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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰

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Resident panhandler, http://trichelab.org/ Posts may contain trace quantities of blood🩸, chromatin 🧬, and stats 🧮 CV: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AOoIO74AAAAJ Views expressed are my own (but for the right price they can be yours!)

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · Jan 23

NIH funded research benefits your community even if it doesn’t (yet!) directly benefit you. Each $ invested in NIH yields significantly higher return on investment (average 254%) than the same $ invested in “defense”.

Call your reps: (202) 224-3121

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Non-defense spending such as NIH yields SIGNIFICANTLY higher return on investment than defense spending.

In Michigan alone, $991M of NIH funding creates $2420M of economic activity, a 244% return on investment.

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 21h

It’s only free if your time is worthless

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 21h

The “free and worth every penny” press

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 21h

Impressive copy editing

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 21h

AGI == alternative Google interface

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1d

Adaptive LED headlights (turning off the LEDs pointing at detected oncoming objects) are pretty OK and even resolve some issues with halogens

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1d

Oh duh now I see the bay bridge. Nice ride.

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1d

Marin highlands, presidio, or both? This makes me miss SF 😢

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t even bother reading the main text of a Nature paper if the authors refuse to release the peer review file. What are they hiding? (Authors can redact passages, before someone brings up that canard)

eLife’s process was (is) pretty great (I say this as an author who got rejected there… twice!)

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1d

Oof

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1d

Who’s the latter?

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 3d

I remember that! Brilliant choice of photo

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, that’s too bad, I enjoy rebutting the actual reviewers’ comments and attempting to improve the paper, and I used to hope that authors I reviewed would do the same. Lately I wonder if that’s maladaptive when quantity or iMpaCt is more valued than integrity

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 4d

It used to be on UHF channels every Saturday!

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 4d

Very nice! Near Lucca?

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 4d

MongoDB: like Snapchat for data 😁

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 4d

Hail Zappa!

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 5d

I always tell students, I don’t care if you do your work in FORTRAN, R, python, JavaScript, Julia, or C. Just comment it.

Intro CS at MIT was taught in Scheme for decades, because computer science is about computers the same way astronomy is about telescopes. Stats is similar. Math >> bit fiddling

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 5d

So @sherlockpholmes.bsky.social pointed out recently that Claude is like having four enthusiastic new grad students banging away at a keyboard. They get a lot done but require A LOT of supervision.

We mentor by providing intuition about which questions are most likely to yield interesting answers.

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 5d

PIBBLE!!1

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 5d

I ditched twitter and promptly ended up with more followers and engagement here.

I’ll never buy a new Tesla and I’ll never post on that site again. I can’t support cutting aid to starving children in Myanmar.

Maybe the people who harbor moral convictions just tend to come here.

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 6d

Small language models are becoming more fashionable

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 6d

That’s cool but can you run the model on an RPN calculator? Gotta throw down 😉

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 6d

Good news for these guys: the United States is not such a country

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 6d

Sunglasses and a hat are great. There’s also a reason I, a fair skinned individual, usually keep at least a remedial beard around. (Unlike sunscreen, it does not wear off.)

A lifetime in the mountains has torched my forearms, though. That’s the part of me that really looks 50.

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 6d

Do take care of your back
Do take care of your knees

Don’t get too fat (see above)
Don’t get too lazy (above)

Go new places, meet people

Do something enjoyable enough that, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t thrown away your youth for someone else’s benefit

Work really hard and one day this can be you:

(On a tombstone)

RIP
Worked Really Hard