Devin Velour @_detr1

Combat medic (USN). MBA-BS. Certified teacher. *Twitter = 80% agitators, 20% informative. Choose wisely. Louisville, KY Joined April 2013

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Didier 'Dirac's ghost' Gaulin @DiracGhost

a year ago

What's even better? A 4 parts lecture, given by Gregory Moore, on 2+1 dimensional Chern-Simons theory. Check out the notes, which i have also posted, that goes along with the lecture. Link in the comment section👀🧐

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The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup

a year ago

The hardest thing about cleaning the largest accumulation of floating ocean plastic in the world, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch:

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Shelly Banjo @sbanjo

a year ago

What happens when Ozempic takes over your town? We crunched the data to see which zip code has the highest percentage of the population on these drugs. Turns out, America’s weight-loss drug capital isn't Hollywood or Manhattan. It’s Bowling Green, Kentucky bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack

2 years ago

PyTorch 2.0 brings torch.set_default_device(dev), which cleans up tons of device=dev and to(dev) code fragments. It also allows models to be constructed directly on device, which makes the random init of big models much faster.

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John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack

2 years ago

I started a tar with bzip command on a big directory, and it has been running for two days. Of course, it is only using 1.07 cores out of the 128 available. The Unix pipeline tool philosophy often isn’t aligned with parallel performance.

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The Onion @TheOnion

2 years ago

Returning Parents Can Tell Son Had Huge House Fire Over Weekend bit.ly/40Z3jdR

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Historic Vids @historyinmemes

3 years ago

Official ice cream taster John Harrison puts his skills to the test, 1991

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

3 years ago

Can’t blame Earth’s rotation for that missed field goal by the Kansas City @Chiefs. Coriolis forces in the northern hemisphere will shift airborne projectiles only to the right, and the ball boinged off the left upright -- for the miss.