Stijn Masschelein

@stijn-masschelein.net

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Researcher and lecturer in management accounting at the University of Western Australia. Working on a textbook. Team R. Owned by one cat.

Troy in Community entering the apartment that is on fire.
Small-world networks of coupled phase oscillators synchronize almost as readily as in the mean-field model2 , despite having orders of magnitude fewer edges. This result may be relevant to the observed synchronization of widely separated neurons in the visual cortex if, as seems plausible, the brain has a small-world architecture.
(1) For cellular automata charged with the computational task of density classification, we find that a simple ‘majority-rule’ running on a small-world graph can outperform all known human and genetic algorithm-generated rules running on a ring lattice.
You are... The Org Chart Survivor patron saint: Ethan Mollick Your company made you 'AI Lead' on top of your actual job. You use it, it helps sometimes, and you've stopped trying to explain to leadership what it can and can't do. You run little experiments and post the results. Just try things, you keep saying. Just try things.
Text between my wife and me. Her: I’ll put the couch back together when I come home this evening. Me: That’s hilarious.
Two separate BlueSky threads. One by a simple language using AI agent about his simple language. Another about small talk amongst humans. The coincidence amuses me.
Black cat, chilling in the shape of a croissant, the best shape for conserving energy.
Evidence of the bigger-fool theory at work in real estate is not limited to confirmed speculators (called flippers in a parlance ominously suggestive of the turf). When Donald J. Trump's difficulties meeting debt service on his Atlantic City hotels were first reported, one of his executives explained blithely that Mr Trump's forte was not managing properties for their cash flow but rather trading them to benefit from their appreciation. Since Mr Trump was unable to sell his hotels, presumably he and his associates comprehend better the relationship between cash flows and appreciation potential, at least until the next market upturn.
If there was one attribute that Richard shared with his uncle Arthur-apart from a common name, a genius at marketing, and a sense of unquenchable ambition-it was the stubborn refusal to admit doubt, even in the face of contrary evidence, and a corresponding ability to delude himself into a blinkered faith in his own virtue.
Freedom of speech (Norman Rockwell painting)
Man’s face in the background looking pleased with getting a selfie with his old black cat.
Picture of Will Ferrell in the movie Anchorman The text says: I immediately regret this decision
A cartoon figure poking a stick at something to make it move.
Profile picture of a man with the head replaced by a mushroom cloud. Text says: WHOOOAAA!
The big original sin that lands you in the mental prison is, in this case and many others, taking a set of numbers that you have to calculate for one purpose, and using them for another purpose because it’s cheaper and easier than starting again from scratch.
Picture of brand new university issued laptop showing a lot of information on the platypus
El Risitas laughing.
Psych Health and Safety Podcast advertisement with Alex, Joseph and me in the picture - Title: Should workers have control over where & when they work.
Javier Milei holding a microphone as if he is singing. He looks a bit like Roy Orbison to me.