Christian Ray
@jcjray.bsky.social
Conceptual biology. Multiomics, information, and manifold learning. Ex-academic. Also here for LOLs, pols, and geometric varietals. DAW jockey and 1.5/10 guitarist. I like trains. I obviously do not speak for or on behalf of my employer.
Jon Ossoff tells Lawrence O’Donnell: “It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults — public officials, paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust… No one cares about their feelings.”
While I’m taking about music, I’d like to remind everyone that Twitch is the best Ministry album
The US Army realised in 1941, as it spooled up for war, that it needed around 500,000 typewriters to function. so great was the need that they had to requisition and ration them. HALF A MILLION. Equivalent to 40% of the entire US domestic supply at the time. Logtics wins wars.
David, Host of The Cold War@coldwarhost.bsky.social · 5d agoTell me again about your "warfighting"?
There’s been surprisingly little about how we are in the very last years of living memory of service in WW2.
Son of Sandor @sonofsandor.bsky.social · 5d agoBegay, one of the last two living Code Talkers, grew up speaking only the Navajo language. At 13, like many Native American Code Talkers, he first learned English when he was sent to boarding school. The other surviving Navajo Code Talker is Peter MacDonald. www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/08/14/n...
Oh man, this NASA railroad N Scale layout is such an interesting version of a switching layout! (Though scratch building a mobile launch platform with Shuttle would be a heck of a project!) m.youtube.com/watch?v=_LWM...
Oughtred vs. Delamain: Priority a Plagiarism: Who invented the circular slide rule? #histsci #histtech thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/o...
Still amazes me that both the GP7 and SD7 demonstrators still exist, albeit in the schemes of the railroads EMD sold em off to.
In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/
“Please write in a style not identified as AI” is the new Goedel sentence.
As promised yesterday, a short thread on an inequality I believe deserves to be much better-known: a chain-rule-type for Hellinger distance! You have two probability distributions p,q over product space Ω₁×...×Ωₙ. Can you relate their distance H(p,q) to the distances between their marginals? 1/
No one I have ever heard say this has understood what a cumulant generating function is.
Robert Black@hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2w agoTeaching calculus instead of stats is possibly a bigger factor in Why Is Everything Like This than you'd think
Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶
I want this so bad, but I bet it would be crazy expensive to beat the Russian military in the bidding war
Bring a Trailer@bringatrailer.bsky.social · 2w agoca.1945 T-34/85 Medium Tank
Early Radiohead song: You're very nice But I'm in a weird band Late Radiohead song: Ooooooo mmmmmmm Itriedtowarnyou triedtowarnyou anthraxinthekitchen Itriedtowarnyou Ooooo watch the baby's cot
Nick Pettigrew@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2w agoEarly Tom Waits song: All the ladies in this bar Are like rhinestone-shaped goodbyes I miss my baby Late Tom Waits somg: Crank up the hog alarm and swig that gasoline We're gonna set fire to Panama with a goose fat machine
Trivia: Ann never cut her waist length blonde hair over the course of her adult life. As noted for the promotional photo below, she was “undyed, unbobbed and intelligent.”
Private equity strikes again: Fender's sudden decision to enforce its copyright on the 1950s Stratocaster design, 70-odd years later, is creating havoc in the guitar world. Misha Angrist has an absorbing account at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-622/
Guitar villain / Adult dirigible
Misha Angrist on the fiasco at Fender, and then it’s up, up and awaaay with Michael Kupperman
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Paul Morris Mary Erdoes Jes Staley Stephen Cutler John Duffy Justin Nelson Paul Barrett Mary Casey David Brigstocke Jeff Matusow Jane Heller Karen Weiss Stewart Oldfield
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 "Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity" published in #G3 (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social) 1/2 The fitness landscape has been among the most influential instruments in evolutionary theory for nearly a century. But we often treat them as fixed and static.
So as women are being diagnosed more (at least in Sweden; www.bmj.com/content/392/...), Frith questions if #autism no longer means anything...
Time trends in the male to female ratio for autism incidence: population based, prospectively collected, birth cohort study
Objectives To examine changes in the male to female ratio in diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) over a 35 year period, providing temporal trends in diagnosis (incidence rate), the male to fem...
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Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 2w agoA new editorial by @utafrith.bsky.social on whether the term "autism" has been broadened so much that it's lost its meaning www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
