Masoud Masoumi
@masoudmim.bsky.social
Engineer turned Data Scientist | Interested in history, art, and culture | All views are personal | Personal website: masoudmim.github.io
when I'm asked to come up with a hypothesis with a very limited data
January 22, 2026 at 1:40 AM
when I'm asked to come up with a hypothesis with a very limited data
my AI call assistant had a conversation with an AI recruiter, which changed its character from the first response to the second. #aislop
January 19, 2026 at 6:45 PM
my AI call assistant had a conversation with an AI recruiter, which changed its character from the first response to the second. #aislop
Given the current status of international affairs, there could be a completely updated version of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" song.
January 18, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Given the current status of international affairs, there could be a completely updated version of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" song.
Iranian people when faced by progressives and liberals in the West and asked to explain why they are asking Trump to attack their own country?
January 17, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Iranian people when faced by progressives and liberals in the West and asked to explain why they are asking Trump to attack their own country?
Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá
January 17, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá
January 15, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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40% of Americans didn’t read a book last year. Congratulations to the 4% who read 50 or more though.
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
40% of Americans didn’t read a book last year. Congratulations to the 4% who read 50 or more though.
Reposted by Masoud Masoumi
Everything is Connected and Everything is Complicated.
The Iran Domino
Why Russia, China, the US and Israel are all piling on
chadbourn.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Everything is Connected and Everything is Complicated.
books I read in 2025
December 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
books I read in 2025
some Christmas lighting in Medellin, Colombia
December 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
some Christmas lighting in Medellin, Colombia
Botero museum in Bogota
December 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Botero museum in Bogota
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Check out this blog post from @clairemkbowen.bsky.social showing how federal data shape your entire day—often without you even noticing. Federal data are everywhere! It’s the invisible infrastructure powering daily life and the big decisions that shape our futures. #statssky
A Day in the Life with Federal Government Data – Association of Public Data Users
apdu.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Check out this blog post from @clairemkbowen.bsky.social showing how federal data shape your entire day—often without you even noticing. Federal data are everywhere! It’s the invisible infrastructure powering daily life and the big decisions that shape our futures. #statssky
Reposted by Masoud Masoumi
Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...
Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM
Olmo is the LLM series from Ai2—the Allen institute for AI. Unlike most open weight models these are notable for including the full training data, training process and checkpoints along …
simonwillison.net
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...
A few photos from my trip to Maine in September.
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A few photos from my trip to Maine in September.
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Hooray for an introvert!
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Hooray for an introvert!
finally caught Waiting for Godot on Broadway. it was a good show! I've got great respect for Keanu Reeves, both as an actor and as a person.
#WaitingForGodot #ActorAppreciation #Broadway
#WaitingForGodot #ActorAppreciation #Broadway
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
finally caught Waiting for Godot on Broadway. it was a good show! I've got great respect for Keanu Reeves, both as an actor and as a person.
#WaitingForGodot #ActorAppreciation #Broadway
#WaitingForGodot #ActorAppreciation #Broadway
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Billy Joel releases his “Piano Man” LP this week in 1973.
“I was shocked and embarrassed when it became a hit,” he said of the title track. “The melody is not very good .. the lyrics are like limericks. .. But my songs are like my kids and I look at that song and think, ‘My kid did pretty well.’”
“I was shocked and embarrassed when it became a hit,” he said of the title track. “The melody is not very good .. the lyrics are like limericks. .. But my songs are like my kids and I look at that song and think, ‘My kid did pretty well.’”
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Billy Joel releases his “Piano Man” LP this week in 1973.
“I was shocked and embarrassed when it became a hit,” he said of the title track. “The melody is not very good .. the lyrics are like limericks. .. But my songs are like my kids and I look at that song and think, ‘My kid did pretty well.’”
“I was shocked and embarrassed when it became a hit,” he said of the title track. “The melody is not very good .. the lyrics are like limericks. .. But my songs are like my kids and I look at that song and think, ‘My kid did pretty well.’”
I started using the ThunderAI add-on in Thunderbird. Now my local LLM automatically classifies, auto-replies (reviewable), and summarizes emails across multiple accounts. I did not expect to appreciate it this much!
#Thunderbird #ThunderAI #Productivity #PrivacyFirst #LLM
#Thunderbird #ThunderAI #Productivity #PrivacyFirst #LLM
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I started using the ThunderAI add-on in Thunderbird. Now my local LLM automatically classifies, auto-replies (reviewable), and summarizes emails across multiple accounts. I did not expect to appreciate it this much!
#Thunderbird #ThunderAI #Productivity #PrivacyFirst #LLM
#Thunderbird #ThunderAI #Productivity #PrivacyFirst #LLM
I wrote a short blog post about the idea of how two evolutionary cognitive abilities can help educators and students create more effective teaching-learning relationships.
#Education #Teaching #Learning #HigherEducation #Pedagogy
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/ev...
#Education #Teaching #Learning #HigherEducation #Pedagogy
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/ev...
October 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I wrote a short blog post about the idea of how two evolutionary cognitive abilities can help educators and students create more effective teaching-learning relationships.
#Education #Teaching #Learning #HigherEducation #Pedagogy
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/ev...
#Education #Teaching #Learning #HigherEducation #Pedagogy
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/ev...
when someone asks me why I'm coding and doing data science work
October 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
when someone asks me why I'm coding and doing data science work
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how the fuck am i older than Linux? oh god this awfullll www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...
Linux is 34 years old today — Linus Torvalds meekly announced this free new OS in the comp.os.minix newsgroup on this day in 1991
From its roots of being 'just a hobby, [which] won’t be big and professional like GNU' it has come a long way.
www.tomshardware.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
how the fuck am i older than Linux? oh god this awfullll www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...
Once upon a time in Niagra Falls
August 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Once upon a time in Niagra Falls
I had been meaning to write this piece, which I would call my statistically supported argument
- for more funding for research
- against funding mainly successful researchers, and
- against trying to optimize research funding allocation
#ResearchFunding
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/di...
- for more funding for research
- against funding mainly successful researchers, and
- against trying to optimize research funding allocation
#ResearchFunding
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/di...
Why More Beats Best | Masoud Masoumi
A statistical argument against supporting mainly successful researchers and optimizing research allocation
masoudmim.github.io
July 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I had been meaning to write this piece, which I would call my statistically supported argument
- for more funding for research
- against funding mainly successful researchers, and
- against trying to optimize research funding allocation
#ResearchFunding
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/di...
- for more funding for research
- against funding mainly successful researchers, and
- against trying to optimize research funding allocation
#ResearchFunding
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/di...
Reposted by Masoud Masoumi
Explore Wikipedia through a data map. Pages are grouped by semantic similarity, for topic clusters.
Hover to see details, zoom to explore more fine-grained topics, click to go to a page. Search by page
name to find interesting starting points for exploration.
lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_...
Hover to see details, zoom to explore more fine-grained topics, click to go to a page. Search by page
name to find interesting starting points for exploration.
lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_...
June 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Explore Wikipedia through a data map. Pages are grouped by semantic similarity, for topic clusters.
Hover to see details, zoom to explore more fine-grained topics, click to go to a page. Search by page
name to find interesting starting points for exploration.
lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_...
Hover to see details, zoom to explore more fine-grained topics, click to go to a page. Search by page
name to find interesting starting points for exploration.
lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_...
I wrote a simple RAG-based procedure as an example for reviewing the procedure and providing a quick and interesting way of learning RAG.
It walks you through the development of a vector database, and then a simple application via Ollama, Milvus, and Streamlit.
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/ra...
It walks you through the development of a vector database, and then a simple application via Ollama, Milvus, and Streamlit.
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/ra...
June 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I wrote a simple RAG-based procedure as an example for reviewing the procedure and providing a quick and interesting way of learning RAG.
It walks you through the development of a vector database, and then a simple application via Ollama, Milvus, and Streamlit.
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/ra...
It walks you through the development of a vector database, and then a simple application via Ollama, Milvus, and Streamlit.
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/ra...