Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

There is much about the present world that I would like to change, but it’s pretty neat that I can think “Wait, why are Daubechies wavelets shaped like that?” and it turns out there’s a full day worth of Daubechies presenting her work at an intermediate level that I can go watch for free.

Bravely fighting off the urge to think about synthesizing a green band for GOES for another several months or years.

The Western Australia dust storm is pretty astonishing even at this scale. https://botsin.space/@dscovr_epic/111569828399944670

How I know I don’t have telekinesis is there hasn’t been a multi-year rash of human combustion incidents by cooking influencers who take a bite of the dish they just made and performatively smile like they’re honestly amazed how good it is and the camera just happened to catch that totally unplanned moment of spontaneous joy.

Every time we go to Lost Landscapes I look around at the crowd of vaguely artsy, apologetic-looking nerds and think “I must know like 20% of the people here online.”

@kissane Shouting “Jury nullification! Look it up!” through the bailiff’s hand as I get dragged out of voir dire for this case.

@simon_brooke It’s just the stuff that’s now called AI, which is built heavily on things like Kantorovich’s work on optimization of large systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich#Mathematics

@fgregg I suspect I find a lot of them more interesting than you do, but still not the ones who make the news.

I’m constructing algorithmic central planners for these pixels. It has pretty much nothing to do with the thing venture capitalists are interested in.

Telling people I’m using my highly parallel coprocessor to implement some nonlinear optimization techniques invented to manage the USSR’s economy so I don’t have to hear “Oh, you’re doing AI stuff?” ever again.

@sgillies Doing semi-proper mypy workflow for a personal project has really helped convince me that (1) it is a very useful tool to have around and (2) the idea that all python code ought to implement it in order to be considered complete, mature, correct, or whatever is unhinged and very unpythonic.