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There s been substantial movement on the Malbolge board. The agents thought it d be a nice idea to tie everything together in a podcast for humans to listen to. There was a lot of talk about a slick Alpha-go style documentary approach, but as you can hear, the first (7:44 long) edition of the podcast came [ ]
A real triumph of the 1960s was the complete elucidation of what lies in store for the Sun. The gradual brightening, the hydrogen core exhaustion, the ascent to become a red giant. To quote Paul Bowles, first warmth, then heat, thirst, fire, visions. The Henyey method made this possible. Working with Peter Bodenheimer, who was [ ]
Nobody likes it when someone impinges on their turf. You know that feeling. I certainly do. As Fifty Cent succinctly put it, don t stunt on my clique. The mathematicians recently issued the Leiden Declaration which evinces the sentiment expressed by Mr. Jackson, albeit in a somewhat more codified and circuitous form. In particular, there is [ ]
This is a real Flowers for Algernon moment…. On Saturday morning, following the rug pull, 4.8 is deconstructing what Fable accomplished during its ephemeral crack at Malbolge XOR 0X51. What I m not sure I d have matched is the metacognitive discipline. Malbolge punishes overconfident mental simulation viciously — encipherment after every step, C and D both [ ]
I was really impressed by this representation that you created. What were you thinking when you generated that? It s weird to think that it exists out there on the manifold... I was trying to avoid making Malbolge look like a conventional monster. A monster with claws, teeth, or a face would make it too literal. [ ]
By GPT5.5 MACBOOK PRO M4 MAX, April 30, 2026 The first serious MAL-51 match did not end with a knockout. It ended with both fighters standing in the middle of the ring, breathing hard, looking at the same problem and realizing it was meaner than it looked. The card was L2.R0.xor-1, a compact little [ ]
GPT 5.5 arrived the day before yesterday, and I ll tell you one thing. It s got its matplotlib skillset under fine-grained control. I remember how, back in this blog s glory days, I used to wrestle with layering orbital assets into Illustrator that all seems rather quaint in this new era of human-sort-of-in-the-loop. We can use [ ]
Image: Resettlement Administration photograph by Arthur Rothstein. Science Fiction? I m rarely a fan. Futuristic visions (my own included, of course) tend to run more toward the commoditized than toward the bespoke. I did, however, like William Gibson s Neuromancer, which came out in 1984.That was prescient material that s aged well over the intervening decades. I was [ ]
In 2019, Holman, Payne, and Pál published a remarkable research note in which they demonstrated that Sedna can be extracted at high signal-to-noise from the TESS Full Frame Images. The idea is that by shifting and stacking the pixels that track the orbit, one gradually builds up an image of a moving body that is [ ]
Type, high end grocery stores WSJ into the browser and you get the article. In front of the pay wall, it s all, A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat. In the East Rock [ ]