Masoud Masoumi
@masoudmim.bsky.social
Engineer turned Data Scientist | Interested in history, art, and culture | All views are personal | Personal website: masoudmim.github.io
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
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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...
Reposted by Masoud Masoumi
Our computer vision textbook is now available for free online here:
visionbook.mit.edu
We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs.
Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!
visionbook.mit.edu
We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs.
Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!
Foundations of Computer Vision
The print version was published by
visionbook.mit.edu
June 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Our computer vision textbook is now available for free online here:
visionbook.mit.edu
We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs.
Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!
visionbook.mit.edu
We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs.
Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!
I trained a logistic regression model on the source data and then evaluated its performance on both the source and target domains to measure the performance degradation caused by the covariate shift.
The production performance slowly degrades because the feature relationships changed.
The production performance slowly degrades because the feature relationships changed.
June 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I trained a logistic regression model on the source data and then evaluated its performance on both the source and target domains to measure the performance degradation caused by the covariate shift.
The production performance slowly degrades because the feature relationships changed.
The production performance slowly degrades because the feature relationships changed.
Wrote a post outlining the step-by-step process of implementing a PINN for a simple one-dimensional heat transfer problem. I hope this approach makes the topic more accessible to undergraduate students and provides a clearer understanding of how they work.
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/pi...
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/pi...
May 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Wrote a post outlining the step-by-step process of implementing a PINN for a simple one-dimensional heat transfer problem. I hope this approach makes the topic more accessible to undergraduate students and provides a clearer understanding of how they work.
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/pi...
masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/pi...
About five years ago, I began teaching Python programming to undergraduate engineering students for the purpose of data analysis. 1/6
May 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
About five years ago, I began teaching Python programming to undergraduate engineering students for the purpose of data analysis. 1/6
"Reading for pleasure has plummeted over the past 20 years"
... respondents who read for pleasure on any given day declined by an average of 2 per cent every year from 2003 to 2023.
archive.ph/ONrf6
... respondents who read for pleasure on any given day declined by an average of 2 per cent every year from 2003 to 2023.
archive.ph/ONrf6
archive.ph
May 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"Reading for pleasure has plummeted over the past 20 years"
... respondents who read for pleasure on any given day declined by an average of 2 per cent every year from 2003 to 2023.
archive.ph/ONrf6
... respondents who read for pleasure on any given day declined by an average of 2 per cent every year from 2003 to 2023.
archive.ph/ONrf6
I just published a post on converting text into a vector database using Milvus. I have found Milvus to be a great tool for NLP projects.
You can check out the post here: masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/te..., and the associated code on GitHub here: github.com/MasoudMiM/te...
You can check out the post here: masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/te..., and the associated code on GitHub here: github.com/MasoudMiM/te...
github.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I just published a post on converting text into a vector database using Milvus. I have found Milvus to be a great tool for NLP projects.
You can check out the post here: masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/te..., and the associated code on GitHub here: github.com/MasoudMiM/te...
You can check out the post here: masoudmim.github.io/blog/2025/te..., and the associated code on GitHub here: github.com/MasoudMiM/te...
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Meta just dropped Llama 4 on a weekend! Two new open weight models (Scout and Maverick) and a preview of a model called Behemoth - Scout has a 10 million token context
Best information right now appears to be this blog post: ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
Best information right now appears to be this blog post: ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
The Llama 4 herd: The beginning of a new era of natively multimodal AI innovation
We’re introducing Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, the first open-weight natively multimodal models with unprecedented context support and our first built using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architect...
ai.meta.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Meta just dropped Llama 4 on a weekend! Two new open weight models (Scout and Maverick) and a preview of a model called Behemoth - Scout has a 10 million token context
Best information right now appears to be this blog post: ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
Best information right now appears to be this blog post: ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
As part of my "Data-Driven Problem Solving" course for engineering students, I do a review of Python programming. I put the videos for that section of the course on YouTube in case someone else finds them useful: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Python Overview - YouTube
This series of short videos is designed for the "Data-Driven Problem Solving" course, in which I review the fundamentals of Python programming.
youtube.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
As part of my "Data-Driven Problem Solving" course for engineering students, I do a review of Python programming. I put the videos for that section of the course on YouTube in case someone else finds them useful: youtube.com/playlist?lis...