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I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

submitted 8 days ago • 97 comments

Okay so excited to finally share that I'm part of this really cool team of people trying to spin up a new worker owned publication in the Bay Area! We're fundraising now and it would be so rad if you supported us! Awoooo!!

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

This is interesting: an LLM trained exclusively on openly licensed data huggingface.co/blog/stellaa...

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Please enjoy this table of possible future scenarios from a 1990s paper in a peer-reviewed journal on how to deal with nuclear waste storage in underground repositories in New Mexico. I found it while doing research for an article on nuclear waste storage. "WIPP" means "Waste Isolation Pilot Plant".

submitted 16 days ago • 38 comments

- base rate - priors - orthogonality - local maximum/maximum - prisoner’s dilemma - iterated - externality - zero-/positive-sum - endogenous/exogenous - stochastic - amortized - Pareto - regexes in written communication - path dependent - revealed preference - opportunity cost - utility

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Great quote from Le Guin in here languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=69447

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instant classic

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the coat of arms of the Dutch town of Hensbroek is a hen wearing trousers

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My sensations were strange. Let me try to explain them.

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

it’s kind of ironic that Humio is a logging service, what with all Hume had to say about the problem of induction

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Ever wondered how Alex comes up with the opening bits on Taskmaster? Well, wonder no more! Find out in this outtake from The Horne Section TV Show!

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

If you’re surreptitiously doing a nonogram during a work meeting, that’s discreet tomography

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Here’s the incredible Imogen Heap giving students some pretty great advice. Taken from our brand new album, which is available everywhere RIGHT NOW. Literally everywhere.

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

@emmz.bsky.social did you ever go to that weird puzzle game thing in downtown SF? It was called the Jejune Institute? I’m trying to remember who I went to it with

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Alien teacher: The human civilization came to an end in 13,338 A.E. when two nations, India and Pakistan, instigated nuclear war. Alien student: Why? What caused the war? Alien teacher: We cannot know for certain. But we believe it had to do with really nice sweaters.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

holy SHIT you need to watch this video notice what happens about 14 seconds in (trust me, you'll see it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...

submitted 47 days ago • 59 comments

Oh wrestling is fake? Then explain this

submitted 48 days ago • 146 comments

On a recent podcast, the co-founder of Anthropic talked about having an AI-enabled teddy bear to entertain his kid so he could do the dishes. And, I dunno, it seems not-great that the dream is to have a AI that can raise our kids for us, rather than an AI that can do the dishes for us

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

this is a friendly reminder that LLMs do not, in fact, pass the Turing Test

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

man, there is some serious egg on my face right now

submitted 51 days ago • 63 comments

You never like to have to do this sort of thing as an editor, but if you have to update and amend a story, "the pope is actually a White Sox fan, contradicting earlier reporting" is a pretty good reason. defector.com/well-they-ma...

submitted 51 days ago • 36 comments

me: latency was monotonically increasing over time, and we couldn’t figure out why my boss: how’d you fix it? me: we added some exclamation points and question marks to the chart. it really helped vary the intonation

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

one way to pass the turing test is to make smarter machines. the other way is to make stupider humans

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

It’d be hilarious if the new pope chose this as his name w.wiki/Dy64

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...so you're saying there's a reward

submitted 59 days ago • 15 comments

A page from the 1993 Cowboy Town Strategy Guide

submitted 60 days ago • 17 comments

MILES PROWER IS A PUN MILES PROWER MILES PER HOUR AMAZING

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If you're curious, here are some samples from my upcoming birding dictionary www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

submitted 60 days ago • 16 comments

this bird is rad

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Grub pubbawup zink watoom gazork

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Me, explaining the papal conclave to my gay friend: it’s kind of like Eurovision for Catholics

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I can't believe this actually works

submitted 67 days ago • 44 comments