John F Wu

New blog post up: if you've been paying close attention to LLM prices, you may have noticed that they have dropped *significantly* over the past few months, which is not what I expected. minimaxir.com/2026/10/chea...

Great Baltimore Lantern Parade, 2026 🎃✨

En route to the Baltimore Great Lantern Parade

@quantamagazine.org are the best science explainers in the world. That is all. This article is fantastic! I had no idea transposons were thought to be key in evolving eyes, immune systems & placentas. You know, the things that make us, us! www.quantamagazine.org/how-virus-li...

Pretty sure my family has caught the front end of a pretty terrible flu wave. Already been a rough season (COVID hit early)...

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

if you aren't a huge nerd this is terrifying and very funny php is trash. insecure by design. we have known this forever. it still runs some very high fraction of the entire internet, including all wordpress sites and for some reason tumblr anyway everyone using it may be pwned

Fantastic new review by Christian Kragh Jespersen on graph neural networks and their (practical) applications in astrophysics + cosmology! arxiv.org/abs/2610.27051

Agree with this so much. I have a upcoming blogpost (crappy stream of thought draft attached) tentatively titled "Why Research Must Go Slow" and it's really about finding your voice, especially as you write your N-th pass of the paper.

Whoa! TIL.

(Another) Call for Editors at the Open Journal of Astrophysics! The number of papers being submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics continues to rise, as demonstrated by the following graphic which shows the stats for new submissions for the last five years: It's very clear that the thicket…

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Definitely stochastic parrot behavior www.anthropic.com/research/ecd...

A four pitch bases loaded walk is exactly what the Dodgers needed

Sharing a nice opportunity - tenure track Assistant Professor position in Quantum Computing at Vanderbilt University! apply.interfolio.com/195247

We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

Transitioning from ADS to SciX to serve twenty-first century astronomy ☄️

And hello SciX! (Which has every single one of ADS's features, including an ADS Compatibility Mode)

people are imagining a hypothetical superintelligence seizing power while actual human beings are already concentrating enormous amounts of economic, technological, and political power

#WaffleHouseIndex : ACTIVATED. Gulf Breeze, Florida becomes first #WaffleHouse to SHUT DOWN ahead of #HurricaneIsaias

why does my toddler remind me of Susie from Calvin and Hobbes

Jong Kak is as Baltimore as it gets

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Babe new math breakthrough just dropped

Baltimore is just such an incredible city, it's crazy how big the chasm is in sentiment between actual Baltimore residents vs people who live in the suburbs

Screw-ups should be costly. There should be a high government fine on top of it, plus paying to clean-up and re-secure the systems hacked. These are equivalent to industrial accidents and should be treated as such, imo

"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...

By popular demand, I wrote a blog post explaining the web app that I built last week: the Galaxy Manifold. jwuphysics.github.io/blog/2026-10...

I don't have to imagine what LinkedIn slop would've looked like in the 90s, we already had Chicken Soup for the Soul

I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...

Important thread. Potential TW (SA)

My daughter's school sent me a URL-shortened link to an "apptegy.me" page containing a link to a flyer, which is a Canva space, which tells me that there is a parent information session TOMORROW AT 4PM, and contains another URL-redirect link to the virtual meeting. Guys I wish I were making this up

@aas.org Special Session - Advances in Foundation Models and Agentic AI for Astronomy January 13th, 2027 Salt Lake City Speakers: Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro Mike Smith Rachel Mandelbaum Eytan Adar cosmicai.org/events/aas-a...

Angry at how true this is Alad, a good password manager + 2FA system will only partially restore sanity

So this story won't receive much attention, but... is kind of a big deal? It sure looks like the plaintiffs lawyers in the big copyright case against OpenAI/Microsoft did some seriously sketchy shit to manufacture evidence and sneak it into the case....

By popular demand: you can now filter out galaxies colored by missing values! In this case, I'm showing sSFR vs Mstar, colored [and filtered] by HI/Mstar. galaxy-manifold.github.io#p=ssfr&c=log... (Also, this is what it looks like on a desktop, not mobile.)