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tristanasharp.bsky.social
Physicist, computer scientist, new entrepreneur, wanting to make good things for people. Interested in getting to know you.
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Some good energy for you at the present moment, to help you get your good things done. youtu.be/49k_ZUcA_t0&...

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www.bloomberg.org/press/un-spe...

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The topic that I've posted about consistently: A reminder that 82% of people agree. x.com/AISafetyMeme...

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First day of class. Wasn't ready, honestly. Coming back from two weeks of being in disaster mode---worrying about smoke, house-less friends, son's asthma, air quality, closed schools, toxic ash with lead and asbestos in it---how do I teach math? And yet... /1

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Rzθ😌=🙂‍↔️

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Interesting! The structure of the platform (whether BlueSky or the fediverse etc) strongly influences the interactions that happen there, and it's been an interest of mine. Related, I'd guess that the super fast obsolescence of most Tweets on Twitter is a strong sign of a broken community/system.

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Here’s the biggest selling points for each of the main decentralized social media protocols: * ActivityPub (Fediverse): monolithic services * AT Protocol (Bluesky): micro-services * Nostr: dumb relays, client-focused There’s other aspects, but again, these are the biggest selling points.

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Here’s a diagram of how Bluesky and AT Protocol work. In theory, a PDS could be less expensive than the typical Fediverse server. But the gotcha is that the PDS is separate from the relay. And I don’t know of many alternative relays competitive with Blue Sky’s.

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Nice little paper (not by me) on a category-theoretic / diagrammatic approach to understanding the variety of attention mechanisms in machine learning. This is really the right way to think about neural net architectures imo arxiv.org/abs/2407.02423

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open.substack.com/pub/joshbrak...

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世界各地年日照时间。

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

I am collecting examples of the most thoughtful writing about generative AI published in 2024. What’s yours? They can be insightful for commentary, smart critique, or just because it shifted the conversation. I’ll post some of mine below as I go through them. #criticalAI

submitted 86 days ago • 102 comments

Ever wanted to see the world through someone else’s eyes?

submitted 90 days ago • 114 comments

In the HuggingFace/Bluesky incident, the problem goes deeper than whether the data is "public" or "private" What matters to people is whether their data was collected, which data was collected, how it may be used, and who it may be used by

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I'm seeing more of the atmosphere here that I fled from on Twitter, like mean dunks about politics. I'm happy that curating my Follows and Feeds is possible here, it's worth the effort.

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"Turbulence: Does Fluid Mechanics Matter?" -One of the sections from this fun condensed matter article, centered on a theme of philosophy of physics.

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Got a list set up for @harveymudd.bsky.social faculty. Let me know who I'm missing as more and more join over here every day.

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

I made this graph for the bad site, so I figured I should post it here.

submitted 99 days ago • 4 comments

The natural language interface that LLMs provide is both their biggest opportunity and threat. The advice to “treat LLMs like people” is an effective way to get the best responses and to experience the power of the tool. But this approach misses the way that this mode of interaction shapes us.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

The interface to a technology is at least as important as what the tool itself can do.

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Here's an enjoyable synthesis, to clear up controversies about why statistical mechanics works and what it means. 🧪 Stat mech is beautiful!

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Happy to share that there is a new paper out! :) With Carlos Fernandes, Leonardo Novo, and one of my PhD supervisors Ernesto Galvão, we have investigated an intriguing new quantum resource called 'quantum imaginarity' from a basis-independent perspective! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

We're hiring a postdoc in the &-Lab at Northeastern's Network Science Institute! Looking for a curious, collaborative scholar to work on computational social science questions, at the intersection of data justice + network science. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

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The term "Byzantine Empire" was only coined following the empire's demise; its citizens referred to the polity as the "Roman Empire" and to themselves as "Romans". -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire?wprov=sfla1 Love finding cool Wikipedia articles.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

The United Nations effort to achieve “harmony” with the natural world kicks off in Colombia this week. Recent reports show there's a lot of work to do to achieve that goal.

submitted 128 days ago • 2 comments

The honor code in college gave some trust to individual students and had several positive consequences. For example, it was consistent with the message that learning was the goal; cheating for good grades is self-defeating.

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

Thoughts on the deep debate about whether sarcasm was invented or discovered?

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We got a blog post out summarizing our launch of OAuth for AT Protocol, and what work remains. This has been a huge project led by @matthieu.bsky.team with input from a bunch of standards folks and devs. Big milestone for building all sorts of clients, apps, and integrations on atproto.

submitted 154 days ago • 11 comments

I'll make my first post here be about our tt faculty opening in socially informed AI - uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/175.... I'm chairing the search committee, so reach out with any questions. Please share far and wide.

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

Cool graph! (Even though, as touched on in his later tweets, income is not the full story.)

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Regarding the geopolitics of AI development: Guarantee other countries access to the biggest benefits of AI, in exchange for a more peaceful future. open.substack.com/pub/palladiu...

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Unfortunately, the ability for AI to "fix" society seems to come after its capability to replace your job. As a person that cares about other people, I'm not ok with this.

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