• Two fun articles in Science! Integrated low-temperature PVC and polyolefin upgrading: ideas for recycling PVC plastic (albeit with lots of challenges remaining) 10.1126/science.adr7403: a new communication network in the brain based on nanotubes in addition to the normal synapses.

  • I want to rip my eyes out when I see “apple stupidity” (there is no intelligence) summarize things with passive voice.

  • A picture is worth 1000 words! fediscience.org/@ZLabe/11…

  • Imagine a world where you don’t have to call up the Internet company every year to say… give me the lower rate again please?

  • Anyone else not enjoying iOS 26?

  • I just cannot believe the microelectronics soldering skill on these iphone storage replacement videos… www.youtube.com/watch

  • I love it when Claude vibecodes away doing the hard stuff…

        for i, pos in enumerate(positions):
            # Skip some positions for efficiency if too many
            if len(positions) > 50000 and i % (len(positions) // 50000) != 0:
                continue
    
  • First year none of the family texted about the new iPhones. I think Apple has a problem.

  • News got you down? The coffee at @yesplzcoffee.bsky.social is always a good pick me up. (The current decaf smells amazing…. )

  • ChatGPT 5 always seems to use “thinking” mode when I ask it stuff. Much more than I would have used the reasoning models for 4o / o3…

  • I’m not sure ChatGPT-5 is really an upgrade.

  • RIP AOL dial-up tones

  • I just learned about the phrase “plot armor”. I’m old.

  • Ugh, openAI is doing cross-session information sharing. This is modestly annoying.

  • See if you can guess which LLM I’m talking about with each picture!

  • The problem with llm vibe coding is you get hidden bombs like this.

       463.               if (numNodes <= 0 || numNodes > 10000000) { // Sanity check
       464                    throw new Error(`Invalid number of nodes: ${numNodes}`);
       465                }
    

    This easily works with 100m nodes.

  • Wow, I’m probably more aggressive in spending less time at airports than Nate Silver! (And I’ve never actually missed a flight because I’m late – cut it very close to missing bag check deadline one time we were checking bags) His approach is basically what I do. (Target 60 mins pre departure.)

  • Nice to attend my first meeting as a Siam fellow!

  • I knew it! That zoo costume designer is fantastic. Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up - The Onion

  • Ooh, SIAM news wrote about my talk. Maybe I should record a video on this one! www.siam.org/publicati…

  • Apple needs to fire its advertising team. This is the …4th or 5th major screw up. www.macrumors.com/2025/07/3…

  • Sometimes I try to think of what would it take me to get to yes on something like personalized AI-based pricing as in arstechnica.com/tech-poli… In this case, I’m fine if companies need to disclose lowest price in 6 mo

  • Whenever I hear “AI Tools Did Something Catastrophic”, I just replace “AI Tools” with “Intern” and it sounds just normal! Give an intern unrestricted DB access and you know what to expect!

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