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Raymond "Wash" the akita
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Sometimes I'm an akita but you might know me as Raymond the GSD or SaberTail. Former particle physicist (PhD), but now I write software. Working with AI since '05. (40, Male, straight)-ish. SF Bay area. I'm probably not like you remember from pre-2020.
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try some
akita balls
right up close

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Raymond the anthro german shepherd dog, wearing a bulldog harness, is having his head held by Wash the anthro akita dog. Raymond's face is right up against the other dog's sheath, producing a worshipping state that's got him licking the other dog's balls.
December 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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chat is this model collapse?

(from "Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)" openreview.net/forum?id=saD... )
figure 6 from https://openreview.net/forum?id=saDOrrnNTz . It shows that various language models produce very similar answers to open-ended questions that admit a huge variety of answers
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I wonder what necessitated filling the hotel outlet USB ports with epoxy. They're all like this
A photo of a hotel power receptacle built into a piece of furniture. There's a North American socket but also two slots the size of USB-A ports that are filled with a hard, black substance. There's a glimpse of an electrical contact visible though a tiny hole in the stuff.
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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building the torment nexus but for robots
photo of a slide showing a frame from the Matrix labeled "the Cosmos". The AI captions reads "[...] want to do with Cosimo [Cosmo] is to build the metrics [The Matrix] for the robot, not for human[s]"
December 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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San Diego
a photograph of the San Diego skyline with some water and boats in the foreground, taken facing southeast from around the airport, in the morning
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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~~christmas~~ thanksgiving cactus
a schlumbergera plant in a pot on a balcony. It has started to bloom, with bright pink blooms
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I thought I was more stressed out than this
A blood pressure monitor showing systolic 107 mmHg, diastolic 62 mmHg, and pulse 57 bpm
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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well that's boring

(which is actually fine because the first thing you want to do when you turn a new experiment on is see if it agrees with past results)

congrats to JUNO
Screenshot of Figure 4 from https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14593 > Fig. 4 Results on solar oscillation parameters. Confidence intervals of sin^2 θ_12 and ∆m^2_21 from a spectral fit of measured prompt antineutrino energy spectrum shown in Fig. 3. Shaded elliptically-shaped areas correspond to 1σ, 2σ, and 3σ confidence levels. The upper panel provides the one dimensional ∆χ2 for sin^2 θ_12 obtained by profiling ∆m^2_21 (blue line) and the blue shaded region as the corresponding 1σ interval. The right panel is the same, but for ∆m^2_21, with sin^2 θ_12 profiled. The star marks the best fit values of JUNO, and the error bars show their one-dimensional 1σ confidence intervals. Results from other measurements of reactor neutrinos (KamLAND [13] and SNO+ [54]) and solar neutrinos (combined Super-Kamiokande (SK)+SNO [61]) are shown for comparison.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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book finished: Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis

I found this book very interesting! My key take-away is that California is high-variance for climate and natural disasters, and we suffer by not acknowledging this

Also fascinating chapters like all the different ways LA has been destroyed in fiction.
the cover of Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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it's very funny though
Photo of a book: "For many years my research was comfortably supported by the National Science Foundation, for which I remain very thankful. But I was extraordinarily fortunate to encounter someone who asked me, "What would you really like to do? What is your most ambitious and crazy idea?" Then, unexpectedly and generously _Jeffrey Epstein_ [emphasis added] gave me the chance to try to make good on my answers, and for this I will always be deeply grateful." Cover of "The Trouble with Physics" be Lee Smolin
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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you can say 'howdy' back instead of staring, yunno

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(old art but not posted here)
#nsfw
The same picture as the previous one, but he has no shorts or underpants. He's holding his balls and the base of his penis, which is half-hard.
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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howdy

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(old art but not posted here)
#nsfw
Wash, the buff anthropomorphic akita guy, wearing a straw hat and chewing on a haystalk. There's a barn in the background. He's shirtless, but wearing jean shorts. They are unbelted and he's got his dick half out of his red underpants.
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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work outing is moist
A photo taken from a building on a hill, looking toward the Pacific Ocean. There are gray clouds and mist shrouding greenery.
November 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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first session in the buff TF chamber done!
screenshot from a workout app showing I did 45 minutes of strength training, with various targeted muscle groups highlighted
November 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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sometimes I picture this in my head when I hear L.S. Dunes

(listen to "Like Magick" if you have no clue what I'm talking about)
the band L.S. Dunes playing except I have crudely pasted a cartoon of Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy singing over Anthony Green
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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😏

paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Screenshot of " Abstract Knots emerge in various fields of mathematics and physics today. We show that knots indeed appear as stable solitons in a realistic extension of the standard model of particle physics that provides the QCD axion and right-handed neutrinos. This result suggests that, during the early Universe, a [highlighted]“knot dominated era”[/highlighted] may have existed, where knots were a dominant component of the Universe, and this scenario can be tested through gravitational wave observations. Furthermore, we propose that the end of this era involves the collapse of the knots via quantum tunneling, leading to the generation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. "
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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neighborhood neon
#SanJose #neon #animatedgif
October 19, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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now i have
a power rack
ho ho ho
An assembled power rack but without any bars or weights. It's sitting on foam matting in a garage. There are some tools on the ground and some junk in the background.
October 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I think Pynchon's trying to tell us something
What one of them should have been saying was ``We're in the last minutes of a break that will seem so wonderful and peaceable and carefree. If anybody's around to remember. Still trying to keep on with it before it gets too dark. Until finally we turn to look back the way we came, and there's that last light bulb, once so bright, now feebly flickering, about to burn out, and it's well past time to be saying, Florsheims, let's ambulate. ``Stay, or go. Two fates beginning to diverge---back to the U.S., marry, raise a family, assemble a life you can persuade yourself is free from fear, as meanwhile, over here, the other outcome continues to unfold, to roll in dark as the end of time. Those you could have saved, could've shifted at least somehow onto a safer stretch of track, are one by one robbed, beaten, killed, seized and taken away into the nameless, the unrecoverable. ``Until one night, too late, you wake into an understanding of what you should have been doing with your life all along.'' Something like that. If anybody was still there to hear it. Which there isn't. ---Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket
October 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Wash says: "Happy Fat Sheath Friday!"

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#NSFW #FatSheathFriday
An akita pinning a snow leopard down such that he has a big sheath right in front of his face. The snow leopard is making some uncertain eyes at it.
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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who reading?
the cover of Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
October 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Stringing copper braid around to try to cut down electrical noise pickup? It's like I'm back in the lab!
A Les Paul guitar with the pickups removed, showing that the cavities they sit in have been lined with copper tape. Copper braid connects to the metal grounds of the pickups.
October 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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we are measuring height wrong
Crude sketch. Text says: "Proposal: Measure height like we measure temperature". It shows a short stick figure on the left, and a tall stick figure on the right. Dotted lines extend from their heads, denoting height below and above, respectively, an arbitrary "0 cm°" height midway between their heights. The short person is -30 cm° and the tall person is +30 cm°. That is, short people have negative heights, and tall people have positive heights.
October 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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I finished sorting my USB cables. Very exciting! Except I don't have enough shelf space for the bins as well as my CDs which are already overflowing off screen.

Bonus pic: the worst USB cable I own
Some shelves with plastic bins in them. The plastic bins hold cables, and have labels on them: "USB C misc", "USB A/B", "USB C/C", "USB Power", "USB A/C with D±", "USB A/micro B", "USB A/C NO DATA PINS", and "USB A Extensions". Also above the bins are a bunch of CDs. a USB A to C cable plugged into a tester. The tester has LEDs for USB pins indicating continuity. On this cable, only one VBUS and one GND are lit up, indicating not only can this not transmit data, but it will only work when plugged in one way.
October 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Book finished: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

It's a science fiction classic from the 1950s. So the premise (catholic monks preserving knowledge after a nuclear apocalypse) is a fun one, but the ways it has diffused into popular culture are better than the novel itself.
the cover of the first edition of A Canticle for Leibowitz
October 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM