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Daniel Lakeland

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Applied Mathematician, Julia programmer, father of two amazing boys, official coonhound mix mutt-walker. PhD in Civil Engineering. Debian Linux user since ca […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 4h

I lost track of the post, but thanks to whoever it was that posted this YouTube video where a guy poses as a brand new to the internet 75 year old man on YouTube/X/Facebook/Reddit and clicks a small number of links about cowboy movies or whatever, and then lets the scammers inundate him while he […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

2 AM my son comes into my room to tell me that all the UPSes are screaming. Power is out. I report the outage, shut down some devices, and mute the alarms. By 4am the power comes on for 3 seconds... then goes off... Power company reports power is restored... so I report the outage again... i […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

www.youtube.com/shorts/w9S0etpcA2o My wife sent me that video, finally someone who is teaching the secret about modern music (ie. music since the 1700's or so). It's a scale that's uniform distances on a logarithmic scale for frequency (that is […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

A uniform MIDI keyboard, with a row of white keys, with a black key between each one.

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Both inside the Singularity, and with an AI bubble highly likely to burst. Interesting times. futurism.com/future-society/ai-fina…

AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure

A $20 billion setback. The post AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure appeared first on Futurism.

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I get a call from what is probably my medical provider (the USC mafia) and the person says "Hi this is soandso from scheduling with USC can you please give me your name and birth date so I can proceed?" BITCH NO That is not how this shit works. How about: this is USC calling with a […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Well I accidentally slipped and ordered the Complete Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers for my younger kid. Oops. 🤷‍♂️

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@GhostOnTheHalfShell Or just excessive caffeine? Is there a difference?

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

How do people with Corgis keep from getting a second dog and naming it Bess?

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

A sphincter says what?

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

My server isnt online but does at least boot. but I think its time to start, in parallel, beginning the process of recruiting people to participate in my #anarchistuniversity pod. I say pod because I hope this university is eventually a large number of people organized into smaller groups that […]

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RxBrad's Spooky Ghost 👻 @mastodon.rxbrad.com · 08/10/2026

We are now in Hour Two of the world's most epic staredown between Cricket and her favorite toy. #DogsOfMastodon #Whippet

Viewed from behind: Cricket the Whippet, stares into a dark, foreboding hallway. From the darkness, a stuffed sheep toy stares back. The tension is palpable.

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

So from my posts this morning, I'd say things are going really well. Yes, pepper has taken up a LOT of effort, but 2.5 months in we are seeing it all pay off with a dog that absolutely is doing well, and higher activity level for me and for cocoa and my wife. everyone is benefiting. My son went […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Alex and I had a meeting with his guidance counselor. We discovered the requirement for US history can be fulfilled by his ethnic studies class from last year, since the ethnic studies requirement itself doesnt kick in until later. This means one less class he has to take before graduation […]

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Mima-sama @mima-sama.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@thevhswizard The visual was too funny, so have this 40-minute mspaint doodle

"Professor Charles Xavier attempting to do a Kamehameha attack from Dragonball Z, except he forgot to set the parking brakes on his wheelchair first."- The VHS Wizard

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

When you adopt a dog the dog people tell you "three days, three weeks, three months". The first three days you should expect the dog to be shut down in panic mode. Pepper wasn't like that but she was hyperactive in panic mode. Three weeks is where the dog should have come out of panic mode and […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

In the meantime, one thing I want to do is have either a mariadb or postgresql server with a lot of Census and worldbank and IMF and similar data and related things pre-loaded so that researchers in my "pod" (ie. research group using my server) can easily access comprehensive datasets about […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Yunohost is there to handle things like forgejo, ghost, a simpleX server, or whatever, things that you want to use to collaborate online as web services. My understanding is guix has incus as a package, and yunohost has an incus container available repo.yunohost.org/incus So, for […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

All right #guix peeps, I know i'm kinda taking the hard route here. I could have just put #Proxmox on my under-desk server, been up and running months ago after a lot of pointing and clicking. I decided not to do that, in part because I don't want just one #anarchistuniversity server, I want […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

YAAAAAS!!!! #guix peeps. My #anarchistuniversity server is ONLINE with its strange stack of LVM + Cache + LUKS + btrfs raid. The workaround was to create a shepherd service which depends on user-processes which simply does vgchange and cryptsetup manually at a later time. Then make /mnt/home […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

This message brought to you by gender affirming care. 😅

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

If, like me, you don't like shaving daily, consider using a straight razor such as the Dovo Shavette. You can buy a box of 100 blades from Derby for like $7 you can use one for a week or two if you clean it nicely before putting it away on a stand where it dries... So it's a couple years supply […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

There is essentially no fragrance here, it's got a slight natural witch hazel extract fragrance, and slightly canola oil, very slightly because I only put a dash, like maybe 1ml. It emulsifies to produce a slightly slippery emulsion in your hands. Shake well before using. You could add a few […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

My "recipe" for homemade aftershave: Mostly 70% isopropanol Next mostly Dickenson's alcohol free Witch Hazel extract A dash of canola oil A dash of glycerine if you've got it a few drops of vit E oil Put in a dash-bottle such as an old Peychaud's bitters bottle with old timey label. Dash onto […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

For those of you following the saga of us integrating Pepper Pup the wonder doggie into the family, I took swabs today for our Wisdom Panel DNA test. We should have breed mix info in a week or two. I gotta remember to drop it at a post office when I go pick up the boys after school.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Now that Facebook has changed its name to Meta, I think it's time for the Nerd Reich to make its mask off move and change Uber to Uber Alles.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Woke up and tried to make coffee. Got the Moka pot on the stove and tried to turn on the stove hood... nothing... The microwave is also nothing... I guess a breaker blew overnight... nope, all breakers are fine. Flipped them all for good measure... still nothing... Finally found the culprit an […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@hrefna Thank you for the Tidal recommendation. I've been sticking with spotify out of inertia and the fact that I've set up the Linux app. Looks like there's a player app on flathub for tidal music... so that will work nicely.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Specifically: * Apple Music: www.apple.com/apple-music * Google Music: music.youtube.com My favorite: tidal.com (who has a policy of labeling AI generated music and blocking it from earning streaming royalties; they also pay more than spotify). Don't give spotify […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@raganwald Many quality jokes in this shitpost. Also a quality recording. Love me some vibes.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Of course it's an idealized model, if you had some surpluses one year or whatever, you could have feasts and things and use them up, and if there were crop failures etc maybe people would die and consumption would decline to meet the amounts available, but your target was gonna always be "hit […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Also, absolutely no information is needed about "demand functions" or "supply functions" or "production functions" etc. You assume steady state, so you get one point on a production function, and this implies very specific prices must be obtained or the whole thing declines to 0 through time […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

He shows for example that in a subsistence economy with 3 main commodities, if you assume steady state then all the prices are determined. If the prices are not those specific quantities then the economy declines as someone didn't get enough money to buy their inputs, and then their output goes […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Anyone familiar with John M Blatt "Dynamic Economic Systems" (1983). My German colleague is reading this while waiting for his child to be born any day now, and sending me tidbits. I skipped the intro and read chapter 2, it's very nice in a way that most Econ books I've skimmed or read are […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

9AM and 95F in the shade here in Pasadena. Got boys out the door with their mom, but too hot to walk the dogs already... gonna be a long day.

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The point made in some posts I boosted recently about Moore's law ending its run in the vicinity of 2010 feels right. Extrapolating the law you'd have 10s of terabytes of RAM in a laptop today, instead, because of the AI push and the lack of scaling in production, it's still 16GB or maybe 32. If […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I have one word to say to you all... Prisencolinensinainciusol youtu.be/fU-wH8SrFro

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

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Daniel Colquitt @daniel.colquitt.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I have, perhaps inevitably, built a Gaussian assumed-density filter (GADF) to estimate nitrate in my #Aquarium. I initially thought of it as a #KalmanFilter, but parts of the physical and measurement model are non-Gaussian, so GADF is the more accurate […] [Original post on colquitt.xyz]

Home Assistant dashboard showing the aquarium nitrate model over 2–4 October 2026. The blue curve is estimated nitrate concentration with a shaded 95% uncertainty interval; the green curve is estimated net nitrate accumulation rate with its 95% interval. The current summary reports nitrate 7.90 ± 1.74 ppm, net accumulation 2.29 ± 1.32 ppm/week, and tap-water nitrate 4.28 ± 1.51 ppm. The filter has only been running for a few days, so the estimates and uncertainty are still settling.

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Pusher of Pixels @pixelpusher220.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

pure raw talent Roy Clark’s performance of “Malagueña” on The Odd Couple

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The dog was eyeing my banana peel... so I gave it to her. Nicolas: You gave her the Banana peel? Me: Yes, she found it appealing Nicolas: *snort*

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The dogs are melting down and its still 95F out. Send help.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

We went into the very Asian boba restaurant north of PCC, and ordered a passion fruit boba smoothie and a durian boba smoothie. The Asian lady behind the counter was like "absolutely not" she wasn't gonna let my son have a durian smoothie. So anyway he had to convince her to bring him a sample […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[Top tip for injured hairy men] If your plaster/bandaid is the sort that's more clothy/fabricy than plasticky/rubbery then rubbing/isopropyl alcohol will wick right through the fabric to the adhesive underneath and dissolve it damn near instantly. Put a dab on your fingers and rub the cloth and […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Went down to PCC with my son, bought a couple boba smoothies, and toured the main buildings seeing where the various department offices and classrooms and student services and bookstore and such are. I wanted him to imagine himself there next semester primarily taking classes on that campus. I […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Its been like 7 weeks of school and Alex is still reading Catcher in the Rye at school. This is the first book for the class. They are about halfway through. The teacher reads the book to the kids in class. Alex believes this is because a significant fraction of 10th graders can't read at the […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Theres some people who I see on here often enough I think I'm already following them and then I find out I'm not when I look carefully. Anyway I'm gonna start checking more often and adding in people I think in already following. Thats is all.

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I'm in a parking lot and theres a political yard sign that has some guys face and the words "Do you want $3.00 gas?" and I can't help but think "This Taco Bell viral marketing has got to stop".

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

My wife discourages me from spending too much time talking with Alex about Holden Caulfield, but the class is STILL reading the book. Anyway yesterday while talking to Alex he said "Holden is Woke" and damn if that didnt nail it. But also Holden has PTSD. The reason provided is the death of his […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Gonna be very hot today again (and every day next two weeks) so my son has cross country practice at 7am. I'm gonna take pepper and walk her, hopefully that keeps us all sane the rest of the day.

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Predicted overnight temps of 85F... yikes.