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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 1d

Ok this is the first time I’ve been tempted to work for OpenAI….

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 1d

It was only a matter of time before the big players went after the chatbot erotica market. Will be fascinating to see if they can wrestle it away from character AI, replika, grok (lol), etc.

Screenshot of Sam Altman tweet promising future rollout of erotica on chatgpt

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 2d

I mean that’s a better situation to be in.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like if we’d done Stoppard it would’ve been that godawful film so I’m glad that didn’t happen.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 2d

I couldn’t have fewer opinions about what 16-18 year olds like/relate to. But I remember
- Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolfe
- A Clockwork Orange
- Macbeth
as the three things I liked in high school which is probably telling of me at 40 and also me at 17 but in quite different ways.

Adam L @lauretig.bsky.social · 2d

Let's be positive, what are 5 books you'd assign for a high school English class to get the kids on board with literature?

Great Gatsby
The Natural
Forever War
Some of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems + short stories
For a play: pair Death of a Salesman and Fences

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

Let's be positive, what are 5 books you'd assign for a high school English class to get the kids on board with literature? I'll start
The Remains of the Day
Fatelessness
A Bend in the River
The Life & Times of Michael K
The Handmaid's Tale

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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 2d

I wrote a paper about "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" 📝

TL;DR to follow in future 😊

arxiv.org/abs/2510.10382

Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse

The tidyverse is a popular meta-package comprising several core R packages to aid in various data science tasks, including data import, manipulation and visualisation. Although functionalities offered...

arxiv.org

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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 3d

... since there is plenty of value in identifying subsets of the problem space for which better solutions are available, rather than complaining too much about the fact that these solutions aren't universal (which was anyways a big ask!).

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Adrien Corenflos @adriencorenflos.bsky.social · 3d

Thankfully that's not the current approach! People (shout-out to them!) are working on automatic diffentiation of pre-existing low-level numerical code.

github.com/EnzymeAD/Enz...

Typically targets an intermediate representation that's universally used (incl Fortran)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM

GitHub - EnzymeAD/Enzyme: High-performance automatic differentiation of LLVM and MLIR.

High-performance automatic differentiation of LLVM and MLIR. - EnzymeAD/Enzyme

github.com

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

Oooh!!

Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah. I wonder how much of it is just that people who specialize in building and implementing models at scale have no overlap with the people who have experience with autodiff

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah that shit is cool. I wonder how much it’s used irl

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

Ewwwwwwwww

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

It’s definitely possible - emulators were developed in the field (GPs back in the day, but obviously modern models work better)! But I’d suspect those were already in JAX or torch (because truly who’s going to code that shit from scratch 🤣)

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

There are also going to be very real memory concerns with these models as is and autodiff is famously memory hungry (and orchestrating it through Python is unlikely to help things)

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

I’m well out of the loop at this point, but last I looked these forward models were more like gigantic MPI’d models that run on cray-style supercomputers. Typically fully different numerical and programming techniques are needed to make those sorts of things GPU compatible.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, would _you_ want to re-implement the weather models so they support AD 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

I think what makes this different, usage-wise, from a lot of other GP regressions is that because it’s naturally online you can’t just think of it as a big multivariate Gaussian! (That said, 1D GPs are the least interesting GPs)

Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 3d

This weekend, I have been doing a bit of reading about Gaussian Process State Space Models (GP-SSMs). Aside from being interesting on the modelling and inference sides, they are a remarkably good exercise for what it really means to write down a joint distribution.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 4d

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Ben Schrager, but he’s spooky now @benschrager.bsky.social · 5d

New reading of The Phantom of the Opera: Carlotta is simply asking for safe working conditions, and Christine is essentially a scab

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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 5d

NYC based instructors: we're looking for an adjunct for a graduate level Ethics of Data Science class this Spring. Please share widely

apply.interfolio.com/175474

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 7d

That’s so good. Congrats!

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 10d

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

ellis.eu

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 12d

A blessing, I guess, of the chronological timeline is that I can see that something is happening but I truly have no idea what. And tbh I’m ok with that.

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Demetri @phdemetri.bsky.social · 13d

That's German for "The p-value, The The The"

Grumpy Old Health Stats Dude @healthstatsdude.bsky.social · 13d

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 13d

You look Australian (not derogatory but also derogatory).

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