david jon furbish
@davidjonfurbish.bsky.social
granddad and emeritus professor studying statistical physics of sediment transport & science philosophy
essays on these topics: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/davidjonfurbish/
author of Fluid Physics in Geology: https://academic.oup.com/book/40895?login=false
essays on these topics: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/davidjonfurbish/
author of Fluid Physics in Geology: https://academic.oup.com/book/40895?login=false
KaBOOM 💥 my 15-year-old self definitely would have advocated going back with more dynamite 😂
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
KaBOOM 💥 my 15-year-old self definitely would have advocated going back with more dynamite 😂
“Yes, that next sentence directly contradicts the previous one. You are not misreading it. This document is that stupid.”
October 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“Yes, that next sentence directly contradicts the previous one. You are not misreading it. This document is that stupid.”
decided to use my 30-year-old unabridged Webster LLM and noticed we inherited several of our daughters’ not-so-LLMs (“only” ~70,000 parameters)
don’t recall ever seeing any of these hallucinate 🤓😂
don’t recall ever seeing any of these hallucinate 🤓😂
October 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
decided to use my 30-year-old unabridged Webster LLM and noticed we inherited several of our daughters’ not-so-LLMs (“only” ~70,000 parameters)
don’t recall ever seeing any of these hallucinate 🤓😂
don’t recall ever seeing any of these hallucinate 🤓😂
Among other likely reasons for the uptick in migrations from MS Office to LibreOffice are — no surprise — AI fatigue and subscription fatigue. For me the equation editor also matters a lot. In LibreOffice it is LaTeX-like — yay! — and it is well documented.
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www.zdnet.com/article/4-re...
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www.zdnet.com/article/4-re...
4 reasons why LibreOffice downloads are way up (hint: you'll relate)
More users than ever are flocking to the open source suite since its latest update. The end of Windows 10 support is far from the only factor.
www.zdnet.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Among other likely reasons for the uptick in migrations from MS Office to LibreOffice are — no surprise — AI fatigue and subscription fatigue. For me the equation editor also matters a lot. In LibreOffice it is LaTeX-like — yay! — and it is well documented.
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www.zdnet.com/article/4-re...
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www.zdnet.com/article/4-re...
And to be clear, I’m a LaTeX person. I’ve never seriously used that weird thing called Word.
#software #computersoftware #enshittification #opensource
#software #computersoftware #enshittification #opensource
September 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
And to be clear, I’m a LaTeX person. I’ve never seriously used that weird thing called Word.
#software #computersoftware #enshittification #opensource
#software #computersoftware #enshittification #opensource
Thank you @quantamagazine.bsky.social for replacing your previous lede — involving a misleading analogy with perfume — for this nice didactic article.
September 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Thank you @quantamagazine.bsky.social for replacing your previous lede — involving a misleading analogy with perfume — for this nice didactic article.
Fourier transforms are a gem of applied mathematics. But no (ouch), a Fourier transform is not “like sniffing a perfume and determining its list of ingredients.”
September 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Fourier transforms are a gem of applied mathematics. But no (ouch), a Fourier transform is not “like sniffing a perfume and determining its list of ingredients.”