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in ordine sparso: lingue morte, storia antica, solidi platonici, cibo vegetale, vulcani attivi, programmazione differenziabile - he/him, acespec

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This is an incorrect calculation of the area of a triangle by a young Babylonian student at school around 1900-1600 BCE, excavated from the ancient city of Kish.

It’s a moment in the history of math, of education, of children, of mistakes, of people being people. I love it.
November 23, 2024 at 1:46 PM
One of the accounts I missed the most when I left Twitter a year ago!! So happy
I’ve been putting it off because I’m awkward, but it’s probably time to introduce myself.

Hi everyone 👋🏽 I’m an Assyriologist at Wolfson College, Oxford where I get to research the languages and history of ancient Mesopotamia.

Okay but what exactly is that?
November 23, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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So is the “linear representation hypothesis” really just people noticing that nonlinear manifolds are locally linear? #mlsky
November 18, 2024 at 2:21 PM
@viola.bsky.social do Terra Nova next!

Ovvero: Bellissima la serie Kamchatka, non vedrei l'ora di leggere recensioni anche dei miei giochi preferiti, la serie di Terra Mystica :)
November 18, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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I think the most important thing about migrating from X to Bluesky is demonstrating to Big Tech that they (including Bluesky) cannot take us for granted—we are what is valuable, not them
November 18, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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the short half-life of #LLMs models is silly and undermining scientific discourse.

Llama 2 was still considered SOTA among open source models for all #NeurIPS2024 submissions (Llama 3 was released not even one month prior to the deadline).

Now reviewers consider it crap for #ICLR2025 🤦
November 14, 2024 at 8:02 AM
Ottima notizia!! Dai che sembra la volta buona
November 16, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Bello bello vedere che un po' di gente sta venendo via da X, evviva! Che sia la volta buona?
November 15, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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please, if you are a white dude in tech, take a minute to reflect before you offer advice on how to make it in academia/industry, esp to marginalized folx. these folx face a different set of structural obstacles and likely don't have as much resources/privilege as you do
September 19, 2023 at 4:05 PM