At least one plural system out there has to be too embarrassed to admit that their first exposure to the concept was Shallan in the Stormlight Archive.
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I like when an LLM emits a (contextually correct!) CJK token in the middle of an English sentence. I'm finally living in the cyberpunk future I was promised.
Geology is sort of similar: it is fundamentally narrative, but time and space switch places so often when working with stratigraphy that the brains of geologists grow twisted and incapable of constructing a linear narrative from linear events. John McPhee, a layman deeply fascinated by geology, explores this tendency with literary brilliance, but a full-on geologist can only bewilder.
Something about chemistry makes chemists into good writers at a rate not seen in other sciences. I suspect the linear, narrative nature of synthesis pathways structures their thinking into a more writerly mode than the hypothetical breadth and statistical focus required in other scientific fields.
Cees BassaHappy new year! During 2025 my all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds, and this picture shows what happened in the sky. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.
I thought the Year of Getting Stronger had been a bit of a bust but it turns out if you do landscaping all year you end up with arm muscles? Weird...
The scoreboard so far:
2024: Year of Getting Weirder ✅
2025: Year of Getting Stronger 🆗
2026: Year of Getting Prettier❓
