rob mahurin
@robtasm.bsky.social
I am large. I contain multitudes.
I should be able to find my "saved posts" from my user page, like I can find other things associated with my account. But the "saved posts" are listed in a context menu that is (on narrow screens) replaced with a back arrow when I look at my profile page.
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January 31, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I should be able to find my "saved posts" from my user page, like I can find other things associated with my account. But the "saved posts" are listed in a context menu that is (on narrow screens) replaced with a back arrow when I look at my profile page.
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In case it goes away (with alt text):
January 17, 2026 at 11:14 PM
In case it goes away (with alt text):
From xkcd's map-projection personality test:
![Peirce quincuncial
[map of world with Antarctica divided among the four corners of a square, north pole in the center]
You think that when we look at a map, what we really see is ourselves. After you first saw *Inception*, you sat silent in the theater for six hours. It freaks you out to realize that everyone around you has a skeleton inside them. You *have* really looked at your hands.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hxntxpifxf32xlj3nevsvwrm/bafkreifzl7lazvo4c3imdfn6bfqjco4ksmznc5e5kubtdf23xt56gpq7sq@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:15 PM
From xkcd's map-projection personality test:
furious that this animal isn't called a "septopus"
[reads link]
PSEUDOSEPTOPUS
[reads link]
PSEUDOSEPTOPUS
January 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
furious that this animal isn't called a "septopus"
[reads link]
PSEUDOSEPTOPUS
[reads link]
PSEUDOSEPTOPUS
Here's a fun old paper about an early take on whether maybe Einstein's proposal that our universe is the three-dimensional surface of a four-dimensional ball is present in Dante.
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January 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Here's a fun old paper about an early take on whether maybe Einstein's proposal that our universe is the three-dimensional surface of a four-dimensional ball is present in Dante.
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Folks who are using the round-robin address shouldn't have any trouble. But folks who bypass to specifically use the Boulder service might get a FIVE MICROSECOND ERROR
December 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Folks who are using the round-robin address shouldn't have any trouble. But folks who bypass to specifically use the Boulder service might get a FIVE MICROSECOND ERROR
You are clearly married to Carmen Sandiego
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You are clearly married to Carmen Sandiego
"A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing," in Evolution and Human Behavior (2025), doi.org/10.1016/j.ev.... Open access.
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing," in Evolution and Human Behavior (2025), doi.org/10.1016/j.ev.... Open access.
was the experimenter's hand reaching into the camera view to bounce reflected sound waves around in real time. The image below is from the cover of the 2018 Am.J.Phys. issue with a paper describing the idea, doi.org/10.1119/1.50....
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November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
was the experimenter's hand reaching into the camera view to bounce reflected sound waves around in real time. The image below is from the cover of the 2018 Am.J.Phys. issue with a paper describing the idea, doi.org/10.1119/1.50....
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this cuts awful close to home for a fortune cookie
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
this cuts awful close to home for a fortune cookie
Here's a claim that this distinction is recent and that the two spellings "appear to be undergoing a polarizing process."
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...
October 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here's a claim that this distinction is recent and that the two spellings "appear to be undergoing a polarizing process."
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...
I think this is from 2018.
![Four-panel comic. A person at a computer is experiencing a cascade of different emotions because the Internet is made of chaos.
Panel 1: [horrified] "Police hunting people for sport?!"
Panel 2: [amused] "A chubby penguin! Haha"
Panel 3: [outraged] "The President ate a baby?!"
Panel 4: [amused] "A kitten! Haha"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hxntxpifxf32xlj3nevsvwrm/bafkreigvvienjpzwvtwyyjmlr4wegcyop3bmooygjwltkrrbwwtanck3j4@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I think this is from 2018.
"Epistemic trespass" goes in the collection of catchphrases.
September 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"Epistemic trespass" goes in the collection of catchphrases.
In my mind the capitalized text was sung to the tune of "take me out to the ballgame"
September 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In my mind the capitalized text was sung to the tune of "take me out to the ballgame"
I would wait to see analyses of more storms before assigning significance to this success. There are no error bars on these curves, and the GDMI curve is not far outside the statistical spread of the others.
"It's more precise" is a different claim than "it did better this time."
"It's more precise" is a different claim than "it did better this time."
August 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I would wait to see analyses of more storms before assigning significance to this success. There are no error bars on these curves, and the GDMI curve is not far outside the statistical spread of the others.
"It's more precise" is a different claim than "it did better this time."
"It's more precise" is a different claim than "it did better this time."
I'm hunting for a job. Perhaps I should offer to call out future coworkers who are doing this sort of nonsense instead of working.
August 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I'm hunting for a job. Perhaps I should offer to call out future coworkers who are doing this sort of nonsense instead of working.
On the other hand, there's this from the same book.
July 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
On the other hand, there's this from the same book.
In the probability of discrete events like coin tosses, you usually write "p" to represent the probability of a success and "q=1−p" to represent the probability of failure.
Actuaries are in a grim business, but the notational choice here is a little ray of sunshine.
Actuaries are in a grim business, but the notational choice here is a little ray of sunshine.
July 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In the probability of discrete events like coin tosses, you usually write "p" to represent the probability of a success and "q=1−p" to represent the probability of failure.
Actuaries are in a grim business, but the notational choice here is a little ray of sunshine.
Actuaries are in a grim business, but the notational choice here is a little ray of sunshine.
Correct, at my request (and thanks again for engaging). But I think my argument applies to your division at the time of the strike as well: the threshold for significance is different because to the degree to which you have subdivided your data. The article calls out the instant fivefold drop 1/
June 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Correct, at my request (and thanks again for engaging). But I think my argument applies to your division at the time of the strike as well: the threshold for significance is different because to the degree to which you have subdivided your data. The article calls out the instant fivefold drop 1/
June 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM