Expertise and experience come from the staring time. Technique comes from scales, though. And then the quiet time thinking about the mistakes and how to do better. It's why you need colleagues. Your friends won't understand self crit. But you have to.

Kari Dru@karidru.bsky.social · 11h ago

Dear artists: please charge for staring time.

Dear artists: please charge for staring time.

Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social · 11h ago

I remember an oil painter timed himself only when the brush was actually on the canvas painting. The painting time was a tiny fraction of the process. There was a lot of staring and deciding and mixing and more staring and more deciding. Kinda like how "sewing" is actually "measuring and pinning"

Back on Twitter, my most viewed tweet was a link to my "math pep talk"—a video I made for my students that now has 23K views 👀 m.youtube.com/watch?v=kenf... There's a lot to expand on in that video, like structural barriers to success in math. But I'm sharing it again anyway. #MTBoS

So, you think you're bad at math...

YouTube video by Courtney Gibbons

m.youtube.com

"Being good at math is being good at being stuck" -- @courtneygibbons.phd

Dr. Courtney Gibbons (she/her)@courtneygibbons.phd · 2y ago

Back on Twitter, my most viewed tweet was a link to my "math pep talk"—a video I made for my students that now has 23K views 👀 m.youtube.com/watch?v=kenf... There's a lot to expand on in that video, like structural barriers to success in math. But I'm sharing it again anyway. #MTBoS

This is a wonderful blog piece on the genius of the translators auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/a...

Asterix in translation: the genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge

As promised in a previous blog entry, what follows is a discussion of the translation of some of my favourite Asterix gags. The translators’ modus operandi was to include as many jokes in the Engli…

auntymuriel.com

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 3d ago

The biggest selling comic of all time is One Piece. The second biggest is not from the US or UK. It's French. DELIGHTED to welcome @juliekalman.bsky.social onto Untitled History Pod to talk origins of Asterix the Gaul and how it made modern France. Listen below, Youtube or your pod app of choice

Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com

If there was solid evidence that Black Harvard Graduates were worse faculty that would be front and center. There isn't. The complaint is that "meritocracy" works but doesn't produce the "right" answer. Artificial exclusion has to be applied at all levels, instead.

Pieter T. L. Beck@ptrbck.bsky.social · 6d ago

Another typical Cofnas move when commenting on his blog/his views is saying: "I didn't say this, these are Harvard's numbers". When reading the original however, it is immediately clear that the "outside sports and entertainment"-statement is Cofnas's inference, not Harvard's. /49

Are you in the UK? Are you running android? Did you receive several emergency alerts yesterday? Could you run `adb shell content query --uri content://cellbroadcasts` and send me the output?

Incidental to the main thrust. "Self plagiarism" is bullshit. Repeating yourself is not unethical. "Cheating" by inflating your publication count isn't plagiarism. "Tainting" meta-analysis is a meta-analysis problem. (Claiming new data, not new analysis is unethical, but not plagiarism)

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2d ago

see also leevinsel.com/blog/2014/10...

Even languages that do VSO ordering don't stack up verbs at the beginning of a sentence. `bind(filter(fmap(....` isn't natural and it isn't just you. Subject Verb Object is the default in languages, and seems to be how we think. Even when the Verb is primary.

Yeah, see, the thing is, a lot of them didn’t. Survive, that is.

Literally yes! "Child says he came up with the character's name because an old woman remarked on his own physique while asking him to reach for a can of pears in a supermarket." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Re...

Robert E. Howard didn't write more Conan because 1) WEIRD TALES wasn't paying, and 2) he died. During the Great Depression, the bank which held WEIRD TALES' accounts closed for a bank holiday and never reopened. So that wiped out a large chunk of operating capital, and they were already in debt to

Dr Tomas Rawlings@tomasrawlings.bsky.social · 4d ago

Why didn't Howard write more Conan? Seems its his most popular character? (Or was it not back then?). And hope you feel better!

Systems language design stray thought. Should foreign functions be marked unsafe? That would mean foreign functions are marked, which can be complicated. Systems languages, in general, need to support mixed languages, as well as the OS system "C" ABI.

The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0: 20th Anniversary Edition Used: Very Good Ebooks on typography seem to mostly exist to demonstrate just how terrible ebook typography is. PDFs on e-readers are also awful.

Affordances! Even if you can find `and_then` or `bind` or `let_value` for the type you have, letting a monad::bind CPO look it up for you is a stronger signal to you *and anyone reading the code*.

Trump is blocking the oil. Only possible explanation since he's in charge of the strait.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d ago

The color and vibrance of the eclipse as it was setting into smokey skies was unbelievable. I’m not sure I’ll ever experience one like this again.

So… do I have any acquaintances in NYC or Virginia who have some high speed internets and could host a raspberry pi for me?

I finally, this morning, worked out why I have trouble posting correctly with Slack. Enter and Shift-enter are modal and swap if you are in a fence block or not. And I mix code and normal text all the time. Dammit.

mastodon.social/@kevlin/1101...

I was asked recently about the cost of running a #rustlang conference and why the ticket prices are what they are. We figured we can just publicly share the numbers for RustWeek, in the name of #transparency. :) 1/9

Trump is against it because of the knock-on effect of making NYC luxury real estate a less effective money laundering platform.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 6d ago

I'm sorry, but calling advocates of congestion pricing "jihadists" is sincerely hilarious.

Computer languages that are too dense, too space filling where any sentence means something, are a problem for human beings because the computer can't ask you if that's what you meant without annoying you. C, a little, and that's why warnings are so common. APL, not even warnings. ASM, omfg

This is a really bad idea, Doctor Who has never had solid plots and should not start having them now.

Doctor Who Production News@doctorwhopn.bsky.social · 7d ago

A couple of Sunday newspapers, The Mail and Daily Star, are reporting “secret” talks and that David Tennant is “keen” “if the plots are solid.”

Human overgeneralizing Theory of Mind is far far better than under-generalizing. "And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things."

New Bladerunner, so: If Deckard wasn't a replicant then he was a violent sociopath complicit in murdering children. I prefer the replicant theory.

Star Wars Droids are running LLMs and are not conscious. Hallucinations and confabulation are why they have restraining bolts. It's not slavery.

We don't know how Human Cognition works. We do know how GenAI works. And we know it is not how human cognition works. When I say I don't know how GenAI works, I mean the results are not easily predictable from the input. It's complex. Not a mystery.

For those who want a step by step guide to yeeting the Discover tab into oblivion, never to be seen again:

Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · last wk.

I am about to change your life. Go to Feeds. Unpin the Discovery tab. It vanishes, never to bother you again.