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Nathan🌸
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Indie software developer • math lover • ML builder • 48 • NB they/them
Currently working on circuit simulation.
big retraction at Springer Nature, bunch of papers using a sketchy dataset of kids faces with and without autism (lol)
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e...
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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ari.lt ari @ari.lt · 6h
well its just `and` python does this for all operators

>>> 10 < 123 < 666
True
>>> 10 < 123 and 123 < 666
True
December 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
an amazing album! buy this one now. so worth the wait
December 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
it checks out!!!

newly discovered safe and Sophie-Germain prime with nice bit properties (see code) of length 4096 bits found

it's an @ari.lt christmas miracle
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
kid figured out how to watch youtube on the "emergency use only" feature phone

on the one hand... congratulations?
on the other hand... no?
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
today i'm listening to Sorrow and the Shinigami EP (long live UK garage)
sorrowgarage.bandcamp.com/album/shinig...

i was impressed with Sorrow's Guardian, one of the bonus tracks above, when i heard it on this Cobalt Rabbit mix:
cobaltrabbit.bandcamp.com/album/sekai-...
Shinigami E.P, by Sorrow
6 track album
sorrowgarage.bandcamp.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
currently translating some c++ code into rust.

most interesting things so far has been thinking about when things are mutable (always mutable in C++ yikes), lifetimes for stored references (what if they are gone???), and non-type template parameters (used for sizes of arrays to allocate???)
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
going down the rabbit hole of modeling actual electronic components. i've gone from resistors, to capacitors, now diodes. going non-linear
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Currently reading Alchemised by @senlinyu.bsky.social

This is a great book, very dark, just enough hot steamy romance+sex, actual plot too. I think this is the first "grimdark" style book I have ever liked.

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Alchemised
Amazon.com: Alchemised eBook : SenLinYu: Books
www.amazon.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
don't give me a lecture
it's your architecture

(this is great!)
And it's up! All together now...

🎶 Somebody told me
the user provider
should use an adaptor
to proxy the query
factory builder... 🎶

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p03o...
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Mixing black and brown, going for cozy fancy.

SPOUSE: Try to look more natural!
ME: How about this?
SPOUSE: That's even worse!
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
An example "singing voice synthesis" clip from BiSinger. Why would you sing this? And why does it sound like GLaDOS?

bisinger-svs.github.io
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
i am very mature in my use of cutting edge research text-to-speech models.
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
at 13yo, working my way through an ancient applied math book, writing BASIC programs. my uncle hears me talk about interpolation, pays me to write a program to help him with making fly fishing rods. I CAN GET PAID TO WRITE MATH PROGRAMS??? everything after that is just details
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Reposted by Nathan🌸
im so very happy and excited to present to you @cobaltbloom.bsky.social - a side project with @hyenablood.yeen.world with our album dropping next month.

almost 7 years ago we started this, and its finally getting a proper release ❤️
an album almost 7 years in the making, we are thrilled to announce 'liminal' by @cobaltbloom.bsky.social - a @gojiimusic.bsky.social x @hyenablood.yeen.world side project out 12/05/25.

their lead single 'mofadi' is out now on animal shelter :
cobaltbloom.bandcamp.com/track/mofadi...
#furrymusic
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
and now the dark mode outfit is used to clean up puke from a sick kid. at least i look cute doing it
rag & bone fancy cardigan "dark mode" fit today for going to the DMV and getting a WA drivers license
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
rag & bone fancy cardigan "dark mode" fit today for going to the DMV and getting a WA drivers license
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Nathan🌸
You can see a demo of it in use in this talk, which you should probably watch the entirety of: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7BI...
DEF CON 33 - Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings - Patrick Walsh
YouTube video by DEFCONConference
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
realizing way too late in life that i actually like poetry. just not reading poetry on a page. add in some backing tracks and somehow the poetry injects itself into my feels.

all that to say you should listen to this track:
sorrowform.bandcamp.com/track/i-bled...
I bled the silence you left behind, by sorrowform
from the album Becoming Sorrowform
sorrowform.bandcamp.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
it brings joy into my heart to introduce young players to local multiplayer games from the 1990s like Sonic 2. based on whoops and hollers, 9 year olds judge it more fun than sharing a modern tablet full of the latest games

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_t...
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Reposted by Nathan🌸
math is probably my favorite metroidvania
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Spouse gone on work trip:

Day 1: "I'll get so many home improvement projects done!"

Day 2: "I'll clean the house and get on top of chores"

Day 3: "I'll feed the kid and we'll at least survive"

Day 4: "Nothing wrong with candy..."
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
this is a fun way to do IPC between containerized processes with no setup required. it is a bit slow, 1 bit of info per function call.

NO LONGER! i figured out how to make it faster.
🧵
Turns out you can communicate across containers via 63-bits of available space in a shared lock you acquire on /proc/self/ns/time that all processes have access to.

No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers.

h4x0r.org/funreliable/
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM