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"Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world So there was only one thing that I could do Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long"

The measurement error theory of 'lone genius' is that geniuses seem more likely to be lone because when people explicitly work together it's harder to assign successes to any individual's genius and easy when a individual works 'alone' – that is, when those who help them are left in the background.

Aaaand the 2026 Workshop has a schedule. Three keynotes, twelve presentations, and all the DAGs you can eat... No, that sounds weird. All the DAGs that are fit to print? Mmm, still weird. Look, there'll be a lot of DAGs, ok?

Benzin ist vorbei, Autos werden nur größer und dümmer, und unser Verteidigungspartner schickt Makler und Bauträger um einen selbst verursachten Angebotsschock zu lösen. Ich frage mich, was noch passieren muss, bevor DE endlich von dieser Technologie abrückt.

Some posters are only in it for the opioid peptides. People talk about the endorphin rush of social media but biochemists know it's all about the two types of enkephalin: like-enkephalin and rt-enkephalin.

I am reminded of the sweet interview reveal when Altman flubbed the 'kids, maths & calculators' LLM talking point by noting that we "don't make people calculate a sine function by hand" – having apparently not really understood that no one can calculate a sine function by hand.

Every once in a while you hear "the null hypothesis is never true", which sounds kind of edgy and sophisticated. Unfortunately, unless no hypotheses are true, this is false, for the boring reason that a null hypothesis is just a hypothesis you've decided to try to reject. 1/4

Now is the time for posting thoughtful discussions of the role of LLMs in academia. I don't have one of those. But Machiavelli does.

A peaceful car frei tag to all who celebrate

This UK/EU food renaming exercise doesn't go nearly far enough imho www.bbc.com/news/articles/…

My preferred search engine, @kagi.com doing the only defensible thing for April 1st, 2026: providing a little flashback to Web 1.0 – right down to the faked php visitor count error – and a little burst of happiness to start the day. The web was once better and it could be again.

Most academic fields have an imperial version and a state version. The difference is that a state has defined, though often contested borders, within which its relevance & influence are evenly distributed, but the relevance & influence of an empire are highest at its core and decrease with distance.

In the light of the American Service-Members' Protection Act 2002*, sanctions on the ICC, and the fact that ICJ enforcement is subject to US veto, I'd happily hear less from Americans about 'sending people to the Hague'. It's just a dismal turn of phrase at this point. *aka the Hague Invasion Act

It's you, Berlin. They're talking about you too.