Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 26/09/2026You can just say “trust me bro” on the technical interview and they’ll just say “bet” 010
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 19/09/2026If there’s one thing you gotta know about me it’s that I don’t fuck around about mice. 010
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 15/09/2026Now that I’ve automated about 80% of my work, my PS5 is looking at me like the green goblin mask 010
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 15/09/2026I found a way to make agents do all types of things in PowerBI (even screenshot the report to evaluate dashboard) and I could not be more happier to automate this task for me holy shit. 020
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 12/09/2026Realizing I’m just a wrapper of all my knowledge and experience. 001
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 09/09/2026This is a good litmus test to tell if someone is Bayesian enough: do you know who this is? 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 08/09/2026Companies with legacy, on-premise tech will be anti-cloud then depend their EnTiRe business on servers that have 1/10th the processing power of a typical middle schoolers gaming rig. 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 03/09/2026For those not following AK politics, some random dude also named Dan Sullivan is on the Senate ballot purely for the bit 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 03/09/2026It’s crazy that Siri is practically unusable. Like millions of dollars of investment for a feature on my phone I actively avoid. 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 01/09/2026I had a matchup tab where you could do game simulations for any team-season-off/def but that the sims were running on the server and I wanted to offload this somehow. I figured out you can run JAX in the browser so it’s all client side. Or just might write the simulation in typescript… 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 01/09/2026I’ve been mostly sharing my development progress on Twitter for gameplan-science.com, but it’s been a fun journey in web design, performance, and Bayesian inference, computation. 110
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 31/08/2026I don’t think we’ve yet internalized how good agents have gotten in the last 6 months. 010
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 31/08/2026The amount of slop AI posters at the state fair was astonishing. 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 18/08/2026There is 5B waiting to be spent in Alaska, you just need to open yourself up to the Feds auditing you (which no one wants to do (on principle) so most of it won’t even be allocated) 100
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 17/08/2026My sense is that there is a principal-agent problem here where developers are less budget-aware than they ought to be. Given the right incentives/ choice architecture and combination of tools (Claude + DeepSeek e.g), these costs would decrease tremendously. 030
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 09/08/2026Cool. So now I can ask my Hermes agent to make a dataset of Google reviews of restaurants and then it runs this model to give me the top picks. 100
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 09/08/2026Okay so with the prior that scales with the size of reviews, I think I got something going. 100
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 09/08/2026Basically went from simple binomial, to holy balls hierarchical ordered logistic with contamination adjustment on 5-star ratings, now just back to binomial with a bunch of added noise .. I love statistics 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 08/08/2026Showed the 90+ old grandparents Claude and they couldn’t have cared less 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 08/08/2026Legit had a dream (nightmare) last night that I kept opening the Bing search of the file I was looking for on Windows instead of the actual file. 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 07/08/2026So 1. Getting the data is so easy holy smokes, no need for an API. 2. There’s some obvious contamination in 5 star reviews so there’s some de-biasing we gotta do. 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 07/08/2026I had a vision. I’m going to estimate the probability of the best restaurant for a given keyword in a city programmatically. 310
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 06/08/2026My wife says to stop giving him dreams, but he needs to be punished for his crimes 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 06/08/2026Having a kid made me rethink homeschooling or made me see it from the parent pov. It’s mostly driven by: (1) I want to be around my children all the time, (2) you don’t want the investments in your child go to waste. 010
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 06/08/2026Saw someone at a coffee shop open their ThinkPad and start a fresh RStudio session with default pane placement and theme. There’s something magical about that moment that I can’t express. 160
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 04/08/2026I am on a tightrope with my wife. Balancing between “this is too weird” and “this very helpful”. 010
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 04/08/2026I made a family chat bot for my wife and I (using Hermes) and by far the most fun part has been developing the voice and lore of the bot. I have the bot say good morning and recount the dream it had, example: 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 31/07/2026Recently found out someone I know is deeply involved in that hippie enclave in Oregon from the Wild Wild West documentary. And yes present tense because the community is still very much alive. 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 28/07/2026If you wanted to know Windows Server comes also with Xbox programs and this is very critical to enterprise operations 010
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 27/07/2026Honestly really love how Adobe completely hijacked my screenshot tool. Oh and also the Lenovo ads that overlay where my screenshot appears. 010
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 24/07/2026Once you understand the Minions are Italian it all makes sense 010
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 22/07/2026Some friends to moved to Germany (German citizens) so why not. 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 22/07/2026FG model is looking money. Here is kicker skill distributions over time and centered. 100
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 19/07/2026Cool ending to halftime show but those kids were pitchy af 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 19/07/2026The US Government doesn’t want you to know that C-pop slaps 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 17/07/2026Sports data science jobs are either taking a considerable pay cut to work for a reputable sports team or sell your soul to sports gambling to run experiments on SEC frat boys 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 17/07/2026Hear me out. A website of a Bradley-Terry model for every sport. 010
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 17/07/20261. I can write software 2. I can make eye contact to who I am talking to I am proud to announce I am a forward deployed engineer 020
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 14/07/2026Also, PyMC has been incredible. I can tell it to run all of my sampling on GPU (12GB) (goes brrr with larger geometry), then I can set a flag to do all the post-processing on CPU (now using RAM with 64GB) with : postprocessing_backend = “cpu” 010
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 14/07/2026Learned something new in Stan where you can have two priors — one for regularizing and the other for the actual data you want to inform the model with. 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 14/07/2026Couple of dad L’s at the park. Head up high. Ball up top. 000
Mason Veilleux @mveilleux.com · 12/07/2026If you know enough Elixir they just give you a Brazilian passport 000
