David Tompkins

Julian’s for breakfast can’t be beat!

an elderly woman is blowing out candles on a cake with the number 102 on it ALT: an elderly woman is blowing out candles on a cake with the number 102 on it

A master student and an undergrad in the lab told me that I remind them of their dads.

They must have very young and extremely cool dads!

Came back to my computer after a long weekend away - this image is up in Google search. No recollection of what i was working on.

I got an inter-library book to read up on historical changes in childhood - and a flyer on pandemic era book sanitation practices fell out. Really on the nose

And a weird second bias by the way ChatGPT looks like one entity, but CharacterAI looks like many characters. Might be a monogamy vs ai hookup culture effect

The most ominous door in the Ithaca Mall

Learning about IRT is like finding a hammer and suddenly everything looks like nails

Hate to say it, but the older i get, the more i like kebab-case

Amazing news, thanks!

Last call before it returns to storage!

Was it much effort to setup? I’ve been ignoring mcp but this is enough praise to tempt me into it

Wonder if it works with specific people instead of general concepts? Like could I finetune a model and make a Christmas card with me in one orientation and my partner in another?

Anyone need some old MiniDV tapes digitized? I’ve been digitizing an old dataset and have a whole setup ready to go. Will do for free if it’s research or planned for open access!

Digitizing old camcorder tapes, eating doritos, and drinking a monster. 2008 all over again

Right, that does not sound like generative ai? It sounds like grammarly-esque tools. Am I misinterpreting?

Surely i did. What did i miss?

Surely there are some good uses for generative AI in your organization.

There is no way the optimal amount is 0.

Okay but this would actually be fantastic for multiverse analyses

Beautiful! Thank you!

More curious about this! Color palette or writing R in sublime??

🧠How “old” is your model?

Put it to the test with the KiVA Challenge: a new benchmark for abstract visual reasoning, grounded in real developmental data from children and adults.

🏆 Prizes:
🥇$1K to the top model
🥈🥉$500
📅 Deadline: 10/7/25
🔗 kiva-challenge.github.io
@iccv.bsky.social

Am I understanding right that they are advocating to reduce teaching of the value of hardwork in favor of accepting whatever a person is born into? Surely I’m misunderstanding??

Normally I’d say keep it up!

Found it

Apologies for the extreme lurker comment, but i think i actually included a screenshot of one of your tweets about incomprehensibility of Pearl in my qualifying exam as a way to reduce the reviewers’ expectations. It was effective so thank you!

Still unclear if you can use the sandwich estimator here

They don’t want you to know this, but if you use computational methods, you’re allowed to get a little snack while the computer thinks for you

It’s nice how local news still looks like it was filmed in 2004. A simpler time

Reading papers while listening to brainrot; balance in all things

I’m making a new remote touchscreen task for 2-6 year olds - any platform recommendations?

It needs the ability to do an adaptive staircase and open source is preferred! Should i just build it out in js?