John Ericson @johnericson.me · 23mEuropeans do mainline rail level boarding challenge (impossible) 000
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 1hRadiation above Earth's atmosphere (i.e. prior to being affected by water vapor) also being strongest about in the visible range is a very nice total coincidence! seos-project.eu/earthspectra... 010
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 11hWhen Emperor Maximilian invented «Latinidad», this is what he meant 210
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 11hFixed blocks on the left, moving on the right. It all makes sense. 010
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 12hOh wow, a Central European casement super-window with a screen! Best of both worlds! ...oh wow, huge af spider on the wrong side of the screen 000
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 12hUh oh! www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15... Example I happened to be reading 010
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 02/10/2026And maybe Bach was quite "contingent" so it will take a lot of "late baroque composer" sampling before we pull Bach out of the hat! 011
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 02/10/2026The model would both have to learn the distribution of baroque music, and a distribution of how musical styles change over time, to guess a Bach was is very much a different, if related, distribution. 110
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 02/10/2026Bach was very different from his predecessors, even though he is considered to be continuing the old style when some of his contemporaries were doing the new style (dumbed down music transitioning into the classical period). I think that would make what you describe very difficult! 110
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 02/10/2026For example a basic thing about Bach in particular that phrases tend to end on the downbeat and start in the next pickup. So easy, yet none of the examples did it! 020
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 02/10/2026OK I tried to look up some AI bach, and (a) it was hard to find anything at all?! Is this really so niche? (b) None of it was very good, worse than I expected. 120
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 01/10/2026Sometimes it feels like this country was never in the EU... 100
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 01/10/2026Nevermind CBTC usage, I'm just learning how much of Britain is behind on ETCS 200
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 01/10/2026Yes exactly. Also with shit transit service, the market forces may be insufficient. Reorienting trips in an existing city around transit takes work, so I don't mind throwing multiple tools at the problem. 130
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 30/09/2026Specifically posted that when some NJT busses were being very frequent for me, granted I was right above the Helix in Weehawken when I posted that, so many lines converge there. 010
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 30/09/2026It's not NYC and so doesn't have the same decadence of complacency, but northern NJ being right next to NYC does mean it's very dense by national standards and gets many things right. 110
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 30/09/2026Look how they indoctrinate (laudatory) the youth in Krakow 010
Reposted by John EricsonBrosemite Sam @brosemitesam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think we should punish Colorado River valley farmers by building data centers on their land 318115
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 28/09/2026We can also just go to school longer, as has been the trend for a very long time 000
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 20/09/2026I think you know the answer, but some people only get interested in the sex part if there is the cult hierarchy and mysticism attached 110
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 18/09/2026Wishing away Knightian/Keynesian uncertainty remains their singular thing, philosophically. Keynes back from the dead: look, you can practice epistemic humility without losing your polycule, OK? 020
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 17/09/2026Ah okay, I assumed it was gonna be a bit earlier like the Holy Roman Empire 100
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 17/09/2026Man this place and it's high-info people full of secrets and gossip 000
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 17/09/2026www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mileiko... no idea this could be garbage but are you sure?wikitree.comChaim Halevi Mileikowsky (abt.1820-) | WikiTree FREE Family TreeIs this your ancestor? Explore genealogy for Chaim Mileikowsky born abt. 1820 including research + descendants + more in the free family tree community. 100
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 17/09/2026No the right analogue would be Olivier Blanchard runs the Federal Reserve and then becomes President of France 030
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 16/09/2026I hope this topic getting some investigation is cathartic for @sarahtaber.bsky.social 010
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 15/09/2026Various iterations of popular music can route around this, but for construction there is just nothing but NIMBYism and desire for housing 000
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 15/09/2026Well my broader point is that architecture is like classical music: caught between reruns/nostalgia and hate for news, there is less and less of both. 100
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 15/09/2026I would say it's like atonal music, which some composers liked but the performers (let alone audiences) did not 130
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 15/09/2026The article seemed... surprisingly positive about Chinese courts and Western companies pressing charges? 000
Reposted by John Ericsonadvait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NEW CPE REPORT on the urgency of building an interregional transmission macrogrid! @cthelala.bsky.social and I argue that only the federal government can get it built; no other actor on the grid is capable of doing so! Really, this is a paper about the theory of transmission as an asset class: 47127
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 15/09/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloydmi... > The city is incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administration. Canadian provincial differences are insane. NYC should absorb Hudson County and do this too. Adjust state borders before municipal consolidation? Nah, skill issueen.wikipedia.orgLloydminster - Wikipedia 120
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 15/09/2026I think in practice a lot of stuff should just be rewritten and simplified as part of this effort. We have many things that are just too complex. 100
John Ericson @johnericson.me · 15/09/2026You can model what the software you rely on is supposed to do, and then prove whether it actually does that later, too, to make the process more parallel. 210
