: The weekend.

: None of us would complain about reviewer 2 if we could get a stream of high-impact journal papers …

: There are pictures reportedly from St Paul Yesterday. “Cancelled” doesn’t mean “didn’t happen” — …

: Hey nytimes. Confirmed by who? Your three reporters? I’m happy to confirm that the event in …

: Of course. The median number of the new acip committee is probably a better representation… …

: Sometimes I want to pull my hair out using Claude code. Are there examples of how to use it …

: What is with so many websites breaking on safari recently? Google scholar, DOE PAMS (which worked …

: Whelp, need to update my iMac Pro to something more modern, more powerful. Thankfully, the new Mac …

: A good list! www.science.org/doi/10.11…

: Oh dear. These AIs will have trouble with sierra games.

: Claude code really needs a vibe indicator which is roughly the number of times you’ve said no …

: Yes. The movie mean girls is also my go to for legendary feuds. Thanks nytimes!

: “The natural ratio is about 105 boy babies for every 100 girls; because boys are slightly more …

: Why does Mario Kart take so long to download !!??!!?

: Ugh. I’m out of credits. Claude code really does chew through them.

: Who are all the people buying $TSLA right now?

: Just got a call from someone in Tajikistan. That’s a first.

: This is a most confusing question. Do I answer what they ask or what they mean?

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: I guess I had only partially realized how browsers are now basically an entire operating system …

: Impressive knowledge of Bibtex in Claude. This is a subtle error it just nailed. (And now I …

: What the heck is wrong with iCloud private relay? I was getting 43 KB/sec download (8x dial-up) for …

: Yeah. This about sums up the pros. deplet.ing/the-copil…

: If I’m Tim Cook, I’d announce a new assembled in US iPhone that is just taking the …

: Our child “My brain won’t listen to me. It’s wearing noise canceling headphones.”

: Who is next in line to get all their international students blocked? CMU? Purdue? Stanford? UIUC? …

: Got this from a friend. Every day for the next ten days is going to be the same backwards! 5/20/25 …

: Numbers that don't pass the smell test. Han et al. (6) estimated that the global cost of using air purifiers, including the purchase price, …

: I had the honor of co-chairing SIAM MMDS 2024 last year. We had some amazing plenary talks now …

: Here was the picture I wanted Claude code to make Our radon level really does seem to be creeping up …

: Claude code 0, David 1. Total cost: $1.42 Total duration (API): 8m 36.1s Total duration (wall): 8h …

: How come Neurips hasn’t updated their style to something that is a little more … …

: All this talk of “ridings” in Canada made we wonder about the etymology. …

: A proposal: Apple needs some shades of gray to go with middle age. Apple likes black and white. White -> iPhone, AirPods, etc. Black -> anything Pro. Apple wants …

: I’m so sick and tired of “pagination” on websites. You’ll load megabytes of …

: I wish I could post my inner-monologue when reading and evaluating reviews. My sympathies to the …

: While grading final projects (one I’ve assigned over a few years), my quick take this year is …

: Finally giving uv a try for python. Doesn’t solve my problem of multiple architecture projects …

: Fancy joinery! youtube.com/shorts/EJ…

: Just learned that Nick Trefethen repurposed his forward thinking idea of index cards into a blog. …

: One of the kids spelling words this week is GNU. I approve of the indoctrination.

: Love that one of the speedrunners beat Breath of the Wild on Switch 2 during a 10 minute demo of the …

: I wish the JuliaLang webassembly project was in better shape (It’s remarkable it works at all, …

: Doing some writing while listening to music when the Gladiator theme came on. Took me back 25 years! …

: Has anyone else been having lots of problems with google scholar and icloud private relay recently? …

: I did not manage to acquire a preorder for a Nintendo Switch 2 last night. Walmart wouldn’t …

: Why does the United app get to send advertising with their push notifications? I mean. I want …

: ChatGPT o3 is much better at Julia. #julialang

: I feel like using any type of enterprise system is like getting into fort knox these days. I just …

: Oh so happy with dinner tonight.

: So stoked to watch @carolinegleich.bsky.social introduce @aoc.bsky.social in Utah to a totally …

: Did Overleaf get a lot slower for anyone else? I find the latency barely useable now.

: Just a huge waste to cut this. NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half

: Historically about 0.1% of total Bachelor’s degrees are offered the NSF fellowship. This year …

: Had a few students apply to NSF Grad. research fellowship over the years. NSF cut the number of …

: Congrats @arjunr.bsky.social on getting a graduate fellowship. pdsoros.org/meet-the-…

: I miss the eclipse from last year.

: This is why the tariffs are such a bad idea. They kill American profit! Gift link… …

: A good morning read. Renewables allow us to pay less, not twice - by Daan Walter

: Why can’t Apple summarize as: this seems like spam, be very careful with this message.

: This chart seems like an abuse of loess smoothing. Also why don’t we have any data between …

: Today’s bout: ChatGPT 0, reading the documentation 1.

: Trump can serve a third term. 22nd amendment “No person shall be elected to the office of the …

: Love these two papers from Anthropic. They are doing a great job analyzing the internals of a llm. …

: Just spent about 90 mins trying to get a Microsoft account for the kiddo to get a Minecraft add-on. …

: Happy Pi day everyone!

: One day to go… www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…

: I’m in the process of switching from gmail back to imap email. So there are a few …

: I love the inspiring ending! 18F: We are dedicated to the American public and we’re not done …

: Should I switch from a ChatGPT subscription to Claude? Seems like Claude has at least of as good of …

: Ooh. Shoutout to Matlab here from @aptera.bsky.social See the video. youtube.com/watch

: Thanks ACM and Cloudflare. Now you have me doubting my humanity! I’ve been here for a few …

: The writefull stuff in Overleaf is so terrible at math.

: I remember when we learned how to do population weighted versions of these maps! … a rare …

: A model for writing an abstract and introduction for students? Have them write what they think of as …

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: Wow. Trying to run a Minecraft server for the kids — without online accounts — has to be one of the …

: Is there a magic incantation to get ChatGPT just to show you the changed code? e.g. I ask it to make …

: Somehow SAP concur was able to use AI to make submitting a travel request even more annoying. …

: Trying to understand a rise in voc at home that doesn’t seem to be addressed by carbon filters (the …

: I wanted to explore the brilliant learning tool. After a year of doing it, I’m going to stop.

: Me: this piece seems awfully repetitive with small variations… is it Bach? Why yes it is…

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: Oh wow, that SD card slot … I mean, how did that get past design for pairing with an apple …

: I love the organization of this tab structure. By increasing year (wrong) and by string name of …

: Why isn’t there an at home test for norovirus?

: Want to make errors like this arstechnica.com/tech-poli… go away? Pass a law that makes …

: Why does my wemo rule “sunset to 21:30” think sunset is at noon in Indiana? We aren’t that far …

: Word clouds in arabic look cool! see, e.g. miro.medium.com/v2/resize…

: Just got a automated speed enforcement warning issued by Chicago for the wrong license plate number! …

: Just had to reboot the TV remote again. Remember when you just needed to change batteries?

: Wouldn’t this be “lake salt” then?

: I can’t get away from ODEs even when I listen to music.

: So it seems like #julialang sysimages have an implicit size limit of 2GB on amd64 systems. :( This …

: Trying to compile a #julialang sysimage with ~170 packages is … interesting! Still …

: Our son was whistling the mission impossible song. Me: how do you know that song? Him: mark rober …

: In case anyone else would like the math about turkey prices that the New York Times thinks is too …

: Co2 meters are fun to play with when you get dry ice :)

: Homemade tonkotsu ramen tonight.

: Does anyone know if Apple’s new passwords app (iOS 18/macOS 15) has some way to access the …

: Helpful links from a recent trip to Japan! www.thetokyochapter.com/kid-frien… Sadly, we didn’t get to eat at any of these :( …

: Why do searches for the phrase “global south” peak in April? …

: Even ChatGPT failed to help me debug the damn tab problem in a makefile.

: Why is swift so hard? I just want to read a 30GB gzipped file line by line… this is just a …

: In Science: Quantifying methane emissions from US Landfills by Cusworth et al. It’s always surprising when you learn that obvious things aren’t being done, or at least …

: This is a bizarre result from Google. Why is another search engine first? Why is the picture wrong …

: Does anyone else have serious reservations about anonymously sharing code for paper review these …

: Observable like plots in Makie.jl Use this template to get Observable plot like figures in Makie.jl using CairoMakie f=Figure(; …

: This is me…

: I think I’m checking the eclipse weather too obsessively. Pivotal weather and windy are nice. …

: yahoo is still around? www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/…

: Is PyTorch and PyTorch Geometric supposed to take over an hour to install? … tick tick tock …

: Better than the best low-rank approximation with the SVD. It’s February 29th 2024, Gene Golub’s 23rd birthday. Time to do an SVD and talk to a …

: Dump of a few older things from Science Apologies, I forgot to record the Soil to Foil I’ve added this book to my reading list. Really …

: How did I get this as an ad?

: Impact of coal power on excess deaths. There is a nice figure from Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation regarding …

: Cartel Size Paper in Science I just finished reading through the main paper on [Mexican Drug cartel sizes in Science]() (I still …

: Prediction-powered inference New paper in Science on using ML-based methods to improve classical confidence intervals or …

: Light reading... I reviewed a book proposal for Cambridge University Press. They often gift books to people who do …

: I love YouTube sometimes! youtu.be/etnMr8oUS…

: Does anyone know where the (Research Question) RQ1…RQ4 motif / meme in papers originated …

: Super cool paper by @keenanisalive et al www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/… By coincidence… I …

: No app! Please don’t ever play “1 Hour Deep Sleep Music: Deep Sleep Relaxation” on …

: I had some fun planting messages in graphs or networks with @JuliaLanguage! See how here! …

: Digging the snow here in Indiana… wait, I mean that literally…

: Idea from Quora this morning: call them “strawberry” arguments instead of …

: Anyone know if there are tools to record edits to files in realtime? e.g. So you could scroll …

: Somehow my upgrade to MacOS Monterey 12.1 took out my Samsung 870 QVO SSD in an external USB case. …

: Anyone know approximately (order of magnitude) how many spike proteins your cells would make after …

: Dear Apple Developer world, is there documentation of the “plj” (Property List Journal) …

: Based on the Google News snippets, you wouldn’t think these headlines describe the same …

: The FDA (regulations.gov) got 40,000 comments yesterday on the EUA for 5-11! (Their total is 55k …

: Oh wow. MS @powerpoint finally fixed my bug with PT Sans Bold Italic on MacOS Big Sur… (and …

: Anyone know what the carbon footprint of me spending 5 minutes answering an email is? I don’t …

: Tried to take a survey of academic climate. Sadly had to give up because it was total nonsense. My …

: Google thinks the Lucid Air has some pretty incredible range.

: n=1 observation for me regarding class… I’m finding this semester has more …

: If anyone sees a leather case for an iPhone 13 Pro without a lip around the camera region, can you …

: I find it curious how surveys of academia believe we have perfect memory of how many things like …

: Need data (networks, hypergraphs, tensors, ML, AI)? Here’s a timestamped and linked digest of …

: LAPACK's random number generators in Julia (part ... blah ... in work to port ARPACK to Julia.) ARPACK depends on LAPACK’s internal random number generators dlarnv slarnv zlarnv clarnv …

: ARPACK Sorting Take 2 (Part ... blah in the ongoing series...) Last post on sorting was a disaster. I tried to do something quick and simple in Julia and ran into …

: Me on learning about `save` variables in Fortran and accessing them from Julia. (Part ... something ... in my ongoing segment on porting ARPACK to Julia) Huh, what are these things in a FORTRAN code marked save … Oh… jeez, is that …

: "In-place" sorting allocates half-sized temporary arrays in Julia for non-numeric types. I hope my confusion at the difference between the memory allocation behavior of the following codes …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 6 - Sorting Take 1 Next up on our list of routines to convert is the sorting routine dsortr. Again, this could be …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 5 - Understanding Ref Here, we pick up with debugging the call to dsconv within the ARPACK library itself from the last …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 4 - Checking against libarpack See Overview for a high-level picture, also see ArpackInJulia.jl on Github One of the things I …

: A funny thing in @JuliaLanguage. I often illustrate that finite differences in floating point are …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 3 - First routine See Overview for a high-level picture, also see ArpackInJulia.jl on Github We are going to start our …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 2 - Overview See Overview for a high-level picture. Here is a quick call graph of the various ARPACK functions …

: A small project to do a pure port of ARPACK Symmetric solver to Julia - Part 1 - Goals I’m working on a small “me-time” project to port the ARPACK symmetric solver to Julia. …

: Anyone else find the documentation in old Fortran codes is amazingly beautiful? e.g. look at the …

: Julia (@JuliaComputing) and VSCode on Native M1. Install M1 Native VSCode. Install Xcode & …

: My thoughts on getting a COVID vaccine today. My thoughts on getting a COVID vaccine today. I’m of mixed feelings about this because, while …

: Me. Thinking as I’m looking at my shelf. See a book with obscured title… “Lag…” which I read …

: arXiv vanity works amazingly well with some small warts. Running our 80-page survey paper on flow-based network cluster improvement through the processor …

: Visualizing COVID Cases and Tests - Purdue vs. Vermont As a fun little exercise with my students, we sought to improve the Purdue COVID tracking dashboard. …

: Project and Forget Metric Optimization - Explained In a new video, I do a deep dive with Rishi Sonthalia and Anna Gilbert about their paper on …

: Fixing the NYTimes Horrible Exit Poll page. I have so many problems with this display of data in the attached screenshot from the nytimes …

: Designing for Julia is hard As a longtime Matlab user, someone who enjoys Python syntax, and loves crafting C codes for maximum …