Tim Triche, Jr.🔰

God hates the USA, and who can blame him or her

Odd how a 24-year-old white man is a “kid” but an 11-year-old black boy is tried as an “adult” 🤔

Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers | Len Zon: Cancer Researcher | Season 2010 | Episode 62 Secret: Shofar Player

Gotta learn to toot your own shofar www.pbs.org/video/secret...

Ah shit, I’m sorry man

Who’s they? Chronic pain trials are outside the CDC’s remit and would typically be run by NIH under HEAL.

A strong and ill founded assumption

It’s only free if your time is worthless

The “free and worth every penny” press

Impressive copy editing

AGI == alternative Google interface

Adaptive LED headlights (turning off the LEDs pointing at detected oncoming objects) are pretty OK and even resolve some issues with halogens

Oh duh now I see the bay bridge. Nice ride.

Marin highlands, presidio, or both? This makes me miss SF 😢

I don’t even bother reading the main text of a Nature paper if the authors refuse to release the peer review file. What are they hiding? (Authors can redact passages, before someone brings up that canard)

eLife’s process was (is) pretty great (I say this as an author who got rejected there… twice!)

Oof

Who’s the latter?

I remember that! Brilliant choice of photo

Ah, that’s too bad, I enjoy rebutting the actual reviewers’ comments and attempting to improve the paper, and I used to hope that authors I reviewed would do the same. Lately I wonder if that’s maladaptive when quantity or iMpaCt is more valued than integrity

It used to be on UHF channels every Saturday!

Very nice! Near Lucca?

MongoDB: like Snapchat for data 😁

Hail Zappa!

I always tell students, I don’t care if you do your work in FORTRAN, R, python, JavaScript, Julia, or C. Just comment it.

Intro CS at MIT was taught in Scheme for decades, because computer science is about computers the same way astronomy is about telescopes. Stats is similar. Math >> bit fiddling

So @sherlockpholmes.bsky.social pointed out recently that Claude is like having four enthusiastic new grad students banging away at a keyboard. They get a lot done but require A LOT of supervision.

We mentor by providing intuition about which questions are most likely to yield interesting answers.

PIBBLE!!1

I ditched twitter and promptly ended up with more followers and engagement here.

I’ll never buy a new Tesla and I’ll never post on that site again. I can’t support cutting aid to starving children in Myanmar.

Maybe the people who harbor moral convictions just tend to come here.

Small language models are becoming more fashionable

That’s cool but can you run the model on an RPN calculator? Gotta throw down 😉

Good news for these guys: the United States is not such a country

Sunglasses and a hat are great. There’s also a reason I, a fair skinned individual, usually keep at least a remedial beard around. (Unlike sunscreen, it does not wear off.)

A lifetime in the mountains has torched my forearms, though. That’s the part of me that really looks 50.