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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Europe is bearing the brunt of climate change, and they’re likely sacrificing intelligence for it

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We need to start talking about mental health, brain fog (brouillard mental in French), and heat waves. 🧪

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The uv tool is so small and fast that this all happens in under a few seconds!

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The download script git-pulls the repository like normal. Next, it installs the uv package manager and immediately runs it to install python dependencies in a local virtual environment, based on requirements listed in the repo's pyproject.toml file. Finally it installs and starts Jupyter

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This template helps you set up a download script hosted on GitHub. A special terminal command can be used to grab it from github pages, and immediately run it. It looks something like this: curl -fsSL path-to-the-download-script.sh | bash

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The uv package manager makes python code portable like never before. Instant, trivial reproducibility is now possible. I made a template repo that generates a download-and-install terminal command. It takes you right from empty terminal to functioning Jupyter notebook 🧪 github.com/sansseriff/s...

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 03/07/2025

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The Sony ZV-E1 has animal eye autofocus. Same sensor as FX3 and A7SIII. So, good for video but low res for pics. Of those, only the a7SIII has a viewfinder

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I used Figma, but just because I know it well. I think excalidraw or figjam would be great too

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Hmm yes, I should learn more about UML. Though I can already tell its primarily focused on grouping stuff into boxes with lines between them

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The important thing for me is understanding lifecycles and data flow. If it was just boxes representing classes or files, then I wouldn't find it nearly as useful

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Does anyone else draw these silly architecture figures of codebases as you learn them? A mishmash of boxes representing files/classes. Circles for event/while loops. Lines and arrows for data flow and events. All of it kinda messy. Is there a name for this sort of thing? #gamedev #rustlang #SciArt

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I still firmly believe LLMs aren’t conscious and there’s no clear path toward artificial consciousness. But perfect simulation of consciousness seems…possible

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The perspective that “this is all still curve-fitting” can still be applied to modern AI. I think. But that begs the question: what happens when an artificial intelligence applies curve fitting to every facet of human existence?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I think it can happen to an academic field that you get multiple generations of bad work or shoddy standards enshrined, meaning that the gate-keepers and those training the next generation are kind of anti-selecting for quality and anti-nurturing in their pedagogy.

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

And so, I'm questioning if "science communicator" is the term to use. Science itself needs to be communicated in mostly niche circumstances (climate chance, conservation, etc). Otherwise, science will influence your life if and when it damn we'll feels like it

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Her: What do you mean? Me: It's about misunderstood incentives. I don't think society is healthier if more people know how black holes work. I do think society is healthier if more people are intrinsically interested in how black holes work.

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Her: So what if somone says "What's the point in learning about black holes? They have no influence on my life" Me: If someome says that, then I've already failed as a science communicator.🧪

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Economist @joshgans.bsky.social uses o1-pro to generate a (minor, fun) paper in an hour based on an idea of his, and it gets published in an appropriate peer reviewed journal, with adequate disclosure. He ends with the same sentiment I am increasingly seeing from fellow academics: what now?

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I was suprised to see gpt 4 quote data from a paper as "between 1011 and 1014 photons per second". You'd think it would have realized the misrepresentation of scientific notation: 10^11 and 10^14. If it can't pick up on this, then what else?

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Yes! I hope to explore this for the future of a academic publishing. It should all just be a graph-like datastructure, with figures at different levels of abstraction. Ready to be expressed through whatever ai-generated modality you wish to interact with (natural language, multimedia...)

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Tantamount to: "You wouldn't expect an AI robot to fix a leaky sink if you only ever showed it shakespearean sonnets about plumbing"

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

JPL seems mostly unscathed following the fires. But many employees undoubobly lost their homes in Altadena, less than a kilometer away. Img credit A Jefferson

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I imagine a cultural line will develop between people deemed to be producing 'fake art' and people producing 'real art' (with generous helping of AI assistance). 'Fake art' peddlers become scapegoats. Hard to imagine because the line becomes so murky

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The book 'wanting' by Luke Burgis has a nice history and analysis of the scapegoat mechanism. Plenty of examples throughout history of people in power choosing and architecting a scapegoat

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It's all micropipettes now, right? Show me an emogi for this bad boy

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

github.com/sansseriff/p... It compiles to both a website and a Latex document. I've been meaning to post more about it, but I'm dragging my feet since once chapter hasn't been published yet

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

So, ironically, a lab or-intensive interactive figure makes most sense for content that's been relegated to the supplemental document. (the place for nitty gritty details)

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

It comes down to audience I guess. An interactive figure is most useful to the tiny fraction of your readers that really really understand your work. Because only they gain something by exploring your data in an unguided fashion

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

But if the toolset used for writing does not guide the scientist away from extraneous uses of the tech, then publications will use interactive figures like how word-art was used in PowerPoint in the early 2000s.

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I don't think these web-first abilities are a problem per se. I acctually really like them!

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I say this as somome who 'fell down the rabbit hole'. I wrote my thesis as a website with a number of interactive figures and diagrams. (including the one above) I'm 'proud' of it, but I see little evidence the tech made the content even a little more valuable.

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Are all these web-tech features in new publishing formats consistently used to prioritize the reader's experience?

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I worry that interactive figures in online-only publications can exist mainly to make the author feel sophisticated and good about themselves. 🧪

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

'write an original Encyclopedia Brown story' would be a perfect test, because those are short (5-10 page) stories with clues and red herrings leading right up to the final reveal.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 27/12/2024

Considering the beam in my own eye for a moment: the challenge I face is that ill-informed denial fills me with so much impatience that I struggle to empathize with the (legitimate) fear and concern motivating it. I'm trying to remind myself to think about people, and not just their bad arguments.

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Fair. And owning a printer might get a lot of people to start learning cad

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Agree that agency is important. We're attracted to problems and questions we can play a role in solving

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Somome with interesting thoughts and opinions about 'big questions' that they initially introduce in a light hearted way. Then, then they 'ride the wave' of a curious audience.

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I really like "playful, fun, and non-deferential". I would say an audience is drawn to someone who is personable, somone they can identify with, and who also seems to have knowledge of a wider reality.

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The conundrum of AI and github copilot: I've created complex typescript projects; more than 20k lines. Nuanced, effective type system. Clever implementation and architecture. I also can't remember the differences between for(), forEach(), and Map().

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I agree this is the kind of thing that should be automatic... Maybe it's hard to get the relevant context info from all the different types of jupyter client

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Have your @matplotlib.bsky.social plots ever looked a little fuzzy or low-res in @projectjupyter.bsky.social notebooks? Try configuring matplotlib for retina displays with this command 🧪 %config InlineBackend.figure_format = 'retina'

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The Metascience 2025 conference is now open for proposals for pre-conference symposia (virtual), panel sessions, brief talks and posters. If you have not attended, this is a special meeting that draws attendees from all sectors who are interested in understanding and improving science as a system.

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Call for Proposals - Metascience

The call for proposals for Metascience 2025 is open with a deadline of 7 February 2025.

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Andrew Mueller @sansseriff.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Work is slow today so I already started the side project 😬

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 17/12/2024

It's when intermediaries — like travel agents — are made redundant because consumers go directly to producers. In this case, the logic would be that if students gradually become dependent on AI tutors and AI assistants, there may come a point when universities are mainly cafeterias / gyms.

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