codehappy lives!

Big fan of weird marginal English phonemes that only exist because of loanwords in certain places /ɬ/ in Wales, /x/ in various places, /r/ in some New Zealand lects

Shout out to all the marginalized folks whose freedom to simply live their lives has been turned into a political football by assholes and whatnot.

you should be thanking your stars you live in a universe where diffusion transformers exist

openai should invite nathan fielder and a camera crew to live in their office and document everything they do

a major animating motivation for these companies still appears to be make all of the 19th-century securities fraud schemes legal again, to do old Andrew Carnegie vaudeville numbers (heh) and bucket shop-level fleecing retails (this time with extra juice from our old friend B.F. Skinner)

there was a lot of money involved

very much dislike openai's view that when results are obtained via processes involving sufficiently large proprietary RL models, the academic norm should be to leave all details of the process except the involvement of a proprietary model undisclosed and to leave most researchers involved unnamed

they made speed on a piano

Why would Cornel West, a man who serves on the board of a far right education group with Christopher Rufo, do this?

it's not enough to just have cameras and guards everywhere they have to insult u with the stupidest gaslighting imaginable. "this is for you actually, it's to improve your shopping experience, you love it, we wouldn't be surveilling you if it didn't make your experience so much better :) say thanks"

Air to Ground Message: THATS A BIG LEAD ISNT THERE A 10 RUN RULE IN MLB LOL Area: Cleveland, OH, USA Type: Boeing 717-200 A: #a1f4d0d73d1 F: #f7facc65257

If you’re starting to wonder No team has swept both the LCS and World Series since the LCS became best-of-7 in 1985 Yet

via @stathead.com, throughout 122 years of world series history there have been two games in which a team scored 10+ runs and allowed 3 or fewer hits. both were the brewers (tonight and 1982 game 1)

Machine learning has a history of people trying ideas and them not working due an unrelated bug in their code (before coding agents). Just thinking about how much of science was like this throughout history. Leaning towards the opinion that we've actually missed lots of low hanging fruit this way

RFK is of course correct, it has been *checks notes* an entire year since an Arab has won a Nobel Prize

RT @brewersbot.bsky.social: Robert Gasser is the first lefty to face the minimum through six innings in a World Series game since SANDY KOUFAX in 1965

Milwaukee might actually run out of beer

velvia

We need more freedom. But like, not just the obvious political mailer kinds, but the freedom to be bored. To be inaccessible. To discover something without being recommended it. To make an ass of yourself before an audience of four people, rather than four million. That kind of freedom.

Teams to open a World Series at 3-0 are 25-0 in winning the series. But if you need a reason to stay locked in, consider Game 3 of the 2004 ALCS.

look, if you’re not pro metheus then you’re anti metheus

8 2-out runs are most in an inning in World Series history and 2nd-most in any postseason inning

Milk is such a cute cotton puff of a rat, she's so floofy and sweet and absolutely knows how to use her cuteness to get more treats (plus bonus Cracker lol)!

the Brewers in this inning are like "new wine for fresh wineskins! new wine for fresh wineskins!"

Upon continued analysis and demonstration, the currently accepted boundaries of possibility cannot prove themselves to be the final boundaries of possibility.

A pet peeve of mine is when people talk about accuracy but actually just show calibration, as in this graph. You could flip a coin for every market and also achieve perfect calibration. The grey x-axis histogram shows accuracy, and they're ~only accurate for econ. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

traffic: owning everything and extracting rent is a wildly successful business model

You can see into the field from the concourse behind where Chandler Simpson just made that catch imagine randomly walking past on the concourse and seeing that play

an ai company is basically just a having way more compute than you company

and then every other owner used it as blackmail for their own stadiums and then Huizenga managed to veto the Giants moving in '92 because he was getting the Marlins and then it turned out Bud Selig promised them an expansion team in '93 and didn't deliver which is why they got a team in '98

I'd like to remind everyone that the Tampa Bay Rays exist because Jerry Reinsdorf had St. Pete convinced that if they built a stadium, the White Sox would move there in 1990 Jerry then went back to Chicago in 1988 and told them "give me New Comiskey or I'm moving the team" and the city blinked

a better question is why does the government need to regulate who is allowed to use what filters? insanity

From Everett AquaSox artist to 2026 World Series Participant 🎨 Throwback to when former Frogs infielder Ben Williamson drew his own trading card ahead of our 2024 Education Day game at Everett Memorial Stadium!

The persecution of @repilhan.bsky.social just days before an election is vile and politically-motivated. I'm leading 175 House Democrats in denouncing this. When we retake power, we have to seriously look at how we can stop these abuses of power — starting with the power of the purse.

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It's cool that purple and orange have become the canonical Halloween colors like red and green are for Christmas. Halloween did not have canonical colors when I was a kid.

the idea a lot hold that chinese models would have backdoors and american models by contrast are clean and pure is so funny

Putting Chekov in perspective, imagine if Star Trek: Enterprise, which premiered right after 9/11, had introduced a Muslim officer in its second season. Typical with Trek of this era, Enterprise would address 9/11 only through metaphor.

the human mind is a battleground of base drives; for sex, food, status &c &c. but the most primal and powerful drive is the drive to be miserable

ed saw the anthropic s-1 and it caused a family emergency

regret to say that I've subsequently built 10-20% of this

influence campaigns are what you do when you can't just do like, this capability is nothing compared to direct mech interp of the _brain._ but truth crowds out all secrets eventually.