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

This is a super obvious point, but the fact that MLB playoffs are buried on streaming services/networks I don't have and don't want to sign up to is BS. MLB is valuing short term $ from rights revenue instead of lifetime fans it never creates because they can't watch the playoffs. Compare to NFL.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there are always ghost craters, though they aren't particularly spooky

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

last month of the FY is a holiday, too, because no one is allowed to do anything

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

Ive heard a compelling argument that In effect it was subsidized by their ability to put starlink on launches and turn around and sell that. Without the need for starlink driven cadence and ride share, the real cost would be higher. Not sure this is true but it seems plausible.

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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-...

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My favorite part of the diagram is the bit outside “looks like it should work” but inside “does work”

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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 · 07/09/2026

At the deer, is the precision I need

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I like that the authors of this paper made it fun to read, and honestly think it makes the text clearer. I have a secret hope that as AI makes the scientific literature overall more vanilla that the human response will be to make writing more engaging in response.

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"How long do you think it's going to take you to fully recover from something this intense?": "I don't think I've recovered from childhood, so probably never..." ooooof

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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 · 22/07/2026

This may be my very favorite xkcd. I was lecturing for the first time in a while last week and did a comprehension check on the students and realized that I was totally this stick figure

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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

Awesome fund company name. Subversive ETFs.

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

(For normies, QQQ=NASDAQ, QQNE is QQQ, No Elon).

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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 · 19/06/2026

I’m with @velvetsparrow.bsky.social’s first hypothesis: fracture fills in mud cracks, now inverted. Fits the stratigraphy here.

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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 · 07/06/2026

In my region, they've sometimes taken to doing: "What has changed: Nothing." in the forecast discussion, which I think of as representing deep existential ennui back in the forecast center

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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 · 07/05/2026

All I have to say is we'd be in serious trouble 86% of the time

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Marslakes @marslakes.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I was somewhere there with you. My favorite moment was in the end of Mendelssohn 3rd, when the strings are drawing to a close, then they go suddenly slow and soft and the woodwinds come in and everything changes. Totally awesome. Thought the guest conductor rocked on that piece.

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

Beauty comes in many forms. Human, first and foremost, produce beauty (and ugliness, hopefully not in equal measure). Nature is also beautiful. (Aside: As a planetary scientist, even empty natural places are manifestly beautiful.) Probabilty and math are beautiful, too.

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

Regarding a distaste for AI: if this is you, I hope you still have enough curiosity to try to understand how it works under the hood. To me - there is weird beauty in it. If, to you, the downsides aren't worth it, I agree there is a case there (especially if it murders us all). But dig in first.

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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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