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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 14h

Watching my server get hammered by attackers trying to exfiltrate data. Lol.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i don't understand the kubernetes documentation pages. why are some of them in light theme and some in dark theme?

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what a fugly graph. next up, try to integrate exog, thin out the confidence interval. learning a lot. hope to use these skills for science one day. too bad i don't trust academia so i have to build my own way there.

Chart of NEE close price actual and forecast 7 days ahead using SARIMAX.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i saw that innovation index people keep sharing. its scope for "innovation" is very narrow. one time in the remote mountains of bosnia our car broke down because of a hole in the water tank and my local friends fixed it temporarily with bubble gum. it held long enough for us to get to civilisation.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i understand maths when it is written in code. but when teachers and academics write about it, i've no clue what they're on about. we should normalise different ways of perceiving maths and not kill wonder in its infancy.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if c-suite keeps hyping ai and forcing devs to use it and cause critical severities shouldn't this be in the secdevops thread model

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

finished this book. nice intro to basics. very repetitive. i read intermittently so this is great for reminding me what i forgot since the last session. could do with more repetition tbh. nice practices. didn't do any. working on my own thing now with its examples though. github.com/marcopeix/Ti...

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GitHub - marcopeix/TimeSeriesForecastingInPython

Contribute to marcopeix/TimeSeriesForecastingInPython development by creating an account on GitHub.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

one method to turn timestamps into a feature for machine learning is to locate it in a 1x1 graph that represents a day using sine and cosine functions. there is something poetic about this transmogrification.

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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you ever wanted to hear me talk about shit for an hour now is your chance 😅 www.palaeocast.com/cambrian-fec...

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From Nicole C. Nelson's talk. I still like science but obviously, deeply distrustful of its environment. Doesn't help that I dumped academia because of it. Thinking of going back though. But it has to be on my terms, not academia's. Not doing that toxicity and abuse again. Idk how yet.

Bar graph: have you failed to reproduce an experiment? Someone else's and your own.

Someone else's: chemistry, over 80%; biology, almost 80%; physics & engineering, almost 70%; medicine, almost 60%; earth and environment, over 60%; other, over 60%.

My own: chemistry, over 60%; biology, 60% on the dot; physics & engineering, a little over 50%; medicine, over 50%; earth and environment, a little over 40%; other, almost 50%.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

yeah but i can tab-complete simple code without thinking now. and then spend the rest of my time in meetings. it's a good trade-off for the end of humanity and the planet. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds

Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

why are software developers so allergic to whitespace omg

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A consultant is consulting me on which eu cloud provider to move their clients to. They want to move off usa providers. Yay. I'm enjoying this.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

what if i hook up my k8s logs to something that emits smells into a rat habitat? maybe i can train rats to respond to crashloopbackoffs.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

ai expenditure is crazy. we might as well hire a few junior and senior devs for the same price and get better quality code. i don't understand how the hype is still going on. so many recruiters asking me to do ai but i'm scared it will implode. i love the underlying maths but this feels very risky.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

some days i watch attackers try to take over customer accounts in real time in grafana all day. lol. there is so much fraud. see. this is why tech keeps making the login process more and more ridiculous and we can't have nice things. ugh.

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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"For the first time, cognitive patterns and their errors were systematically studied, demonstrating that people make decisions that are not based on logic, a formulation entirely opposed to the prevailing idea of rational and calculating homo economicus." Academics. 🤦🏻

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Heatwave forces nuclear reactors in Romania, Hungary, Serbia, and Bulgaria to shut down. Increase in parasite and other harmful bug populations. Ugh. I didn't see these coming. I should really do some modelling.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

oh look people discovering anne carson's translations of archaic greek texts. if this is how we get an anne carson cinematic universe...

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

trying to commission my clinically depressed friend to make art that i can print on products to sell to raise funds for another clinically depressed friend. everyone is unreliable because of depression. lol.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Jacobin has a piece out on how it's more likely for rich kids than poor kids to become artists. I think yes and no. Art is like diarrhoea. You can't stop it.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

met up with a friend who said he can't treat code as craft anymore. with agentic coding he finds there's nothing to be proud of. he feels like he's lost a source of joy. and not to mention the code the llms write is still not great. but it works and the tests pass so who cares.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ARCH and GARCH sound like the names of two LLMs that escaped their containers and are now pretending to be insentient domestic bots in fleshrealm and they have no clue how to actually clean anything.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

look at what i have to deal with. two responses from the same api endpoint for two requests with the exact same payload.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

i like how we're keeping "straight man" in performance because it's hilarious when we say things like kate box who is a lesbian plays the straight man in deadloch.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

seeing an annoying trend where devs trust ai more than they trust themselves. the feature works and tests pass but it's not great code. i refactored it to be cleaner. but making me wonder if shit code will be fine in future if agentic coding becomes competitive edge. am i fine with this? idk.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

i keep remembering this and wondering if maybe we've stopped developing stuff inside us because we've eliminated so much nature around us. www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

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Embracing an early model for naturalistic neuroscience

A 1992 PNAS paper showed how birdsong upregulates the expression of an immediate early gene in bird forebrains.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"Scientists find new species" but also "known locally as the likweli". TBF can't trust popular news with nuance.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

My German friend who is part Palestinian is deciding not to go back to Germany anymore. It is so sad.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I took this pic in a gorgeous valley in Iceland. I love it because it shows flies in their natural environment and keeping it alive. We've taken so much from them. It's too cold for bees in Iceland. I didn't know that.

Wild celery flowers in a valley. Lots and lots of flies on the flower. Looks like houseflies but probably another species.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I wondered why Singaporeans are so obsessed with nostalgia. Then, hypothesis: they will live in a state of constant loss until everything is flattened in the service of whatever logic made this necessary. The same thing that turned art into a white cube. An entropy of cosmic horror without escape.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

If the EU starts building data centres nobody wants in the Global South, I'm gonna be really mad.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

my non-tech gen z friend and their friends keep passwords in random note apps. cool.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Brutalism is art in the same way a con artist is an artist. I got sass today.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"Despite potential audience fatigue with refugee narratives"

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

on the edges of the EU i sat with migrants who had been beaten up by police and had their passports confiscated. i remember them a lot.

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Part of writing in the language of the coloniser is grappling with how much to accept what we inherit from them and how much we've lost because of them. And what if we're migrants to our own land? How can I write, second-guessing all the way? Words burn like acid on my tongue. Do I spit or swallow?

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

i wonder what birds see. they're tetrachromats. do they see the pigments as different from sky or do they crash and die like they do with windows?

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😼 @alexalexyang.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

maybe sweden wants migrants to integrate with swedes because swedes can't integrate with each other 😂

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