L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen
@moosewin.bsky.social
DOGE-displaced former civil servant technologist, current developer on analytics/stats for private and nonprofit sector. Amateur poet, recreational philosopher of math, and former photographer.
they/she. 🚄🏳️🌈
https://povertyofattention.com/
they/she. 🚄🏳️🌈
https://povertyofattention.com/
I was born today!
I spent the last few days in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island to celebrate.
I spent the last few days in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island to celebrate.
October 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I was born today!
I spent the last few days in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island to celebrate.
I spent the last few days in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island to celebrate.
My cat has a dapper collar now!
August 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My cat has a dapper collar now!
Accountability is the best aesthetic.
(or don't trust the AIs to make decisions, folks, always double check)
(or don't trust the AIs to make decisions, folks, always double check)
July 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Accountability is the best aesthetic.
(or don't trust the AIs to make decisions, folks, always double check)
(or don't trust the AIs to make decisions, folks, always double check)
We are losing our connection to the old texts, smh
June 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We are losing our connection to the old texts, smh
Cybersyn Pope letsgooooooo
June 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Cybersyn Pope letsgooooooo
The newest member of my household, Brook! She's a shy little black kitty.
June 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The newest member of my household, Brook! She's a shy little black kitty.
The Makkhawan Rangsan Bridge and Sala Daeng intersection are burned into my mind.
And I hope that the American people don't have similar images burned into theirs, but I have a creeping suspicion that they might soon learn those same hard lessons.
And I hope that the American people don't have similar images burned into theirs, but I have a creeping suspicion that they might soon learn those same hard lessons.
June 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The Makkhawan Rangsan Bridge and Sala Daeng intersection are burned into my mind.
And I hope that the American people don't have similar images burned into theirs, but I have a creeping suspicion that they might soon learn those same hard lessons.
And I hope that the American people don't have similar images burned into theirs, but I have a creeping suspicion that they might soon learn those same hard lessons.
I always remember the line in the West Wing when the president's advisor is told that he committed a war crime fighting in Vietnam bombing a civilian plant, when he asks why he was told about it.
"All wars are crimes."
"All wars are crimes."
June 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I always remember the line in the West Wing when the president's advisor is told that he committed a war crime fighting in Vietnam bombing a civilian plant, when he asks why he was told about it.
"All wars are crimes."
"All wars are crimes."
I was in-country in 2010 when the Thai military fired on the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship at the Makkhawan Rangsan Bridge. Cruel April and Savage May are burned into my memory.
And I will say this: it can happen here.
And I will say this: it can happen here.
June 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I was in-country in 2010 when the Thai military fired on the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship at the Makkhawan Rangsan Bridge. Cruel April and Savage May are burned into my memory.
And I will say this: it can happen here.
And I will say this: it can happen here.
People always forget that there was a famine from 1975-83, as collective farming failed in Vietnam! The number of functioning tractors in the Mekong Delta fell by 76%!
Even the fervent communists I know from living in Vietnam call it "the terrible starving times."
Even the fervent communists I know from living in Vietnam call it "the terrible starving times."
June 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
People always forget that there was a famine from 1975-83, as collective farming failed in Vietnam! The number of functioning tractors in the Mekong Delta fell by 76%!
Even the fervent communists I know from living in Vietnam call it "the terrible starving times."
Even the fervent communists I know from living in Vietnam call it "the terrible starving times."
Some American people are really weird about Asian people ngl, especially if they view said people as being contrary to their established political narratives.
June 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Some American people are really weird about Asian people ngl, especially if they view said people as being contrary to their established political narratives.
Same vibe as: breaking news I managed to get my calculator to display this NSFW content, can you believe we let kids use these in our schools?
May 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Same vibe as: breaking news I managed to get my calculator to display this NSFW content, can you believe we let kids use these in our schools?
Hell, you can run a distilled R1 8B with just 7GB VRAM (performance will suffer but y'know).
And the recent Gemma 3 int4 quantization means that you can run them on a laptop GPU.
And the recent Gemma 3 int4 quantization means that you can run them on a laptop GPU.
May 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hell, you can run a distilled R1 8B with just 7GB VRAM (performance will suffer but y'know).
And the recent Gemma 3 int4 quantization means that you can run them on a laptop GPU.
And the recent Gemma 3 int4 quantization means that you can run them on a laptop GPU.
The biblical Cain has been occasionally depicted as twinkish
May 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The biblical Cain has been occasionally depicted as twinkish
Anyways, color me skeptical that a court with justices (Gorsuch) who write uniformed claptrap like this on basic statistical regression knows enough about AI, markets, or technology to be able to determine the finer details here.
May 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Anyways, color me skeptical that a court with justices (Gorsuch) who write uniformed claptrap like this on basic statistical regression knows enough about AI, markets, or technology to be able to determine the finer details here.
As an ex-Catholic I love poking my head in like this:
May 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
As an ex-Catholic I love poking my head in like this:
Real industrial work actually means manning a metal press repetitively screwing holes into sheet metal while your boss gets a meeting every few days by people who know these books like the back of their hand:
April 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Real industrial work actually means manning a metal press repetitively screwing holes into sheet metal while your boss gets a meeting every few days by people who know these books like the back of their hand:
Unironically: Tesla as a company doesn't need more automated manufacturing, they need a couple of these engineers walking around with slide rules whose entire career is taking a part from 0.08mm to 0.03mm potential deviation over and over again.
April 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Unironically: Tesla as a company doesn't need more automated manufacturing, they need a couple of these engineers walking around with slide rules whose entire career is taking a part from 0.08mm to 0.03mm potential deviation over and over again.
It was delightfully paired with a Guillame Gonnet Le Sauvage Vacqueras rouge, a Grenache-Syrah-Mourvedre-Cinsault mix grown in vineyards at the foot of the Dentelle de Montmirail. The soil of the region is sandy and stony with some clay-limestone, giving a very unique flavor for Rhône Valley wines.
April 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It was delightfully paired with a Guillame Gonnet Le Sauvage Vacqueras rouge, a Grenache-Syrah-Mourvedre-Cinsault mix grown in vineyards at the foot of the Dentelle de Montmirail. The soil of the region is sandy and stony with some clay-limestone, giving a very unique flavor for Rhône Valley wines.
I made an herb-crusted rack of lamb over pommes puree with a Malbec-Port based lamb sauce with roasted green beans.
April 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I made an herb-crusted rack of lamb over pommes puree with a Malbec-Port based lamb sauce with roasted green beans.
What kind of rationality? I echo Herb Simon here:
April 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
What kind of rationality? I echo Herb Simon here:
Drawing back to Herbert Simon's decision-making model, part of the designing a possible choice of action involves invention. And a cultivated, cultured mind has more options in front of them to invent choices.
April 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Drawing back to Herbert Simon's decision-making model, part of the designing a possible choice of action involves invention. And a cultivated, cultured mind has more options in front of them to invent choices.
Advocating reductionism in their "Units of Exchange) section as a cognitive frame is incredibly limiting, actually, especially in a world of complex phenomena, fat tails, and the ability to create random phenomena from simple generators.
emphasizing tractability is, I believe, a wrong end.
emphasizing tractability is, I believe, a wrong end.
April 14, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Advocating reductionism in their "Units of Exchange) section as a cognitive frame is incredibly limiting, actually, especially in a world of complex phenomena, fat tails, and the ability to create random phenomena from simple generators.
emphasizing tractability is, I believe, a wrong end.
emphasizing tractability is, I believe, a wrong end.