Rotunda." We are a country of "No Kings". We will resist tyranny! #Resist

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

and if you can't do street protest due to disability or other reasons there are lots of other ways to contribute!!! a bunch are in this nifty zine spencersunshine.com/wp-content/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

the old code is breaking. the new code struggles to work. now is the time of vibes

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Would you believe that this is a topic with a massive research literature across fields as diverse as reinforcement learning, biological ecology, psychiatry, and management, and is one of the differentiators of animal vs. machine intelligence? Enh you probably would. anyhow

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

guess what im watching

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Picture the not too distant future, when the AI lobby has replaced all movie and TV production with generated slop we will not be allowed to opt out of, and the mental health profession has been reduced to personalized LLM chatbots. Now keep in mind, you can't control where the movies begin or end.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

invented a new kind of activity where you’re not really working but not really relaxing either just kind of killing precious life minutes. i think it’s going to be really big

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Other side of this, we really gotta start teaching kids about/in a production model of knowledge rather than a discovery one. Way too many people still seem to think that knowledge & research just like… happen, w/o the entangled embedded infrastructural systems of universities, libraries, labs, &c

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

Sisyphus must imagine himself riding high quality transit on one of DCs densest corridor

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

At Juno Beach I realized that the democratic values that I had taken for granted didn't just happen. They were paid for at an immense cost of lives and sacrifice. Would we be willing to pay the same sacrifice if the darkness descended again? My reflection on June 6. substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 10 days ago • 61 comments

I know America can build things quickly and efficiently because we do it for cars all the time. The slow, arduous permitting and construction processes we have for public transit, bike infrastructure, green energy, and housing are a policy choice that we are free to stop making whenever we want.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

inventing a new type of website that doesn't use computers

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

There's a genuinely fascinating aspect to this post, which is on display all throughout the quotes and replies: Why is this person asking HISTORIANS???? Using maps is within living memory, so why not just ask the saddest, grey-est person they can find? Well... 🧵🧵🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

submitted 51 days ago • 398 comments

I think the "optimal route" part of the question here is really interesting! because part of the answer is that roads (when well-designed) are DESIGNED TO SHOW YOU the optimal route. this has weirdly been sort of forgotten even among people old enough to have navigated pre-GPS

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

An in-depth chat with NERSC chief architect Nick Wright exploring how the forthcoming NVIDIA Vera Rubin CPU+GPU Doudna machine redefines supercomputing to meet real-time demands of science. www.vastdata.com/sharedeveryt... #HPC #AI

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Today in 1952, Los Alamos theoretical physicist and nuclear weapons designer Ted Taylor used a parabolic mirror and a 15-kiloton nuclear explosion (Shot GEORGE) detonated atop a 300-foot tower in Nevada to light a Pall Mall cigarette. Taylor designed the lightweight “Scorpion” device for the test.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

People say to be your true self and then they tell you not to be a lazy fuck, so you see my dilemma

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about life, the universe, and everything, and how how present fascist nightmare is the result of an unnaturally submerged life. What is the purpose of humanity? We are beings of awareness, not efficiency. Let's start there as see where it takes us. www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

The inaugural High Performance Software Foundation Conference offered updates from HPSF projects, insights on processor & system trends, active discussions around the future of interoperability, and more. ▶️ Find our #HPSFCon recap and links to all the recordings at: hpsf.io/blog/2025/hp...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is so peak New Zealand. #NZLabLife www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

This is a story about integration. The people whose rights we are supposed to substantively compromise on and their loved ones are in our irl and online social networks in a way they weren’t in the past. Any attempt to steer the Democratic Party that doesn’t reckon with integration will fail.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Me, logging on to work after the long weekend

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

I helped draft this open letter about last Friday’s gold standard science executive order. Take a look and consider signing if you agree.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Ok, you find it funny or interesting why some centuries are "long" and others are "short" and why do historians use terms like "the Middle Ages" or "the Renaissance" but get cross about it all the time? And keep forbidding things like "the Dark Ages"? Isn't it weird? Well, no. 1/

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

#HPC (as a developer) predominantly means trying to find strategies to get around limitations. You can't be root or completely control the environment. Your kernel or compiler is old. On a good day, it's still a few hours to get up the point of working to innovate on the thing you are interested in.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

So I have a mental model of this, but not a ton of evidence. I think it was @timoreilly.bsky.social who pointed out at some point that "aggregators are inevitable", the glorious peer-to-peer model where we all discover and make our own rankings is impossible for bandwidth reasons. (1/n)

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

1917 Ford Model T touring sedan Olympus OM-D E-M5 M. Zuiko Digital 12-200mm f/3.5-6.3

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment