florence

dating with a girl who has a dual padawan cut... like a little braid on both sides but otherwise short hair, and i feel the moment coming where i'll tell her it's a dual padawan cut

i've just finished the most mind-boggling, cathartic, intelligent novel that hit the philosophical part of my mind like a truck and now i'm sitting in awe, completely speechless. i don't know what to do.

ill admit i am intellectually very classist and discard men the moment they say they don’t like to read / are not interested in politics / unable to understand basic economical terms

people whose sole critique of a piece of media (i.e. shadow lord) is a nitpicky argument about powerscaling being subtly wrong is the most annoying type of human being

The reason to come and make your film in England is that you’ll have available a stock of professional Shakespearean actors who will throw 100% into whatever goofy Flash Gordon knock off you give them, and turn it into cinematic gold.

It’s insane how good the actors here are. Acting sucks now. Like there’s some good star actors but random bit roles like these are not being played this well.

Pronouns community inventing regex from first principles

when y'all walking down the street at night and catch a faint whiff of weed x.com/i/status/20532…

Lawson? Or anarchy daughter?

the genius of Andor is that it recognized how good this scene was and made an entire tv series of Imperial board room meetings

@hunterbadbatch don't give me hope...

am i crazy for thinking season 2 is dropping this year

if all we had ever gotten was phantom menace maul, he wouldn't be a very interesting villain. but when lucas decided to bring him back in TCW, along with sam witwer's incredible performance, it started an arc that created the most compelling villain in all of star wars.

where my old swtwt mutuals at from like 4 years ago?😭

marrok with that specific stormtrooper

Devon is the best executed fall to the Darkside I've ever seen in SW. Most characters end up coming off as naive morons who do a sudden 180, but Devon entirely understands what she's doing and that it's bad, but her hatred is so great she doesn't care

@Progrockjedi hello!!! i haven't seen you on me timeline in years without any exaggeration

Oh hi hello hi I'm alive yes! Also guess who'll be back in Italy in a few days!!!!!

I don't like this heavy mischaracterization of others to push some nonsensical story; yes I'm no longer involved in their lives but they are not deserving of the onslaught of slanderous dogpiling. John is not a homewrecker, and Kyedae never did anything malicious. That's all.

top 10 unexpected moments EVER what the FUCK

I have little doubt that AI tools will substantially change the way mathematics is done, likely pretty soon. But communicators like this are doing their audiences a disservice. In this particular example the “new” contribution from the AI tool was plugging (n,m)=(5,3) into the expression 2n-m. I’m not exaggerating. The “number of multiplications” in the result in question was shown by Winograd ~45 years ago to be 2n-m, where the matrices in question are nxn, and m is the number of factors of the polynomial x^n-1. The “result” here is that this polynomial has 3 factors over Q(sqrt(5)), and then that 2*5-3=7. That’s it. Winograd’s result itself is an application of the Chinese Remainder Theorem. At present, novel results by AI tools might tell you a few things. They tell you the model is smart! But in every case so far, they also tell you the result was not the focus of attention by experts, and that the result could be deduced by methods that are routine to experts from known results. And if someone claims the results are very significant in themselves (rather than because of what they say about the pace of progress), they tell you that person is full of shit. To be clear I have little doubt this will all change soon—the rate of change is so rapid you’d have to be blind not to see it. And even if capabilities did not improve any further, the ability to automate “routine” but nontrivial work would be a huge deal for math research. That automated tools can make progress on minor open questions is incredibly impressive. But that doesn’t excuse inaccuracy about current capabilities.