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aL

@alxin.me

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Postbac at NIMH Machine Learning, comms assistant at CCDD. Previously TA at Harvard Stats.

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aL @alxin.me · 21/12/2024

Shoutout to voiceless wanderers in a beautiful and unsettling world gotta be one of my favorite genders fr fr

Top 3 games by playtime. Number 1: Hollow Knight. 41% Play Time, 142 Sessions Played. 2: Animal Well: 11% Play Time, 33 Sessions Played. 3: Rain World: 8% Play Time, 32 Sessions Played.

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aL @alxin.me · 21/12/2024

bro we're gonna have the singularity before sillk song

Screenshot from the Steam Yearly Review page of my most played game, reading "Hollow Knight. We get it, we want to play Silk Song too. 41% of Total Playtime. 142 Sessions played. 10 Day Streak." Background is cover art of Hollow Knight."

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aL @alxin.me · 24/11/2024

Why does United make these sharp enough to cut skin

Photo of the blue sanitizing wipe provided by United Airlines

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aL @alxin.me · 23/11/2024

Screenshot from Hollow Knight where the player challenges the sun (the Radiance)

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aL @alxin.me · 17/11/2024

Shiny

Two freshly unpacked NVIDIA RTX 8000 GPUs

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aL @alxin.me · 06/10/2024

If you like cake cones, corn-shaped ice cream might fill this niche.

Three images illustrating corn ice cream. The first is the wrapper, in Korean. Two is the treat, which on the outside is a corn-shaped pastry. Three, there is a bite taken out of the treat, revealing that the pastry is full of ice cream with chocolate coating.

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aL @alxin.me · 08/08/2024

I can't stop reading the terrible haystack of IG comments because of needles like these.

"Once went to a dentist with teeth marks on his forehead".

"I love this shirt because you can use it for every situation no matter the gender you're" (you're is written as the contraction of "you are")

"This is y I don't like oceans 😂 I like my toes Id rather not have 7 instead of 8 like I don't wanna be a freak 😭"

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aL @alxin.me · 14/01/2024

Uncanny similarity

Shinji Ikari, from Neon Genesis Evangelion, holding his face in his hands while sitting in a chair

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aL @alxin.me · 24/11/2023

At least a few think human extinction would be progress

Screenshot from Twitter. Dan Hendrycks is quote tweeting Richard Sutton. Dan writes "Rich Sutton, author of the reinforcement learning textbook, alarming says 'we are in the midst of a major step in the revolution of the planet' 'succession to AI is inevitable' 'they could displace us from existence' 'it behooves us to... Bow out' 'we should not resist succession.' The original post by Richard Sutton says: "We should prepare for, but not fear, the inevitable succession from humanity to AI, or so I argue in this talk pre-recorded for presentation at WAIC in Shanghai. youtu.be/NgHFMolXs3U"

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aL @alxin.me · 10/11/2023

Live laugh loving the Halloween nativity scene at a friend of a friend of a friend's house party

Three small ghost figurines in between two pine tree figurines. The trees have candy corn colors. There are two taller ghosts and one smaller one, suggesting a nativity scene.

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aL @alxin.me · 08/11/2023

Sachiel (named after the third Angel from Evangelion)

Photo of a black kitten sticking its tongue out slightly (blep)

Photo of a black kitten laying down and posing nicely.

Blurry photo of a black kitten hitting keys on a piano keyboard

Slightly blurry photo of a black kitten that has gotten into the cupboard and is hiding behind the almond milk

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aL @alxin.me · 04/11/2023

Get one of these (or the dried version); takes 10 minutes to cook. If you're using half the seasoning (as you mentioned in another reply) just use the rest for these. Eventually adjust to only chili/sesame oil. Chuck some frozen unshelled edamame, spinach, etc. in there.

Package of long thin noodles labeled as fresh ramen

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aL @alxin.me · 01/11/2023

"You still wake up sometimes, don't you? You wake up in the dark and hear the honking of the geese."

Screenshot of the scene from the Silence of the Lambs where Hannibal Lecter asks about Clarice Starling's childhood trauma of waking up to lambs screaming

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aL @alxin.me · 27/10/2023

I don't remember but it might have been guava, judging by how light the ice turned out

A photo of a bottle of Jarritos that has exploded in the freezer due to expansion of ice.

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aL @alxin.me · 21/10/2023

Always a banger to pull out during forecasting discussions Not many other things capture both the exponential growth of tech and the overconfidence of institutions who would rather not think about exponential growth

A graph showing additional gigawatts of photovoltaics (PV, solar power) per year compared to International Energy Agency (IEA) projections. Although PV additions historically display exponential growth, every year the IEA projects growth will stagnate. This results in a very steeply increasing line (the true trend) with a bunch of horizontal lines attached (IEA projections).

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aL @alxin.me · 06/10/2023

Ran `top` to check on my aggressive parallelization and I saw my coworker using more than 8000% of the CPU

Cursed emoji 1, with red watery eyes, stares straight ahead. Cursed emoji 2, also in bad shape, look at cursed emoji 1 with concern.

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aL @alxin.me · 01/10/2023

Osprey and green sturgeon (?) at the Seattle boat locks and salmon ladder

Photo of a flying osprey with a salmon (possibly trout) in its grip

Photo of a large gray fish (1.5 to 2 meters long) with a ridged spine.

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aL @alxin.me · 08/09/2023

I am less happy with what the algorithm settled on for me

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aL @alxin.me · 25/08/2023

one of my fav shots, taken at Katmai national park. bears were quite chill around the crowds and very photogenic 🧸 #sciart Nikon D7000 (well-loved hand me down) with Tamron 70-300mm lens (refurbished).

Photo of a brown bear, partially submerged in a river and holding a red sockeye salmon in its mouth.

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aL @alxin.me · 24/08/2023

this is bighaj. bighaj is 140 cm long and provides 80% more cuddle area than a standard IKEA blåhaj 🦈

Photo of a plush shark, similar in build to Ikea's signature blåhaj (blue shark) shark plush. This shark is purple, and it's size is demonstrated as it is laying on two standard sized pillows on a queen-size bed.

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aL @alxin.me · 22/08/2023

another decent Chinese lay's flavor: wagyu beef it's like between barbecue and hamburger Doritos, minus the onion and cheesiness better than the beer flavor and spicy crawfish, imho

Photo of a bag of Lay's chips in the flavor wagyu beef. There is a photo of a sliced rare steak. The bag is black. All the writing is in Chinese.

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aL @alxin.me · 20/08/2023

this is not a kitty but also makes things seem not bad

Photo of a fennec fox sleeping in an enclosure

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aL @alxin.me · 20/08/2023

saw kitties at the zoo. things are not so bad

Photo of a clouded leopard laying on its back in an enclosure.

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aL @alxin.me · 12/08/2023

spicy crawfish flavor crawfish comes across more in the smell than the taste. sweet and lightly spicy, think lays barbecue with less paprika and a little more heat #food ? do hashtags even work here

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aL @alxin.me · 12/08/2023

chinese chip flavors go hard white peach beer. lay's x hailunsi tastes like a very fruity IPA and feels carbonated

Photo of an opened bag of a chips. The flavor is white peach beer. The bag is magenta with a photo of a glass of beer and a wavy chip.

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