iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 03/10/2026

I'm not really sure how a convention sheet for contract bridge isn't just like... a kink consent form.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 01/10/2026

Early combat sim I've been working on to theorycraft PvP in WoW Forever. Not very good yet, but it's been informative!

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 01/10/2026

Someday I hope I have the opportunity to buy a drink to whomever keeps pushing the 3D graphics production quality of CSB videos. The picture on the left is from a video 18 years ago, and the picture on the right is from a video this week.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 29/09/2026

thought that was a yugioh card for a sec

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 26/09/2026

Got to help throw a baby shower for my sis with my beautiful spouse. <3

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 26/09/2026

is youtube recommending this to me because they want to remind me that 2026 is terrible or because i play meccha chameleon sometimes (i stg i thought it was a meccha chameleon video for like half a second)

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 26/09/2026

Sure, we lived through a renaissance of great web comics like XKCD, QC, CAD, LICD, PHD, UF, etc., etc. Some are still around, and we even have webtoons now. But not a day goes by that I don't think of Spiked Math.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 26/09/2026

Great night with great people <3

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 24/09/2026

I'm sure the "new right way" will land in the next standard with only 50% of the browsers I want to cover adopting it. 🙄 I gave up on not kludging things after running into that 50 times in a row or so. Too often, the right thing just ain't there. :/

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 24/09/2026

Reverse engineering stuff is such a rush tbh. Particularly when it has anti-tampering/debugging/disassembly features. Winning that 1v1 got me feeling like Toph.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 20/09/2026

If nothing else, DistantCoder got some peace.

The Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG banlist (effective September 21, 2026) that moves "Phantasmal Lord Ultimitl Bishbaalkin" to the Forbidden List.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 18/09/2026

feelin cute; might die later

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 11/09/2026

One of these days I'll have a friend who'll need a couch like this to get around a square corner and I am going to be *giddy*

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/09/2026

Wait, that'd actually be a great date. 8th mix was goated.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/09/2026

Terence Tao has been refining a particular point on his Mastodon account that I wholeheartedly agree with and it relates in part to why I'm even building a Yu-Gi-Oh! AI at all (a project I am well aware is completely uninteresting and probably off-putting to whatever audience I have).

A Mastodon post by Terence Tao that reads:

In basic research, such as pure mathematics, one might naively expect that the natural question to ask with regards to a given problem X in a field is

"What is the answer to X?".

But in many cases the more valuable question is

"What can be learned from studying X?"

The answer to X itself can of course be one of the things learned in this process of study; but one can learn far more useful information besides, such as

* What are the main difficulties to overcome to resolve X?
* What new techniques can one discover in order to solve X?
* Why are existing techniques insufficient to solve the problem by itself?
* How does X relate to results in prior literature?
* Can one uncover new connections between X and other topics Y, Z, ...?
* What are some natural related or followup questions X', X'', ... to study?

Nevertheless, until recently the two questions were closely aligned, to the point where it was not really necessary to distinguish the two: the only practical route to solving a difficult problem was to first address many of the subquestions listed above.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 06/09/2026

Got a free T-shirt for helping an avian veterinarian make a video on how they safely capture injured, wild birds to help them. (I was in my bird fursuit.)

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 31/08/2026

Watching my Yu-Gi-Oh AI start to crack Kewl Tune endboards

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 28/08/2026

The Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Livestream has no business having such a cute cutscene.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 20/08/2026

Huh, I kinda figured Nix fans would be more into JDM cars

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 17/08/2026

I'm convinced he can solve all the problems in Queens _and_ N-Queens completion.

Meme with NY city mayor Mamdani saying "Can He Do That? Mamdani Requires All NP-Hard Problems To Have Polynomial-Time Solutions". Credited to "The Bubble".

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 12/08/2026

worked for me (i only drink classic regular so YMMV)

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 11/08/2026

i just realized that the new Mind Scan card breaks a lot of things. like... the Floo Map eff won't work... because you can't reveal a card if your hand's already revealed. @__@

A Yu-Gi-Oh! ruling that reads as follows:
"Question:
自分の「真実の眼」の『このカードがフィールド上に存在する限り、相手は手札を公開し続ける』効果の適用中に、相手は「スモール・ワールド」を発動できますか？
Answer:
発動できません。
（「スモール・ワールド」の『①：手札のモンスター１体を相手に見せる』の処理を行うことができないためです。）"

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 11/08/2026

*wriggles helplessly in the tangled skein of social media*

Image of two characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force talking with each other. Master Shake is telling Meatwad "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this."

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/08/2026

the takeaway here is twofold: - proving RH is beyond AI's current capabilities - adequate praise and headpats serve to enhance math performance

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/08/2026

it's weird to me that my fans are weirder than i am

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/08/2026

i'd be against putting fictional characters on planes if the ANA pokemon livery wasn't so cracked

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 10/08/2026

what in the uncanny valley is this

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 02/08/2026

Renn Faire fun!!! \o/ Despite the mud and gray skies, it was the perfect temp!!!

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 05/07/2026

I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN A TABLET AGES AGO. I HAVE BEEN MISSING OUT.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 02/07/2026

What would her coffee order be? Wrong answers only.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 01/07/2026

It'll be better than this garbage for sure: www.hallmarkchannel.com/holiday-touc...

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 01/07/2026

The car reliability issues have gotten so bad that Lando's fan subreddit is now about missed connections with Lando fans.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 01/07/2026

Lando Norris's car has suffered from tech issues in almost every race. 😭 I wanna see him back on the podium again!

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 23/06/2026

Just a little bit of CSS magic 🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻‍♀️ (it's more magical if you know that most of the CSS properties and HTML tags are restricted) #artfight

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 16/06/2026

My first Cubs game ever!!! My bro was nice enough to come see it with me ^___^ (yes, I know it's unconscionable that I've lived in Chicago this long and never been .___.)

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 31/05/2026

open your drive for swap stop having it be closed

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 26/05/2026

I am finally safe from sharks.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 25/05/2026

nope, all out of cetaceans. can I interest you in the man, the myth, the legend instead?

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 25/05/2026

I wonder how many rules in F1 stand between the status quo and all the cars turning into scythed chariots. 🤔

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 25/05/2026

The tools to do so have existed since well before I was born (Griffin-Lim), but it's definitely true that AI can put engineering skills in the hands of people who've never had to take an engineering ethics course. :/

A tweet from @NTSB_Newsroom:

The NTSB is aware that advances in image recognition and computational methods have enabled individuals to reconstruct approximations of cockpit voice recorder audio from sound spectrum imagery released as part of NTSB investigations, including the ongoing investigation of the crash last year of UPS flight 2976 in Louisville, Kentucky.

The NTSB does not release cockpit audio recordings. Federal law prohibits such public release due to the highly sensitive nature of verbal communications inside the cockpit. The NTSB takes these privacy restrictions seriously.

The NTSB docket system is temporarily unavailable as we examine the scope of the issue and evaluate solutions. We hope to restore access to the docket system as soon as possible.

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✨Olivia Kaufman✨ @olivia.wtf · 25/05/2026

Invariably, all sufficiently large polycules will pick up non-binary people to avoid tending straight.

A tumblr post by user 'twocubes' with the following text:

Consider the relationship graph of a complete binary polycule (complete = every person is in a relationship with every other person, binary = contains people of only two genders). call an edge in this graph gay if both the people in that edge are the same gender, and call it straight if the people in that edge are different genders.

We will say that a binary polycule tends straight if it has more straight edges than gay edges and that it tends gay if it has more gay edges than straight edges.

Show that if a complete binary polycule contains an equal number of people of both genders, then it will tend straight.

In terms of the size of the complete binary polycule, what is the critical gender ratio for straight tendency? (when the ratio of genders is above the critical gender ratio for straight tendency, the polycule will tend straight)

Do there exist complete binary polycules that trend neither straight nor gay? What about binary polycules that aren't complete?

Research problem: are there other conditions on the relationship graph besides completeness that also result in the existence of a critical ratio?

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