Great post, perfectly encapsulates something I don't see enough people taking about: these models are just not great at considering the ergonomics of the software they're writing

"edible children" is my favorite part because, really, aren't all children technically edible?

In an artificial life simulation where survival required energy but giving birth had no energy cost, one species evolved a sedentary lifestyle that consisted mostly of mating in order to produce new children which could be eaten (or used as mates to produce more edible children).

Crying laughing rn at this list of reinforcement learning failures: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Code design lesson for the day: always separate your data I/O from your algorithm logic

For full transparency (and before anyone jumps in to comment that installing CUDA is Actually Easy and I must be an idiot), in this case I have CUDA compiled already, it's an obscure research repo that needs to be compiled *on top of* CUDA that's the problem tonight

All the fancy Python you know and so the expensive GPUs you have mean jack shit if you can't get CUDA to compile

The more I play with bleeding edge data science tools the more I'm grateful for all of my time in grad school spent wrangling C++ compilers

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It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

"Beginning from scratch with a complex system is a really bad idea."

This line alone is gold.

Oh cool, now astral has made all my PyPI expertise obsolete, just like my conda and pip and mypy and black and flake8 expertise. Thanks guys 🙃

And they don't half-ass it either. Mike Breen shows up a day or two beforehand to get facts about the players in your after-work basketball game. Gary Lineker hosts the halftime show for your over-30 soccer league. Melissa Stark does sideline interviews for your intramural flag football team.

I want a contest where the prize is that a full tv crew and the best announcers in the sport of your choosing show up to broadcast your local rec league game.

If you are considering writing an orchestration tool that must serialize all data to disk (or worse, remote storage) before passing it between each step, I beg you to reconsider your life choices

That would be great but I would really kill for a Switch Rock Band, I've wanted to do "family band" since our kids were old enough to play games

If anyone _has_ figured it out, please let me know!

My number one tip for learning how to design better data analysis and modeling software? Spend a decade writing bad code, and then later having to refactor that code. I've found a lot of shortcuts to learn other data science skills but I've yet to find a way to truly short-circuit this one

You know, saying "you can either floss your teeth or get this needle stabbed into your shoulder" might actually get my kids to start flossing

two people carrying signs HELP ME KEEP MY HUSBAND HERE HE IS A REFUGEE FACING DEATH IN GERMANY HE'S TOO YOUNG TO DIE I'M TOO YOUNG TO BE A WIDOW please SIGN PETITIONS SHOOT ME I AM A REFUGEE I DONT WANT TO BE TORTURED TO DEATH BY HITLER I'LL BE DEPORTED to GERMANY! UNLESS YOU STOP IT NOW please SIGN PETITIONS

European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936

It lightly fictionalizes the Gemini, Mercury, and Apollo programs but most of the characters are real people including folks like the Egyptian-American geologist Farouk El-Baz

There's the obvious "actually the space program had a ton of foreign-born contributors" and also the "some of those contributors were actual Nazis" responses here, but I just want to add that if you're at all interested in the space race I highly recommend the miniseries "From The Earth To The Moon"

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

When I ask people how it's going and they respond "can't complain," to me that just means they're not trying hard enough

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We have talked a couple of times recently about the curious fact that (1) quantitative investing, (2) building large language models and (3) managing professional soccer teams are all approximately the same job. Also that job is approximately “astrophysics.” It is approximately the case that there is a general data-science-y skill set that is coming to dominate all of these apparently disparate fields, and that skill set is largely taught in certain hard-science graduate programs.

@matt-levine.bsky.social coming in hot with an amazing explanation of a common #databs career arc in today's Money Stuff (bonus points for using astro🔭 as the example)

The position of the democratic party should be "you can return him now, or we will come get him when we are back in power, and drop you off at the Hague on the flight home."

It’s been lost in the tariff news but the fact that the U.S. government can accuse you of a crime and send you to an El Salvadoran prison without trial, is legitimately scarier than the most hyperbolic claims of fascism made by the left during the election.

Thank f*cking Christ

Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

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