iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

can we please stop blaming squids for capitalism they are just solitary invertebrates and it's not their fault

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

one of my New Year’s resolutions is to CAD more. I never learned in school but have futzed around with it a bit to make some simple designs to 3D print. would love any tips/recommendations/tutorials etc. that helped you learn!

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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 18/12/2024

Amazing post. One suggested addition, please please use data classes whenever possible instead of dictionaries. Raw dictionaries cannot be inspected without running the code and printing the keys. But data classes are basically self documenting! (And they can be typed).

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A short list of tips for keeping a clean, organized ML codebase for new researchers: eugenevinitsky.com/posts/quick-...

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I love this town.

BE AWARE: SEALION (YOUNGSTER)

This little fella likes to jump out of the bushes at you!

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

living in a city where the river never freezes >>>

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

anyways I went on a 13.4 mile walk today. maybe I will graduate soon.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I regret to report that sleeping, drinking water, going on long walks, and working out continues to work wonders for mental health

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’m so glad I live during the period of human history in which we invented YouTube. I just watched a documentary about butter. I suppose this is another way of saying that I’m grateful to have turned in my last graded problem set ever!

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

didn’t feint after having my blood drawn everyone say yayyy

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

there’s only two things in the world I’m flagrantly a snob about: bagels and latex formatting

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Rowing when the water is calm: smooth, elegant, like a ballerina Rowing when the water is choppy: arggh ye matey we be a pirate crew now 🏴‍☠️

Picture while rowing early in the morning with Austin draped in fog

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My Spotify wrapped. contains the Dune soundtrack. And the fucking Sonic the Hedgehog official video game sound track. What the fuck.

March was your
Atmospheric Fantasy
Soundtrack phase
You were really into artists like Hans Zimmer, Austin Wintory, and SEGA SOUND TEAM.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I wish media did a better job framing “scaling laws” for lay folks. they’re empirical best-fit models on a log scale. 10% more data doesn’t help you, you need 10x.

Screenshot from article: “I asked OpenAI and Google about all this. They didn't respond. Another top Al startup, Anthropic, sent me a statement saying, "We haven't seen any signs of deviations from scaling laws."”

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

there’s a man on my flight to Austin wearing three cowboy hats and a baseball cap all stacked on top of each other. I cannot make this up.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

TIL broil and convection are not the same setting on the oven

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mcyoung 🏳️‍🌈 @mcy.gay · 26/11/2024

my most(?) popular article is probably the linker post. I'm not sure I've reposted this here yet: mcyoung.xyz/2021/06/01/l...

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Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Linker Script · mcyoung

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Neal Parikh @nparikh.org · 26/11/2024

If you're running into this problem (not having sufficient access to local public library books), the Queens Public Library offers out of state access for $50 (basically for this reason). I obviously haven't used it so don't know the details but worth looking into. qpl.libanswers.com/faq/375079

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I live out of state, but want access to eBooks. Do you offer a non-resident card? - ChatQPL

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

it’s good to leave cities sometimes to remind yourself what food is supposed to cost. take-out Chinese in my family’s town in NC is $10. as god intended.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

control theory has led me places I wouldn’t go with a gun (chemical engineering textbook)

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DREW WISE @drewwise.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

UNOWN COOL S

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

the profound disappointment after watching a beautifully produced YouTube math explainer only to realize that the video was just some guy explaining his intuition but didn’t actually teach anything instructive womp womp

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

a good life has many stages. birth, bar mitzvah, recognizing that functions are vectors, marriage, teaching your children that functions are vectors, death, etc.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

kind of interesting- on Twitter I had 15k but ~10k came from rock licking. so compared to the “organic/topical” 5k, I’m already up to ~half that from starter packs. that’s 4 years on Twitter vs <4 weeks here. it’ll be interesting to see if there’s organic growth after starter pack growth saturates.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

many nonlinear control texts derive a quantity “weak local nonlinear observability” that they claim is similar to but not exactly “nonlinear observability” via the lie bracket. what stops this quantity from being exact in the case that the weak local observability matrix is full rank in every state?

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James MacGlashan @jmac-ai.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If you are an AI scientist, please do not tell the public that "AGI" is near. That is a failure in your scientific duty to communicate science to the public. You are entitled to your feelings, but the position that "AGI" is near is not scientific. It's a hope that all remaining problems are easy.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

there’s something so sinister about teaching functional analysis at 8am

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/11/2024

despite the world becoming scary i still have a perhaps niave but unwaivering belief that a better world is possible

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I know Bluesky has the sauce because I’ve already had someone follow me (from a starter pack) unfollow me (presumably over something I said) and then a few hours later follow me again (presumably from a different starter pack)

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Thomas Godden @thomas.science · 21/11/2024

Bring me back to the days of uncut 720p GoPro footage of the thing working for the first time and the engineers getting really excited.

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

As faculty, this is a good time to reflect on what we can do to provide a safe environment for our queer and trans students. Bathroom bans at the capital are likely going to be reflected on our campuses both in terms of normalizing discrimination and potentially local and widespread policy.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

tomorrow we find out: is Isaac Sim photo realistic enough to fool an auditorium of elementary schoolers?

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Full CoRL conference recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0joZ... Someone remind me to watch this later

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CoRL 2024 Day 1 9:00-10:30

YouTube video by Conference on Robot Learning

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

you’re all RL researchers, you just don’t know it yet 😈

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

never felt so vindicated- trying to download software, the windows version has a graphical installer with instructions, documentation, and a walkthrough guide on the website the Linux version downloads a tar and an install./sh no instructions, they figure I know to chmod +x. love it.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

how many power strips can I daisy chain together before I have to start thinking about writing my will?

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

maybe you’d call this financial stupidity but I’m almost always willing to spend a few extra dollars to buy something in-person over online because I enjoy the process of being sold to. same for eating at restaurant over take out. I don’t mind tipping (extra) because I ENJOY service work.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

When Bluesky adds native support for polls it’s over for y’all. I’ll be asking so many questions. For now just vote in your head: Say “yippee” for pancakes Say “yahoo” for waffles Say “yoinks” for French toast

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

ICLR should not allow public discussion until after decisions. It allows Oscars-style award/accept campaigns by high-profile allies. Even for great papers, that can’t be part of the review process. The only reason it didn’t happen before is because it was against community norms, which are changing.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

if you send me a PowerPoint presentation about why I should follow you I think I have no choice but to comply

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Bluesky is the Platform for Posters

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The fact that “Butterball” is the name of one of the largest poultry producers in the US is… something lol

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

there should be a labeler/tag for free vs paywalled articles. I hate clicking on a link only to immediately be met with “want to read more? email and $5 please.”

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Arguably the best part of grad school is getting to constantly reinvent yourself. If I made this intro post every year of my PhD I would claim to have been doing different things each year. Can’t wait to find out what I’m up to next year!

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

teaching transformers to an intro ML class this week, drop your favorite visuals/slides/explanations (I already have a code walk-through but want to motivate embeddings, the residual stream, etc. a little better)

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