KJ Schmidt

Playing classical music all day to calm my crazy, 4 month old puppy. Feeling very DINK. (btw, the music is working wonders!! I recommend)

(I could only make it 3 months without a dog. Life is too depressing without a dog, idk how anyone does it)

A black and white puppy sitting and looking up at the camera

A black and white puppy in a little coat, sitting outside in the snow

Meet Remy! He's 3 months old and from a rural shelter in Louisiana. He is so sweet and smart. So far he is not enjoying the cold of the midwest

I've been trying to get myself in the habit of using the No Fusion app instead of the camera app. It has film presets that have been fun to play around with

I only read fiction. Here are my favorites of the year:

Just hit my 2025 reading goal!

"we'll have to muddle through somehow" lyric really hitting this holiday season. First holiday season without my Oscar dog. 2 shootings over the weekend. Dark and cold outside. Muddling through somehow

It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️

My dad has started saying "rat hole" instead of "rabbit hole" for when you get really into something annnnnd I'm stealing that 🐀

Really not going to get into it, but in 2025 it should be obvious that giving creepy-ass companies more data on you, even data you consider *innocuous*, is a very bad idea. The aggregation of said data, the assumptions made about you, and how that will be used to your detriment are well documented

I don't think there's any task I dread more than email, and probably one that something like an LLM is most well-suited for, in terms of just producing the text.

But if you ever send me an LLM-generated email, I will crash out. I hope you'd respect me more than that.

We found out he had this cancer on Monday and that he had weeks to live. It was actually hours. He passed away Tuesday in my arms.

He had hemangiosarcoma, the most aggressive cancer in dogs. It develops silently until it forms a mass that bursts. He had been feeling not great for about a month and we were in and out of the vet and the ER. Everyone told us it was arthritis pain, which we were treating.

If you know me, you know that my dog Oscar is my everything. I've had him since I was 22. He turned 11 this weekend and then suddenly passed away on Tuesday. I am devastated.

Being at a point in my career where I can mentor others by validating their experiences and share strategies that helped me when I was struggling is such a gift. I love lifting up other people

i love that someone made this video

I use the netlify free tier. It was super easy to set up and integrate with github. Now when I want to publish changes I just push to the branch that I selected for netlify and it pushes it to production. I ended up doing my domain name with them too once my previous one expired

Omg I know them!! Congratulations!! That's so exciting!

Happy to know "vibe coding" isn't a super common term outside of whatever social media space I'm in. Sad to know that I'm the person who explained the concept to my friends this weekend

Our team is remote, however, I don't have a list of which states NCH supports remote work from. But we can figure that out once you apply if you aren't located in Ohio :)

Our team includes scientists with backgrounds in physics, biology, botany, ecology, computational systems biology, environmental science, statistics, etc. so don't feel like you need a super specific background in cancer research to apply.

Come work with me! My team is hiring a Bioinformatic Scientist.

This position is part of the R&D team at The Institute of Genomic Medicine within Nationwide Children's Hospital. We research better diagnostics and treatments for pediatric cancer and rare diseases.

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I always wanted kids but with everything happening in the world (climate change, extreme right wing politics, overpopulation fears I've been hearing my entire life, the isolation of new moms, maternal mortality rates increasing, school shootings, RFK jr getting rid of vaccines, etc) I probably won't

The top half of the image illustrates equality; it is the same bike given to many people but the bike only fits one person. The bottom half of the image shows equity; a different bike for each person that fits their needs

Fantastic talk by @drraymd.bsky.social today about health equity. I especially appreciated this image about equality vs equity and why the image we usually see (the kids outside of a baseball game) doesn't quite resonate with everyone. If you have the chance to see him speak, don't miss it!

This is a really crazy read. I was surprised last week to hear someone on the train talking to ChatGPT on the phone like they were a friend. It's wild to see how that can affect people

@benblaiszik.bsky.social This (and the thread it's replying to) sounds like what you had been thinking with Foundry-ML and MDF in materials science!

These are top of mind bc I just read them:
- Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
- Julie Chan Is Dead

They were recs from GoodReads for AAPI month. Both were fun reads!

These are 2 of my faves from last year:
- The Midnight Feast
- None of This Is True

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😂 I love the creativity