Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Huh, is there not RLHF and stuff like that with modern human input? 000
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Nice photo! The insect looks like a praying mantis to me by the way, with the big body and little legs. We have little mantises like that here in Madrid too, though I haven’t seen a bird with one yet. 020
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025ericphanson.com/blog/2025/bi...ericphanson.comBirb Stalker (2021)An unusual take on bird photography 130
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025I don’t really agree with that post, both in that it’s still not a nice workflow to have to debug weird latex issues with an LLM, and also that the knowledge cutoff isn’t that big of a deal in practice. LLMs definitely lower the barrier to try something new for me. 000
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 05/10/2025I wrote a blog post about making a web app valuetier.org (#1 human values tier list site 😉) and my thoughts on LLMs as a machine learning engineer: ericphanson.com/blog/2025/va... 050
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025What does “stochastic parrot” mean to you that disagrees with those points? 010
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025The drugs to control the side effects (a lot of nausea in particular) also work remarkably well, apparently it used to be a much worse patient experience. For me the infusion was totally smooth, but now it feels like the various drugs are doing some skirmishing in my stomach. But not terrible. 110
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Well the chemo definitely works, untreated CHL has like a 6% 5-year survival rate and 0% 10-year one, and chemo can take that to 97% or higher for early stage. Pretty amazing. 100
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Started ABVD chemotherapy yesterday for stage 1 classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma. I’ll be ok! It’s got a great prognosis. Weird experience. It’s kind of a cascade of drugs where there’s the chemo drugs but then drugs to help with the side effects and ones to help with their side effects. Mostly works! 120
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I think it does since that restricts it to old Makie, and a newer Makie is installed, so the resolver prefers an old version of the new package rather than downgrading an existing package 220
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 07/03/2025it looks like Tidier.jl only declares compat with TidierPlots 0.9 (github.com/TidierOrg/Ti...)github.com 120
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I saw some lovely storks in Ávila on Monday! #birds 052
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025This egret caught a little fish! I included a zoom since I’m not sure Bluesky preserves the original resolution. I was very happy to have snagged the shot although I miss-framed a bit and didn’t get the feet. Costa Rica (2013) 260
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Re-meme coin market caps, they are likely exaggerated a lot: blog.mollywhite.net/cryptocurren.... You probably know that but it might be a good nuance to convey still in the newsletterblog.mollywhite.netCryptocurrency 'market caps' and notional valueA naive equation works well when estimating the value of small quantities of popular crypto tokens, but it's also being used to estimate values of illiquid tokens and the market capitalization of all ... 000
Eric Hanson @erichanson.bsky.social · 13/01/2024Our world in data uses 2015–2019 for the baseline, and has a very clear section on how excess mortality is measured: ourworldindata.org/excess-morta... 140
