Sebastian Cruz
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Sebastian Cruz
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I'm a big fan of evidence based decision making as a Principal Data Scientist, love my family, love science, love performance driving, and living in the PNW.
@sciam.bsky.social please start posting. Cross-posting is easy. It's time...
February 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I'm a bit skeptical given that the $6m LLM training costs are self-reported. If true, it's pretty awesome and looking forward to seeing exactly how they did it while keeping so many parameters. I'm sure killing off some precision is one of the methods. Not sure what else they did.
My fave meme of the week goes to:

#AI #DeepSeek 🧪
January 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Yeah, totally see how Hegseth's defense priorities of promoting a meritocracy foot with honoring generals that had their asses kicked and are also some of the worst people in human history.
Pete Hegseth, in his first remarks as defense secretary, refers to Fort Liberty as "Fort Bragg"
January 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Sometimes I get to contribute to really cool things like network analyses. How are outages in Azure related to other Azure outages? I plan on using the R package below to better understand this space with these really beautiful vizualizations.

networkDynamic, ndtv, tsna
statnet.org/workshop-ndt...
Temporal network tools in statnet: networkDynamic, ndtv and tsna
statnet.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Facinating! I had no idea about the history behind this...
🧪#AcademicSky #PhDSky

I think everyone needs a distractor:

Student’s t-test is one of the most popular statistical tests used by many academics worldwide.

Do you know why it’s called this? Who is this Student?

An alcoholic beverage is partly responsible for the name choice!
A 🧵 (1/10)
January 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM