Nick Doiron

thin sheets of marinate pork (Korean bulgogi), a dab of sour cream, and crispy fried pierogi on one plate

bulgogi and pierogi (both from Whole Foods)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9UB...

#notGDC 2026, March 9-13. A game development non-conference, for everyone!

#notGDC 2026 is a free, online game dev non-conference for everyone!

This year it runs from March 9–13, the same time as that other conf.

Have some gamedev knowledge you want to share with the world? Slides, articles, videos are welcome, and submissions are now open!

For more info: notgdc.io

I think this just feeds into a system where every time the state changes parties they have to repeal a hundred laws and put back their laws.

Preview of landing page for Chenopodium genome browser (yes I'm giving my 2024 projects a second look)

A building with a beautiful neoclassical facade and the side is brick with many bricked and boarded up hallways from when there were neighboring buildings

The US and Bosnian flags over Holbrooke Plaza, commemorating the Dayton Agreement

Pedestrian walkway over a highway, with floor painted with floral designs

A little from Dayton 🇺🇸🇧🇦

Plant native blooms in time for spring with Philly’s favorite squid scientist Local butterflies and bees need more homes. Philly’s science community has some creative solutions.

Oh hey!! A Billy Penn article all about the Native Plant project is OUT! Featuring interviews from me, @zajic.com @megstampede.bsky.social and @the666cat.bsky.social!

Check it out! billypenn.com/2026/02/24/s...

Snapshots from Dayton:
Wright Flyer statue, high wheeler themed bike rack, and exhibit on Bosnia

Colour photo. A fibreglass raptor concreted on top of a triangular prism-esque monument depicting dinosaur fossils

A small thread about this Mexican monument that commemorates the most significant single event in the history of the planet

(plus, the surrounding area - and criticism of Werner Herzog (sorry))

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US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in Venezuela raid, report says Wall Street Journal says Claude used in operation via Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir Technologies

Anthropic have been positioning themselves as the ethical AI company, what with their constitution and all.

So it will be interesting to see how they respond to this story.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Be on the lookout for AI infographics:
- recent advances by Google and Qwen (pictured)
- will look like it came out of a textbook or a travel brochure
- answers a question exactly (a little too convenient)
- any individual component would be strange in isolation

It is very hard to get accurate numbers of the number of “non-coding genes” – the amount of DNA that encodes truly functional ncRNAs. But it seems very likely that these genes outnumber our protein-coding genes. /8

You're looking at what's likely the first record in Nigeria of Dintelmann's Reed Frog (Hyperolius dintelmanni)!

📷 abubakaringim on iNaturalist
📍 Nigeria
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

It's a pattern in the window of Glam Doll Donuts where this was recorded. StreetView: maps.app.goo.gl/gh42bzm3KxQpYRdFA

the star shape is a pattern in the window of Glam Doll Donuts across the street maps.app.goo.gl/gh42bzm3KxQp...

Can this finally get rid of the whole "show him a map of Greenland without Mercator projection" thing

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Holy hell, what an obituary

💥🧬 Why sequence ALL insect genomes?
Because insects run the planet. They pollinate our crops, recycle nutrients, build soils, drive food webs, and shape ecosystems on every continent. 🌍
Yet we’ve only scratched the surface of their genomic diversity.
#InsectBiotech #BiodiversityMatters #InsectLovers

Re: 1M new species, so is this mostly trained on unicellular life? From the paper it sounds like multicellular eukaryote genomes were not excluded from pre-training (except for human). But if everything's in there, they wouldn't be as much of a share of the data.

Title: Wore an imitation diamond Text: Mrs Melissa Russell, who is being sued by the estate of Cassius Ward for the recovery of valuable property - claims that the diamond ring she took from the finger of the dead man was an imitation diamond, and that he gave her the original and valuable stone the night before he died.

Melissa Russell, who is well-known to many of our readers, is in contempt of court for failure to pay costs of bringing her into court in the hearings of the case brought against her by Walter R Davis, who is seeking to discover on what grounds she claims him as her husband

Melissa Russell is still causing trouble to Milwaukee lawyers and courts

In 1900s Milwaukee, Melissa Russell committed multiple bizarre crimes to the point the newspaper says she's "well-known to many of our readers"

Nuuk, Greenland, 2017 🇬🇱

Great, if you can ID him with the mask then you definitely don't need a fake AI photo

Because this is from a video where he wore a mask the whole time, so it simply is AI generated. There are multiple versions of the face pic circulating on BlueSky

So it's fake and not helping anyone

There is no such thing as an "Ai estimation" it's just posting a known fake photo. Why do that

Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son

Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating loss of their wife and mother.

gofund.me/9e987aead

Figure 1 Illustration of why AI systems cannot realistically scale to human cognition within the foreseeable future: (b) Human cognitive capacities (such as reasoning, communication, problem solving, learning, concept formation, planning etc.) can handle unbounded situations across many domains, ranging from simple to complex. (a) Engineers create AI systems using machine learning from human data. (d) In an attempt to approximate human cognition a lot of data is consumed. (c) Making AI systems that approximate human cognition is intractable (van Rooij, Guest, et al., 2024), i.e., the required resources (e.g. time, data) grows prohibitively fast as input domains get more complex, leading to diminishing returns. (a) Any existing AI system is created in limited time (hours, months or years, not millennia or eons). Therefore, existing AI systems cannot realistically have the domain-general cognitive capacities that humans have. [Made with elements from freepik.com.]

✨ Updated preprint ✨

Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science

Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂

a plate of fried chicken drenched in sauce, plus a line of cucumber slices

homemade Korean fried chicken =) www.thekitchn.com/korean-fried...

It's not a real photo

Going from St Paul home to Chicago today on Amtrak 🚆 ❄️
Last NYE I was on a Florida » NYC train. Maybe it's a new tradition?

Maybe they tried the Grinch and it didn't turn out right? Or he heard that kids like the Grinch now? But what on earth I don't know how someone thinks KO-ing Santa is good for them