AKA NickleDave
@nicholdav.bsky.social
I'm interested in how animals communicate with sound and I try to make that easier for everyone to study: https://www.vocalpy.org/
Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info
Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info
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We exist and we are close to burn out (but workload says we are still under loaded)
if your press asks for names, give 6 to 8--NOT the biggest, most senior stars in your field. None of them will do it. part of the problem is that the ppl best poised are "mid-career"--i.e. have a book, tenure. TWIST: the mid-career folx, IF THEY EXIST, are so fucking overloaded I can't even tell you
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We exist and we are close to burn out (but workload says we are still under loaded)
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Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
"Reading other people’s programs is an art which should be learnt and practised because it is useful!"
Feels like I'm reading @felienne.bsky.social The Programmer's Brain, but no, it's just J. Lions' 1977 magnum opus, "A Commentary on the Sixth Edition of the Unix Operating System"
Feels like I'm reading @felienne.bsky.social The Programmer's Brain, but no, it's just J. Lions' 1977 magnum opus, "A Commentary on the Sixth Edition of the Unix Operating System"
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"Reading other people’s programs is an art which should be learnt and practised because it is useful!"
Feels like I'm reading @felienne.bsky.social The Programmer's Brain, but no, it's just J. Lions' 1977 magnum opus, "A Commentary on the Sixth Edition of the Unix Operating System"
Feels like I'm reading @felienne.bsky.social The Programmer's Brain, but no, it's just J. Lions' 1977 magnum opus, "A Commentary on the Sixth Edition of the Unix Operating System"
finally, literate programming
Screamingly recommended. It is oddly quite emotional to step through the lines and understand how it boots. Proper secret knowledge back in the day. On paper is so nice but I just found this: warsus.github.io/lions-/
warsus.github.io
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
finally, literate programming
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UNIX
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
UNIX
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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This is exactly right
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is exactly right
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This is happening in cross-stitch too. There are a lot of people making "patterns" that are just AI pictures or real art that has been run through a pixel filter that doesn't look good, doesn't match up with DMC threads, and doesn't make any sense.
I hate that we have to scrutinize everything🫠
I hate that we have to scrutinize everything🫠
AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...
#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...
#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright
The AI Invasion of Knitting and Crochet
AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here’s why that’s happening and what can be done about it.
www.plagiarismtoday.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This is happening in cross-stitch too. There are a lot of people making "patterns" that are just AI pictures or real art that has been run through a pixel filter that doesn't look good, doesn't match up with DMC threads, and doesn't make any sense.
I hate that we have to scrutinize everything🫠
I hate that we have to scrutinize everything🫠
Somewhere a neuroscientist is planning to build their career on brain scans of people that were exposed to AI slop as children
lol this rocks
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Somewhere a neuroscientist is planning to build their career on brain scans of people that were exposed to AI slop as children
Every Xmas in Bmore we sing:
"Oh come let us a door him"
"Oh come let us a door him"
Nothing will ever beat the Miracle on 34th Street nativity in #Baltimore.
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Every Xmas in Bmore we sing:
"Oh come let us a door him"
"Oh come let us a door him"
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everyone is twelve
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
everyone is twelve
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is this good
it's happening dot gif
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
is this good
CLN: rename ~~tokenization~~ -> `nuggeting`
I feel that gives the math too much primacy, when the actual problem is the words. The dead hand of millions of souls all attempting to sway us with their lingering thoughts.
When we force chicken slurry through a sieve to purify it, we still name the resulting nugget after its progenitor.
When we force chicken slurry through a sieve to purify it, we still name the resulting nugget after its progenitor.
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
CLN: rename ~~tokenization~~ -> `nuggeting`
I saw the best minds of my generation / destroyed by prompting, starving GPUs, AI psychosis
youtu.be/UryTypo2qeU?...
youtu.be/UryTypo2qeU?...
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I saw the best minds of my generation / destroyed by prompting, starving GPUs, AI psychosis
youtu.be/UryTypo2qeU?...
youtu.be/UryTypo2qeU?...
what I imagine when @iwriteok.bsky.social tells @prophiphop.bsky.social & @whysophiewhy.bsky.social that he's "Rikering" in this ep of Bastards:
youtu.be/1hBN1mg6ZyQ?...
youtu.be/1hBN1mg6ZyQ?...
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
what I imagine when @iwriteok.bsky.social tells @prophiphop.bsky.social & @whysophiewhy.bsky.social that he's "Rikering" in this ep of Bastards:
youtu.be/1hBN1mg6ZyQ?...
youtu.be/1hBN1mg6ZyQ?...
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I made a YouTube playlist of records I mentioned in Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music. I'm still adding to it, but there's over 100 tracks in there so far.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music - YouTube
songs featured in Al Shipley's book Tough Breaks
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I made a YouTube playlist of records I mentioned in Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music. I'm still adding to it, but there's over 100 tracks in there so far.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I have many questions
First of all: who in Bristol wanted naming rights on the stool scale
Second: is it the same person who chose to put one phrase in the stool type summaries in ALL CAPS
First of all: who in Bristol wanted naming rights on the stool scale
Second: is it the same person who chose to put one phrase in the stool type summaries in ALL CAPS
Someone close to me in hospital dealing with some $#!^.
Am currently reading about The Bristol Stool Form Scale which is... well... I am reproducing it for you.
Am currently reading about The Bristol Stool Form Scale which is... well... I am reproducing it for you.
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I have many questions
First of all: who in Bristol wanted naming rights on the stool scale
Second: is it the same person who chose to put one phrase in the stool type summaries in ALL CAPS
First of all: who in Bristol wanted naming rights on the stool scale
Second: is it the same person who chose to put one phrase in the stool type summaries in ALL CAPS
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Whoever set up a functional gmail style inbox of Epstein's inbox deserves a journalism prize.
jmail.world
jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Whoever set up a functional gmail style inbox of Epstein's inbox deserves a journalism prize.
jmail.world
jmail.world
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The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
🤌
Imagine how much more compelling this whole affair would be were we talking about Ryan Pizza and Olivia Gnocchi.
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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This is concerning.
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
1/2
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
1/2
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is concerning.
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
1/2
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
1/2
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n