MIDNIGHT SOUP

higher math is so fucked because once you get the hang of individual equations they start making you think about all of them at once

When I was in graduate school we used to shoot staple guns into each other’s flesh to cope with fatigue which is like, fucked up in retrospect but if you did it into the thigh it actually didn’t hurt too bad

I’m nostalgic for the staple gun now

Easter egg for office workers: if you go onto Excel and press ctrl+right, then ctrl+down, you will reach cell XFD1048576. If you put a dot in there, then ctrl+A and fill every cell in black, you can then print 34 million black pages from your office printer and get fired

Thank you for the intrusive thought to carry into my Excel training this afternoon.

AH YES. LAMINAR FLOW. THE FLOW CONDITION WHICH OCCURS AT LOW REYNOLDS NUMBERS. A THING WHICH YOU FAMOUSLY WANT IN A ROCKET ENGINE.

i've watched a few of this guy's videos and they all make me really mad because he has such an incredibly vibes-based understanding of engineering. literally the peak "maker youtuber" type of guy where he has access to all sorts of fancy manufacturing toys but only designs via trial and error. the type of guy who thinks that conceptual understandings are all that matter and the math is just boring details that you don't have to worry about.

Would love to understand what a reynolds number is or why laminar flow is bad for rockets but sadly i have no idea where to even begin

Thank you!!

oh ABSOLUTELY go back to read yokowan's dismantling of the subject it IS her specialty and it's SO vivid in it's writing even through the encyclopediac style. turns out the problem is even Worse and More Prevalent than I was able to Even Comprehend!

ANOMALOCARIS!!! Sea Bunny is pretty. Anomalocaris is the coolest. Paleontologist thought anomalocaris was different animals until they finally figured out that the fossils they found were different parts of the anomalocaris. It took decades to puzzle it out together!

I'm really not apologetic with this hard stance, either. I'm very firm on this, too. My art has already been used, twice now by people who did not ask my permission, so they could "enhance it" with Gen AI. I really see nothing good coming from generative AI except poor excuses for laziness and glorified search engines that don't work.

This is an important time to make the distinction between generative and analytical AI. Analytical AI is what AI is supposed to be for. It’s all the boring stuff like analyzing data for patterns. For example, you probably heard about that AI that was designed to tell apart bear claws from croissants for a bakery that is now being used to detect cancer cells with greater accuracy than human doctors. That’s an analytical AI, while everything mentioned in the post above is generative AI. (Which sucks!)

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

I think all computers should have cd slots and all phones should have headphone ports send tumble

well yeah i have a pet hydra and it only has one head. i'm not going to cut its head off just to make it look cooler, you asshole. that's seriously unethical. and i'm not letting you cut its head off either. if you really want a hydra with multiple heads, you should go for a rescue- but if you want your pet to look cooler at the cost of its physical health, maybe you shouldn't get any kind of pet at all. no, the hydra's not for guarding my evil tower, it's my pet. have you ever heard of a pet? like a puppy or a kitty? you think i can't defend my evil tower by my self?