In a similar spirit I have written a tiny R package that renders your plots to look like they were printed on your reviewers shoddy printer.

Important context and a good decision

Link to a relevant folk song about parasites that has a verse about this sort of wasp

That is some shit straight out of sci-fi horror like Alien.

Machine Learning enthusiasts: Why settle for linear regression when you can deploy a Gradient-Boosted Random Deep Neural Net Surface Vector Cluster that consumes the entire power of Iceland to trace a perfect ∞-dimensional hypersphere around those blue points? Overparameterization is the future!

Best Linear Unbiased Estimator

Partially true

4chan at least had a consistent brand of being the anti-social network and being full of Nazis, weirdos, pedophiles and people who are just anti-social for the lulz. You couldn’t ruin 4chan.

Twitter’s image was being the “internet town-square for serious thinkers” with politicians, scientists, journalists and a small but good measure of standard shitposters. Loosing that brand diminishes it’s value massively. Unfortunately neither Bluesky nor Mastodon was able to catch that clientele yet.

He was under a lot of pressure

It’s the famous “As long as your not Google, Amazon or Apple” licence.

Colourful mohawk bird on the right is way cooler

35-year old Heidegger slid into the DMs of 18-year old Ahrendt as her professor. This was way before you were cancelled for ‘sleeping with students’ or for ‘being a fascist’ was a thing.

Twister his arms wide open

To be very German, here is my favourite Max Planck quote: Scientific Progress marches on one funeral at a time.

Perhaps it was meant like that. And the old guard that disliked his papers is now dead and progress has been made.

So what. I’m also fascinated when I see Humans without a gag reflex.

We keep with the old Reddit tradition to regularly post pictures of Lake Bled post the exodus? Great!

Why? Did the Eastern Hummingbird fuck a couch?

Damn nature, you scary!

I was on a holiday in the Cinque Terre in Italy with my wife a few years ago. Because of a rainy day we decided to take a train to Genua and visit some museums. At the maritime museum I randomly met an Italian coworker/coauthor from my research institute in Germany, who was visiting his family in his hometown with his wife.