Tristan
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about() {
focus: ["programming", "research"],
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}
focus: ["programming", "research"],
mindset: "open",
objective: "learn"
}
Interesting statement from Nick Clegg: "If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg
Former Lib Dem leader and Meta strategist writes in new book that power in tech capital is interlaced with ‘self pity’
www.theguardian.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Interesting statement from Nick Clegg: "If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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A cartoon from my next book.
Physics for Cats will be out in the autumn from @dandq.bsky.social and @canongate.co.uk with other languages coming soon.
Physics for Cats will be out in the autumn from @dandq.bsky.social and @canongate.co.uk with other languages coming soon.
June 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A cartoon from my next book.
Physics for Cats will be out in the autumn from @dandq.bsky.social and @canongate.co.uk with other languages coming soon.
Physics for Cats will be out in the autumn from @dandq.bsky.social and @canongate.co.uk with other languages coming soon.
These kind of activities should not be limited to just LLMs news stories. It's good to practice fact checking, critical reading, separate grounded evidence from hype, sensationalism (e.g., negativity, conflict) over nuanced realities, etc. I like how the activity asks to improve a news story.
this "class 9" is such a cool idea for an LLM course!
(from ufal.mff.cuni.cz/courses/npfl... via @zdenekkasner.bsky.social )
(from ufal.mff.cuni.cz/courses/npfl... via @zdenekkasner.bsky.social )
June 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
These kind of activities should not be limited to just LLMs news stories. It's good to practice fact checking, critical reading, separate grounded evidence from hype, sensationalism (e.g., negativity, conflict) over nuanced realities, etc. I like how the activity asks to improve a news story.
🤦🤦🤦
I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation
April 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
🤦🤦🤦
Agreed. Dignity often gets overshadowed by louder values like success or power.
Dignity is an underrated social value.
March 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Agreed. Dignity often gets overshadowed by louder values like success or power.
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March 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The article explains Apache Arrow well, showing how it keeps data in the same binary format across memory, disk, and network. It covers how it speeds up or eliminates serialisation in query result transfers, enables zero-copy operations, supports streaming, and ensures type safety.
How the Apache Arrow Format Accelerates Query Result Transfer
Arrow speeds up query result transfer by slashing (de)serialization overheads. We outline five key attributes of the Arrow format that enable this.
arrow.apache.org
March 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The article explains Apache Arrow well, showing how it keeps data in the same binary format across memory, disk, and network. It covers how it speeds up or eliminates serialisation in query result transfers, enables zero-copy operations, supports streaming, and ensures type safety.
Great comparison! While a complex issue, variety fosters resilience. Also why ensembles in machine learning generally perform better.
We take multivitamins because different nutrients work together to keep us healthy. Diversity at all levels of society does the same. Funny how one is common sense—and the other is rejected by those who fear it.
March 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Great comparison! While a complex issue, variety fosters resilience. Also why ensembles in machine learning generally perform better.
Meanwhile our UI menus load like a vintage wine ages. Slowly, but with character.
If your web site has a menu, this is how responsive they need to be.
March 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Meanwhile our UI menus load like a vintage wine ages. Slowly, but with character.
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Allow me to present the eco monkey. It's a bit like the chaos monkey, except it targets zombie servers.
- Turn server off.
- If someone screams 😱, turn it back on. This is a wonderful opportunity to test DR and resilience!
- If no one screams, keep it off, and enjoy all the energy savings 💶 🌳.
- Turn server off.
- If someone screams 😱, turn it back on. This is a wonderful opportunity to test DR and resilience!
- If no one screams, keep it off, and enjoy all the energy savings 💶 🌳.
March 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Allow me to present the eco monkey. It's a bit like the chaos monkey, except it targets zombie servers.
- Turn server off.
- If someone screams 😱, turn it back on. This is a wonderful opportunity to test DR and resilience!
- If no one screams, keep it off, and enjoy all the energy savings 💶 🌳.
- Turn server off.
- If someone screams 😱, turn it back on. This is a wonderful opportunity to test DR and resilience!
- If no one screams, keep it off, and enjoy all the energy savings 💶 🌳.
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An assembly of 18 European companies, labs, and universities have banded together to launch 🇪🇺 EuroBERT!
It's a state-of-the-art multilingual encoder for 15 European languages, designed to be finetuned for retrieval, classification, etc.
Details in 🧵
It's a state-of-the-art multilingual encoder for 15 European languages, designed to be finetuned for retrieval, classification, etc.
Details in 🧵
March 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
An assembly of 18 European companies, labs, and universities have banded together to launch 🇪🇺 EuroBERT!
It's a state-of-the-art multilingual encoder for 15 European languages, designed to be finetuned for retrieval, classification, etc.
Details in 🧵
It's a state-of-the-art multilingual encoder for 15 European languages, designed to be finetuned for retrieval, classification, etc.
Details in 🧵
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February 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Spot on!
“Move fast and break things” doesn’t even make sense in software engineering.
Doesn’t even make sense for the crap python scripts running locally.
This is the attitude of people who don’t have to face consequences for their actions.
Doesn’t even make sense for the crap python scripts running locally.
This is the attitude of people who don’t have to face consequences for their actions.
February 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Spot on!
Bad news for whatever planet is about to get hit by Earth 😂
February 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Bad news for whatever planet is about to get hit by Earth 😂
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Still one of the best pedagogical examples of a normal distribution I’ve seen
February 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Still one of the best pedagogical examples of a normal distribution I’ve seen
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We're kicking off 2025 by joining the Bluesky user community!
We're excited to share release updates, news, events, milestones and other happenings across the ASF and #opensource ecosystem here.
We're excited to share release updates, news, events, milestones and other happenings across the ASF and #opensource ecosystem here.
January 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
We're kicking off 2025 by joining the Bluesky user community!
We're excited to share release updates, news, events, milestones and other happenings across the ASF and #opensource ecosystem here.
We're excited to share release updates, news, events, milestones and other happenings across the ASF and #opensource ecosystem here.
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A prayer before opening Google Maps:
May Dijkstra’s wise and holy hand, we pray
Keep us in the short and righteous way.
May Dijkstra’s wise and holy hand, we pray
Keep us in the short and righteous way.
January 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
A prayer before opening Google Maps:
May Dijkstra’s wise and holy hand, we pray
Keep us in the short and righteous way.
May Dijkstra’s wise and holy hand, we pray
Keep us in the short and righteous way.
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how i'd learn machine learning in 2025 if i had to start from scratch:
1. find a log that i initially planned to turn into a table leg
2. make it into a puppet that can walk and talk
3. have the puppet, through a series of adventures, turn into a real boy and realize the true value of friendship
1. find a log that i initially planned to turn into a table leg
2. make it into a puppet that can walk and talk
3. have the puppet, through a series of adventures, turn into a real boy and realize the true value of friendship
January 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
how i'd learn machine learning in 2025 if i had to start from scratch:
1. find a log that i initially planned to turn into a table leg
2. make it into a puppet that can walk and talk
3. have the puppet, through a series of adventures, turn into a real boy and realize the true value of friendship
1. find a log that i initially planned to turn into a table leg
2. make it into a puppet that can walk and talk
3. have the puppet, through a series of adventures, turn into a real boy and realize the true value of friendship
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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems.
We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems.
We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
December 10, 2024 at 1:05 PM
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems.
We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems.
We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
I spent 19,307 minutes on @runpod.io this year 🥴 - see your 2024 wrapped here: runpod.io/wrapped
December 9, 2024 at 6:39 PM
I spent 19,307 minutes on @runpod.io this year 🥴 - see your 2024 wrapped here: runpod.io/wrapped
A great visualisation.
Most liked and most downloaded open-source AI models from 2022 to 2024
Interactive viz: aiworld.eu/embed/model/...
Discussion: huggingface.co/spaces/huggi...
Interactive viz: aiworld.eu/embed/model/...
Discussion: huggingface.co/spaces/huggi...
December 4, 2024 at 9:14 AM
A great visualisation.
A fascinating visualisation showcasing the performance of various programming languages running the Naïve Fibonacci algorithm.
Source: benjdd.com/languages/
Source: benjdd.com/languages/
December 2, 2024 at 11:12 AM
A fascinating visualisation showcasing the performance of various programming languages running the Naïve Fibonacci algorithm.
Source: benjdd.com/languages/
Source: benjdd.com/languages/
The art of tartling. 🤦. Gives me the fear thinking about it. Mind going blank.
Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots.
To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
December 1, 2024 at 10:43 AM
The art of tartling. 🤦. Gives me the fear thinking about it. Mind going blank.
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It's pretty sad to see the negative sentiment towards Hugging Face on this platform due to a dataset put by one of the employees. I want to write a small piece. 🧵
Hugging Face empowers everyone to use AI to create value and is against monopolization of AI it's a hosting platform above all.
Hugging Face empowers everyone to use AI to create value and is against monopolization of AI it's a hosting platform above all.
November 27, 2024 at 3:23 PM
It's pretty sad to see the negative sentiment towards Hugging Face on this platform due to a dataset put by one of the employees. I want to write a small piece. 🧵
Hugging Face empowers everyone to use AI to create value and is against monopolization of AI it's a hosting platform above all.
Hugging Face empowers everyone to use AI to create value and is against monopolization of AI it's a hosting platform above all.