J. Cϕϕper

Traveller at the speed of thought. Wurds Rooted in red Georgia clay,Tejas black dirt & Okie subsoil-my drummer is an analog man. Building “castles in the air”.

[J. Cϕϕper @redclayJ]

“All history becomes subjective; in other words, there is properly no history; only biography.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three sides to the story: his-story, her-story, and their-story.

[Jeff Gluck @jeff_gluck]

Randomly thought of another Kyle Busch memory this morning that made me smile, so I’m sharing it with you. This sounds far-fetched but it’s true, promise.

In 2009, Kyle and Joey Logano were celebrity guest hosts of Monday Night Raw in Rhode Island and I flew up with them to do a behind-the-scenes story.

Before the show, someone from WWE came in the green room and worked with the drivers on their lines. The drivers had awhile to think about their own personal touches. I told Kyle he should say the “That. Just. Happened.” line from Talladega Nights and I’d give him $5 if he did.

He was like no, $100. I said no way, too expensive. So he didn’t say it.

Five days later, he wins the Truck Series race at Talladega. First words out of his mouth in victory lane: “That. Just. Happened.”

I hated to lose $100, but it was pretty funny and worth it. I wrote him a check for it. He never cashed it.

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Mathematics and mystery.

Shiver in ecstasy. The circle that fits precisely inside a 3-4-5 Pythagorean triangle has an area of π. OMG.

[Eric Church @ericchurch]

Eric took the stage at UNC Chapel Hill to deliver a commencement speech to the next generation of Tar Heels, sharing a message for the graduates as they step into what comes next.

Watch the speech in its entirety here: https://t.co/DbqOdqiymt

[J. Cϕϕper @redclayJ]

Thank you Lord for another beautiful day here on planet earth...

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

It was 1994 when Alan Jackson protested being forced to lip-sync at the ACM Awards by having his drummer play without drumsticks to expose the fake performance.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Sting dropped some real wisdom in his CBS Sunday Morning interview:

He’s got the houses, the money, the rockstar life — but he’s telling his kids straight: none of it’s coming to you.

“I think the worst thing you can do to a kid is say you don’t have to work,” he said. He sees it as a form of abuse. All his kids have that extraordinary work ethic, and he wants them to keep it. “I’m paying for your education, you’ve got shoes on your feet — now go to work.”

Not cruel. Kind. A deep trust that they’ll make their own way. And when asked if they ever tell him to slow down and enjoy his wealth? “Not to my face,” he laughed.

In a world obsessed with shortcuts, trust funds, and “passive income,” Sting reminds us that real confidence and character come from earning your keep. Handing everything over can quietly rob the next generation of the very fire that made you successful.

I’ve seen this play out in my own life — watching how grinding through challenges built something no money could buy. The discipline and pride that comes from real work hits different.

What about you — do you think parents should leave big inheritances to their kids, or is Sting right that making them earn it is the greater act of love?

[J. Cϕϕper @redclayJ]

@sivori I agree with your assessment 100% ~ but as a GenXer, I am concerned for my children & grandchildren’s generation(s). The ‘(para) social society’ that is being created for them (using Al tools) is eroding human emotion, instead of Al learning emotion.

https://t.co/xBshcTF2Om

[D. Sequoyah @SoutheasternGa1]

@r0ck3t23 1/3. You {essentially} just proved the premise of this account experiment accurate;

I am human, not a bot - not Al - this is from 2019: perhaps it can return (~) half those 15 years of erosion to humanity?

[J. Cϕϕper @redclayJ]

@ColObviousSir @StrongManGuide https://t.co/A8iX4cMmuN

[J. Cϕϕper @redclayJ]

@imr_wx The ‘hook of the heart’? 🤔🤷🏼

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

τ = I(d²θ/dt²) + mgL sin(θ)

John Anderson dropped this in 1974 and quietly broke physics for the rest of us.

Two lucite spheres on three axes (one deliberately offset) and the simple pendulum equation turns into pure deterministic madness. Release it one way, you get elegant orbits. Shift by a micron, and it’s writing a completely different strange attractor in the air.

No randomness. Just brutal sensitivity to initial conditions. The Butterfly Effect you can hold in your hands.

This is why tuned-mass dampers sit at the top of skyscrapers fighting wind and earthquakes, and why aircraft controls stay sane in turbulence. Chaos isn’t disorder; it’s physics with memory.Mind officially blown every single time.

Credit: physicsfun

[Shooter Jennings @shooterjennings]

@seanonolennon Sean! You have a wonderfully dystopian view of art. Please keep it up, it’s your superpower.

[Seán Ono Lennon @seanonolennon]

The older I get the less proud I am of being judgmental about art generally.

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Helen Roseveare, a missionary who faced intense suffering and persecution during her 20 years of service in the Congo, shares one of the times that she saw God answer prayer in a most unexpected way:

"I went to have prayers with our orphanage children as I did every day, and any of the children wanted gathered around me for prayer time, and I'd give them different things to pray about. And this particular day, I told the children of this tiny baby and asked them to pray for the nurses that they would stay awake all night to keep that baby warm. If the baby got cold, it would die. I mentioned that the baby had a 2-year-old sister who was crying because her mommy had died. I mentioned the burst hot water bottle.

During prayer time, different children prayed for different things, and then one little 10-year-old girl, Ruth, she prayed in the usual blunt way of our African children, 'Please, God, send us a hot water bottle. Now, God, it'll be no good tomorrow. Send it this afternoon. Now, if it comes tomorrow, the baby will be dead.'

I'm sort of swallowing hard, and she said, 'While you're about it, God, would you send a dolly for the little 2-year-old sister, so she'll know that Jesus really loves her?'

And that afternoon, the parcel came. It was the first parcel I ever, I've been out there four years, I'd never had a parcel from home. And despite the fact I live on the equator, somebody packing that parcel had been prompted by God to put in a hot water bottle, and a child from my Bible class at home had put in a dolly for a little girl.

And it came that afternoon in answer to a 10 year-old child's prayer, and the amazing thing was, you know, that parcel had been on the way five months to get to us. It had left England in July, and it came that afternoon, cause a child prayed."

[J. Cϕϕper @redclayJ]

@AmerSongwriter Stephen C Foster never saw the Suwannee River, nor visited Florida either. Florida chose it as their state song.

https://t.co/Id8zvfwK0b

[J. Cϕϕper @redclayJ]

@WGTD_Tracer https://t.co/HMIlrsHo41

[am.will @LLMJunky]

The human brain is truly a marvel of nature.

If you horribly reductive, and boiled it down to a language model, you'd be looking at roughly 100 trillon parameters running as a sparse MoE architecture

Only about 1-5% of neurons fire at any given moment, meaning the brain "activates" maybe 1-5 trillion parameters per inference step.

For context, the largest AI models we've built probably top out around 5 trillion parameters.

The brain is roughly 100x larger. Even its active params at any given moment are larger than almost every model in existence today.

Here's what melts my brain (pun intnended) though

Your brain does all of this on about 20 watts of power, less than a dim light bulb.

Training a frontier AI model consumes enough electricity to power small cities for months. Running inference across data centers pulls megawatts.

Your brain runs 24/7 for 80+ years on the equivalent of a phone charger.

We haven't come close to matching the brain's scale. And we're not even in the same universe when it comes to efficiency.

Evolution spent 500 million yrs optimizing the most energy-efficient intelligence architecture ever known. we're trying to brute force our way there with compute and electricity.

Nature is still the best engineer in the room.

[J. Cϕϕper @redclayJ]

@trajektoriePL https://t.co/I07Qzg1VvC
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[J. Cϕϕper @redclayJ]

@trajektoriePL 2/2

[J. Cϕϕper @redclayJ]

Serendipity is a beautiful thing to admire...

[Senator Obi @IykeNwaObi]

Two years ago, he received a life-saving stem cell transplant from a 26-year-old man in Baltimore.

He always said that donor was the only reason he’s alive today.

When someone asked the donor’s name, he replied: “Mike Driscoll.”
At that moment, he looked over… and realized Mike was sitting right beside him.