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Posts by Joel Walsh
What if they got to the other side of the moon and there was like, an Arby's there
I started studying AI in 2016 and existing in the world today is like watching the band from your neighborhood bar go on to sell out Madison square garden. And then die and play Coachella as a hologram
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
Oh so this is where the serious people all went
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
A few of them are working and doing well at regular jobs. One is deep in gang life. Another has been in and out of jail his whole adult life. I often wonder what their lives would have been like if the world could see what we the staff all saw
Back when I was a k12 teacher in watts I had 3-4 students who were legit funnier than anyone I knew, including professional writers and comedians. Consistently funny. Not formulaic and good writers. But there were no arts programs that could help them develop into working creatives
This might seem obvious but I underestimated the extent to which actually teaching is helping me develop better educational technology
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
Underrated comment
Partner is an attorney and I don't understand why they haven't adopted git for version control
Accidentally became the AI guy at work
This rules
My Dyson is subpar at best. Loses charge on the highest setting. Gets clogged frequently. Would not trust them to encase star tbh
X has turned into like being in times square if the billboards were racist
Defended the honor of deepseek in front of 200 people ama
Lambda functions in AWS and general programming have nothing in common, except that I love to use them unnecessarily
BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.
An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.
A prof from the music school told me to check out suno and I prompted it to make me a 90s style rnb song about being in love with an LLM
suno.com/song/2f01653...
I'm sure this is stating the obvious but being back in academia has been a wakeup call, so far behind in compute
I was in Maui for work during the 23 fires and live in Northeast LA for the 25 fires. infuriating bc ppl in HI and CA generally revere nature and believe in doing what they can to mitigate climate change. But will continue to pay the cost. Tired of seeing this play out.
On the move stay safe y'all
Sure why not
Who has time to do all this leetcode
Norovirus is surging, which reminds me of one of the grosser studies I read this year. Researchers wanted to see if high hydrostatic pressure processing (HPP) of oysters would get rid of norovirus, so they tested it on humans. But norovirus spreads through fecal contamination, which means... 🧵
In STEM grad school every Asian-American student has a come to Jesus moment after spending time w/classmates fr IIT, Tsinghua, Peking,etc. where you are like "was I raised soft?" And the answer is yes
If someone says p(doom) you are about to hear the dumbest thing you've heard that week
UCLA is looking to hire a math prof as part of HSI initiative. Sounds cool! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10045
As a qualitative researcher and learning scientist, it's helpful to study a little bit of quantum mechanics Bc it complicates schema, ontologies, and positivism in a meaningful way that has implications for knowledge and learning