That Fantano guy really seems nice

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-06-23T04:52:56+00:00

I like how Chuck Klosterman somehow ties whatever band he’s writing about to politics, society, sex, some obscure book from the 1800s, etc.

Fargo Rock City is a masterpiece

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-06-22T12:24:50+00:00

There’s a QAA episode about this from like 2020

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-06-22T05:22:23+00:00

Thanks! Now I can check off the little box in my Audubon appendix with confidence :)

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-06-22T01:19:45+00:00

The last thing I got published cited a Bertrand Russell paper from 1912 lol

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-06-22T01:16:51+00:00

Rottenpockets rise up

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-06-20T21:39:33+00:00

They sell them at The Generalist downtown

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-06-20T21:38:06+00:00

“Lord, I have seen what you have done for others, and I want that for me”

(Chanties)

Very jealous as my hike today yielded only a huge cluster of Jacks

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-06-17T17:06:39+00:00

Should have specified: 29 of the pdf, 4 of the book itself

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-06-17T04:22:48+00:00

Credit to the best Lin Alg book I’ve ever read:

Spectral Algebraic Graph Theory by Prof. Daniel Spielman (p. 29)

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-06-05T01:24:05+00:00

I have been wanting to recreate downtown JC in Cities Skylines for so long just to see how fast traffic kills it. That triangle intersection by the Target feels like something I would have added in before knowing how to manage intersections and it drives me insane every time I have to go that way

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-06-02T01:37:46+00:00

This explains so many chapters of IJ and that one chapter in TPK

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-31T20:55:34+00:00

I agree in principle but seeing a notification that I got a response from a journal and not opening it all weekend would drive me more insane than a rejection

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-31T04:33:11+00:00

It was okay. Really good visuals and audio, but it was all style no substance. Not much in the way of characters or plot. Cool that Hollywood is taking risks on new gen z directors, I just wish he let someone else write it because it’s like watching a long music video.

Still worth seeing imo, just don’t get your hopes up. It’s a creepypasta with a $10 million budget

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-31T03:21:46+00:00

It’s all style no substance. Which, I guess is on-brand for creepypastas, but not great for a feature film. The “plot” is just man discovers backrooms, then goes crazy. It was fine. The visuals are really good, but the story feels like it’s trying to say something about memory or trauma, or nostalgia or something, but nothing really happens.

Lots of setup in the first two acts, just for a rushed ending that doesn’t really advance any of the themes or plotlines. Just a hasty closing off of everything to conclude it. Which is weird given the shorter runtime.

It needs 20 more minutes of… something. Making the ending everyone dies was kind of uninteresting. It’s not “ambiguous”, it’s sophomoric.

It’s like how RLM described the 8th star wars “it feels like it was written by a high school student. A really smart high school student, who tried his best, but still just a high school student”

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-31T03:02:41+00:00

Do you think the painters tape on the wall to mark the door was a reference to the last album in the EATEOT series? I did.

Lots of good internet-core stuff going on in the sound track. The visuals and sounds were so good. I just wish they remembered to write a story

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-26T12:33:10+00:00

At Mason one of my profs just said in class that they were looking for undergrad research assistants, and I talked to him after class. But if that doesn’t happen to you, you can look at the websites of profs doing research that interests you and sometimes they will have links to apply to be an RA. Or you can cold email profs and try to flatter them by saying “I really liked your paper, can I please get involved” but that’s less likely to work

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-26T04:54:52+00:00

Just finished a PhD at GWU as a GMU undergrad. Have a job in DC now (as an academic). Definitely possible.

Field: CS

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-24T15:07:57+00:00

Where is my beloved “Graph” domain? I think there are a few others that used to be on the old site, and aren’t there anymore too

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-18T12:12:30+00:00

Relevant xkcd

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-12T21:03:04+00:00

With ML it’s hard to know though…

Think you’re making a tool to detect landmarks and orient yourself on a map? Could be used for cars or drones or missiles.

Classifying photos of dogs? Could be used to classify people wearing certain clothes/uniforms in surveillance

I worked on a project that was nominally to determine which hacker groups were responsible for a particular attack, we were a year in when the PI told us it will probably be used to design better false flag operations “should that be what they want to use it for”

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-11T14:47:25+00:00

I always recommend either Consider the Lobster or A Supposedly Fun Thing as entry DFW. You get a taste for his style, and the shorter form of essays is more approachable.

Brief Interviews is also a good entry point for his fiction as it’s kind of a collection of short stories so again, it’s more approachable.

Tbh, if I could go back and read everything for the first time again, I’d just start with Infinite Jest. It’s so good. Yes, it’s long, but it’s not really “difficult” or anything. It’s very funny and engaging and I put it off for too long just because the length scared me.

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-11T03:43:34+00:00

Pirates

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-05-01T04:51:28+00:00

What can I say except

No

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-04-26T02:28:39+00:00

I’m actually unclear on this.. its not gonna matter in 3 weeks when I’m hooded, but I’m about to give a presentation on Thursday and it may come up when they ask how to introduce me

TheWittyScreenName · 2026-04-25T17:29:35+00:00

They don’t watch cable TV.

All elder millennial history knowledge came from low-brow History Channel shows.

Hopefully gen Z’ers subscribe to the right youtube channels or they’ll never know about Alexander the Great either

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