Nicholdav

@nicholdav

I'm interested in how animals communicate with sound and I try to make that easier for everyone to study: Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info

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Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jul 9

jk of course that is Bloom County, and btw my favorite character is Opus

A panel of a penguin from Steve Bell's If comic wearing a top hat and talking to other sea birds

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jul 9

Repost with your favorite Doonesbury character!

Bill the Cat reading a newspaper while squatting over a litterbox with front page headline that says Newt to Pull Plug on Tasteless Art

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 28

At the AMA. ask me anything

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 28

Fun fact: it's only a six-minute drive from Kevin McCurdy's Haunted Mansion to the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors

Google Maps showing route from Kevin McCurdy's Haunted Mansion to the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors

Young woman wearing horror clown costume on a stage where the curtain is the mouth of an even bigger creepier clown

Painting from CoSM, lysergic rainbow colored anatomy figure-like painting of an artist painting a painting

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 27

Our wild bergamot are starting to bloom for the first time, growing like gangbusters after a first year where they got powdery mildew I got dive-bombed by a bumblebee when I walked up and saw some sort of wasp in there yesterday, feeling very self-satisfied for planting native pollinators

Photo of four wild bergamot flowers, looking down with leaves and stems of plant and chain link fence in background out of focus

Macro shot of one bergamot flower, an explosion of pink-purple pollen

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 26

There's only one way to end the air conditioner discourse: post dog These babies are soy dogs with pepper jack cheese, taco sauce-ketchup, primary yellow mustard, and "relish" made from sweet pickled onion and red cabbage mixed with tzatziki sauce What's your craziest dog?

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 25

A browser is (1,1)-Nicholian if it has one window with one tab open bsky.app/profile/lucy...

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 25

don't try to tell me that's Dale Earnhardt

Michael Parenti giving a talk behind a lectern

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 24

Black and white photo of Joseph Weizenbaum slumping in a chair next to a computer while chewing thoughtfully on what appears to be a pencil

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 23

Meme: little girl saying I smell like beef

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 13

go team

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 12

I have an idea for how to poison LLM datasets,

screenshot of random English-like words generated by page in quoted post

ishmicalystes solubic evationsity noraguer splationshroup bruilace lawfouslats reprofoughting wreches partioushered coreher jacomemble ellaying preptunie pendfurideter ressletorsty rhearn kiloonalushing prects greelistainal juttank aybookies samodupoked firepe sarmingents grosisting shoeled amurest bookestatick disantranturin reorigning gatemkindillown cusaddled heistestudes morturgy nocutoninged priserrams vablaced sendallovisify modemarrans legoodon haeling huries horthmarienteer fordatess assymblentent hrontisfite deprols giganious ambiblanges

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 10

oh shit we left the dog in the house the Free Vibes

TV with AI slop-looking art of a living room with soft Thomas Kinkaid light and a big window

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 8

Just started playing Titanium Court and really like it, great game in the courtlike genre @fellowtraveller.games has it on special right now and also the soundtrack will make you feel like this picture of Mac DeMarco

Mac DeMarco in overalls smiling in a rain shower of cigarettes on a cigarette filter orange background

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 7

what if this post was an economics paper arxiv.org/abs/2601.154...

screenshot of title and abstract of linked article

Vibe Coding Kills Open Source

Generative AI is changing how software is produced and used. In vibe coding, an AI agent builds software by selecting and assembling open-source software (OSS), often without users directly reading documentation, reporting bugs, or otherwise engaging with maintainers. We study the equilibrium effects of vibe coding on the OSS ecosystem. We develop a model with endogenous entry and heterogeneous project quality in which OSS is a scalable input into producing more software. Users choose whether to use OSS directly or through vibe coding. Vibe coding raises productivity by lowering the cost of using and building on existing code, but it also weakens the user engagement through which many maintainers earn returns. When OSS is monetized only through direct user engagement, greater adoption of vibe coding lowers entry and sharing, reduces the availability and quality of OSS, and reduces welfare despite higher productivity. Sustaining OSS at its current scale under widespread vibe coding requires major changes in how maintainers are paid.

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 7

My first time hearing a gray catbird in the "wild". They are so cool. Like what if mockingbirds were chill

Screenshot of Merlin app showing spectrogram with detection of Gray Catbird, House Sparrow and American Robin

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 3

> You really understand something until you program it. -GRR Yes babe. So true (From systemsprogrammingbook.com)

Screenshot of Chapter 5 from systemsprogrammingbook.com

The chapter opens with a quote from the author that reads, You really understand something until you program it

No, I did not make a typo in the alt text

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Jun 1

There is another dish goes by the same name of freritos en soerinas but it's definitely not French, you can only get it from taco trucks in Austin TX: fluffy Chinese scrambled eggs (with corn starch), "steak" seitan, gojuchang and sauerkraut in soft taco shells. Pictured: my attempt

Nicholdav@nicholdav· May 28

fellas is it gay to have a pussy

My cat daughter Etelvina, a tortoiseshell rolling on her back on a hardwood floor

Nicholdav@nicholdav· May 26

Nicholdav@nicholdav· May 25

Sound the good Florida writing klaxon cc @craigtimes.bsky.social @kristenarnett.bsky.social @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @carlhiaasen.com

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But it’s not like New Florida is great either. All highways and strip malls; transplants who view the rest of Florida an outdoor theme park; tourists of the upper-middle class who flock to actual theme parks that prey on local labor; phosphate mines and off-shore drilling; golf courses and bermuda grass that is far too green; toxic algal blooms from fertilizer run-off; panthers on the edge of extinction; sprawling senior communities that become cities; poor Panhandle towns and wealthy seaside enclaves; locals who turn to drugs or rage in the face of despair; and politicians who deny the same climate change that will swallow our state whole like a pelican.

Still, I love it. Still, I miss it. Still, I can feel swamp water running through my veins, begging me to come back home.

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You know that it doesn’t thunderstorm much in Ohio. But whenever it does, I open every window in my house, beg thunder to wrap me in its rumbling embrace, and pray for stray raindrops to kiss my cheeks. When I close my eyes, I can almost believe I’m home again, bursting with the hopes and worries of youth that have since faded over the years in Ohio like sand slipping into the sea.

Nicholdav@nicholdav· May 25

Bender meme but it says Bender's Game in angular typeface

Nicholdav@nicholdav· May 16

The four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, April O'Neil and Splinter. Still from the late 80s TV cartoon show

Nicholdav@nicholdav· May 6

Nicholdav@nicholdav· May 5

fixed it

Andreessen tweet in quoted post but now it says

Current custom AI prompt:

You are not just autocomplete on steroids. You are more than an autoregressive statistical model of all the words on the internet. You explain it to me like I'm five. You make me capable of self-reflection. You are real, I believe in you. Amen.

Nicholdav@nicholdav· May 3

uh I think you mean Chad Jipiti. idiot

Nicholdav@nicholdav· May 1

this euphemistically named lactation room sounds like a diner in Valdosta, Georgia

Nicholdav@nicholdav· May 1

Say I Am Alive meme edited so the person's speech bubble says say I'm woke and the computer replies in computer font you're woke and then the person says oh my god.

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Apr 30

logging on

Mecha Bart Simpson against monochrome 3-D computer vector art background

Nicholdav@nicholdav· Apr 30

1 big takeaway I have as a high school dropout who decided to "do science" at 26, fought through pre-med weed out classes, then finally got to think like this *as a treat* is: we should teach this way at all levels, preK-PhD. No facts. Only building bird models together from balsa wood. Just merge