OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.
Faster Fourier Transforms
The OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit.
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it's all gavagaï to me list - https://bsky.app/profile/climateball.net/lists/3lbfw54qcw42e pieces - https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/author/neverendingaudit/ project - climateball.net tags - #climateball #musicsky
It's criminal that our English curriculum doesn't discuss how many of our nation's greatest poets and writers were alcoholic perverts that had WWE-style rivalries with one another.
Joe O’Brien@pnamblath.bsky.social · 5h agoBrendan Behan wasn’t very fond of Patrick Kavanagh, and the feeling was mutual theirishbookshop.com/blogs/the-un...
“There is a psychotic sense of entitlement spreading around the world that imagines humans own the fish in the sea and demands retaliatory killing of predators who rely on these fish. Even centuries-old sages of the Arctic Ocean are not safe from this deranged human delusion.”
Leave the Greenland sharks alone
A bounty on 1,000 fish hearts is as barbaric as it sounds
salon.com
“I had known the adventures of poetry, which are always matters of life and death, but when I came back to the streets of Mexico, I was content with everyday life. Why ask for more? Why go on fooling myself?” - Roberto Bolaño, ‘Amulet’
People block words and phrases related to things they don't want to see on Bluesky. Sometimes these are genuinely triggering things; sometimes it's just preference. Include a pic with no alt text, and you're forcing them to see blocked content.
Admire the amazing photo and then read the biography, which is even more amazing.
Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 2d agoFossil hunter, folklorist, evangelist, stonemason, editor, social justice campaigner, & geologist, Hugh Miller (1802–1856) – born #OTD, 10 Oct – should be remembered in the company of Carlyle, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold & JS Mill as one of the leading moral & social thinkers of the #C19th A 🎂🧵
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Comparison of two internal temperatures in the breast and in the thigh muscles as an indication of doneness in roasted turkey halves
This volume was digitized and made accessible online due to deterioration of the original print copy.
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treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
grice’s maxim of quantity: do not say more or less than appropriate, or people will wonder why you’re avoiding giving information or supplying extra e.g., Q: did you sell your yachts? A: i never owned a yacht in florida, brother
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3d agoMike Rogers' yacht has a yacht.
Very useful to be able to use the data from this superb website to be able to play with it. If you look at the seasonal forecasts that appear to be broadly aligned with the ongoing El Nino, a number of them roughly follow the behaviour of the previous "big ones" of 82/97/15...
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 2d agoThe October runs for dynamical El Niño models are now all out, and its a mixed bag. Some revise the event downward, some upward, but on average its still expected to peak at ~4C, albeit with the peak more likely to occur in December than November:
Dans l'infolettre de Moteur de recherche cette semaine j'ai relayé cette étude qui démontre qu'il n'existe aucun aéroport dont les plans d'expansion sont compatibles avec le respect des cibles climatiques. «Overall, planned expansions would add 225 million tonnes of CO₂ to today's emissions.»
Overshoot: How expansion plans break European airports’ carbon limits
The case for rejecting airport expansion on climate and legal grounds
transportenvironment.org
A program consists of a bug with or without features.
Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you@suitti.bsky.social · 2d agoPremise: Every application has at least one bug. Premise: Every application can be reduced in size by at least one line. Conclusion: Every application can be reduced to a single line, which is a bug. ChatGPT: Which means that every application line was a bug from the start.
![The inventor of the password rules which everyone hates apologized for inventing them.
Image of Bill Burr with T shirt: I'm a
Criptologet [scratched out]
Creplologyst [scratched out]
Cryptoloest [scratched out]
I break codes
Bill Burr (not the famous one) came up with the rules that passwords have to have special characters, numbers, and so on, in the early '00s, eventually admitted they were useless and said he was sorry for coming up with that in the first place.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5wilelxnydnfyhyywta34fvb/bafkreifo2lzqn2md7phbatog5ypxm2ki2xtw2c43layeakucadx3k6ru3u)
I think part of the explanation here is that while heat pump economics don't always beat natural gas furnaces in heating-only retrofits, heat pumps win (without tax credits) vs. propane, heating oil, electric resistance, or when replacing both a furnace and an air conditioner (e.g. in new builds).
Heat pumps have so far withstood the death of federal tax credits
Demand for the climate-friendly HVAC tech has persisted even after Republicans killed incentives, with 2026 set to be another good year for the sector.
canarymedia.com
Nothing more rewarding than a collaborative artistic relationship
when the US does a televised execution will it be eligible for an Emmy?
In these troubling times, it is essential to disrupt our environments.