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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Legislative proposal: if the Democrats take Congress, they should criminalize executive branch rescissions, and give it a long statute of limitation so that OMB stops f'ing around. I guess the WH could still preemptively pardon, but that would push even deeper in constitutional crisis territory.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've been running into something like this in my own domain. I can use Codex to develop a nice transfer function between 2 radars, find parameters / confidence intervals, but what I really want to know is why I need something like the derived solution in the 1st place: what's physically happening.

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Joe Levy @colddirt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know I’m supposed to mostly muse about drones & permafrost, but like everyone, I have been thinking a lot about AI lately. What strikes me most, & this is not an observation uniquely made by me, is the perversity with which we have invested our resources—what machines we’ve chosen to build and why

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my high school English teachers memorably went off on the class w/ "you are acting like a bunch of know-nothing, anti-intellectual, anti-learning people like the rest of America". At the time I was mystified. Not so much now.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Excel has broken my copy paste. First sign of AI takeover? You do the math.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today has a broad wavefunction, from Tuesday to Thursday.

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Luke Bones 🦴🦴 @lukemeister.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Letter from Courant Institute mathematician Tristan Buckmaster about (shocking, I know!) bad behavior by OpenAI

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As someone who has toyed with N-S models, this is a crazy story; Quanta magazine reporting is much better than NYT's. Impressed by groundwork laid by Córdoba & Martínez-Zoroa; less impressed by the multimillion dollar burn of VC capital to get the end result (w/ or w/o skullduggery?).

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It ain’t fiscal dominance if you can’t dominate

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Fiscal dominance ftw. No bueno.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Someone marked this Mars rock with a sharpie /s

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Off topic endorsement: If you are in suburban MD and think the Sideshow Bob episodes of the Simpsons are the best, try and get a ticket to -Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder- at Olney Theater. Superbly acted and staged… can’t believe it isn’t totally sold out (but it wasn’t full last night).

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Wife’s comment on the French performance in the first half of the 3-4 game… is this a Maginot line reenactment?

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

QQNE. "The ...ETF ... seeks to provide capital appreciation through exposure to a broad universe of large-cap U.S. equity securities, while excluding the equity securities of companies that are founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk, or with which Mr. Musk is otherwise primarily associated"

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AS FILED WITH THE U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON JULY 8, 2026

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Deleted a post because of two grammar errors in <10 words. Lol.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“After a fair struggle between Patriotism and Interest, the latter seems to have gained a compleat victory.” - General Gage, calling it a little early (1770)

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

NWS forecast site is showing as down for me. I used to use it as my default test site for internet connections as it seemed invariably fast and responsive. Hard for me to see it as anything than another sign or sliding into crapulence.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Reminder that MSTR (“Strategy”) is doing Ponzi-like things in the public market. Has gone from 400 to 120 since my call btw. Ahem.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Ghost John Prine? Guess I wouldn't put it past him

Picture showing Artists headed my way soon according to Bands in Town, which includes John Prine, who has been (sadly) dead since 2020.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Sometimes, agentic AI could basically just be a cron job. (I'm quite confident I'm not the first to think of this)

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Something get lost at NIST? Higher vacuum? "[T]hese craters have an even higher vacuum than the lunar surface, further reducing or eliminating vibrations from sound waves and stray particles that could strike the mirrors and change the distance between them." www.nist.gov/news-events/...

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Late to the party, but I’m going: esdmd, smd, stmd, armd, somd, and msd

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Umm, if you are interested in such things, go read www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread.... Reminder that your distaste for AI does not imply that it does not 'work'.

erdosproblems.com

Erdős Problem #1196 - Discussion thread

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Highly recommend her memoir, Breaking Through. Not sure she would have gotten the time of day at JHU 25 years ago. She's a hero.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

243,643 miles to the Moon. We’ve got a full tank of gas, half a package of cigarettes, and it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I may now know the unlock code for one of the astronauts personal computing devices. Hope he has two factor auth turned on. lol.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

As some one who spent most of the day working on 12.6 cm data, this hits close to home

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Water on Mars! Jezero had a delta in it! (Snark aside, I read the paper this morning and enjoyed it.)

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Chase Million @millionconcepts.com · 16/03/2026

This is a substantial new additional (unfunded) administrative burden to proposers. For my very small organization, it will cost several thousand dollars per year and be one of our largest recurring admin expenses. (Few orgs will pay people for their time on this, so the expense will be invisible.)

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I’ve been thinking about how bsky sees AI. 1) I see many of the smart people here object on moral or humanist grounds. 2) I see some people here also object on the grounds that AI “doesn’t work”. I sympathize with the first of these ideas, but think the second is super misguided.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Agree! Everybody interested in the astro-geo-science we do should probably go read this. I agree with about 85% of it, but 100% of it is worth a look.

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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Is that a lot? It sounds like a lot

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

My friendly reminder that there are scams in the public markets. Love the news in the wsj this morning mstr is now down on the bitcoin they were selling stock to buy. Strategy Inc Class A share.google/YXnmaLRfbiYb...

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

startled awake this morning, so remembered my dream... ...which was me, in a room with colleagues, with a Zoom meeting comm check happening

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

You may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a gigantic jet #TLE from space? Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 for the DTU/@science.esa.int Thor-Davis experiment. 🧪🔭 youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps Processing: Simeon Schmauß

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I’m probably the millionth person whose mind went this way, and it’s middle school humor, but: The banished Justin Tucker meant Ravens fans did not have a Happy Ending last night.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

You can already bet directly on the burrito price. If bullish, buy extra and freeze. If bearish, get a friend to loan you a burrito, sell it, and promise to buy them a burrito later. Merry Xmas to @robarmstrong.bsky.social and @katie0martin.ft.com

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I had a disturbing dream last night that included having to fix a travel snafu with Concur.

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Dr. Frances Rivera-Hernández (she/ella) 🇵🇷🚀 @francypants.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

New paper drop led by former postdoc Jacob Adler now at ASU. www.nature.com/articles/s43... Pressure, temperature, & composition affect the transport and morphology of sedimentary flows on Mars - in space and time! ☠️ beware of using earth analogs to interpret Hesperian and Amazonian deposits☠️

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Microclimate governs the morphology of sediment flows on Mars - Communications Earth & Environment

Gravitational flow deposits on Earth may not be meaningful analogues for those on Mars or other planetary bodies according to laboratory experiments conducted at Mars-like temperatures and pressures w...

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

“It’s called weaponized incompetence, mother”…

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 02/09/2025

The wide-ranging abilities of large language models like ChatGPT can give users the (mistaken) impression that AI understands our world. A scaled-down world model is a long-sought and still unrealized goal. www.quantamagazine.org/world-models...