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TP3 is a pinnacle of storytelling.
Okay, who’s got a 4k Blu-Ray rip of Twin Peaks The Return Part 8?
January 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
New prompt to try out in midjourney
Try to make it through life without ever been hated as much as Rudy Giuliani is by a courtroom sketch artist.
January 7, 2025 at 6:01 AM
January 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Ever wanted to do deep learning with a neural net that is one-to-one mapped to 65.05% of the fruit fly brain? 😄

Before this year ends, I will quickly advertise our code release of `flyvis.`

Docs: t.ly/YqWzR
Repo: t.ly/pMWpp

Work with @jakhmack.bsky.social, @srinituraga.bsky.social and colleagues
December 30, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Mars Express is the most cyberpunk animation I've seen since Ghost in the Shell. I'm amazed by the attention to detail, the depth of the characters, and the supremacy of style above all else—not to mention the stunning animation.
January 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Statistical analysis, archaeology, class struggle, mysterious Ismaili games from India: Board Game Studies is easily my all-time favorite journal, tied only with Lingua Aegyptia. Finally getting around to reading Vol 18 from Oct ‘24.

sciendo.com/issue/BGS/18/1
January 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I like the way the Christian author of *The Cloud of Unknowing* describes contemplative prayer:

"Come to rest in a naked, blind feeling of your own being, and let go of the conceit that it's yours."*

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* "conceit" is how you spelled "concept" in Middle English
‘Prayer is not a request for something: it is an expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and causing to exist…Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act, of the Creative Imagination.’

HENRY CORBIN
Art: By Pavel Petrovich Ivanov c. 1953
December 29, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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You will be visited by three ghosts
December 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM
And that night when the Holy Spirit descends upon people
It’s time for the annual discussions about what qualifies as a good Christmas movie.
December 24, 2024 at 3:16 PM
youtu.be/2adrHe8ntcg?...

With all the love
Christmas
YouTube video by Ulver - Topic
youtu.be
December 24, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Yay!
I'll get straight to the point.

We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.

Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.

It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵
December 19, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Science slowly catching up with an idea that emerged 25 hundreds yrs ago in Gangetic Plain.
> [...] We show that [the “agency” of organisms] is theoretically unsound and unsupported by current biology. [...] better explained using the well-established idea that complex multiscale feedback mechanisms evolve through natural selection.
Reading this, that I saw @philosobio.bsky.social tweet, at the same time that I read @wiringthebrain.bsky.social's Free Agents, just to make my brain explode

academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
December 19, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Observing model's convergence is like looking at fire
Watching a big model slowly converge is really addictive. It feels like I'm (vicariously) doing so much productive work.
December 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Great sources re baroque music
It's Beethoven's birthday and I spent 2024 learning obsessively about classical music so wanted to do a thread that might be inspirational for the curious.

I'm not a classical guy btw but I always wanted to take the time to learn enough to know my way around and now I do!
December 17, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Mona Lisa overdrive vibes
Before and after
December 15, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Catara
YouTube video by hxly xo - Topic
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December 14, 2024 at 9:51 AM
It's all little gnomes pulling levers behind the curtain
My definitions:

Agent: inspects the state, determines the best next action, executes it, and repeats it. Learns over time.
Workflow: LLMs are used in the control flow to make certain decision or loop when the output is invalid.
December 14, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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I will soon delete all my twitter posts, so in the next few days I will be recycling some of my most liked tweets, in random order. The first one had to be a shitpost, of course
December 10, 2024 at 7:14 PM
s1 was a good idea badly implemented. it looks like its not going to change in s2.
December 9, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Monitoring for dummies

1. Basic stuff
- How many people use it
- How fast it answers
- If it crashes

2. What goes in
- Check what users ask
- Look for bad requests
- Watch for attacks

3. What comes out
- Are answers good?
- Do they make sense?
- Are they safe?
December 8, 2024 at 11:41 AM
punching above your weight is a useful reframing for impostor syndrome
December 7, 2024 at 11:56 PM
attention is all you need
why does my cat insist on sleeping on my laptop instead of her warming pad

like she hangs onto dear life as I try to pull her off of it
December 6, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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A simple experiment you can do is buy a server, set up a website with nothing on it, then look at the access logs. All day, every day, there are random systems just blasting vulnerabilities at every device on the internet. Analysts call it "background noise", executives call it "cyber attacks".
December 6, 2024 at 2:15 AM
looks great! would be even better if all data stayed on localhost though
I can't begin to describe how life-changing this new project, ShellSage, has been for me over the last few weeks.

ShellSage is an LLM that lives in your terminal. It can see what directory you're in, what commands you've typed, what output you got, & your previous AI Q&A's.🧵
As R&D staff @ answer.ai, I work a lot on boosting productivity with AI. A common theme that always comes up is the combination of human+AI. This combination proved to be powerful in our new project ShellSage, which is an AI terminal buddy that learns and teaches with you. A 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Can't speak to this instance, but it's frequent enough that when working with time series data, I reindex w/ expected frequency. Ex:

```
full_range = pd.date_range(df['day'].min(), df['day'].max(), freq='D')
df = df.set_index('day').reindex(full_range).reset_index()
```

Then search for nulls
December 5, 2024 at 2:40 PM