(Yes I know whom I'm disagreeing with but) This seems slightly disingenuous: you're not looking at each individual number but the patterns, bunches, an emergent story. Much like how we can describe a vortex without modeling each individual air molecule.

Me: drink the red flask #EldenRing: Yeah you're already at full HP but sure Me: get me on my horse before this guy kills me ER: Are you sure you want to spend a flask on that? Lemme open a popup to confirm, the default is No and oh you just died bud

One of the main reasons that figures made using GraphPad Prism look great by default is that it uses a big font for axis ticks and labels. I’m sure there’s a good reason but I wonder why ggplot’s default is so small?

Slightly comforted to know it's not just Americans who seem to never like our top elected official.

Mathematicians be like: a boop arises from the boopification of a preboop

Mercator Misconceptions: Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries 🗺️ visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-t…

Today’s 4D printers are amazing!

The kosher cheeseburger:

Way to start a paper 🧙‍♀️

A hierarchy of alienness: Pictures of animals from least to most related to you. Least-related animal: Sponges. You and sponges are both animals. That's basically all you've got in common.

HAVE YOU EVER SAID A JOKE QUIETLY AND THEN HAD SOMEONE NEXT TO YOU REPEAT IT LOUDLY? ~~YOU~~ MAY BE ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION

Me: If the scientists say the vaccines are safe, then they're safe. Also me: Why the heck are dentists putting mercury amalgam in people's mouths?? Even I know that's a bad idea.

debugging strategy: write a unit test

I am a: ⚪️ man ⚪️ woman 🔘 person who works in software Looking for: ⚪️ a good time ⚪️ a long walk on the beach 🔘 the bug in this screenshot someone shared with me with no context other than the words fix this

They've got nothing on Hamilton, who inflicted quaternions on a BRIDGE. Until they were used for 3D rotations by computers, this remained quaternion's only concrete application.

Math opinion: Whenever you see τ (aka 2π), there is a hidden circle. But e shows up wherever the hell it feels like.

.Ming Chow, any thoughts on the GTA VI leak? Seems to be up both your alleys (games and security).

I owe Mastodon an apology. (Based on xkcd.com/743/)