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I don't know, but I mean to find out

I'll happily send you one for free! Will contact you offline

The Bluesky Dictionary Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.

Say the words! Say the words! www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

Squirrels LOVE octahedra.

Very interesting! It seems different manufacturers use different encodings: this is from www.smartrise.us/wp-content/u...

Website looks fine from here…

I can't remember who suggested this, but it rings true: it's the sort of feature that's only useful if you are e.g. a senior executive at Apple, who gets more messages that they can easily keep on top of. But for most of us it doesn't solve a problem that we have

Unless you're in one of the places where the firework display has been cancelled because of weather warnings, of course. Sorry Bangor, but you can still enjoy the above banger.

Force & Styles - Fireworks [PL006 A] YouTube video by ThePriestDude

Get ready for some fireworks youtu.be/tafrSVHnXRY

Jingle Bass YouTube video by Otto von Schirach - Topic

It's that time of year again youtu.be/-7jfLss4Lj4

Obviously people will be arguing about it for ever, but there's at least a defensible case to be made that OpenAI's new model qualifies as AGI. I'm kind of surprised to see people mostly just chatting about other things. I would have thought it's at least the most interesting thing to happen today.

I didn’t expect it to go that hard #psytrance #dubstep #throatsinging YouTube video by Venjent

It's almost worrying that the youtube recommendation algorithm knows me so well youtu.be/4OeW4f6wz1U

So I've been notified that my role is at risk. Would anybody like to hire a me.

I've spent the last 7 years as chief architect, which realistically meant doing every job from infrastructure to product and occasionally acting CTO.

I am interested in everything, and curious to try new things.

It's time for the annual blind tasting of mince pies

I'm follow some pretty questionable people, so I'm wondering if that's me, but I missed the drama & I don't know who you're referring to

I Built An Emordnilap Machine YouTube video by Vsauce

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas! youtu.be/65_8t1OEZSc

John Conway, Mathematician and Game of Life Inventor John Horton Conway, a wildly prolific and highly decorated fellow of the Royal Society with an Erdös number of one (meaning that he collaborated with the legendary mathematician Paul Erdös)…

I think the answer is that I was not wrong about rainbows, and the reason I was not is thanks to John Conway: I had previously watched chapter 13 of www.simonsfoundation.org/2014/04/04/j...

I just cannot resist this sort of clickbait. Of course I don't want to be wrong about rainbows, and the only way to find out if I *am* wrong is to watch the video.

absolutely two of my favourite songs, though I can't really dispute that they're annoying

does she know scampi?

I have given it a thorough clean, and all is well

It appears to be this chap, which I wasn't expecting.

The problem I'm debugging is that it has become impermeable to water. By systematically exchanging components with the other portafilter (as I have just found out this part is called), I have identified the culprit, and I am surprised.

I've had this coffee maker for more than a decade, and I've only just realised that this part can be disassembled

If you like maths then you might like to follow my alter ego @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

A resolution of the Aharoni-Korman conjecture A poset $P$ is said to satisfy the finite antichain condition, or FAC for short, if it has no infinite antichain. It was conjectured by Aharoni and Korman in 1992 that any FAC poset $P$ possesses a ch...

A few days ago Lawrence Hollom posted a preprint that solves a problem about posets, informally known as the fishbone conjecture, which I am told was extremely central in the area. 🧵

arxiv.org/abs/2411.16844

But of course different fields of science have different conventions governing how authors should be listed.

You will notice that in the middle there is a chunk of author names in alphabetical order: there the order of names is not intended to convey information about the relative importance of that author's contribution.

Well, the order of authors is highly ritualised in biomedical sciences. I think the person who led the actual work goes first, and the head of the lab goes last.

In my case it more or less just meant I worked in the lab that did the project ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think what's changed is that we now have projects in computer science (broadly conceived) that require big, expensive scientific collaborations to pull off – which has been true in some other areas for a few decades