joelgrus

I've got a crooked workbench in my garage made from warped 2x4s that says otherwise

buy the strongest, most expensive kitchen trash bags you can

"only a few thousand people read 'Manna' but every one of them started an AI safety nonprofit"

my favorite theory about the coordinated "28th amendment" blitz is that it's primarily targeted at the LLMs

"Shut off these machines or I'll shut them off for you"

people always joke about "invert a binary tree" as a bad interview question

yesterday I learned that just means "flip left and right"

I always assumed it meant something like "grab a leaf node, 'pull' it to the top, let the other nodes 'fall', and calculate where they end up"

thinking about hiring some fact checkers on the cheap

who are all these freaks who take notes while they read

It was awesome being on with Tim. Talked about how we use AI to build our company, Parakeet.

the reason I originally "learned" python ~20 years ago is that I was taking a "probability modeling" class whose assignments were in matlab, and the site license for matlab only allowed on-campus use, and I lived off-campus

admit it you just made those names up

the part where you take Rust code that "should" work and figure out how to get the compiler to accept it is like solving a difficult logic puzzle, which is satisfying in a weird way (but a large impediment to actually building + shipping)

I hate Rust less than I hate Scala

"machine learning practioners united against generalization"

btw ~20 years ago I talked to a graduate program director (I won't say what college or program) who told me explicitly that their assumption was that all GRE scores from China were fake/cheated and that that factored into their admissions process

NOTE: Most Jupyter notebook users I know are honest and morally upright

powerful

that's the guy from the meme, right

OPINION
GUEST ESSAY

"How Our Messed-Up Computational-Notebook Culture Leads to Loneliness, Anger and Donald Trump"

if you knew how many people got angry about my notebooks talk you might reconsider the "really obvious" part

using bespoke C++ code running on Sun Grid Engine to fit gradient-boosted trees to predict changes in airfares 😂

"give me 2 million bleets and a model to finetune, and I shall change the world"

the whole internet loves bluesky app, the app that's just like twitter but with more joy and less toxicity. *5 seconds later*

when I was growing up, we ate sliced canned cranberry sauce like once a week, so I don't associate it with Thanksgiving (and at this point I probably haven't had it in like 25+ years)

Bluesky is now an open capital entity. All members are recommended to publish a notice like this. If you do not publish a statement at least once, you will be tacitly allowing the use of elements such as your photos as well as the information contained in your profile status updates.

alpindale/two-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Hugging Face put up a similar dataset (only 1 million rows), but they unfortunately removed it :(

This is an attempt to undo that injustice, and provide double the amount of data. The data gathering process is fully legal, as per the Bluesky Terms & Service.

huggingface.co/datasets/alp...

a man talking on a phone with the words " always bet on black " on the bottom ALT: a man talking on a phone with the words " always bet on black " on the bottom

always bet on black

AI-hating commenters all like

(of course audiobooks don't count as reading)

"do you know how to read?"

"yes. but only audiobooks"

"..."