towb0at
@towb0at.bsky.social
Astroparticle physicist.
(He / Him)
Nürnberg, Germany.
(He / Him)
Nürnberg, Germany.
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They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it.
Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.
Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.
Just had to check
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it.
Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.
Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.
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![Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreig43e2u4zzpifhq6fbf2iwplmva2lt5rokfg5uws5dysbe55up6wa@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
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Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World https://theonion.com/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-world-1819571221/
September 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World https://theonion.com/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-world-1819571221/
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Crazy random line in the Cursor RL blog post saying they're collecting RL data from real users, updating the checkpoint every 90 to 120 minutes.
This would've been unthinkable if you told me it 12 months ago. What a wild year of reasoning models.
buff.ly/8LqreS2
This would've been unthinkable if you told me it 12 months ago. What a wild year of reasoning models.
buff.ly/8LqreS2
September 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Crazy random line in the Cursor RL blog post saying they're collecting RL data from real users, updating the checkpoint every 90 to 120 minutes.
This would've been unthinkable if you told me it 12 months ago. What a wild year of reasoning models.
buff.ly/8LqreS2
This would've been unthinkable if you told me it 12 months ago. What a wild year of reasoning models.
buff.ly/8LqreS2
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"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
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My grandma passed this morning and it's been really tough on my family. None of us know her 2nd phase attack patterns and she's kicking our asses
July 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
My grandma passed this morning and it's been really tough on my family. None of us know her 2nd phase attack patterns and she's kicking our asses
There were 26(!) interludes of Switzerland shown during ESC and somehow they just forgot to show the LHC :(
May 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
There were 26(!) interludes of Switzerland shown during ESC and somehow they just forgot to show the LHC :(
People care too much about DDoS attacks on LLMs - instead of DDoS attacks 𝘣𝘺 LLMs
May 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
People care too much about DDoS attacks on LLMs - instead of DDoS attacks 𝘣𝘺 LLMs
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Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched from the Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1990. Here's to a remarkable 35 years of imaging the Cosmos. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
Leave your favorite Hubble images in the replies!
Leave your favorite Hubble images in the replies!
April 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched from the Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1990. Here's to a remarkable 35 years of imaging the Cosmos. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
Leave your favorite Hubble images in the replies!
Leave your favorite Hubble images in the replies!
I missed this a few days ago but this might be the only way forward to offset publication costs or even profit from your own research arxiv.org/abs/2503.24254
PromoPlot: Covering open-access fees by filling wasted space in corner plots
In an effort to reduce drain on grant funds and decrease unused space in publications, we have developed a Python package for inserting advertisements into the space left empty by corner plots. This n...
arxiv.org
April 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I missed this a few days ago but this might be the only way forward to offset publication costs or even profit from your own research arxiv.org/abs/2503.24254
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I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...
For-Profit (Creative) Software
YouTube video by EndVertex
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March 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...
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Cosmic Distance Calibration xkcd.com/3066
March 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Cosmic Distance Calibration xkcd.com/3066
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The Benamou-Brenier formulation of OT interprets Wasserstein distance as the minimal kinetic energy required to move one probability distribution into another over time. It links OT to mechanics via a dynamic viewpoint. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
March 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Benamou-Brenier formulation of OT interprets Wasserstein distance as the minimal kinetic energy required to move one probability distribution into another over time. It links OT to mechanics via a dynamic viewpoint. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Remember you can always reach out to PhDs and PostDocs before accepting a position. www.dw.com/en/abuse-eli...
Uncovered: Abuse at top German science institution – DW – 03/13/2025
The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the inst...
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March 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Remember you can always reach out to PhDs and PostDocs before accepting a position. www.dw.com/en/abuse-eli...
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making an LLM deliberately bad at being a code assistant also makes it a nazi, because all good and all bad things are correlated with each other
February 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
making an LLM deliberately bad at being a code assistant also makes it a nazi, because all good and all bad things are correlated with each other
dreamt I met hank green at a busy café, where he fact-checks my thoughts forcing me to publicly announce my own ignorance just because of that one video he made
dreamt I met hank green for a game jam at my dad's place, where I kept having to open windows to let cats in from the cold winter night outside
February 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
dreamt I met hank green at a busy café, where he fact-checks my thoughts forcing me to publicly announce my own ignorance just because of that one video he made
KM3Net just announced the detection of an ultra-high-energy neutrino at ~200 PeV (!!). While that's cool and a little intimidating, don't let this distract you from the fact that there is still no known way how to properly share slides or prevent audio issues over zoom
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT - Nature
A very high-energy muon observed by the KM3NeT experiment in the Mediterranean Sea is evidence for the interaction of an exceptionally high-energy neutrino of cosmic origin.
www.nature.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
KM3Net just announced the detection of an ultra-high-energy neutrino at ~200 PeV (!!). While that's cool and a little intimidating, don't let this distract you from the fact that there is still no known way how to properly share slides or prevent audio issues over zoom
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tune in tomorrow to see if KM3NeT finally annouces competition to IceCube
February 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Tune in tomorrow to see if KM3NeT finally annouces competition to IceCube
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there are not that many high profile ML people posting in BlueSky Jeff is one, we need more like him, worth the repost!
OK! My Google colleague Thang Luong shared some exciting updates about AlphaGeometry2!
AG2 now has surpassed the average gold-medalist in solving Olympiad geometry problems, w/ a solve rate of 84% compared to 54% previously!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.03544
See full list of authors on link
AG2 now has surpassed the average gold-medalist in solving Olympiad geometry problems, w/ a solve rate of 84% compared to 54% previously!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.03544
See full list of authors on link
February 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
there are not that many high profile ML people posting in BlueSky Jeff is one, we need more like him, worth the repost!
Nothing screams imposter syndrome quite like science youtubers doing their yearly recap disguised as "2024 Errata".
Like come on. Give yourself a little credit.
Like come on. Give yourself a little credit.
January 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Nothing screams imposter syndrome quite like science youtubers doing their yearly recap disguised as "2024 Errata".
Like come on. Give yourself a little credit.
Like come on. Give yourself a little credit.
January 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM