Steve Huntsman

"Ukraine has given more military aid to the USA in 2026 than the USA has given to Ukraine." Americans should hang their heads in shame.

A fair coin "knows" π.
Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π.
Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay.
Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io
#Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding

THE NARCISSIST’S PRAYER
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

The Russians might want to be careful or Trump might get rid of even more sanctions on them.

God damn this was a hall of fame performance

It has been an idiot for over 11 months

Imagine being such a chuddite imbecile that you manage to commit a war crime on national TV through your habit of talking entirely in stock phrases.

Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time Cern researchers are testing traps capable of moving antimatter, which explodes into energy as soon as it comes into contact with regular matter

Antimatter Trucker is finally a job title! But don’t worry, this isn’t going to be “The Wages of Fear, 2026”:

“The device on Cern’s truck will carry about 1,000 antimatter particles, weighing about a billionth of a trillionth of a gram. …

"it is especially forbidden [...] to declare that no quarter will be given" --Hague Convention of 1907

Neural nets HATE this ONE WEIRD TRICK called PARITY

I used to think Gibbon was full of shit about the decline and fall of civic virtue in Rome leading to the decline and fall of Rome, but not anymore

On the other hand he was best buds with Stalins daughter

Oh

Gamergate -> worldwide struggle against fascism

In which the GOP = Uvalde PD

Is dat some Axelrod tit for tattin

Summary:

1) AI != LLMs
2) LLMs are stochastic parrots
3) Stochastic parrots are powerful and awesome but flawed and limited too

With the right processing, the starting molecule (top) would form the center structure. Directed application of voltages could convert it among the three forms on the bottom row. One consequence of all of this is that the molecule isn't really stable. The researchers made it in isolation, and it was kept at an extremely low temperature and isolated, sitting on the surface of a salt crystal. The second is that it's probably impossible to design a series of chemical reactions that could synthesize it. Instead, the researchers started with a three-ring molecule with lots of chlorines attached and used a scanning tunneling microscope to apply precise voltages to specific atoms, breaking a few carbon-carbon bonds and popping off most of the chlorine atoms.

Wow

arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Kirk Cousins

OTOH hard to imagine a stronger jus ad bellum example than responding to Oct 7 but the aftermath sure ain’t a strong example of jus in bello

At this point, it seems that the safest assumption is that the Trump administration simply doesn't care if the Russians are sharing information on US military assets with Iran. Putin can do what he likes, however damaging to the US, with no fear of a US response.🧵

Nuclear experts undercut White House claims about Iran reactor at heart of case for war The Trump administration sent negotiators without nuclear expertise to lead talks on Iran’s enrichment program. Now, its public case for war centers on a facility that experts say cannot do what offic...

This is a technical story with stunning strategic implications. It is quite possible the US launched a massive war because Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff lacked the technical expertise to even understand what the Iranians were offering in negotiations. Absolute idiocy.
www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

Almost every word out of his mouth will have been bad for the economy

Just not quite yet

Meanwhile:

POTUS is gonna expand the objectives in like 15 minutes

Very convenient for russia that Iranian oil facilities are getting bombed

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.