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Just wrote an email telling my new chair that he should be aware that because of what I research and post, I sometimes get death threats that may affect what I am able to teach in a given semester.
That's the chilling effect on free-speech that we're always talking about
Now back to the writing 🫠
That's the chilling effect on free-speech that we're always talking about
Now back to the writing 🫠
September 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Just wrote an email telling my new chair that he should be aware that because of what I research and post, I sometimes get death threats that may affect what I am able to teach in a given semester.
That's the chilling effect on free-speech that we're always talking about
Now back to the writing 🫠
That's the chilling effect on free-speech that we're always talking about
Now back to the writing 🫠
This, uh, is not my bird
She (?) has however claimed a stake in my apartment
Found her on my window screen. When I went out onto the fire escape to check on her, she jumped on my shoulder and then right in through the open window
I guess she knows a chill place when she sees one
She (?) has however claimed a stake in my apartment
Found her on my window screen. When I went out onto the fire escape to check on her, she jumped on my shoulder and then right in through the open window
I guess she knows a chill place when she sees one
September 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This, uh, is not my bird
She (?) has however claimed a stake in my apartment
Found her on my window screen. When I went out onto the fire escape to check on her, she jumped on my shoulder and then right in through the open window
I guess she knows a chill place when she sees one
She (?) has however claimed a stake in my apartment
Found her on my window screen. When I went out onto the fire escape to check on her, she jumped on my shoulder and then right in through the open window
I guess she knows a chill place when she sees one
My first experience experience with Apple Silicon was lackluster when it was new. Now I'm slackjawed that my new job's MBP can run 200B parameter LLMs without even sweating (decent battery drain, tho)
August 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My first experience experience with Apple Silicon was lackluster when it was new. Now I'm slackjawed that my new job's MBP can run 200B parameter LLMs without even sweating (decent battery drain, tho)
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Literally just drove from Pasadena to Anaheim and you’d have no clue that any of this is happening. And I was in that tiny square for 3 hours today before the LAPD lost its mind and started trapping people in for standing on sidewalks. LA is absolutely not burning. Tell your Midwestern family.
All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.
June 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Literally just drove from Pasadena to Anaheim and you’d have no clue that any of this is happening. And I was in that tiny square for 3 hours today before the LAPD lost its mind and started trapping people in for standing on sidewalks. LA is absolutely not burning. Tell your Midwestern family.
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Every day should be like this for all of them. ALL OF THEM. ALL THE TIME. EVERYWHERE THEY GO. They shouldn't be able to go out to eat, to relax, to vacation, to shop, without someone making a noise.
Fox News reported that JD Vance had to move to an “undisclosed location” due to protests at the Vermont resort where he’s skiing this weekend. For inflicting misery on the world and here at home in America, this is exactly the energy that should greet Vance wherever he goes for the rest of his days.
March 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Every day should be like this for all of them. ALL OF THEM. ALL THE TIME. EVERYWHERE THEY GO. They shouldn't be able to go out to eat, to relax, to vacation, to shop, without someone making a noise.
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I’m helping with organizing for @standupforscience.bsky.social in SF! Here are some poster templates you can print and take to your local event!
Free to print posters for the Stand Up for Science Protest
Hi everyone, I am not in the US at the moment and I am sad to miss the Stand Up for Science demonstration on March 7th! I hope you will go, and it make it easier for you, I made some easy-to-print signs! I made 7 different poster designs,…
Hi everyone, I am not in the US at the moment and I am sad to miss the Stand Up for Science demonstration on March 7th! I hope you will go, and it make it easier for you, I made some easy-to-print signs! I made 7 different poster designs,…
Free to print posters for the Stand Up for Science Protest
Hi everyone, I am not in the US at the moment and I am sad to miss the Stand Up for Science demonstration on March 7th! I hope you will go, and it make it easier for you, I made some easy-to-print signs! I made 7 different poster designs, with for each of the designs 2-page and 4-page printables with solid letters or just the outlines of the letters.
abetterscientist.wordpress.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I’m helping with organizing for @standupforscience.bsky.social in SF! Here are some poster templates you can print and take to your local event!
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Higher Ed Labor United, AAUP, CWA, AFT, and the UAW—that’s who’s fighting; join or die www.labor4highered.org
Labor for Higher Education
www.labor4highered.org
February 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Higher Ed Labor United, AAUP, CWA, AFT, and the UAW—that’s who’s fighting; join or die www.labor4highered.org
I don't think anyone needs to worry about Deepseek
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I don't think anyone needs to worry about Deepseek
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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
According to Wikipedia and a conversation on NYE, Wacom is pronounced /ˈwɑːkəm/ (like "wok 'em") and not /ˈwɑːkɑm/ ("wah comm") and I wasn't ready for that
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacom
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacom
Wacom - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 4, 2025 at 1:03 AM
According to Wikipedia and a conversation on NYE, Wacom is pronounced /ˈwɑːkəm/ (like "wok 'em") and not /ˈwɑːkɑm/ ("wah comm") and I wasn't ready for that
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacom
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacom
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Hey cosmologists check it out!
I’m hiring a postdoc! Come work with me on a project that will involve spending time both on the New Hampshire Seacoast (we’ve got beaches!) and the Bay Area in California (they’ve got beaches!) — deadline to apply is December 2.
inspirehep.net/jobs/2840227
inspirehep.net/jobs/2840227
INSPIRE
inspirehep.net
October 22, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Hey cosmologists check it out!
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TIL Mahalanobis distance was invented to deal with skull measurements to examine variation based on caste and so maybe not the best guy to bring up in your "maybe he wasn't racist!" section
![Wikipedia extract: racial superiority or white supremacy.[122] Fisher had a close personal relationship with Indian statistician P.C. Mahalanobis, and significantly contributed to the development of the Indian Statistical Institute; and Fisher's graduate](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:34wcphcvvq3wyba2vyyjd6j2/bafkreihcamocdws5uzulgyghquspe3qmgffvuh77e3j5f3mnud2zzbkh4e@jpeg)
October 5, 2024 at 10:51 AM
TIL Mahalanobis distance was invented to deal with skull measurements to examine variation based on caste and so maybe not the best guy to bring up in your "maybe he wasn't racist!" section
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Honored to participate in Senators Blumenthal & Hawley's "Oversight of AI: Insiders’ Perspectives" Hearing on Tuesday. The hearing is intended to explore guardrails to protect consumers from the harms of AI, aided by firsthand experience in the industry.
www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...
www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...
Oversight of AI: Insiders’ Perspectives | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
www.judiciary.senate.gov
September 12, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Honored to participate in Senators Blumenthal & Hawley's "Oversight of AI: Insiders’ Perspectives" Hearing on Tuesday. The hearing is intended to explore guardrails to protect consumers from the harms of AI, aided by firsthand experience in the industry.
www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...
www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...
All I want for my birthday is a negative COVID test
August 8, 2024 at 1:40 PM
All I want for my birthday is a negative COVID test
Has anyone tried KANs yet? I'm always about the promise of fewer, more interpretable parameters, but the last (few) time(s) an arXiv model came my way hyped, it was a bust: arxiv.org/abs/2404.19756
KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs have fixed activation...
arxiv.org
August 6, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Has anyone tried KANs yet? I'm always about the promise of fewer, more interpretable parameters, but the last (few) time(s) an arXiv model came my way hyped, it was a bust: arxiv.org/abs/2404.19756
Please! The world is begging to quit being vendor locked: www.phoronix.com/review/radeo...
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source
While there have been efforts by AMD over the years to make it easier to port codebases targeting NVIDIA's CUDA API to run atop HIP/ROCm, it still requires work on the part of developers.
www.phoronix.com
February 12, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Please! The world is begging to quit being vendor locked: www.phoronix.com/review/radeo...
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How does "AI bias" relate to "existential harm" -- a tech-oriented term for machine-made murder? Here's a quick jump with me deeply into the heart of the math of misunderstanding: False Positives, False Negatives, and You: 🧵
November 10, 2023 at 8:01 PM
How does "AI bias" relate to "existential harm" -- a tech-oriented term for machine-made murder? Here's a quick jump with me deeply into the heart of the math of misunderstanding: False Positives, False Negatives, and You: 🧵
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Haven't posted on here yet—
We're hiring a junior faculty member in computational linguistics at Georgetown! 🎓😎 There's a tremendous amount of talent in the field right now, so I can't wait to read the applications.
Apply by Nov. 1. DMs/email open for questions. #NLProc #CompLing
We're hiring a junior faculty member in computational linguistics at Georgetown! 🎓😎 There's a tremendous amount of talent in the field right now, so I can't wait to read the applications.
Apply by Nov. 1. DMs/email open for questions. #NLProc #CompLing
Apply - Interfolio
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apply.interfolio.com
October 21, 2023 at 1:42 PM
Thanks to @virginiaconn.bsky.social for the invite. Giving this a try
October 21, 2023 at 3:39 PM
Thanks to @virginiaconn.bsky.social for the invite. Giving this a try
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Folks, Michigan Linguistics is hiring and the deadline is extended to Nov 5th!
Seeking candidates who apply computational methods for linguistics research; sub-discipline open. This is a wonderful department to be a part of. Feel free to reach out to me with questions.
Seeking candidates who apply computational methods for linguistics research; sub-discipline open. This is a wonderful department to be a part of. Feel free to reach out to me with questions.
Assistant Professor - Linguistics (Fall 2024) | U-M Careers
careers.umich.edu
October 21, 2023 at 1:01 PM
Folks, Michigan Linguistics is hiring and the deadline is extended to Nov 5th!
Seeking candidates who apply computational methods for linguistics research; sub-discipline open. This is a wonderful department to be a part of. Feel free to reach out to me with questions.
Seeking candidates who apply computational methods for linguistics research; sub-discipline open. This is a wonderful department to be a part of. Feel free to reach out to me with questions.