A Storm Brewing (Puritan And Cavalier), Oil On Canvas ― Edgar Bundy (British, 1862-1922)

God giving humans both a conscious and unconscious mind, hiding your true nature from yourself as a running gag.

do you know how some dogs go insane if you leave them in silence for too long? i think sometimes people are sort of like that

Guy in front of me at the store talking about how some words should be illegal. Didn't have it in me to explain how things work. Guess he may never know.

Hate speech isn't real. Please stop making stuff up and go touch grass

TIL: early movable-type printers would store the normal letters in a case on a bottom shelf, and the capital letters in another case on a top shelf, and that’s where the terms “upper case” and “lower case” come from.

The current season is always superior to the previous season because it resolves the previous one like an unfinished musical chord.

"If we keep on optimizing the proxy objective, even after our goal stops improving, something more worrying happens. The goal often starts getting worse, even as our proxy objective continues to improve. Not just a little bit worse either — often the goal will diverge towards infinity. This is an extremely general phenomenon in machine learning. It mostly doesn't matter what our goal and proxy are, or what model architecture we use. If we are very efficient at optimizing a proxy, then we make the thing it is a proxy for grow worse."

Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart's law

I remember Toonami. And Cowboy Bebop and Gundam Wing and Dragonball Z and Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin at 3am. Anime reruns on the screen.

have you considered that it's you who is old, and not the email draft?

While I was typing up some documents this afternoon, I needed a throwaway email address to receive some information.

So I logged into an older account I have, then clicked the drafts folder. I found a draft of an email from 2017.

The body read, "This email will have to wait." I guess I must have been hyperliteral at the time, since it's now been waiting for eight years.

You are either committed to science, technology, engineering, and math—venturing deep into the intersection of numbers and philosophy—or you get swallowed by one of the lesser ideologies like communism, makeup, or video game addiction

Some of you are cool and deserve to be let inside the secret group chat.