Dan
@handackett.bsky.social
Physics / ML / AI / numerical QFT / lattices
Such a brilliant idea to generate your own data and then do a dataviz piece on it 🤯 pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.
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"you should do a breakthrough" burning itself into my brain to replace "make no mistakes"
mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 2w agothe Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture, a graph theory problem that’s gone unsolved for 30 years, was solved with this prompt
Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca
Possible benchmaxing or training data bleed on the unicorn by itself
Dan@handackett.bsky.social · 3w agoGPT 5.6 Sol Wow
I cannot stress enough how much you do not actually want Daylight Savings to be permanent.
As far as turning a surface like that into a wormhole, I probably have to explain metrics in lay terms first as a prereq, so let's try that Y'know how maps of the Earth tend to distort distances or angles or whatnot? Imagine attaching numbers to each point on the map to compensate for this/
Just woke from a dream wherein at Arby's, you could order an Arby, a large shareable meatloaf cooked in a mold to be shaped like a cartoon skull and ribcage
I was just thinking about an even better function, the function f(x) = 4 for all x Like alright nice fast transform, but my function is even 4ier
depends if we’re at the pareto frontier but I think for e.g. claudish like {honest, genuine, the shape of, everything I need} is reasoning advantageous language bleeding into conversation. analogous to therapy speak being good for emotional regulation but interpersonally annoying
This is excellent from Sam Neill - good lessons for academics here as well
Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w agoSam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
I took the convo about hamburger helper and I researched it lol open.substack.com/pub/kyleepen...
AI’s Hamburger Helper Test
What a delicious convenience meal taught me about the honest water math of AI
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okay I think I have made the best webgpu wind line LOD system I can. continuous adding / subtracting of lines to maintain screen space density rather than discrete LOD levels, morphing when changing wind layers
What would be different if labor was free? Fundamentally thinking of robots as a replacement for humans is thinking too small itcanthink.substack.com/p/what-would...
What Would You Do if Labor Was Free?
The promise of robotics lies in all the work that is not currently being done
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completely insane world; tech moving so far in a year that you just zoot entire clades of people outside of each other's light horizon