Metaphors for Life
a scrapbook
From Tim Babb:
Tim Babb@tr_babb
something that illuminated the depth of time for me, and how much of it is lost: for years, I attended a weekly meeting. each time, a sheet of the top bugs would be handed out. afterwards, I put the sheet on a pile in my office. when I left pixar, I had this:
5:33 PM · Apr 19, 2024 · 15.8K Views
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The Flock and the Flood game, from thebes.
https://vgel.itch.io/the-flock-and-the-flood
(games at https://vgel.itch.io/)
microscopic images.@microscopicture
death of a single cell after several injuries
8:35 PM · Sep 22, 2023 · 58.2K Views
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Alexis Gallagher@alexisgallagher
Been going full nerd on my coffee lately and I am embarrassed to realize my notes suggest an absolute, orgiastic wallow in measurability and relative indifference to how it tastes.
Do I enjoy the paraphernalia and system more than the coffee?
4:22 PM · May 5, 2024 · 4.72K Views
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Jason Ma@JasonMa2020
We even tried to deploy the policy while the yoga ball was being deflated. Here is a ~1-minute uncut video of the robot balancing well until it eventually loses control😅
4:35 PM · May 3, 2024 · 3.23K Views
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microscopic images.@microscopicture
cell membrane of a single celled organism being dissolved due to contact with soap water
9:01 PM · Oct 5, 2023 · 47.4K Views
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From halvorz’s Substack:
(1:30— the red dot chaser)
Federico Italiano@FedeItaliano76
Angst in Michael Whelan's paintings
11:57 AM · Feb 29, 2024 · 58.6K Views
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From Wolfram:
(Roman statue in Corinth, stamped over by Byzantines)
(visual metaphor for language)
Jason Ma@JasonMa2020
We even tried to deploy the policy while the yoga ball was being deflated. Here is a ~1-minute uncut video of the robot balancing well until it eventually loses control😅
4:35 PM · May 3, 2024 · 3.23K Views
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Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi@TheFSILab
When a square prism does not want to oscillate in flow despite an initial push. doi.org/10.1016/j.jflu…
4:12 PM · Feb 1, 2024 · 6.24K Views
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From Benjamin Schneider:
Gareth Harney@OptimoPrincipi
Happening now. A colossal Roman marble head has been discovered during the removal and excavations of Via Alessandrina in Trajan's Forum! (Video: Roberto Gualtieri)
2:40 PM · Jun 21, 2025 · 118K Views
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Fernando 🌺🌌@zetalyrae
I have never seen a tidy dependency graph. The better the code is organized, the worse the dependency graph looks.
Rota @pli_cachete
The dependency graph for defining Brownian Motion in Lean4 is actually so cursed
12:58 PM · Oct 25, 2025 · 8.06K Views
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(An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia)
(Pacific island during WW2)
(artifacts intentional)
mansin@Mankaran32
Sometimes I feel like quitting robotics and become a normie web developer. How tf am I supposed to debug this.
6:01 PM · Oct 30, 2024 · 361K Views
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Bulls
“Narrow roads of Gene Land” (my title), a Beksinski painting:
Ethan@torchcompiled
repeated encoding/decoding with Kandinsky.
Absolutely fascinating how it gets stuck in a minima for a while, manages to escape briefly then falls back in.
Ethan @torchcompiled
Is there any literature that explains what happens when you encode>sample>decode and feed it back repeatedly with a VAE?
is it theoretically expected to reach a steady state, drift, go OOD?
5:22 PM · Sep 10, 2024 · 6.02K Views
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From kit liechtensteinflag:
(link to a related notebook)
norvid_studies@norvid_studies
existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness
nabokov
1:44 AM · Jan 26, 2024 · 7.91K Views
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That explains the necrolike