@perceptophore
Show me some phenomena…. Seattle bus rider. Tinkerer with #rstats and bikes and things. Onetime vision scientist (motion + crowding), interested in data science, open science & reproducibility. https://github.com/crowding
I'm SO tired of people looking for "the neuroscience of X" (meaning uninformative neuroimaging pictures) when *the psychology of X* is right there, doing a perfectly good job...
the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually
It’s USB 3 Mini B innit? A regular USB Mini B will work (but limit to USB 2 speed)
It’s like what if Underworld was a metal band youtu.be/Uqs9EdpjMHY?...
Cool orb. Maybe I’ll name my startup after it.
Need distraction from trauma. Maybe The Dispossessed?
LeGuin: Even in anarchist utopia, academic advisors are narcissistic shits
Me: fuck
Years later: Need distraction from the world. Maybe The Left Hand of Darkness?
LeGuin: Mass communication leads directly to a rise in nationalism
Me: fuck
I have plenty of reservations about the reliability of funnel-plots and z-curves and such, as well as their interpretation.....
But holy shit look at that.
TIL you can get a 50 pound brick of silly putty
www.dupont.com/products/mol...
The BBQ Continuum
Nap
Shmeggege
Monomanager
playing Gone Home. It appears to be a game about losing pens underneath the furniture
SEATTLE PEEPS
Word on the street is that tomorrow ICE is planning to ambush people heading to court at the Federal building downtown from 8-4 tomorrow
Check it out if you want to help observe, obstruct, report, resist, or otherwise get involved in crushing some ICE
Well, another way you could read that is SimCity’s developers consciously created an illusion that it doesn’t
So is literate programming making a huge comeback in the age of vibecoding or nah?
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost."
soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.
He'll make a great mayor
It is a political open goal to go after these companies. They’re unsympathetic, disconnected from humanity, their leaders are charmless and bland pseudo-people with a flimsy attachment to reality and nothing to lose. Run them into the ground - people love technology, but they hate the tech industry.
“I See Hawks in L.A.”
“Wu Tang Clan Ain’t Nothing Ta Fuck With”
“Atari Teenage Riot”
Level 3 automation arrives at 0:32 in this clip
youtu.be/frGoalySCns?...
The corner of a deck, with two sets of parallel boards running at right angles meeting in a miter cut. Annoyingly, the boards from one side do not align with their counterparts on the other side.
Optical #illusion found online. Most commenters thought the boards were of different widths. I think they're the same width and the cut is something other than 45 degrees.
Why can’t they make the smoke alarm battery alert so that you can tell what room it’s coming from?
Disco Elysium inventory screen meme. INTERSTATE WRAPAROUND SHADES +1 American Nationhood: Great again -1 Conceptualization: It's all the deep state Shielding your eyes from the glares of the sun and woke moralists alike, these tactical shades are just as suited to the gun range as to streaming from behind the wheel of the big rig you own-operate (just 47 monthly payments at 17.6% APR left.) MOIRÉ-INDUCING HOUNDSTOOTH SPORT COAT +1 Savoir Faire: Private rail car, baby -1 Visual Calculus: Compression artifacts Is that moving out of the corner of your eye? This sturdy woolen jacket features a high-contrast woven pattern certain to glitch out any pixel-based graphics pipeline. If you had an art director they would surely have objected. Good thing you don't.
Satellite photo of Spain. On the southern coast, about halfway between Gibraltar and Valencia, a circle is drawn on a thumbnail shaped peninsula that is basically solid white color. All that white is greenhouses
(Its honestly stunning how *far* you can see it from once you know where it is)
Okay fine, it’s on a perfectly flat Euclidean plane. Even better. Humans are adapted to pursue prey over miles and of open savannah until they fall over of heat stroke. Gorillas are adapted to eat leaves in the forest and travel less than 1 mile/day. 100 humans simply run the gorilla to death.
View profile for Sergio Visinoni Sergio Visinoni 2nd CTO | Tech Advisor | Mentor | Newsletter Author 5d Follow We keep hearing that AI will soon replace software engineers, but we're forgetting that it can already replace existing jobs... and one in particular. The average Founder CEO. Before you walk away in disbelief, look at what LLMs are already capable of doing today: ↳ They use eloquence as a surrogate for knowledge, and most people, including seasoned investors, fall for it. ↳ They regurgitate material they read somewhere online without really understanding its meaning. ↳ They fabricate numbers that have no ground in reality, but sound aligned with the overall narrative they're trying to sell you.
↳ They are heavily influenced by the last conversations they had. ↳ They contradict themselves, pretending they aren't. ↳ They politely apologize for their mistakes, but don't take any real steps to fix the underlying problem that caused them in the first place. ↳ They tend to forget what they told you last week, or even one hour ago, and do it in a way that makes you doubt your own recall of events. ↳ They are victims of the Dunning–Kruger effect, and they believe they know a lot more about the job of people interacting with them than they actually do. ↳ They can make pretty slides in high volumes. ↳ They're very good at consuming resources, but not as good at turning a profit.
Even linkedin is starting to get it
They should have asked an anthropologist. These primatologists completely ignore the physical abilities which set humans apart from almost all other animals: aerobic endurance, and throwing things.
Simply maintain a circle outside of charging distance, and throw rocks until it tires itself out.
We can already pinpoint the bottlenecks, thanks to GPS in everyone’s pockets. What does GenAI have to contribute? GenAI can’t even do algebra.
Dude, GenAI does not analyze data. GenAI can’t even do math.
Part of a figure from Liao et al. "Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations", Science, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl0984
i swear i am not actively searching for it but the amount of "crows have pretty good statistical literacy" work i'm seeing is starting to raise questions for which i don't have good answers.