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Joshua Shapiro
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not ‘Eureka’ but ‘That’s funny…’

Current projects: Biological data and Childhood cancer at http://ccdatalab.org, part of https://alexslemonade.org

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josh.shapiro.foo
Doesn’t work even in just Spanish.
July 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
josh.shapiro.foo
It works! (Probably should cache this one)
AI responding to "how do I remove a legend"
June 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
josh.shapiro.foo
My son made a batch of challah.
A pile of over a dozen loaves of challah
May 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
josh.shapiro.foo
I have so many thoughts
Headlines from Techmeme about Anthropic Claude 4: One about how it has stricter safety limits because it could be used to help a novice make biological weapons, one about how it "often" tried to blackmail engineers by threatening to reveal person info, and on the bright side one about how it might alert the press or regulators if it detects immoral behavior.
May 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
josh.shapiro.foo
Wald aircraft
April 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
josh.shapiro.foo
Sure, those are two things that have similar enough weight to put in the same headline.
After Trump's Tariffs, Stocks Plunged but Penguin Memes Ticked Up
April 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
josh.shapiro.foo
His comms team hates him.
Screenshot of an X post from JD Vance about his planned visit to Greenland. The post includes a video, the preview for which shows Vance with his most agape, looking like a dope.
March 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
josh.shapiro.foo
And what do they mean by average?
Text from a website with the text "Average" and a popup bubble above that with the text "Top 10%"
November 26, 2024 at 9:47 PM
josh.shapiro.foo
What a paragraph. “Look what you made us do”
Visualizing how this large number of cellstates relates to another is difficult because the GESs are objects in a very high-dimensional space. The approach that is currently by far most popular in the field is to use stochastic embedding methods that attempt to place cells that are close in gene expression space near each other in a 2-dimensional plane, in particular UMAP [37] and t-SNE [38]. However, it is well appreciated that proper application of these tools is challenging [39], and that beyond a very rough approximate conservation of nearest neighbor relationships, all other structures in these visualizations are virtually meaningless. In fact, we share the opinion of some in the field that the current usage of t-SNE and UMAP visualizations may be doing more harm than good. Nonetheless, since such visualizations have become the de facto standard in the field, and anticipating the request to see where cells from identical cellstates map in such a visualization, we decided prov
September 8, 2024 at 1:51 PM
josh.shapiro.foo
Today in suggested prompts from MS CoPilot
Copilot suggestion reading "Why are flamingo's pink" Flamingo's what, Bing?
January 3, 2024 at 4:52 PM
josh.shapiro.foo
Only 30 years or so of pain... finally sort of fixed. #ThisIsNotADatingApp
October 24, 2023 at 2:44 PM
josh.shapiro.foo
Nicely done NYTimes.
Screenshot from NYTimes website showing two headlines: "New York Is Rebounding for the Rich. Nearly Everyone Else Is Struggling." and "They Wanted a House in the City for $1 Million. Which Borough Would Work?"
September 28, 2023 at 5:32 PM
josh.shapiro.foo
I keep staring at the terrible kerning in this. Do better web browsers.
Headline: "U.A.W. Goes on Strike Against Detroit's Big Three" The space between U and A in the headline is tight, but there is huge apparent space between the A and W.
September 15, 2023 at 3:56 PM
josh.shapiro.foo
Don’t piss off Wikipedia.
In May 2023, Ramaswamy's campaign admitted that he had paid an editor to alter his Wikipedia biography before announcing his candidacy, but denied that it was politically motivated. Forbes reported Ramaswamy may have paid an editor to alter his Wikipedia page to appear more favorable to political conservatives before announcing his campaign by removing references to his Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans postgraduate fellowship and his involvement with the Ohio COVID-19 Response Team. Paul and Daisy Soros are respectively the elder brother and sister-in-law of businessman and social activist George Soros, who has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories among American conservatives. Ramaswamy's campaign denied attempting to "scrub" his Wikipedia page and argued the edits were revisions of "factual distortions".
August 23, 2023 at 1:35 AM
josh.shapiro.foo
It’s a dead dogs in the driveway kind of day.
Two dogs lying on their sides on sun-drenched driveway asphalt.
May 8, 2023 at 5:03 PM