Michael D

@aphysicist ahhh, I miss utah

heading up to God's country

@Robdobi @aphysicist @CDisillusion can you link to that?

@doss_sauce @aphysicist @CDisillusion Some guy on Reddit emulated it yesterday

Ok, Imma explain the admiral neck shadow thing. (Spoilers: it's not a rubber mask, ya weirdos)... 🧵

@getintorch @paulg ai slop post

@paulg Using AI to write emails in a style you would never naturally use is the fastest way to sound like nobody. Are you writing like yourself or like a press release?

A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize something is written by AI, it's hard not to ignore it.

@the_vc_intern @noisyb0y1 ai slop

@noisyb0y1 An Oxford student writing flawless particle simulation code and concluding CERN is personally taunting him is the perfect modern pipeline: extreme technical talent + isolation + pattern-seeking brain. The code is impressive. The conclusion is the oldest story in the book.

AN OXFORD STUDENT IS RUNNING A PARTICLE SIMULATION WITH REAL PEOPLE'S NAMES AND CLAIMS CERN IS TAUNTING HIM THROUGH THE CODE Thousands of particles on a black screen - each one labeled with a real person's name - moving according to the laws of physics in real time and he is completely convinced this is not a simulation but a personal message from CERN directed at him specifically. Particle simulation with collision detection, velocity vectors and brownian motion - technically flawless code that tracks every particle individually and renders trajectories at 60 fps. CERN operates a 17km collider that accelerates protons to 99.9999991% the speed of light and generates a petabyte of data every single day - and apparently found the time to encode Oxford student names into a simulation. The code is real. The physics is correct. The conclusions are a separate conversation.

@stringerbell99 @aphysicist @CDisillusion compelling but far from proof then m

@doss_sauce @aphysicist @CDisillusion It’s just a still.

@stringerbell99 @aphysicist @CDisillusion @stringerbell99 do you have this video?

@doss_sauce @aphysicist @CDisillusion This is the best example I’ve seen. I don’t think it fully explains the video but the shadow at least has similar qualities.

@downlet1970 @Robdobi @aphysicist @CDisillusion how does this show a convincing non-mask case? I see a model of a mask

@Robdobi @doss_sauce @aphysicist @CDisillusion @doss_sauce you owe this guy $1000

@aphysicist @CDisillusion stg I'll give $1k to someone who gives me a convincing model of the same irregularities explained by light. I've lazy modelled a hew and there's nothing that comes close to this masklike

@CDisillusion why can't anyone find a similar picture of this happening, like ever

@MukatiKart77196 @shirokonek0chan @VinciRSS hover on windows 95?

@shirokonek0chan @VinciRSS Bro can you find a game where you had a drone that drew walls by flying on the field and tgerr were balls we had to trap in those wall compartments It started with air

My dad used to play this one logic game where you were putting balls on 3D grid and if you lost they all turned into skulls. No idea what game it was.

We just OCR'd 27,000 arxiv papers into Markdown using an open 5B model, 16 parallel HF Jobs on L40S GPUs, and a mounted bucket. Total cost: $850 Total time: ~29 hours Jobs that crashed: 0 This now powers "Chat with your paper" on hf.co/papers

A British company called Skycutter, based in the East Midlands, just finished first out of the entire field in the Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program. Score of 99.3 out of 100. The largest order goes to them: two and a half thousand units, an initial Pentagon contract of twenty million dollars, with an option to scale up to two hundred million. Read that and really soak it in. It's something that rarely happens anymore. A small British startup beat the entire American defence-tech industrial complex on its own home turf, in a competition the Pentagon designed itself, against companies that get whatever they ask for from Washington on a Tuesday morning. It looks likely to be followed by something that always happens - Skycutter are, by the looks of things, going to pack up their talent and their operations and move all of it to America. Why? The MoD, they say, is too slow. The procurement cycle is too long. There is no clear pathway from "British company that builds something the world wants" to "British company that the British state buys from in serious quantity at serious speed." No byway through which you move from "A potentially world-toppling IP advantage" to "Complete and deserved domination of the global market." So we are about to lose them. Not because they want to leave, but because the country that produced them cannot organise itself fast enough to keep them. The MoD's response, by the way, was to issue a statement saying it wants the UK to be "the best place in the world to start and grow a defence business." It does not want to do this. Indeed it is difficult to convey, in polite English, how galling that sentence is when read alongside the news it is responding to. You're a serious country? You'd fight for a company like Skycutter. You'd fight to take them if they weren't yours, and you'd fight like mad to keep them if they were. A serious country has someone in Whitehall whose entire fucking job is making sure the next Skycutter doesn't end up in Virginia. We have, instead, a Defence Office for Small Business Growth. Which is the kind of name you give a thing that you created for no purpose other than taking the piss out of it.

Recently, Anthropic shipped a model that rejected every prompt containing the word "pathogen," which briefly paralyzed the CDC (big users of the word "pathogen"). Wasn't fixed for weeks. No one reported on it until now.

@Patriot17761948 @_ZachFoster @amnesty @hrw @btselem @MSF @alhaq_org @UNHumanRights @UN_HRC @pchrgaza @AlMezanCenter Yes the Lemkin institute. Famously Islamic

@_ZachFoster @amnesty @hrw @btselem @MSF @alhaq_org @UNHumanRights @UN_HRC @pchrgaza @AlMezanCenter Bahahahahaha! 😂 They are ALL Arab and/or Islamic funded or red/green alliance funded outlets. (No shocker there.) That’s like citing the KKK as “proof” that Blacks are inferior. Pure propaganda.

it's genocide ( @amnesty ) it's genocide ( @hrw ) it's genocide ( @btselem ) it's genocide ( @MSF ) it's genocide (IAGS) it's genocide ( @alhaq_org ) it's genocide ( @UNHumanRights ) it's genocide ( @UN_HRC ) it's genocide ( @pchrgaza ) it's genocide ( @AlMezanCenter ) it's genocide ( @WarOnWant ) it's genocide ( @PHRIsrael ) it's genocide ( @fidh_en ) it's genocide (PHROC) it's genocide ( @LemkinInstitute ) it's genocide ( @theCCR ) it's genocide ( @ECCHRBerlin ) it's genocide ( @unitedforrights ) it's genocide ( @JURDIasso ) it's genocide ( @TheElders ) it's genocide ( @Oxfam ) Calling a genocide a genocide hurts our fragile zionist egos” ( @AJCGlobal )

Simple question- What’s more important to OUR nation: Opening the Straight of Hormuz & bringing stability to the Gulf. Or Funding Israel’s offensive in Lebanon? Israel is the jr partner in this relationship but won’t act like it until we restrict military aid to them.

The ruler is beefing with the pope, his legions have fought to a stalemate with Persia, now typhus is breaking out in a major city, oh yeah it’s late antiquity out there

@Saintsing79 @GrumbleBeeX @Angry_Staffer Released information doesn't mean it was formally declassified. potus can do what he wants, doesn't change the classification status of the info

@GrumbleBeeX @Angry_Staffer Ok. Explain how the POTUS cannot choose which classified to release to the public.

Trump just gave up a lot of classified information in that briefing. To be clear, he’s the president so he can do whatever he wants in that regard, but it’s not very smart.

@SmothersAaron @aphysicist Jack Welch? More like Jack Smellch amirite ayyyyy. But hey instead of an American Zaibatsu we get an iconic American brand white labeling garbage quality Chinese made toasters so that's cool.

@aphysicist Say it with me: Fuck Jack Welch

back when it was worth it to become a "company man". my grandfather was a distinguished electrical engineer at GE, Nela Park for 30+ years. globalization destroyed the fabric of mutual respect that made this possible.

@aphysicist My grandpa was also 20+ years at GAF And Allied Chemical. From when he came to the US to when he left to pursue his own investments. Unheard of today, because MBAs decided loyalty was worth penalising for profits at the margins instead of rewarding.

@usamasyedMD @bryan_johnson My mum had major damage with fraxel because of this

@bryan_johnson Love it. As a dermatologist, just a heads up for others looking to copy this protocol. The specific laser/device treatments that work exceptionally well in fairer skin can also cause a lot of damage and INCREASED pigmentation in those with darker skin tones. Don't copy/paste.

Results from my Feb 23 skin therapy: Improvements since treatment: > Brown spots: +71 percentile points (20th → 91st) ✅ > Pores: +25 percentile points ✅ > Spots: +25 percentile points✅ My skin age is 9 years younger than my chronological age (39 vs 48) and hasn't aged in five years since starting this project. Effectively a 9 year age reversal. Measured using VISIA multispectral clinical imaging, the most validated non-invasive skin analysis system available. Feb 23 treatment summary Technologies > Everesse RF > CoolPeel CO2 laser > BBL Each targeting a different skin depth so repair windows overlap without competing. Treatment details Everesse RF (200 pulses, Level 2.5 per cheek), CoolPeel CO2 laser (3.0W, 700 micron spacing), and BBL broadband light. Each targeting a different skin depth. Everesse drives heat into the dermis at 60-70°C, triggering fibroblast activation and collagen production that peaks 6-8 weeks later (about now), tightening the structural scaffolding that makes pores visible. CoolPeel ablates the surface layer of skin, physically removing melanin-loaded cells and forcing fresh keratinocytes to the surface. BBL destroys residual pigment one layer deeper through selective photothermolysis, where melanin absorbs light energy and self-destructs. Porphyrins dropped 13 points, which is expected. The treatments temporarily disrupt the follicular environment that bacteria need to thrive, and that recovers within 8-12 weeks. Goal was to do a triple-modality stack so the repair windows overlap without competing (dermis, epidermis, and chromophores).

great piece by patrick. most people have no clue that america taught japan how to manufacture, and then japan and america taught china. it's fascinating to read stories of how this knowledge diffuses over time. production mastery is all that matters in the end.