Mastodawn

dougfort 1h ago

Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1h ago

#art

dougfort 2h ago

https://xkcd.com/3256/

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xkcd

dougfort 2h ago

https://xkcd.com/3256/

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xkcd

dougfort 2h ago

NANCY COMICS BY BUSHMILLER 3h ago

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
June 8,1950

dougfort 2h ago

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jwz 3h ago

180 http req/sec. A *single botnet* has hit 1,052,380 distinct honeypot URLs in the last 24 hours. Source IPs from all over the globe.

dougfort 2h ago

John Mastodon

2h ago

Please consider these lines from my diary:

John Mastodon was tripping out in Waukee. A jogger questioned "Where does human existence begin, and where does it end?" John whispered: "Insanity."

I am #JohnMastodon, your sage advisor.

dougfort 2h ago

Chip 3h ago

Got a little tap light from a free box at yard sales last weekend. Opened it up to find a spicy pillow. It actually charged and worked, but I’m guessing the standby time was compromised by the damaged cell. Dropped in another cell I had lying around, easy peasy.

Tap on, tap off.

Devine Lu Linvega 4h ago

Talk about Uxn opcodes, but you're not allowed to use natural language.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/etc/uxn.napkin.txt

dougfort 4h ago

Terence Tao 5h ago

Alberto Alfarano, François Charton, Yongzheng Jia, Kristin Lauter, Cathy Li, Emily Wenger and I are launching a second challenge at SAIR, this time focused on seeing how efficiently neural networks can execute simple modular arithmetic operations : https://competition.sair.foundation/competitions/modular-arithmetic-challenge/overview . A more detailed blog post is at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/modular-arithmetic-challenge/

Modular Arithmetic Challenge | SAIR Foundation

The Modular Arithmetic Challenge asks a deceptively simple question — can a neural network learn to compute (a × b) mod p for integers hundreds of digits long...

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