A cryptic preview of what you'll find within:

This was my first time commissioning a piece of art, and Nico Roper (a former art intern at Quanta) knocked it out of the park. Find more of Nico's work at www.nicoroper.com

IDK if MTG is/ever was one of your things but

I made a quantum foundations alignment chart — go forth and fight about it!

(also, "good" is not an endorsement)

I don't spend any time on the other site these days, but:

Semi-related: I realize this these subway ads are somewhat tongue in cheek (and I am not at all the target audience!), but I dislike them intensely. Actually sleeping in the real world is the important part!!

Happy Bloomsday to all those who celebrate.

Here's a succinct illustration of point (A). Surely any large text corpus contains more instances of "blithering idiot" than "blithering "Blithering"!"

A gem of a post from @nsaphra.bsky.social that should not be exclusive to the bad place!

nice typo in the NYT newsletter yesterday (the first figure is actually $600B, per the article). That said, a random 2000-fold raise in a negotiation doesn't exactly seem out of character.

The peerless (and blueskyless) John Pavlus and I are doing a reddit AMA tomorrow afternoon at 2 PM eastern time, in connection with our AI series published last week! Your questions about CS/AI (or, well, anything) answered to the best of our abilities!

www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

The full version:

In grad school, some friends and I engaged in a masterful bit of physics trolling: a quantum perturbation theory calculation where each variable uses relatively standard notation and then the final answer is this: