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i deeply need the video essay on the typographical success of the Zohran campaign

thank you cambridge university library for sharing, can't wait to try 👍

🚨 Job Alert

We're hiring our first Postdoc to work with us on our @erc.europa.eu Project on Generative AI for Particle Physics.

Check out the details below and don't hesitate to get in touch or spread the word!

Deadline: Nov 30th

inspirehep.net/jobs/3075448

Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)

"the value of art is how much you would risk to be in its presence" — I found this alone quite moving!

yeah i think that's the camp i sit in! i will say that discord is kinda nice if you have a hybrid working setup — hopping in/out of audio calls has less friction, and you can have audio channels that function as break rooms that you can chill in :)

Scrap the Bathroom Ban 🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

It's so interesting... Scaling models & data definitely feels like our best path to model discovery, but somehow feels like just a brute-force way to get around not setting the right constraints on the learning problem.

That being said, we have no better methods for this kind of performance!!

oh this is cool, thanks!! my paste gives

^-- SC2164 (warning): Use 'cd ... || exit' or 'cd ... || return' in case cd fails.

it already caught me 🤫

just wanted to share that after nearly 8 years of programming in Python and dabbling with other languages as-needed, I've finally written my first bash script!

having random blind spots as professional does not make you bad at your job, and i just wanted to normalize that :)

congrats :) sounds awesome!!

This looks like a great lineup!! I'd like to be around but this is me just discovering the event 😅

The Sound of Solidarity “From Birzeit University, in the heart of occupied Palestine, we are screaming with Gaza.

"You might feel powerless. That it is too late.

It is way too late for way too many.

But way too late is going to have to be soon enough."

'The Sound of Solidarity' from @saranahmed.bsky.social

feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/the-sound-...

please use this fantastic email tool to make some noise about the EHRC Code of Practice!! some awful stuff might be made law without a parliamentary vote.

different links for both trans people and allies :)

www.scottishtrans.org/emailfortransinclusion

yeah i'd love that! you have any mornings coming up with a free hour? send through your email in whatever way you'd like and I can make a meeting invite :)

i should go through your pixi workflow at some point — ive hard-swapped to pure uv with lockfiles for a recent project and that’s been great!

with how good AI-assisted coding is now, are programmers going to become more of a luxury trade?

"We hand-craft artisanal Python code to solve your use-case. Experts weave every letter of the variables into your codebase. All commits are done manually -- personalize your messages for a small fee."

obsessed with this vinted account that models all their items with a djungelskog

If your library doesn't have any documentation, it can't have any bugs. Documentation specifies what your code is supposed to do. Your tests specify what it actually does. Bugs exist when your test-enforced implementation fails to match the behavior described in your documentation. Without documentation a bug is just undefined behavior. If you aim to follow semantic versioning you bump your major version when you release a backwards incompatible change. Such changes cannot exist if your code is not comprehensively documented! Inspired by a half-remembered conversation I had with Tom Insam many years ago.

If your library doesn't have any documentation, it can't have any bugs simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/...

well, maybe not *most* frustrating; i'd prefer if it wasn't cheaper to literally fly between cities in the uk due to how expensive rail travel is...

Chart showing bed sizes in the UK -- the euro single notably being larger than UK single.

being 194cm, this has always been the most frustrating thing about living & travelling in the uk compared to the rest of europe -- i have to go out of my way to get stupidly wide beds just to increase the length & not have my feet dangle off the end 😭

Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust.

In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

taking de-bugging to a whole new level 😌

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well, this is a new one for me 😄

turns out that python's list creation shorthand for duplicating elements (e.g. x = [obj] * n) does not make the instances of obj distinct in memory! TIL.

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Hot off the arXiv! 🦬 "Appa: Bending Weather Dynamics with Latent Diffusion Models for Global Data Assimilation" 🌍 Appa is our novel 1.5B-parameter probabilistic weather model that unifies reanalysis, filtering, and forecasting in a single framework. A thread 🧵

A joke from stack overflow that reads: When I looked up "recursive" in the dictionary, all it said was "See *recursive*"