Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤

@sloanlance
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#Michiganian #Pythonista #ComputerScientist 💻 ‖ Work: @lsloan

When you see me, you see only the three-dimensional shadow of my higher-dimensional self.

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New Comic Strip Found: Pearls Before Swine - 2026-04-19 https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/04/19

#comicstrip #pearlsbeforeswine

💗 Schengen

“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/borders-are-a-construct-but-this-swing-isnt

Prediction: Apple will be at the forefront of pAI (Personal/private AI), running completely on device, be it iPhone or Mac. Their chips are ready for this and a unique selling point. Their neural engines pack quite a punch. The market is moving towards decentralised, edge based AI anyway. What Nvidia does for big datacenter, Apple can do with billions of iDevices. This won't be big, universal AI. This will be a collection of domain specific, small AI that work together.

*The* pillow has its two year anniversary today:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/04/22/curl-is-just-the-hobby/

(Made my @LangerJan)

curl is just the hobby

Jan Gampe took things to the next level by actually making this cross-stitch out of the pattern I previously posted online. The flowers really gave it an extra level of charm I think. As a cross-stitch As a pillow This quote is from a comment by an upset user on my blog, replying to one … Continue reading curl is just the hobby →

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My brother used DeepSeek to decide which 14 people to fire at his company by uploading the entire company payroll into it and prompting to cut costs by 80%.

Anyway, just a reminder that your boss *is* your class enemy, thinks you're stupid, and is using AI against you.

Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

The Government™ has made an ad about the era we're living through, and it's surpsingly honest and informative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPTsjeOxH5U

Honest Government Ad | Bored of Peace

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Karma is a betch, Alex Jones.