Joel Walsh

Defended the honor of deepseek in front of 200 people ama

Lambda functions in AWS and general programming have nothing in common, except that I love to use them unnecessarily

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.

An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.

Byte-Sized Love by @phantasmagoricnerdmetal4720 | Suno rhythmic, 90s r&b, smooth song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

A prof from the music school told me to check out suno and I prompted it to make me a 90s style rnb song about being in love with an LLM

suno.com/song/2f01653...

I'm sure this is stating the obvious but being back in academia has been a wakeup call, so far behind in compute

I was in Maui for work during the 23 fires and live in Northeast LA for the 25 fires. infuriating bc ppl in HI and CA generally revere nature and believe in doing what they can to mitigate climate change. But will continue to pay the cost. Tired of seeing this play out.

On the move stay safe y'all

Sure why not

Who has time to do all this leetcode

Norovirus is surging, which reminds me of one of the grosser studies I read this year. Researchers wanted to see if high hydrostatic pressure processing (HPP) of oysters would get rid of norovirus, so they tested it on humans. But norovirus spreads through fecal contamination, which means... 🧵

In STEM grad school every Asian-American student has a come to Jesus moment after spending time w/classmates fr IIT, Tsinghua, Peking,etc. where you are like "was I raised soft?" And the answer is yes

If someone says p(doom) you are about to hear the dumbest thing you've heard that week

Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position with HSI Initiative University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

UCLA is looking to hire a math prof as part of HSI initiative. Sounds cool! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10045

As a qualitative researcher and learning scientist, it's helpful to study a little bit of quantum mechanics Bc it complicates schema, ontologies, and positivism in a meaningful way that has implications for knowledge and learning

What are you trying to say about me Linkedin

This watch counts my steps and gives me historical data. Never have to update time as it syncs with my phone. If I hold the button on the bottom right my phone makes a noise. Incredible watch. 75 dollars abl100-we

If I end up starting my own lab I am going to establish lab wide model agnostic object templates and pipelines

Doing work at the USC Phil library is crazy bc the books are just there to serve as a catalyst for an existential crisis. What is thought tho

2 people who I respect published a paper, used former teachers for model tuning. Paid 2/3 of the minimum wage in the city where their university is located. Please do not do this. I used a teacher for my dissertation to make knowledge graphs. As student, I paid 40/hr. Plz do better

I watched his rise in atx politics, this guy has the goods

umd is hiring 30 cs faculty, USC has plans to hire 60 by 2030. Texas and Florida unis are about to be picked dry by all of these hiring initiatives, thanks to mismanagement and state gov

Introducing Global-MMLU🌍: A multilingual benchmark featuring MMLU translations in 42 languages crafted with:
✅ Human curation
✅ Extensive metadata
✅ Insights into cultural sensitivity

Proud to have collaborated with Shivalika Singh, @sarahooker.bsky.social and Cohere For AI!

If you as a university want to attract Asian or Asian American faculty, you must first build an hmart or ranch 99 within city limits

Btw epic security check in line at SFO. 6 am

Whoa. This paper caused a big stink when it came out

SF be fr. Why am I seeing weights and biases and GPU billboards on the freeway

When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless.

But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.

If you want to be a 13 yo edgelord there's a whole app for that

In central CA at a rest stop. Every non Tesla car here is a rivian

AI’s computing gap: academics lack access to powerful chips needed for research Survey highlights disparity between academic and industry scientists’ access to computing power needed to train machine-learning models.

We are starving out here

www.nature.com/articles/d41...