On Thursday, I went to the Boston Ballet’s opening night of Swan Lake. I’ve been a Swan Lake fanatic for probably the last ten years, inspired in large part by my ballet background and obsession with the Black Swan Pas De Deux, and playing the Act IV Finale in high school orchestra.

🚨 You are only evaluating a slice of your test-time scaling model's performance! 🚨

📈 We consider how models’ confidence in their answers changes as test-time compute increases. Reasoning longer helps models answer more confidently!

📝: arxiv.org/abs/2502.13962

not to be dramatic but I finally got a shiseido lash curler and it’s changed my life

finally listened to the new kendrick album and have some initial thoughts/faves, but I do want to preface this by saying I don't listen to a lot of rap and in terms of kendrick I'm really only familiar with DAMN.

my favorites based on my first listen:
- luther
- reincarnated
- dodger blue
- gloria

going to the symphony tonight, reflecting on whether it's more enjoyable as a listener/musician to hear a piece you know very well vs one you are only marginally familiar with