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“Sometimes it seems the more I ask for, the less I receive The only true freedom is freedom from the heart's desires And the only true happiness this way lies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=fckR...

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people will make fun of ancient civilization for consulting oracles and cutting up livers to tell the future and then type “what is the meaning of life?” into ChatGPT

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Please share widely: The EPFL Geometry Computing Laboratory is launching its third call for an Artist / Designer Residency for the fall of 2025! More information on how to apply here: www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/ope... #design #art #residency #research

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RacketCon 2025 is looking for speakers / presentations con.racket-lang.org #scheme #lisp #racket #programming

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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

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NSF was necessary for every step of my career: an REU gave me research experience necessary for grad school; a grad research fellowship gave me independence to design an innovative PhD thesis; an astronomy grant (AAG) as a jr prof enabled me to hit the ground running toward tenure. #withoutNSF

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What are the different ways software is modified or extended by its users? I’ll go first but please feel free to suggest your own ideas.

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If you’re in NYC and curious about checking out Folk Computer we’re having another open house event Saturday, May 31! lu.ma/ydi03zax

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“In a fight, if you start thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.” #YagyMunenori

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The things that made the United States prosperous and innovative proved to be politically inconvenient for the ruling party. So they’re getting rid of it.

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This is a fun story about new research that uses residues on ancient pottery shards to show that a yeast essential to many European beers was first harnessed in South America. It must have transferred into European contexts in post-Columbian times. www.pnas.org/post/journal...

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The problem with The Prince is that Machiavelli assumed his student wouldn’t be an absolute idiot

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Here's a cut of some of my interactive and visual work from the past year. I'm looking for work! I'm looking for remote work developing, prototyping and/or researching on editors, custom interactive things, or visualizations. I mostly work in JS/TS. Let me know if you know something pls ty :)

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Really fun bit of citizen science around sourdough! 🥖 brainbaking.com/post/2025/04...

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#JobAlert! The Processing Foundation seeks a lead software developer to guide the maintenance and growth of the Processing (Java) software: processingfoundation.org/employment/p... (Full-time, fully-remote, $95K)

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The semi-successful artist or creative waxing nostalgic about the old days when artists were supported by wealthy patrons, as if today's artists want to write poems for a billionaire's wedding, and paint a picture of that billionaire shaking hands with Jesus Christ.

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fascism is already here, it's just not evenly distributed

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“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!” #GeorgeBernhardShaw

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Somebody come bring, original trouble You no talk, you no act, you say you be gentleman You go suffer, you go tire, you go quench Me I no be gentleman like that www.youtube.com/watch?v=snIV...

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🎙️ FoC 76: Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing 🎥 Wanix: The Spirit of Plan 9 in Wasm 🎥 What is PLUS times PLUS? 🔗 newsletter.futureofcoding.org/posts/future...

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When neighbors put up signs saying, “Please slow down,” it means that a street or intersection is poorly designed. Cities could use the location of these signs to prioritize traffic calming investments.

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Another fun magic trick! Differential Coverage for Debugging research.swtch.com/diffcover

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#ICLR2025 Oral How can we control LMs using diverse signals such as static analyses, test cases, and simulations? In our paper “Syntactic and Semantic Control of Large Language Models via Sequential Monte Carlo” (w/ @benlipkin.bsky.social, @alexlew.bsky.social, @xtimv.bsky.social) we:

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if the purpose still is to perform surveillance and serve us ads, i think it would be a lot easier do it inside a working search engine; not to mention cheaper

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Every 20s, a new Spirit Plant blooms—composed of 4 traditional Polish herbs and an ever-shifting palette of colours. In just the first few days of Expo, visitors have created thousands of unique plants at the Poland Pavilion. The result? An endlessly evolving garden of collective imagination.

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Tourism signage in the South Tyrol shows that folks are still pretty pissed off about the work of the fascist dictatorship almost 100 years ago. Even after fascism recedes, the scars remain.

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“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.” #Feynman

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Apparently it’s been ten years since I last spoke at a @beyondtellerrand.com event! Looking forward to being back at this always wonderful conference run by the ace @marcthiele.com beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...

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Check out the first of @grjte.sh posts about combining #localfirst software - using @inkandswitch.com’s Automerge + Tiny Essay Editor - with ATProto for Lexicon data typing and public distribution. I’m excited to read all the write ups about the Groundmist project!

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I ordered a mousepad with this custom image. Can you guess what these illustrations (first made in 1958 apparently) are?

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New York friends! I’ll be part of a new show opening May 8th at Offline in the Bowery.

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One of the most pernicious ideas of non scientists (politicians especially) is that scientific research can be turned on and off like a spigot without consequences.

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