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So uh Ars Technica ran an article that had a bunch of fake quotes in it and now seems to have taken it down rather than issue a correction? web.archive.org/web/20260213...

Page is now down: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/a...

Ed I’ve talked to investors in the round and seen the latest board deck:
- gross margins are positive (Dario just said this on Dwarkesh as well) and have been for a few quarters
- nothing is ephemeral about their revenue
- the investors already think they got a great deal based on more recent data

Is Protein Quantification and Physical Normalization Always Necessary in Proteomics? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705808v1

Programmable and Switchable RNA Scaffolds for Synthetic Condensate Engineering in Mammalian Cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.14.705909v1

Physically Grounded Generative Modeling of All-Atom Biomolecular Dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.15.705956v1

The image at left is of Galileo's birthplace in Pisa -- on plain looking 4-story pink apartment building. On the right his is ornate baroque tomb in Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence. Pix by me, 2009.

Happy 462nd Birthday to Galileo Galilei, born #OTD in 1564 -- a crucial figure in the early stages of what we now call the scientific revolution. Here are photos that I took in 2009 of his (rather humble) birthplace in Pisa, and his ornate tomb in Florence: #science #history #histsci

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late. --Emerson ⏱
#ShareGreatNotHate

Two piles of uncooked udon noodles on a wooden surface with rolling pin above

This was QUITE an epic journey (stomping the dough by FOOT five times?!! Letting it rest twice ?? Having to do CPR on the dough because it was under hydrated?? Going to battle with the rolling pin!!) And all this just for two servings!! But it looks promising — going in the freezer as a meal prep!

On the Kantorovich contraction of Markov semigroups This paper develops a novel operator theoretic framework to study the contraction properties of Markov semigroups with respect to a general class of Kantorovich semi-distances, which notably includes ...

some hits from recent reading:

arxiv.org/abs/2511.08111
'On the Kantorovich contraction of Markov semigroups'
- Pierre Del Moral, Mathieu Gerber

www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.19710
'On randomized step sizes in Metropolis-Hastings algorithms'
- Sebastiano Grazzi, Samuel Livingstone, Lionel Riou-Durand

Imagine this in a trial.

Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing

Declaration filed in federal court:

"I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

Loss of nsp14-exonuclease activity impairs the replication, proofreading, fitness and pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.698941v1

I've just published a test vector for the XSS attack vector via javascript: URIs in link facets here: bsky.app/profile/test...

The record can be seen here: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

Just shipped a US census api skill

github.com/MisterClean/...

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed as humans take all their food and leave them to starve

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Al-generated content has surpassed human-written articles Graph

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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Where to Find 'Bluey' This Holiday Season and New Year An update for fans of the Ludo Studio Heeler family's future adventures on Disney+ and beyond.

An update for fans of the Ludo Studio Heeler family's future adventures on Disney+ and beyond.

sleeping

Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex Author summary The human cerebral cortex is thought to encode sensory information in population activity patterns, but the statistical structure of these population codes has yet to be characterized. ...

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'These findings reveal high-dimensional aspects of cortical representation undetectable with conventional methods, such as RSA, & contradict previous theories suggesting that high-level visual cortex representations are low-dimensional.' #neuroskyence

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Behold the "Getting Deported by Trump" Halloween costume wp.me/p30bS-5dw

A tiny fossil suggests bowerbirds once lived in ancient New Zealand – new research New Zealand’s ancient bowerbird was smaller and more slender than the species living in Australia and New Guinea today.

Our #bowerbird study also has important implications for #conservation palaeobiology theconversation.com/a-tiny-fossi... 1/9 🧵 - @lizzysteell.bsky.social @atennyson.bsky.social @plubbe.bsky.social @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social

20 years ago today, the Chicago White Sox won the World Series.

A starfield with many small and colorful stars is dominated by comet Lemmon which is oriented diagonally in the frame. The comet has a greenish coma and a diffuse yellowish dust tail is pointing up from the nucleus. Layered with the dust tail is the blueish ion-tail which is much narrower and longer, stretching beyond the top of the image. The ion tail shows some slight undulations from changes in the comets activity over time.

#Comet C/2025 A6 #Lemmon in the constellation Boötes, on the evening of October 24th. Captured from the light polluted outskirts of Munich.

16 minutes integration time with my Fujifilm X-S10 and 135mm f4.5 lens (untracked).

#astrophotography 🔭

Japan's Nikkei crosses 44,000 for first time on trade, stimulus optimism TOKYO : Japan's Nikkei share average climbed past the key 44,000 mark for the first time on Tuesday, as optimism over trade and potential increases in stimulus spending uplifted sentiment.The Nikkei 225 Index surged as much as 1.24 per cent to an unprecedented 44,185.73 in early trading, before paring gai

Japan's Nikkei crosses 44,000 for first time on trade, stimulus optimism

Hollow Knight: Silksong Includes a Secret Konami Code Easter Egg Don't try to enter this code unless you want a serious challenge.

Don't try to enter this code unless you want a serious challenge.

A young Black girl in a white blouse and red jumper dress walks down concrete steps while being escorted by four U.S. federal marshals in dark suits. The marshals surround her protectively as they descend the steps of what appears to be a school building. This iconic photograph captures Ruby Bridges being escorted to school during the integration of New Orleans schools in 1960.

Happy birthday to Ruby Bridges, who is the reason I was even able to pursue proper, fair higher education. What she had to endure as the first Black child to integrate schools was unimaginable. I will forever be grateful. ♥️

For the visually impaired people who participate in blind tennis, the sport delivers joy. “It opened a world of possibilities,” one player in New York City said. nyti.ms/472QrcT

Bruce Springsteen brings out Paul McCartney in Liverpool - 07/06/2025 YouTube video by Quentin Lejeune

#BruceSpringsteenTour2025 🎷 #NewJukeboxCafe

Bruce Springsteen brings out Paul McCartney in Liverpool - 07/06/2025

A non-native buddeia, living up to its common name, 'butterfly bush'.

Seems great, but by enticing insects away from native plants, these risk going unpollinated, thus declining. Insects need those plants with which they evolved in other crucial ways, eg food for larvae.

Nature is a *system*.

Want to help us image and understand those incredible samples Felix just collected at UBC - and many more?

2 more days to apply!

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#ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology

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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

This is but one of many examples and one of the reasons our #SCIMaP team continues to assess and communicate the local, economic impacts of NIH cuts spanning research infrastructure support cuts, terminated grants, and the White House's proposed FY26 budget.

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