Mark Rieke
@markjrieke.bsky.social
certified big nerd | big #rstats dweeb | accidental python fan | he/him
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Mark Rieke
@markjrieke.bsky.social
· May 25
Here are some of the photos from hiking rim to rim. It’s difficult to capture in a photo (or words) the sense of wonder and majesty imbued by this park. The scale is humbling
buying a midi -> usb-c cable is possibly the greatest gift you can give yourself
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
buying a midi -> usb-c cable is possibly the greatest gift you can give yourself
new hyper-fixation acquired
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
new hyper-fixation acquired
just one more notebook bro just one more don't make me write a python script just one more notebook I promise this one's different just one more notebook
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
just one more notebook bro just one more don't make me write a python script just one more notebook I promise this one's different just one more notebook
I have just discovered tqdm and it make my reptile brain go brrrr
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I have just discovered tqdm and it make my reptile brain go brrrr
dawg that other ending for Clair Obscur --- I am shattered into one million pieces
October 31, 2025 at 4:36 AM
dawg that other ending for Clair Obscur --- I am shattered into one million pieces
no surprise, but we also found this to be true in a predictive capacity as well:
www.gelliottmorris.com/i/170693120/...
www.gelliottmorris.com/i/170693120/...
October 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
no surprise, but we also found this to be true in a predictive capacity as well:
www.gelliottmorris.com/i/170693120/...
www.gelliottmorris.com/i/170693120/...
I’ve beaten Clair Obscur. What a magnificent, tragic experience
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I’ve beaten Clair Obscur. What a magnificent, tragic experience
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Tapping the sign:
October 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Tapping the sign:
with large number of n’s you don’t need randomization
October 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
with large number of n’s you don’t need randomization
behold, a gaussian mixture of poisson and normally distributed variables
October 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
behold, a gaussian mixture of poisson and normally distributed variables
seems good
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October 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
seems good
I flippin love making lil handouts for dnd
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I flippin love making lil handouts for dnd
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Tolkien, who saw almost all his friends die in the Somme, and knew the seduction of despair, wrote both Denethor and Saruman as doomers.
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Tolkien, who saw almost all his friends die in the Somme, and knew the seduction of despair, wrote both Denethor and Saruman as doomers.
there’s a connection to be made between copulas and multivariate finite mixtures and it’s too late on a friday evening for my brain to draw that dotted line
October 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
there’s a connection to be made between copulas and multivariate finite mixtures and it’s too late on a friday evening for my brain to draw that dotted line
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WAR...WAR never changes.
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
WAR...WAR never changes.
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I had breakfast with former coworkers and we all discussed work for an hour. The things we are frustrated with and spend time discussing are 90% organizational and human issues. Not technical tooling. All conferences are the inverse. I wish there was a tech conf focused less on tooling.
October 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I had breakfast with former coworkers and we all discussed work for an hour. The things we are frustrated with and spend time discussing are 90% organizational and human issues. Not technical tooling. All conferences are the inverse. I wish there was a tech conf focused less on tooling.
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When I see what they do to social science
a man in a suit and tie is crying and says " look how they massacred my boy "
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is crying and says " look how they massacred my boy "
media.tenor.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
When I see what they do to social science
dying my hair! tonight!
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
dying my hair! tonight!
I have spent the past few hours trying to convince a LLM to return empty JSON when it can't find something and _not_ just make up values. It's slowly getting there
October 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I have spent the past few hours trying to convince a LLM to return empty JSON when it can't find something and _not_ just make up values. It's slowly getting there
this is very fun
Can you predict when Lou Bega's greatest hit, Mambo No. 5, was released based on the names of all the women mentioned in the song?
Weirdly yes.
yawpr.substack.com/p/project-a-...
#databs #rstats
Weirdly yes.
yawpr.substack.com/p/project-a-...
#databs #rstats
October 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
this is very fun
Having observed Michael Jordan’s MLB career relative to other professional baseball players, I must now conclude that he is a bad basketball player
it's like if you said a NBA player was good at basketball compared to a MLB player. yes but i'm not sure what we are learning about what's actually differentiating between skill of basketball players
October 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Having observed Michael Jordan’s MLB career relative to other professional baseball players, I must now conclude that he is a bad basketball player
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Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
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this is such loser shit
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
this is such loser shit