iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 1h

learning that r markdown has beamer output has been a disaster for my software independence. if rstudio ever stops receiving support it's the end for me

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 9h

a deep-held belief i have that i think most people don't like is that everything is regulation eventually, whether legislated or cultural. unregulated markets are mostly just stuff where we haven't figured out whether it's good for you yet (outside corruption)

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 9h

it don't matter if americans think inflation is way worse than it currently is. that's a recipe for Great Expectations

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 9h

me when i see björk assume that novikov's condition holds for the market price of risk in the factor model........ you're lucky i believe people are willing to take chances buddy. you're lucky to be taking chances at all buster.

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 18h

making a remark to a nice stranger during an intermission: ✅ unskippable 20 minutes of having to think of interesting things to say: ❌❌❌

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

there are four fundamental feelings musicians aim to perform: sleepy, evil, uncomfortable, and little treat for being patient

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

i love listening to young musicians perform ❗️❗️❗️ everyone should go to young musician competitions

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Nobody is believing me when i tell them i like economics and stochastics but i do not enjoy finance :( i am sorry mr scholes...

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

watership down walked so that warrior cats could scamper

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

all my whiteboard notes are 1/4 of the font size of my tutor's when i take photos...... i will ask him to invest in a magnifying glass for marking my exam

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

working on incomplete markets for a stochastics presentation :) i like identification problems

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

singaporean phrases are so iconic. it's like if socrates was canadian

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The even larger concern is the *rate* of depreciation of microelectronics versus say bridges or railroads.

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

rereading ender's game, it still feels wild how much of the writing style and ideals are echoed decades later in the rationalist community

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CONCEPT: a long, restful nap the length of 3-4 naps, ideally when the sun is down. it could be called something like meganightnap

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

im sorry but i really could not care less about the housing market downturn. if your life's investment strategy is based around unfairly extracting money from younger and poorer borrowers, you should expect for those people to support policy change and kill your investments

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

calling sinh the Shine function implies calling tanh the Than function

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

more chaucer thoughts: - i am grateful for writing standardisation (Lat se = let's see) - does taking a pilates class teach you how to judge in a roman courtroom? - right to bear armes has a more silly profane interpretation of the right to bear God

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

zadok the priest opening sound like phillip glass. this is plagiarism

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

one thing ill never understand is trans people who are attached to their initials. i could never be a cameron

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

submitting assignments 👎👎👎 helping my friends troubleshoot using ggplot 👍👍👍👍👍👍

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

revisiting x trends: everyone is ruthlessly calling someone slurs today having a look at bluesky trends: we are inventing new animals for fun :3

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

too mamy david byrnes...... they need to all come together and write one big david byrne economic paper

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i can't believe tim read has passed away... he was such a great rep, i will miss him

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

spider-man bnd feels like the closest weve gotten to trans spider-man so far, alongside spider-gwen. one day... i pray 🙏

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

now we're through the trends of calling our friends "modest", "demure", and "normal" when they do a good job, i think we should do "seemly" next

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

freudian slip on the freudian slope

Mr Newman told the crowd that his party would ensure there is a "right to life".
"We want to support people who want to make sure that abortion rights - we want to stop them," he said.
"We want to make sure that same-sex... oh sorry, abortion is stopped.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

nobody told me terry pratchett wrote a book set in victorian england with the actual charles dickens and the actual sweeney todd inside of it

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

chilli snacks are so delicious unfortunately they make the inside of my mouth taste like chilli forever when i want to be eating candy

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

good news: college has not broken my streak of not buying junk food at the shops, for me bad news: college has accelerated the buying and baking of delicious unhealthy snacks for my friends

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

it's called the haar basis because whenever you try to understand a proof with it you can hear a distant voice going "haar haar"

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i love extracurricular (going to friends' lectures)

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i have begun asking my maths professors about econometric models. so far the common answer seems to be: mum come pick me up im scared

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

whyyyy is the information on inner products and measure theory in probability SO scarce that im actually having to reverse engineer correct notation from textbooks or proofs

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

concerning that in my 33 hours of fever dreaming over the past couple of days i have not only continued to view flashcards but can recall attempting a problem, giving up, and returning to it later. what can this mean.

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

filling out my census form today. very excited

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

sometimes when i have a personal project haunting me where i know my ambition exceeds my ability and patience i just have to metaphorically bang my head against the brick wall until it goes away

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

every composition with a nice melody for bass singers is written in im-going-to-kill-you range

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

i predict there will be a paper in the next two years entitled: "From Blue Danube to Glue Danube: How Supply Chains Changed In Summer 2026"

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

i feel like psychologically people seek out foods that are very complementary (strong in one almost-unique nutrient) to solve the linear programming problem by "feel" more efficiently... and this is why broccoli is a horrible surprise vegetable

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

not as hard to get into the flow of speaking with middle english vowels as i thought, but chaucer does make it easier with the familiar phrases in meter

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

hearing a lot of concerns lately about how to keep bread fresh and stop it from going stale... if you all ate eight slices of bread a day like me this simply wouldn't be a problem

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

my sock mending thread has slowly changed in colour over time from blending in with the sock's colour to bright red... either I have too much nostalgia for oboe thread or I need to see an optometrist in my old age

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

the next time someone asks me why weakly convex preferences on a convex set do not guarantee a unique solution, i am going to explain the plot of bg3 to them

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

bluesky adjusting earlier to new social media ban for under-16s in australia today, i wonder if this will even have much of an impact on the average age here

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"average person eats infinite spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Cantor, who lives in cave & eats infinite each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Wesley @hermeticcombustion.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

trying to do my serious empirical project and learn about pseudo-Poisson models seriously and then

Economics paper with a quote at the top reading "I think he be transform'd into a beast", attributed "Wm. Shakespeare, As You Like It [II, 7]"

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