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untold thousands of person-hours of research have gone into figuring out why people turn out to be autistic. in my case it was because of these

i feel like "subscription binder book" was some kind of known 90s phenomenon based on there being at least 2 of them but hell if I can find any info
wildlife fact file binder secrets of the universe binders
January 14, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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wolf with wolves emerging from it. fucked up unity screenshot
January 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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centrally unplanned economy
cybersyn control room but it's all fucked up. the chairs are black and red. text in the middle says "Nysrebyc"
January 12, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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need an organization to send every person in minneapolis one of those battery powered impact horns
ultimate noisemaking device: five air horns mounted on half an impact driver
January 11, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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i got a space heater to assist propane in 2021, and switched to electric heat exclusively in early 2023 because the propane heater was too expensive to run. the red line is how much propane I'd have to use *monthly* to use up the 10,000 cubic feet he says I've used. I haven't changed my habits
January 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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pictured: my meter vs. my neighbor's
completely unclear what the meter says, half the numbers are between digits normal meter readout
January 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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foul image
Angleton (right) with head of Mossad Global Operations Meir Amit (1966).
January 1, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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actual prompt engineers work with this kind of shit and a LOT of fucked up math. they are actually solving real challenges posed to them by the ultimate need of selling us a bill of goods. some good may even come of this at some point, purely as a byproduct.
https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/rag
December 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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otter. my only "OC." i invented him by accident
December 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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everything 1.5a search for "george" returns seven pictures of george the otter and one picture of george w. bush
December 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Like, Damn Girl

(i misspoke, the P2s were 01-07 outside sweden)
December 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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That's Fucking Right
a silver 1998 volvo V70R in profile, parked atop a desert hilltop, cloudy nevada sky behind it
December 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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it's nice out
December 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Question What if Samus comes across a situation that requires her to use both of her hands? (self.Metroid) 3 points submitted 4 years ago by BoogalooBoi1776_2 Can her arm cannon come off? Does it have a holster or something? 17 comments
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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all that just to turn into a fancy paper title
December 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Every single person who says that LLMs and vibe coding are the future is a person who is spending a quarter of their waking hours staring at things that look like this
This is a decision/analysys issue, not an implementation issue. Let me check what the MASTER-STATUS says: > searched for text 4ac8 (**/overnight-work/MASTER-STATUS.txt ), 1 result ✅ read 🧾 research-4ac8.txt, lines 1 to 50 This issue was a decision task that resulted in choosing ❌ Sorry, no response was returned. Try Again > Changed 21 files Claude Opus 4.5 • 3x
December 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Due to a windstorm-related utility power outage at the NIST, time may soon be destroyed
https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/o0dDDcr1a8I?pli=1
December 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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val_loss parallel coordinate chart with a million lines and a million parameter names. it's an unreadable mess
December 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Probe Sentences - Step 1500 The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The the s a s the n o . Satellite relays keep the link alive even under fading conditions. The n o o a s a s the n o o o o . Neural codecs compress meaning into resilient latent vectors. The n s t s e t s o o t s . Weather delays can disrupt maritime communications without redundancy. A s are a s , and the n o s . The captain ordered full speed ahead through the storm. The n n n a s the n o ed ed ed ed ed ed ed ed Embedding status: uncollapsed (similarity=0.071, std=0.9311, eff_rank=35.6) ⠋ Epoch 1/1 11% • 1793/15610 • 0:04:32 • 0:23:00 • Loss: 6.8791
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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oh damn you can buy used supercomputer fragments on ebay. these are 8 years old but still beat the shit out of a 5090 if you're doing FP64
NEC Vector Engine 1.0 Type 24GB Active Cooled 10C-A on eBay for $481 or $350
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Soniferous taxa can be remotely sensed in the wild through the deployment of autonomous acoustic recorders
Research Article Open Access HOWLish: a CNN for automated wolf howl detection Rafael Campos, Miha Krofel, Helena Rio-Maior, Francesco Renna First published: 23 September 2025 https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.70024 diagram of howlish data collection: 50,137 hours of sound samples from 26 wild wolf packs manual labeling: 841 howling events, totaling 8.27 hours of active howling development: training dataset (96,361 not-wolf examples, 17,927 wolf examples) + VGGish convolution neuronal network -> HOWLish (recall: 0.772, precision: 0.00618, fall-out: 0.174, AUC: 0.939) deployment: holdout dataset (3,789 soundscape hours) -> HOWLish (bespoke pipeline, 8.33h of GPU time, 5519 clips exported) -> quality control (manual, 0.74 hours of operator time, 65/80 howling events detected) -> 15-fold reduction in operator time (vs full manual annotation) Introduction Automated sound-event detection is instrumental for large-scale acoustic monitoring of wildlife (Sugai et al., 2019). Soniferous taxa can be remotely sensed in the wild through the deployment of autonomous acoustic recorders, i.e., passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) (Sugai et al., 2020). This non-invasive sampling approach allows cost-efficient monitoring of rare and cryptic species across wide spatial scales, including remote locations (Wood et al., 2023), with minimal disturbance of local ecosystems
December 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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EXPERIMENT 2: Boundary Test (Extrapolation) Encoding 20 corpus sentences... Embedding centroid computed, average std: 0.0046 --- Direction 1 --- centroid: The scientists produced a successful experiment. 0.5σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment. 1σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment. 2σ: The scientists produced a successful show. 5σ: The scientists produced a successful show. 10σ: Scientists developed a new technology. 20σ: Scientists helped save the city. --- Direction 2 --- centroid: The scientists produced a successful experiment. 0.5σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment. 1σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment. 2σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment. 5σ: The scientists produced a successful show. 10σ: The scientists produced a show. 20σ: Scientists made a difference. --- Direction 3 --- centroid: The scientists produced a successful experiment. 0.5σ: The scientists produced a successful experiment. 1σ: The artists produced a successful show. 2σ: The artists developed a breakthrough. 5σ: The artists developed a new style. 10σ: The artist developed a new style. 20σ: The artist developed a new style of painting. EXPERIMENT 3: Noise Sensitivity Sweep ================================================================================ --- Base sentence: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. --- Embedding std: 0.0078 original: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. [...] noise=0.20σ: The fast brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. noise=0.50σ: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. noise=1.00σ: The fastest brown skinny is jumping over the lazy dog. noise=2.00σ: The long-tailed fox is the one that will roll over on the soft-tailed fox. noise=5.00σ: Dzin-Te-Tum-Te Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr Pr --- Base sentence: Democracy requires an informed citizenry. --- Embedding std: 0.0056 original: Democracy requires an informed citizenry. noise=0.01σ: Democracy requires an informed citizenry. [...] noise=1.00σ: Democracy, requires an informed citizenry. noise=2.00σ: A. A. The term is used to describe a state of affairs in which the government is in a position to make decisions. noise=5.00σ: Dramnames, da-dramd, da-dramd. Dramdramd. Dramdramdramd. Dramdramdramd. Dramdramdramdramd. Dramdramdramdramdramd. Dramdramdramdramdramdramdramd. Dramdramdramdramdramdramdramdramdramdramdram --- Base sentence: The sunset painted the sky in brilliant colors. --- Embedding std: 0.0068 original: The sunset painted the sky in brilliant colors. noise=0.01σ: The sunset painted the sky in brilliant colors. [...] noise=1.00σ: The sunset, his body was in a bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright, bright,
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Sirs you CANNOT call it that
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES https://www.merl.com HoloCast+: Hybrid Digital-Analog Transmission for Graceful Point Cloud Delivery with Graph Fourier Transform Fujihashi, Takuya; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki; Watanabe, Takashi; Orlik, Philip V. TR2021-043 May 11, 2021
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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ray tracing cores in modern GPUs are designed only to calculate bounding volume hierarchy traversal and ray-triangle intersection

but if you shape a problem (e.g. n-body) Just Right you can use RT cores and get "1.3-4x" or "orders of magnitude" faster performance

hammer.purdue.edu/ndownloader/...
EXPLOITING HARDWARE-ACCELERATED RAY TRACING FOR SPATIAL TREE ALGORITHMS by Vani Nagarajan A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Purdue University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM