@urschrei.eurosky.social
Academic at the ⋂ of cities, technology, and climate adaptation. Reluctant polygon enthusiast. Sometimes I work on computational geometry and spatial data algorithms, which I promise almost never to discuss.
I have 67 followers in common with a guy who just described his understanding of LLMs as Kriging, a technique developed in the 1960s. I feel like this does not reflect well upon me.
whAt??
I saw an interesting comment from an academic elsewhere regarding the word “train” – they insisted that their PhDs and postdocs were advisees. I love this because even though we don’t really use that term in Europe (ime), I loathe the term “train”. That’s not what’s going on.
A colleague’s kid went to SF in summer of 2024 (first in maths from Trinity, very bright, data science job offer). I wonder whether the re-election + LLM double whammy changed his long-term plans…
They have a guy who bursts into your room, roughs you up, and starts hollering about huge asses. He has to do this 50 times per day and longs for death.
Oh my god.
Feel like @sifu.tweety.fish can provide a useful answer. The fact that Dan Dennett was attending symposia about it in the 2000s makes me suspect it’s in the “wrong, but interesting” camp (a perfectly respectable place for scientific work IMO)
That makes me wonder whether you could store a verified ORCID in your PDS. That’d make it pretty easy to get all your papers (well, a lot)
sniffin’ and vibes, but who can really say
Many people in universities remain oddly reluctant to talk about 2020-2022 in secondary schools. I was doing research with 16 year-olds throughout the pandemic, and always want to talk about it.
Christ. Glad you’re mostly OK.
You can grab the ball tree impl from github.com/georust/geo/bl… if you want. It needs 5 minutes of minor changes, suggested here: github.com/georust/geo/pu…. That should get you big speedups for HDBSCAN and KNN.
“The ePub version of Don DeLillo’s unacknowledged 1980 hockey romp is available on Anna’s Archive” is quite the thing to find oneself murmuring.
I love him (?)
The superciliousness is not the most enjoyable part of the discourse, no. But maybe it makes the most enjoyable part even better?
I wonder whether a big part of this (silly, but the passage of time is going to settle it anyway) argument is that the vast majority of non-coders think LLMs are the chat interface, and are not distinguishing between it and the loop. I know Cowork is looping under the hood but maybe it’s not GA yet?
Number 3 is clearest and most descriptive I think. Was leaning towards 2, but the methodology doesn’t have to be hinted at in the title at this level.
It’s both friction and the twisting process of spinning.
It is “just” spinning. Like, using a spinning wheel! The Wikipedia entry explains it with specific reference to wool: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinnin...
Around 3 hours start to finish has been my recent experience for a single-purpose complete algorithm of quite high complexity (n log n production-quality HDBSCAN, ball-tree was separate work).
good man yourself adrian
Meanwhile, holed up in a hotel on 42nd street, Alice Neel executes one of the finest C20 cityscapes three days after fleeing her home, following the destruction of her life’s work by her lover “in a jealous rage”.
I really enjoy the degree to which galleries indulge the evident peccadilloes of male painters. “Like his idol Degas, Bonnard was well-known for his depiction of the female toilette, which he painted hundreds of times.”
Just a Guy with a Research Chair floridly speculating about the intentions of states. “They’re doing this to prevent anyone being held accountable. The regime will just be transferred.”
Is posting engagement bait and epistemic trespass on social media part of your ethical commitment to non-violence?
You can have a “claudeswarm when you learn to take care of your droneswarm.”
I got some “Thank you for doing the work” comments when I posted a photo of my baby in a sling here. Bewildering (but thank you).
They didn’t explain it very well, in your defence.
When you switch over, your tweets will be stored and distributed from Europe. Nobody will notice (but you’ll know), and if it ever goes away you can go back to the American one and all your tweets will still be there.
If I may be permitted a small observation about British politics, I hugely enjoy the fact that MG appears to be perennially glum. A man whose access to joy has been severed by his own actions. The protagonist in an abandoned first draft of an early modern play.