iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For as long as the free hosting lasts: A little shiny dashboard I put together to simulate multilevel data:

01a0fd09-f26f-498d-4783-4aac0d1698aa.share.connect.posit.cloud

Nested Data

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my teaching philosophy: dazzle them with abstraction so they don’t notice my shirt’s on inside out

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Apparently it's unnerving to say "A speech community isn't a mathematical object, like a probability density function. But we can get pretty far if we *assume* it is."

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even before the current AI moment, i was always stuck how tech companies’ sizzle reels always involved making dinner reservations, creating a calendar event, generating a list of some sort, calling someone when commanded. It’s an interesting reflection of tech executives’ day to day

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i’ve started TAing improv classes, and it feels a lot like I remember TAing feeling (except there’s no homework or quizzes to grade).

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

preparing, yet again, to estimate some simple means using {brms}

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'll avoid the AI and keep knowing my own zip code, thanks

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

practicing my poker face as I say “There is a data generating process that gives rise to the number of siblings we have.”

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A standing wave, with pressure changes mapped to color

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

what's the highest and lowest the speed of sound in air can get due to differences in humidity & altitude that are still conducive to human life?

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the BG3 honor run with me and my sister, I've made sure to always equip Karlach with 2d6 weapons, no matter how cool some of the 1d12 weapons look. That's the central limit theorem in action, baby

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Had the pleasure of meeting Tyrannosaurus Rex at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The doppler effect on sound frequency, based on the object's speed and your distance from its path.

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can do such pretty things in typst typst.app/project/rtfP...

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

a lot of questions are being raised that should’ve been addressed by my “I am not complicit” shirt

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My 3 gif series of data tidying operations. 1. `pivot_longer()`

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

a TikTok account of a medical professional who can tolerate nasal laryngoscopies and can sing is a great find for my phonetics class

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the typst code: typst.app/project/rafg...

typst.app

Typst

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Based on the volume of complaints online, it looks like the best thing we can do to improve pedestrian safety is stricter regulation of cylists.

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A diagram of an unrolled cochlea with the frequency sensitivity along the basilar membrane annotated (made in typst)

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

nothing like trying to search for anatomical diagrams to realize how vigilant we've gotta be against AI slop

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i did not foresee Trump supporting Irish Reunification

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i’m only just getting to to speed on the mathematics & OpenAI drama, but if they’re going to steal from your notes, scoop you, try to cut you out, and eschew any citational standards, you’d have to be stupid to use their tools for your research

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

a thoughtful person should outline what exactly “slop” means. It’s not the same as “low effort” or “unauthoritative”

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Gah, fixed again! Serves me right for trying to do a quick and dirty data aggregation on a dataset I'm less familiar with

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

(fixed) The top two most common vowel inventories for inventory sizes 2 through 11, based on phoible.org

A plot of vowel inventories, sizes 2 through 6

A plot of vowel inventories, sizes 7 through 11

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is all part of the hype, but if I sincerely thought my work had a 10% chance of killing *all humans*, I'd quit? I'd stop building (what I believed to be) the "kill all humans" machine?

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't use AI to code simply because I don't wanna, and I don't gotta.

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

it's easier to maintain voicing in a fricative...

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

a) "Video A has two repetitions of [i]". b) "Video B has one repetition of [i]." How many times do you understand [i] to have been said in each video?

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My own take is that using right assignment at the end of a sequence of pipes makes visual sense, because it's like taking the vertical bar in `|>`, and turning it 90° to become `->`

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 05/09/2026

reflection

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Looks like I was learning R, but didn't know about <div> or <pre> tags

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is anyone on top of “woman” being pronounce [wʊmɨn] (vs [wɪmɨn])?

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Peterson & Barney, Nearey Normalized

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

just re-found my notes for an R study group from 2010. Except for the landing page, it was all handwritten html, since this pre-dated knitr and rmarkdown. The tables of contents etc? I just wrote those by hand... probably in TextEdit

ling.upenn.edu

R Study Group

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the canvas auto-accessibility check marks external links that lead to a login page as inaccessible. so linking to github assignments are gonna tank my accessibility score 😡

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There's nothing I've spent time learning (drawing, art, a very little bit of animation) that was time wasted.

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

dude’s about to cold-turkey decarbonize the country

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don't know wtf is happening but I'm like a week ahead on course prep

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