John Zaharick
@johnzaharick.com
Avoid absorption into a death-like attractor
The town has a new water treatment plant, and the tap water is better, but there are still calcium deposits in this potted plant (they just accumulate more slowly).
September 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The town has a new water treatment plant, and the tap water is better, but there are still calcium deposits in this potted plant (they just accumulate more slowly).
Found all of these cicada molts under the red maple in the backyard.
September 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Found all of these cicada molts under the red maple in the backyard.
The field of sunflowers under my bird feeder. Birds and squirrels forage among the fallen shells everyday, but they don't seem to be very efficient.
May 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The field of sunflowers under my bird feeder. Birds and squirrels forage among the fallen shells everyday, but they don't seem to be very efficient.
Built the @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost lunar lander. Annoyed that I tore the antenna sticker, but oh well.
March 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Built the @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost lunar lander. Annoyed that I tore the antenna sticker, but oh well.
Reposted by John Zaharick
Extracting massive ecological data on state and interactions of species using large language models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634685v1
January 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Extracting massive ecological data on state and interactions of species using large language models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634685v1
This is the most metal thing I've ever read in a scientific paper:
"viability may be defined in terms of the agent’s ability to resist
equilibration (maintain low entropy) or to avoid absorption into a death-like attractor."
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.08683
"viability may be defined in terms of the agent’s ability to resist
equilibration (maintain low entropy) or to avoid absorption into a death-like attractor."
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.08683
arxiv.org
January 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This is the most metal thing I've ever read in a scientific paper:
"viability may be defined in terms of the agent’s ability to resist
equilibration (maintain low entropy) or to avoid absorption into a death-like attractor."
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.08683
"viability may be defined in terms of the agent’s ability to resist
equilibration (maintain low entropy) or to avoid absorption into a death-like attractor."
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.08683
Melania is cosplaying as a Dark City Stranger:
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January 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Melania is cosplaying as a Dark City Stranger:
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Reposted by John Zaharick
spAbundance package (Doser et al. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14332) was published this year at
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! It fits a variety of single/multispecies abundance models using Bayesian Inference allowing also for hierarchical frameworks. Let me show you a funny example 🧵👇(1/6) #rstats
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! It fits a variety of single/multispecies abundance models using Bayesian Inference allowing also for hierarchical frameworks. Let me show you a funny example 🧵👇(1/6) #rstats
December 30, 2024 at 5:40 PM
spAbundance package (Doser et al. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14332) was published this year at
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! It fits a variety of single/multispecies abundance models using Bayesian Inference allowing also for hierarchical frameworks. Let me show you a funny example 🧵👇(1/6) #rstats
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! It fits a variety of single/multispecies abundance models using Bayesian Inference allowing also for hierarchical frameworks. Let me show you a funny example 🧵👇(1/6) #rstats
Reposted by John Zaharick
"We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe."
—Jimmy Carter's message to the cosmos on the Voyager Golden Record
—Jimmy Carter's message to the cosmos on the Voyager Golden Record
December 30, 2024 at 3:24 AM
"We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe."
—Jimmy Carter's message to the cosmos on the Voyager Golden Record
—Jimmy Carter's message to the cosmos on the Voyager Golden Record
Look at this StarWars droid bopping up and down as if we're supposed to believe it can experience happiness without microtubules.
December 29, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Look at this StarWars droid bopping up and down as if we're supposed to believe it can experience happiness without microtubules.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is depressing to watch now knowing Mutt will die in Vietnam.
December 27, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is depressing to watch now knowing Mutt will die in Vietnam.
Reposted by John Zaharick
infinite microcosmos 🔬 lofi microbes to relax/study to
YouTube video by Journey to the Microcosmos
www.youtube.com
December 26, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Drainage in an artificial lake in eastern Pennsylvania. Water is mostly frozen, but still pouring down the sides.
December 26, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Drainage in an artificial lake in eastern Pennsylvania. Water is mostly frozen, but still pouring down the sides.
Niagara Cave, MN (because it still has an active waterfall inside). These pictures are where ancient seafloor mud built up, hardened into sedimentary rock, and then cracked to form the cave. Invertebrate fossils can be seen in the walls.
December 14, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Niagara Cave, MN (because it still has an active waterfall inside). These pictures are where ancient seafloor mud built up, hardened into sedimentary rock, and then cracked to form the cave. Invertebrate fossils can be seen in the walls.
I love the shapes the duckweed makes, and the look of the turbines on the horizon.
November 22, 2024 at 12:22 AM
I love the shapes the duckweed makes, and the look of the turbines on the horizon.
A still standing tree, hollowed out in the middle.
November 20, 2024 at 11:44 PM
A still standing tree, hollowed out in the middle.
Lichen in eastern Pennsylvania, June 2024.
November 19, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Lichen in eastern Pennsylvania, June 2024.
Moths mating in eastern Pennsylvania in June. Not sure what the species is.
November 18, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Moths mating in eastern Pennsylvania in June. Not sure what the species is.
Found this cicada molting back in August. My first time seeing one in the process.
November 17, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Found this cicada molting back in August. My first time seeing one in the process.