David Cox
@neurobongo.bsky.social
VP, AI Models @IBMResearch, IBM Director, @MITIBMLab. Former prof and serial/parallel entrepreneur.
Someone once said that it is better to burn out than to fade away. However, I believe that in my case, I will do neither. Instead, my brain will lose the will to remain semi-solid, and it will drool out my ear.
October 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Someone once said that it is better to burn out than to fade away. However, I believe that in my case, I will do neither. Instead, my brain will lose the will to remain semi-solid, and it will drool out my ear.
I woke up this morning in Manhattan, and I am now in San Francisco, but somewhere in between, I testified before the House Financial Services Committee in Washinton, DC.
September 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I woke up this morning in Manhattan, and I am now in San Francisco, but somewhere in between, I testified before the House Financial Services Committee in Washinton, DC.
Saturday "booking a 5-day BOS-JFK-DCA-SFO-BOS flight itinerary" vibes.
August 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Saturday "booking a 5-day BOS-JFK-DCA-SFO-BOS flight itinerary" vibes.
I have been asked to testify before the Senate _again_ in a few weeks, and now I am wondering if it is a fashion faux pas to where the same tie in consecutive testimonies only weeks apart.
August 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I have been asked to testify before the Senate _again_ in a few weeks, and now I am wondering if it is a fashion faux pas to where the same tie in consecutive testimonies only weeks apart.
Reposted by David Cox
Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🧮 #histsci She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002🧵
August 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🧮 #histsci She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002🧵
Today was a blur, but at some point earlier in that blur, I testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment.
July 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Today was a blur, but at some point earlier in that blur, I testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment.
No, YOU'RE ordering four dress shirts at 8PM in different sizes and fits, to pick up in-store tomorrow, because you have to fly to DC on Tuesday to testify to Congress and don't have a shirt you can wear with a tie.
July 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
No, YOU'RE ordering four dress shirts at 8PM in different sizes and fits, to pick up in-store tomorrow, because you have to fly to DC on Tuesday to testify to Congress and don't have a shirt you can wear with a tie.
His opposition to what now?
April 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
His opposition to what now?
Reposted by David Cox
Forget ChatGPT! This will revolutionize science!
openCHEAT: Computationally Helped Error bar Approximation Tool - Kickstarting Science 4.0
eggerbernhard.ch/SIGBOVIK_ope...
Plenty of happy users since 2021!
1/5
openCHEAT: Computationally Helped Error bar Approximation Tool - Kickstarting Science 4.0
eggerbernhard.ch/SIGBOVIK_ope...
Plenty of happy users since 2021!
1/5
April 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Forget ChatGPT! This will revolutionize science!
openCHEAT: Computationally Helped Error bar Approximation Tool - Kickstarting Science 4.0
eggerbernhard.ch/SIGBOVIK_ope...
Plenty of happy users since 2021!
1/5
openCHEAT: Computationally Helped Error bar Approximation Tool - Kickstarting Science 4.0
eggerbernhard.ch/SIGBOVIK_ope...
Plenty of happy users since 2021!
1/5
OK, so here's the deal, wolf. You can have some of this meat we're cooking by this fire, but in exchange, we're going to selectively breed your children, and your children's children, and so on—for 50,000 years—until they are basically ridiculous muppets.
January 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
OK, so here's the deal, wolf. You can have some of this meat we're cooking by this fire, but in exchange, we're going to selectively breed your children, and your children's children, and so on—for 50,000 years—until they are basically ridiculous muppets.
Please do not use.
December 14, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Please do not use.
Just another normal day, sharing my knowledge and advice with the people of BlueSky.
I am not telling you not to have orgies, just best to keep that separate from any crime you do.
December 8, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Just another normal day, sharing my knowledge and advice with the people of BlueSky.
I have been a little bit scarce on social media in the last few months. Some of that has just been from being busy at work, but some of it has had to do with my father's passing. He hated the very idea of social media, but he religiously followed my Twitter, and then Bluesky, feeds. /n
December 8, 2024 at 5:55 PM
I have been a little bit scarce on social media in the last few months. Some of that has just been from being busy at work, but some of it has had to do with my father's passing. He hated the very idea of social media, but he religiously followed my Twitter, and then Bluesky, feeds. /n
Has anyone run the numbers on how much coverage a genetic database would need to have to get different levels of specificity in matching? I imagine once you get to a certain level of coverage, you can narrow down the possible set quite aggressively.
Someone asked me if face recognition/AI will catch the NYC assassin guy. I guess it's possible, but my money is on the DNA (if it's his).
If anyone up to a third cousin (less than 1% shared heritable variation) used 23andme, then have a lead and can start walking the family tree.
If anyone up to a third cousin (less than 1% shared heritable variation) used 23andme, then have a lead and can start walking the family tree.
December 8, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Has anyone run the numbers on how much coverage a genetic database would need to have to get different levels of specificity in matching? I imagine once you get to a certain level of coverage, you can narrow down the possible set quite aggressively.
btw, this is my guess on why they collected that backpack with an excavator when they found it. Don't want to risk destroying or contaminating any genetic evidence present at the scene. Wouldn't be surprised if they sterilized the excavator shovel before collection as well.
Someone asked me if face recognition/AI will catch the NYC assassin guy. I guess it's possible, but my money is on the DNA (if it's his).
If anyone up to a third cousin (less than 1% shared heritable variation) used 23andme, then have a lead and can start walking the family tree.
If anyone up to a third cousin (less than 1% shared heritable variation) used 23andme, then have a lead and can start walking the family tree.
December 8, 2024 at 2:39 PM
btw, this is my guess on why they collected that backpack with an excavator when they found it. Don't want to risk destroying or contaminating any genetic evidence present at the scene. Wouldn't be surprised if they sterilized the excavator shovel before collection as well.
Someone asked me if face recognition/AI will catch the NYC assassin guy. I guess it's possible, but my money is on the DNA (if it's his).
If anyone up to a third cousin (less than 1% shared heritable variation) used 23andme, then have a lead and can start walking the family tree.
If anyone up to a third cousin (less than 1% shared heritable variation) used 23andme, then have a lead and can start walking the family tree.
December 8, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Someone asked me if face recognition/AI will catch the NYC assassin guy. I guess it's possible, but my money is on the DNA (if it's his).
If anyone up to a third cousin (less than 1% shared heritable variation) used 23andme, then have a lead and can start walking the family tree.
If anyone up to a third cousin (less than 1% shared heritable variation) used 23andme, then have a lead and can start walking the family tree.
My daughter hit me yesterday, completely out of the blue, with a detailed and thoroughly researched presentation entitled "Why I should learn to play the harp"
September 14, 2024 at 5:08 PM
My daughter hit me yesterday, completely out of the blue, with a detailed and thoroughly researched presentation entitled "Why I should learn to play the harp"
tfw when I am the sole technical person a reception full of business people.
August 31, 2024 at 9:48 PM
tfw when I am the sole technical person a reception full of business people.
My wife, asking me cautiously (but somewhat nervously) if there is an upper limit to the number of watches a person can or should acquire.
August 25, 2024 at 11:01 PM
My wife, asking me cautiously (but somewhat nervously) if there is an upper limit to the number of watches a person can or should acquire.
fwiw, this is the posture that axolotls take when they're about to attack
August 25, 2024 at 10:26 PM
fwiw, this is the posture that axolotls take when they're about to attack
So many job opportunities available these days.
August 17, 2024 at 5:58 PM
So many job opportunities available these days.
Intellectually, I am aware that turkeys can fly. But it is another thing altogether to see two of them bomb into my backyard at speed. I feel like my brain is not really ready to accept this fact.
August 8, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Intellectually, I am aware that turkeys can fly. But it is another thing altogether to see two of them bomb into my backyard at speed. I feel like my brain is not really ready to accept this fact.
I just tried to type "Arduino," and my phone autocorrected it to "STFU no"
August 4, 2024 at 10:54 PM
I just tried to type "Arduino," and my phone autocorrected it to "STFU no"
SF weather is so weird. The Bay Area is experiencing a historic heat wave, and it's positively chilly in the city.
July 9, 2024 at 8:15 PM
SF weather is so weird. The Bay Area is experiencing a historic heat wave, and it's positively chilly in the city.