Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Victorian gentlemen would just huff weird distillates they made in a lab and be like "huh, guess this is chloroform now" and sell it to dentists a couple of days later, AI has the same energy to me

learning the deeply "fuck around and find out"-based history of organic chemistry makes a lot of what's happening with AI make sense to me

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-17/ the week in sentences: the blood of cream cheese, america's biggest export, the celestial hierarchy, a moral lecture, grammatical flexibility

me, having been awake since 5:30am and gone to Delaware and back in a day: why am I so sleepy

sometimes I'll get follow requests on IG from people who I'm pretty sure are interested in my work and I think I need to change my bio to be clear that the locked account is 99.8% pictures of my dog

update: the Atlantic and Court Walgreens put cash on the card for me!

I'm something of a rapid unscheduled disassembly myself

fuck, guys, I need to interview Gloria Minsky (Marvin's widow)? she may be the only person who attended even parts of that workshop who's still alive? how do I pull this off

the number of times a day that the video game Hatris (a sequel to Tetris, but with hats) comes up in my household seems unusually high

do I feel good or bad that my website is ranked higher than the website of someone I don't like very much, this is hard

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table

excited to see everyone search for themselves in this lookup of sites that went into Google's C4 dataset (my website is ranked 5,681,776)

remembering every person who has ever tried to persuade me that progress is the de facto state of humanity as I learn that Iowa legislators voted to make it easier for companies to use child labor

love that the NYC inspector general's office solicits tips with the tagline "Help DOI get worms out of the Big Apple"

"What’s more, during the yearslong squabble over which of us lady writers would become the next Joan Didion, no one had tried to claim the title of David Foster Wallace for girls; his reputation as both a misogynist and an author beloved by misogynists meant it was just sitting right there this whole time, waiting for anyone with grammatical flexibility and the courage to try." https://harpers.org/archive/2023/05/goop-cruise-gwyneth-paltrow-goop-at-sea/ Lauren Oyler gives off mean girl, but she is unfortunately sometimes a correct mean girl

the ML side is not entirely wrong as far as wanting to take an iterative approach to the model but it's just funny

sitting in a zoom meeting of my advisor's NSF grant and the machine learning faculty are pushing for image annotation to be coarser and not let the domain experts refine the categories/labeling process which feels very on the nose for a humanities/STEM conflict in a multidisciplinary project

I recognize this is extraordinarily niche but I really wish there was something like On The Media's Breaking News Consumer's Handbook for "critical minerals" headlines so I could point people to a resource whenever some new exaggerated deposit claim or project is announced