Mitch Harris
@maharrit.bsky.social
NLP/ML/AI/Data Science, Teaching/Consulting/Advising
Non-strategic leader
Non-systems thinker (https://bsky.app/profile/adamjkucharski.bsky.social/post/3mbfgadfu7s22)
Non-strategic leader
Non-systems thinker (https://bsky.app/profile/adamjkucharski.bsky.social/post/3mbfgadfu7s22)
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Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction.
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction.
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
February 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction.
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Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction.
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
February 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction.
Find the deer.
January 26, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Find the deer.
Find the hiddden bear.
January 25, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Find the hiddden bear.
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Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.
January 24, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.
"every time I type a quotation mark, I know I’m preparing to lie"
""Eat breakfast alone, share lunch with a friend, and give dinner to your enemy""
"“Poetry is not exhausted with reality,”"
therumpus.net/2021/10/12/t...
""Eat breakfast alone, share lunch with a friend, and give dinner to your enemy""
"“Poetry is not exhausted with reality,”"
therumpus.net/2021/10/12/t...
Tongue Stuck - The Rumpus
It was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.
therumpus.net
January 23, 2026 at 8:19 PM
"every time I type a quotation mark, I know I’m preparing to lie"
""Eat breakfast alone, share lunch with a friend, and give dinner to your enemy""
"“Poetry is not exhausted with reality,”"
therumpus.net/2021/10/12/t...
""Eat breakfast alone, share lunch with a friend, and give dinner to your enemy""
"“Poetry is not exhausted with reality,”"
therumpus.net/2021/10/12/t...
Lots of good quotes. Starts off with Dumas gaming the 'paid per line' metric.
Latest post, on reading-to-revise: kucharski.substack.com/p/the-pop-qu...
January 23, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Lots of good quotes. Starts off with Dumas gaming the 'paid per line' metric.
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[TRUE CONFESSIONS] Whenever there was a scene with a window, I found myself looking out. (1981)
January 22, 2026 at 8:00 PM
[TRUE CONFESSIONS] Whenever there was a scene with a window, I found myself looking out. (1981)
Essentially "Treat your spreadsheet like a SQL database table."
Life is pain, especially your data
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Life is pain, especially your data
statsepi.substack.com?utm_source=n...
Life is pain, especially your data | Darren Dahly, PhD lol FFS jFc | Substack
Ranting, musing and learning about statistics, epidemiology, clinical trials, and academia. Click to read Life is pain, especially your data, by Darren Dahly, PhD lol FFS jFc, a Substack publication w...
statsepi.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Essentially "Treat your spreadsheet like a SQL database table."
Life is pain, especially your data
statsepi.substack.com?utm_source=n...
Life is pain, especially your data
statsepi.substack.com?utm_source=n...
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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There are four time scales driving AI: speed of (1) new research ideas (2) hype generation (3) large scale deployments of technologies (4) fundamental changes propagating through the world's economy. Very different & driven by different realities. People interchange them and are bad at predictions.
January 18, 2026 at 11:37 PM
There are four time scales driving AI: speed of (1) new research ideas (2) hype generation (3) large scale deployments of technologies (4) fundamental changes propagating through the world's economy. Very different & driven by different realities. People interchange them and are bad at predictions.
Find the hidden cat.
January 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Find the hidden cat.
"Two things are both true to me right now: AI agents are amazing and a huge productivity boost. They are also massive slop machines if you turn off your brain and let go completely."
January 19, 2026 at 10:22 PM
"Two things are both true to me right now: AI agents are amazing and a huge productivity boost. They are also massive slop machines if you turn off your brain and let go completely."
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In January 1976 I started work on a Masters thesis in Machine Learning in the math dept at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia (that dept's most famous graduate, Terence Tao, was only six months old). I have officially been full time in AI for fifty years now.
January 18, 2026 at 11:29 PM
In January 1976 I started work on a Masters thesis in Machine Learning in the math dept at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia (that dept's most famous graduate, Terence Tao, was only six months old). I have officially been full time in AI for fifty years now.
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Extraordinary claims that confirm your biases or trigger outrage are the easiest to believe, but that's exactly when skepticism matters most.
January 17, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Extraordinary claims that confirm your biases or trigger outrage are the easiest to believe, but that's exactly when skepticism matters most.
I'm sort of blind to hashtags so it took me a long time to get it.
January 18, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I'm sort of blind to hashtags so it took me a long time to get it.
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The best result I’ve seen with LLMs was feeding one a PDF file containing a large table, and asking it to reformat the table in Markdown. Had to correct a couple things, but it was lots faster than doing it by hand.
January 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
The best result I’ve seen with LLMs was feeding one a PDF file containing a large table, and asking it to reformat the table in Markdown. Had to correct a couple things, but it was lots faster than doing it by hand.
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This! LLMs can be so good when closely guided by capable humans. They are TERRIBLE without them
January 17, 2026 at 7:48 AM
This! LLMs can be so good when closely guided by capable humans. They are TERRIBLE without them
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It’s damn good at grabbing every damn thing from the history though
While completely ignoring the finger laceration or ankle sprain that actually brought them in
While completely ignoring the finger laceration or ankle sprain that actually brought them in
January 17, 2026 at 2:03 PM
It’s damn good at grabbing every damn thing from the history though
While completely ignoring the finger laceration or ankle sprain that actually brought them in
While completely ignoring the finger laceration or ankle sprain that actually brought them in
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Medical coder here; they’ve been trying to automate my job for literal decades.
The LLM they’ve got plugged into our records currently can’t even manage enough pattern recognition to reliably pick up the condition in “patient arrived in ED complaining of [condition].”
The LLM they’ve got plugged into our records currently can’t even manage enough pattern recognition to reliably pick up the condition in “patient arrived in ED complaining of [condition].”
January 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Medical coder here; they’ve been trying to automate my job for literal decades.
The LLM they’ve got plugged into our records currently can’t even manage enough pattern recognition to reliably pick up the condition in “patient arrived in ED complaining of [condition].”
The LLM they’ve got plugged into our records currently can’t even manage enough pattern recognition to reliably pick up the condition in “patient arrived in ED complaining of [condition].”
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January 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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I think that the mass enthusiasm we see around gen AI is manufactured, and I think this because it doesn't exist for renewable energy, despite it being more measurably impactful (and also technologically wonderous)
January 17, 2026 at 10:39 PM
I think that the mass enthusiasm we see around gen AI is manufactured, and I think this because it doesn't exist for renewable energy, despite it being more measurably impactful (and also technologically wonderous)
