Today I Learned Raw Image Files Are Sometimes Incorrectly Described As "digital Negatives". Like Transparency

(…) It will easily be seen in what consists the difference between a man who is led by emotion or opinion alone and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he wills it or not, does those things of which he is entirely ignorant, but the latter does the will of no one but himself, and does those things only which he knows are of greatest importance in life, and which he therefore desires above all things. I call the former, therefore, a slave, and the latter free.

Spinoza, Ethics (via fatenumber1)

As of 2025, globally, 0.3% of Windows PCs and 0.1% of all devices across all platforms continue to run Windows XP.

Some slides we made in class this week. Histology's been treating me well.

September. "Septem" ... as in the number seven. Yes, it is the ninth month of the year. Romans, smh.

do you ever think about how machine learning basically started in the 1940s and 1950s but they just didn't have the hardware at the time to implement it in a robust way

When God closes and locks a door, I reach for the lockpick set I purchased on Amazon dot com.

do you know how some dogs go insane if you leave them in silence for too long? i think sometimes people are sort of like that

Foster Island, Seattle, 1984

Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results