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Cake day: August 11th, 2026

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  • But just ten minutes into his presentation, a collaborator interjected telling that “something seemed off to them.” As it turns out, the way the new algorithm handled the edges of the surveys was “wrong,” Sutter admitted.

    “It wasn’t a typo, and it wasn’t a missing citation or a factor of two,” he wrote. “It was subtle, but it was very wrong, and everything downstream of it was also wrong, and I had shared the whole thing in a room full of people who trusted me.”

    “It was very wrong” HOW?!?!

    The article might as well have continued “It was so obviously wrong that to go into detail would waste our readers time as any reader of this publication is well aware of the kinds of things that go wrong with the edges of surveys.”





  • We had an intern apply at my job. He put Magic The Gathering on his resume. We hired him and he’s in my department. I eventually broke down and asked him “Alright, you play MTG, but are you any good?”

    This motherfucker has been invited to MTG Worlds for nearly a decade! He would join local tournaments in college just to win spending money. He was in Barcelona when Elijah Wood DJ’d the after party.

    Find me a Lego guy who’s hobby takes them around the world like that and there might be a comparison.