Today (22-Sep-2026) I sent the following email to the principle investigators of the scientific collaborations of which I'm a member in the place I work. Subject: Use of Claude Hello [redacted]: This is a hard letter for me to write. At the past couple of [redacted] group meetings, the use of Claude has become casually discussed. The…
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Last night was the first time we were all able to get together in about three weeks... and it's the last time all four of us can meet until late in October. We took advantage by playing a couple of more unusual games from John's collection. Both these games incorporated a mechanic called a "cycle draft." You've…
A work-related gripe: There are three things a physicist will never do: Go faster than the speed of light. Make two electrons occupy the same quantum state. Put something back where they found it. There's substantial experimental evidence for all three of these statements.
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Character I wasn’t originally going to write this post, because how many playthroughs can one actually make a whole blog post about? But I went through all my screenshots to name them (since I use them in my worldbuilding posts or other critiques) and found myself laughing at some of them, so I figured I’d write a…