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Machine learning engineer @ , hobbyist musician, increasingly worried.

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(also on here, @plasmatron.bsky.social)

20.02.2026 05:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

as you said, they are cool (and c'mon, this is the band who gave us George Square Thatcher Death Party)

20.02.2026 05:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(have a look at who posted this... :-) )

20.02.2026 05:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Government leader and leader of the opposition pairs luge.

16.02.2026 19:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

we all must be liberated from the tyranny of chronology

26.01.2026 19:28 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

PGE are a remarkable institution. (I am channelling Sir Humphrey Appleby.)

28.12.2025 01:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Archive for Sunday, 14th September 2025

@simonwillison.net re simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/14/, arxiv.org/abs/2507.19457; automated prompt optimization is pretty good now

18.09.2025 17:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bats is already very nearly a deck (sixteen realistic playables without trying; Deep Cavern, Starscape Cleric, Zoraline, Essence Channeler, and the 1/1 lifelinker, Ruin-Lurker Bat, is the kind of bad card which sometimes makes these decks as glue)

12.08.2025 18:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

collectible card games, apparently

06.08.2025 16:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hot take; if SQL is Structured Query Language, writing prompts is Unstructured Query Language (and there's a surprising amount of overlap)

24.07.2025 03:31 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

"Thing consisting entirely of fats and starches" high in fats and carbohydrate?

08.07.2025 17:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That's what I typically do (I don't get through bread all that fast by myself).

16.06.2025 19:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, these are all "a few slices at a time". Short of living entirely on toast (which tbh I could do) though, I'm struggling. Make and freeze a bunch of croutons for future soup?

16.06.2025 19:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bread sauce, but you'd need an excuse to roast some poultry to go with it. French toast is bread and butter pudding with fewer steps, so that's out. Meatballs (using it to make a panade)?

16.06.2025 18:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

the phrasing I've heard is along the lines of "in Europe a hundred miles is a long way; in America a hundred years is a long time"

11.06.2025 15:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's the same in everything. Self-deception is undefeated. Chess literally has an objective rating system; a very strong club player is five standard deviations better than a social player *and still four full standard deviations worse than Magnus Carlsen* and yet, somewhere in a comments section...

04.06.2025 22:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“this is one of the best songs by anybody where the artist does play-by-play of the song as it is unfolding” is a highly specific genre definition but you are absolutely right

(the jury would like to submit Map Ref 41degN 93degW by Wire for consideration)

20.05.2025 17:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

immediately becomes a consideration in Ux [[Reconfiguration Bay]] decks

16.05.2025 18:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"I lost the Joy Division Oven Gloves in the divorce"

16.05.2025 18:19 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

on the other hand you get eight reanimation effects if you do [[zombify]] so maybe you can do something midrange-reanimatory with this

16.05.2025 18:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

pretty sure this and Ojer Taq are just a DDOS attack on Arena

16.05.2025 18:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

[[invasion of tolvada]] is probably the dream but again omniscience is just more powerful

16.05.2025 18:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

there's some crossover with Elas il-Kor here, though it's not exact

14.05.2025 18:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
KEXP Bay Area

On the air in the Bay now too! www.kexp.org/bayarea/

24.04.2025 20:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is even better than the steel band Alberto Balsalm and that one rules

15.04.2025 03:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

get them tomorrow! hope your drafting lane is clear and your constructed metagame call righteous.

21.02.2025 01:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's definitely the census.

12.02.2025 23:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Aldi Nord in the US is Trader Joe's.

04.02.2025 19:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They don’t need to be around that long if you’re walking beside a road!

30.01.2025 01:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I live in a particularly walkable American city and it's still all four-lane built-for-cars roads. London (particularly with the congestion-charge and low-emission zones) is significantly cleaner. And, yes, the cars are not just smaller engines, they're lighter; tons of air pollution is tire dust.

29.01.2025 23:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0