niko paulson @NikoPaulson
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Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000…
generative AI is so strange because these models don’t *want* anything. we are used to intelligence being wrapped within the veil of desire and secrecy of the human mind. seeing it laid bare is eerie and new… 1/n
We now come to the difficult question, What is continuity?
This is the route I bike to work on. I will think about this person every time I cross this intersection now. The same way I think of Dave on Florida, Armando on Michigan, Jim on Massachusetts, Allie on Irving and dozens more.
This is the route I bike to work on. I will think about this person every time I cross this intersection now. The same way I think of Dave on Florida, Armando on Michigan, Jim on Massachusetts, Allie on Irving and dozens more.
DDOT data shows one pedestrian or cyclist died every 18 days on a D.C. road in 2021 wusa9.com/article/news/l…
A simple theory of culture - marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
NEW two-way protected bike lane on Virginia Avenue NW provides a #safe and #sustainable commuting option for cyclists from Rock Creek Pkwy to 18th St. Check it out😍! #bikedc🚴 #VisionZeroDC
[Daughter lands on Marvin Gardens] [She already owns it] Daughter: “I guess I could pay myself rent but that’s silly!” Me:
How to (& how not to) parse 25TB of data using awk and #rstats. New long blog post on my recent journey setting up a query system for some #BigData generated for my lab. I sped up queries by 4,800 times using old-school simple techniques. livefreeordichotomize.com/2019/06/04/usi… #DataScience
Today OpenAI launched Codex, which is an API that uses AI to write code from natural language. There's a demo video here: openai.com/blog/openai-co…
He was super passionate about bicycling. If you're worried about "using" his death to demand that DC gets its act together on bicycle infrastructure, don't be—it's what he would've wanted. His last tweet was a joke about this very subject—so true to Jim. x.com/jimpagels/stat…
He was super passionate about bicycling. If you're worried about "using" his death to demand that DC gets its act together on bicycle infrastructure, don't be—it's what he would've wanted. His last tweet was a joke about this very subject—so true to Jim. x.com/jimpagels/stat…
🎉 New essay: andymatuschak.org/prompts This essay catalogues techniques and mental models for writing good spaced repetition prompts—not just to remember stuff but as a method for creating understanding.
Here are my 100 favorite albums of 2020 (all styles, all genres). tedgioia.com/bestalbumsof20… I thank the musicians who brought us so much joy in difficult times—often with few immediate rewards beyond those music itself brings. It made a difference. Happy listening!
This is too weird. I’m going back to bed.
This. GIF. Is. Everything. pic.x.com/ajtrxvzkfh
A rock paper scissors automaton: green with at least 3 blue neighbours becomes blue, likewise blue becomes red, red becomes green. Initialized randomly. The edges wrap around at the top/bottom and left/right. 1/
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It's important to say *which* type of animal faeces you mean: BULLSHIT - not true, lies DOGSHIT - poor or low quality BATSHIT - illogical or crazy APESHIT - frighteningly aggressive HORSESHIT - unfair CHICKENSHIT - cowardly JACKSHIT - nothing, nothing at all (a jack…
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The axiomatic error undermining much of Western Civilization is “weak makes right”. If someone accepts, explicitly or implicitly, that the oppressed are always the good guys, then the natural conclusion is that the strong are the bad guys.
Jesus told her, “Go, close the tab you are using.” “I am using no tabs,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you are using no tabs. The fact is, you have had 56 tabs open, and the one you now have open you are not using.”
increasingly coming to realize that Fellini was a documentarian of normal Italian scenarios
You hear “nothing could have prepared me” a lot but like nothing could have prepared me
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"We clocked Aristotle at thirty-two miles per hour"
Seen some excitement over the location of Plato’s possible burial place in terms of digging him up and sequencing his DNA…but why?? Getting past the practicalities, what would it achieve? Are there some major outstanding questions about the life of Plato that DNA could answer?
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It is against the law to ride ATVs on DC’s streets. This weekend the community alerted MPD of illegal ATV use in the 1600 block of Massachusetts Ave SE. First District officers arrived and recovered the ATV and a second ATV being stored nearby.
French Communist Party Headquarters designed by Oscar Niemeyer (1980)
"Cats have been messing shit up since the dawn of time" is my favorite brand of archeology
The wind on the hills of Bologna, 📹dorpell