nathan @nds.bsky.social · 17/03/2026pre-ordered :) i have always found this magical, and never delved in to the details! the way you talk about the material in the replies here convinced me of this being a passion project — super excited to read (and probably implement)! 110
Reposted by nathanAishik Ghosh @aishikghosh.bsky.social · 10/11/2025📢𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: Postdoc position(s) in 𝐀𝐈 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 focusing on either 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 or 𝐀𝐈-𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲. 🏙️Join my new group at 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡, based in 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚! 🗓️ Reviews begin sooner, deadline: 𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 💬 Questions: Reach out! 🔗 inspirehep.net/jobs/2962185inspirehep.netINSPIRE 042
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 05/11/2025i deeply need the video essay on the typographical success of the Zohran campaign 010
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 03/11/2025thank you cambridge university library for sharing, can't wait to try 👍 000
Reposted by nathanLukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · 31/10/2025🚨 Job Alert We're hiring our first Postdoc to work with us on our @erc.europa.eu Project on Generative AI for Particle Physics. Check out the details below and don't hesitate to get in touch or spread the word! Deadline: Nov 30th inspirehep.net/jobs/3075448lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 0119
Reposted by nathanAki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/) 25551
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 25/10/2025"the value of art is how much you would risk to be in its presence" — I found this alone quite moving! 000
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 17/10/2025yeah i think that's the camp i sit in! i will say that discord is kinda nice if you have a hybrid working setup — hopping in/out of audio calls has less friction, and you can have audio channels that function as break rooms that you can chill in :) 110
Reposted by nathanTrans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15/10/2025URGENT ACTION 🚨 If you do one thing for trans rights today – contact your MP about the proposed EHRC Code of Practice, which would devastate trans people's lives. Even if you've sent a letter before, make sure you use our new tool to send another. Now is the moment to keep the pressure up 👇actionnetwork.orgScrap the Bathroom Ban🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac... 15539
Reposted by nathanCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiEnyti.ms 14147031811
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 25/09/2025It's so interesting... Scaling models & data definitely feels like our best path to model discovery, but somehow feels like just a brute-force way to get around not setting the right constraints on the learning problem. That being said, we have no better methods for this kind of performance!! 000
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 15/09/2025oh this is cool, thanks!! my paste gives ^-- SC2164 (warning): Use 'cd ... || exit' or 'cd ... || return' in case cd fails. it already caught me 🤫 000
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 15/09/2025just wanted to share that after nearly 8 years of programming in Python and dabbling with other languages as-needed, I've finally written my first bash script! having random blind spots as professional does not make you bad at your job, and i just wanted to normalize that :) 110
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 02/09/2025This looks like a great lineup!! I'd like to be around but this is me just discovering the event 😅 000
Reposted by nathanRajni Shah (they, them) 🍉 @rajnishah.bsky.social · 26/07/2025"You might feel powerless. That it is too late. It is way too late for way too many. But way too late is going to have to be soon enough." 'The Sound of Solidarity' from @saranahmed.bsky.social feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/the-sound-...feministkilljoys.substack.comThe Sound of Solidarity“From Birzeit University, in the heart of occupied Palestine, we are screaming with Gaza. 1159
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 22/07/2025please use this fantastic email tool to make some noise about the EHRC Code of Practice!! some awful stuff might be made law without a parliamentary vote. different links for both trans people and allies :) www.scottishtrans.org/emailfortransinclusionscottishtrans.orgEmail your MP and Minister for Equalities about trans people's need for safe inclusive services - Scottish Trans 000
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 22/07/2025yeah i'd love that! you have any mornings coming up with a free hour? send through your email in whatever way you'd like and I can make a meeting invite :) 010
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 21/07/2025i should go through your pixi workflow at some point — ive hard-swapped to pure uv with lockfiles for a recent project and that’s been great! 110
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 03/06/2025with how good AI-assisted coding is now, are programmers going to become more of a luxury trade? "We hand-craft artisanal Python code to solve your use-case. Experts weave every letter of the variables into your codebase. All commits are done manually -- personalize your messages for a small fee." 000
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 26/05/2025obsessed with this vinted account that models all their items with a djungelskog 010
Reposted by nathanSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 22/05/2025If your library doesn't have any documentation, it can't have any bugs simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/... 910618
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 18/05/2025well, maybe not *most* frustrating; i'd prefer if it wasn't cheaper to literally fly between cities in the uk due to how expensive rail travel is... 000
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 18/05/2025being 194cm, this has always been the most frustrating thing about living & travelling in the uk compared to the rest of europe -- i have to go out of my way to get stupidly wide beds just to increase the length & not have my feet dangle off the end 😭 110
Reposted by nathanCharlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 13/05/2025Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.) 1433284
Reposted by nathanGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/05/2025We believe the Supreme Court has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act. Over 8,000 people have supported our case - will you join us? goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...goodlawproject.orgHelp us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law ProjectWe use cookies where necessary to allow us to understand how people interact with our website and content, so that we can continue to improve our service. 123390
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 05/05/2025well, this is a new one for me 😄 turns out that python's list creation shorthand for duplicating elements (e.g. x = [obj] * n) does not make the instances of obj distinct in memory! TIL. 010
Reposted by nathanGilles Louppe @glouppe.bsky.social · 29/04/2025<proud advisor> Hot off the arXiv! 🦬 "Appa: Bending Weather Dynamics with Latent Diffusion Models for Global Data Assimilation" 🌍 Appa is our novel 1.5B-parameter probabilistic weather model that unifies reanalysis, filtering, and forecasting in a single framework. A thread 🧵 25215
Reposted by nathanJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 26/04/2025I still genuinely think this is the best thing I have produced in my entire life so highly recommend a listen if you like things I do generally. 814122
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 22/04/2025looking into distrax a bit to implement some normalising flow stuff for a talk — found out the CI is failing because pylint flags the *whole library* for bad indentation (google uses 2-space tabs). this is what happens when you make double standards 😌 github.com/google-deepm...github.comtests · google-deepmind/distrax@efeeee8Contribute to google-deepmind/distrax development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
Reposted by nathanElise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 16/04/2025So sorry trans cousins in the UK. I'll never forgive that author, the author of the notorious report or associated 'adult human female' shitheads for the hatred they've spread against you. This "lets hate trans people instead of doing anything to fix anything" bullshit needs to STOP. 1203
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 03/04/2025idk if this is a neurodivergent thing, but having a low-volume audiobed with some kind of background music can really help me stay in long meetings when i'm remote. i'd recommend giving it a try if your concentration can waver easily — i find it surprisingly grounding! 000
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 06/03/2025i feel like we're now at the point of llms designing APIs for other llms to consume 😅 010
Reposted by nathanAdriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩🔬 12365112319
Reposted by nathanRandy Chase @dopplerchase.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Mark today in the history books. The first AI weather prediction model labeled “operational” by a major world forecast center. Congrats ECMWF 🎉 0277
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 25/02/2025current candidates are gemini flash-thinking and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-4bit 000
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 25/02/2025after enjoying some testing of @simonwillison.net's LLM CLI tool, going to try some more regular use of models for my more organisation-related tasks. what model would people suggest that meets these reqs: - long context (e.g. many long text files) - economic - if local, fits in 32GB mem? 100
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 09/02/2025the em-dash is a primary love language of mine — just look at all the mental space that made! and our context is perfectly preserved 😌 010
Reposted by nathanGilles Louppe @glouppe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025My take: AI will make us artificially intelligent. 391
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 05/02/2025this is heartbreaking. people’s stories are being censored — literally erasing records of their history and impact live in front of our eyes. now is the time to *scream* about your colleagues, mentors, friends. uplift the voices of those that this system is targeting. make them undeniable. 021
Reposted by nathanSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 04/02/2025Tiny TIL: I just figured out how to run pytest with a different Python version against my pyproject.toml/setup.py projects using uv run uv run --python 3.12 --with '.[test]' pytest til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytes...til.simonwillison.netRunning pytest against a specific Python version with uv runWhile working on this issue I figured out a neat pattern for running the tests for my project locally against a specific Python version using uv run : 710414
nathan @nds.bsky.social · 19/01/2025i think rage and its derivative emotions is how most people discovered pyhf in the beginning lowkey -- certainly true for me 😅 030
