My favourite thing is when people stick trackers on animals and one does literally nothing interesting and sits in 1 place 99% of the time and the researchers are like oh yeah that weird datapoint is Lazy Geoff, he doesn't ever do anything for reasons we don't entirely understand

A tabletop painted-miniatures game but instead of battles it's Regency-style parties, and players have to maneuver characters into the right company without violating the elaborate social norms.

Introducing NovGrid: a testbed for experimenting with RL agents facing novel environmental changes arxiv.org/abs/2203.12117 github.com/eilab-gt/NovGr… Novelty is a sudden change to the world dynamics at test time, after an agent’s policy has converged and learning is turned off.

Despite my nerd magnet school having zero fights, at one point the administration decided to start a student hall monitor program. My friends and I wrote a whole manifesto founding the Hall Dis-Monitors, and staged extremely corny fake fights when our friends were on duty.

China's dumb cyberpunk present.

.Scorpion wanted to play museum today with @DanielleAlberti's jewelry, and when we asked her where her museum acquired "the most beautiful things in the world" she said they "found them on the road". So I think she has a solid understanding of what the job entails.

Possible methodologies to arrange spices: - Spring layout on co-occurrence network - PCA - More generalized latent space I'm sure I'm missing some.

Frongoo Genge is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Wanted Midjourney to make a hard sci fi book cover, but autocorrect changed it to 'civet' and I think it generated the next Children of Time/Ruin novel.

"MALib is a parallel framework of population-based learning nested with multi-agent RL methods, using ray+#RLlib. Focus: efficient code reuse and flexible deployments on different distributed computing paradigms." 💻github.com/sjtu-marl/malib 🤖malib.io

average api consumer vs average web etiquette ignorer

“We’ll get him another. I know a man in Pisa makes them ten for five florins and a round dozen for cash up front. And you get a certificate with St. Peter’s thumbprint, to say they’re genuine.”

Tis the season again

an interesting part of that chomsky quote is comparing russia's actions to a "hurricane" like it's political force majeure and not a series of choices. once again everyone (except the US of course) is mechanistically enacting the laws of history

the virgin old lady who swallowed a fly vs the chad gadya

Weird, usually my 57 year old second cousin with frosted tips brings his 21 year old dates to his family's holiday events.

If a 3D projection wore pants...