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brames.bsky.social
here's some posts about my humdrum life
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solo trip to north carolina for an old college buddy's wedding. as I am on pat leave I have no work to do and due to the incredible grace of my wife I have no paternity related responsibilities. I think last night may have been the first uninterrupted night of sleep I've had in five years

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if I were a journalist my professional mission would be to publish an article entitled "the cathedral and the bizarre"

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can I just send venmo charges to my enemies

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one nice thing here is that people aren't @ing airports to scream at them

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one of the neat things about having expertise in AI (PhD, work in a big industry group) is that everyone is wrong about it all the time including people who really know what they are talking about

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in grad school I wrote a Markov chain language generator trained on the tweets of a follower / following graph rooted at Lowtax and just let it rip. it had usernames in the corpus and would often @ people with absolute gibberish. good times

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I do not care for donald trump tbqh

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we have taken to calling our infant son "Mister Baby" and folks it is simply a delight

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alright rebranding as a centrist pundit. oh you believe in something? well I've got news for you: I am a genius and no you don't

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I am funging your tokens. I am funging all of them. I will leave no token unfunged

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I just bought a 53 inch monitor that is basically two 4K screens unified lmao

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my hair is veering into Mentat territory

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I guess you can still be a leftist if you use discriminative AI?

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to cannot be a leftist if you use Gibbs sampling. you cannot be a leftist if your Markov chain Monte Carlo converges to the true distribution

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I updated it

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you cannot be a leftist if you hold your peanut butter and jelly with the jelly side down

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you cannot be a leftist if you use the internet

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ed z can be funny but his work on AI is just sort of riding the vibe waves

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"have you heeaarrddd Polythene Pam // yeah I think John is back on heroin man"

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kfc double downs are multiplicative in nature. as such, three double downs are equal to eight double downs

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third Minecraft session. her grandparents were over for dinner and she was so excited to show them her cozy fort and make them nooks in it with signs and all. this game really is perfect for an imaginative five year old

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the girls are FIGHTING

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group chats are alight with the power of a thousand angry suns atm

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day two of Minecraft with daughter. create cozy corners in the fort but got overrun by monsters and had to grid search our way back. lesson learned, now have a trail of torches leading home.

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