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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇

@comraderobot.bsky.social

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equal parts physics, left politics, DIY science, and photos (space/birds/stuff). formerly astroparticle physics, now astrodynamicist. "dr" in certain extremely specific professional contexts. ohio for 3 decades then west coast (sfbay, now pdx). fuck gen ai

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · Oct 17

okay we can pin stuff now and tons of people are pouring in from an X debacle… so

Hi! my name is Nathan

i post jokes and do a bunch of tedious but aesthetic stuff in my free time:

* space photos
* bird photos
* bouncing radio off the moon
* making gadgets
* using/programming old computers

Photos of jupiter, sun, and saturn/moon conjunction

selfie in front of my moonbounce antenna

bluebird on a fence looking over shoulder and kinda pissed?

my “radioactive dice” project that makes random numbers from Geiger clicks of uranium marbles

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2h

are people extra annoying on here today or what

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2h

it’s like looking at a really really really really high order interpolation between two data points and thinking you’re looking at new information

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2h

still cant believe people think we’re getting real intelligence out of fitting a trillion parameter model

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Bison @bisonrimant.fr · Jun 15

Three woodcarvings : a plump hog, a humanoid cuttlefish in a robe, and a big humanoid goose in plate armor, holding a shield and a mace wich has a red robin sitting on the handle

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2h

all this xbox misinformation is killing us

Windows Central
No, Target and Walmart are not removing Xbox products from their stores — as Xbox misinformation reaches new levels

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2h

the only columbus i respect is in franklin county ohio

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 12h

recognize the phrase already and they definitely do

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 12h

haha will let you know if that ever rings a bell in my reading

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 12h

sorry im gonna be sporadically posting about fruit fly brains, new special interest alert

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 12h

I’m using chatgpt to explore drosophila brain neurons and it’s a near perfect use case because I can ask it to name neurons associated with Behavior X and then instantly google and tell if it is lying (it has already done this once lol)