Ravyn
@pgov.bsky.social
ML & Data Engineer based in Helsinki. Expect Machine learning, AI and Big Data related posts. Also curious about astro and general maker related topics.
A 100x this
Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A 100x this
Was wondering about the impact of USAID cuts since I have seen much in the news, and found this. These people are monsters.
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.
www.impactcounter.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Was wondering about the impact of USAID cuts since I have seen much in the news, and found this. These people are monsters.
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
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15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
October 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
Why is linkedin just so very very bad.
July 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Why is linkedin just so very very bad.
Holy crap this belongs in a museum.
![Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company, appeared on All-In to talk with hosts Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya about the future of technology. When the topic turned to AI, Kalanick discussed how he uses xAI’s Grok, which went haywire last week, praising Adolf Hitler and advocating for a second Holocaust against Jews.
“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlnirjwff4ibiw3wchmleszo/bafkreiac2szurc5dnw6klquhpjmo7iafg4n6fwmrqyred7jrrph6h6mptq@jpeg)
July 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Holy crap this belongs in a museum.
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Always good to remember.
July 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Always good to remember.
Found a scammer on FB creating ads, linking to a site that impersonates a local tabloid. Quite an elaborate scam, I guess LLM's make this easy. www.facebook.com/ads/library/...
Ad Library
www.facebook.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Found a scammer on FB creating ads, linking to a site that impersonates a local tabloid. Quite an elaborate scam, I guess LLM's make this easy. www.facebook.com/ads/library/...
New unit of measurement just dropped.
June 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New unit of measurement just dropped.
Seen this comparison several times in different forms. Comparing a specific grant which is an increase on TOP of total EU science funding, to US total funding. Sure the EU could be investing more but let's compare apples to apples. Also, is the EU expected to just instantly double it's budget? How?
$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget.
When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.
When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.
We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers.
As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.
We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓
As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.
We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓
May 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Seen this comparison several times in different forms. Comparing a specific grant which is an increase on TOP of total EU science funding, to US total funding. Sure the EU could be investing more but let's compare apples to apples. Also, is the EU expected to just instantly double it's budget? How?
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Vector Sets are finally part of Redis! The full story here in my blog: antirez.com/news/149
Vector Sets are part of Redis - <antirez>
antirez.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Vector Sets are finally part of Redis! The full story here in my blog: antirez.com/news/149
"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself" - Bob Dylan
March 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself" - Bob Dylan
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Forget the 60k rows part. His "hard drive overheated" ?!
there's a certain kind of grifter whose whole bit is stringing together 500-word versions of "hacking the mainframe... I'm in". people who pay for twitter like to then fawn over how brilliant these people are. mostly harmless, except when they have the ear of someone dismantling our government
It's a perfect encapsulation of where the right is at intellectually these days that Elon's favorite data person is like 'I'm sorry, I tried to process 60k rows of data and my computer exploded'
March 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Forget the 60k rows part. His "hard drive overheated" ?!
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩🔬
Why does almost every electric car look like a tesla inside. Give me a normal car with knobs and cranks instead of a flats creen.
Another car that looks like a balloon animal.
Volkswagen’s cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software
March 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Why does almost every electric car look like a tesla inside. Give me a normal car with knobs and cranks instead of a flats creen.
Now they're policing the speech of foreign universities. The party of free speech my ass. yle.fi/a/74-20147027
Petition calls on Finnish universities to oppose US attempts to censor use of terms such as equality, climate change
The chancellor of the University of Helsinki told a newspaper last month that US authorities had pressured the university to remove certain terms from its press release about Fulbright scholarships.
yle.fi
March 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Now they're policing the speech of foreign universities. The party of free speech my ass. yle.fi/a/74-20147027
It's tempting to short Tesla given the current situation, but remember that it's a meme stock fueled by greed. Laws of logic don't apply here.
Tesla stock price since Inauguration Day. Absolutely incredible Elon is awarding himself government contracts and investors are still 😵💫
February 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It's tempting to short Tesla given the current situation, but remember that it's a meme stock fueled by greed. Laws of logic don't apply here.
I just mistyped hyperlink as hyperkink🤔
February 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I just mistyped hyperlink as hyperkink🤔
If this goes ahead it will become a future case study on how not to use AI, both from a functional and ethical standpoint.
New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If this goes ahead it will become a future case study on how not to use AI, both from a functional and ethical standpoint.
This may possibly be the "greatest harm" being carried out in modern history. Delaying an effective malaria vaccine by years will result in the unnecessary death of millions of children.
Trump aid spending freeze halts leading malaria vaccine programme. POTUS can't care less.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Trump aid spending freeze halts leading malaria vaccine programme
Global collaboration with US researchers likely to be set back by years, including on spread of drug-resistant HIV
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This may possibly be the "greatest harm" being carried out in modern history. Delaying an effective malaria vaccine by years will result in the unnecessary death of millions of children.
Dude-fluencers are selling "male victimhood" idealogy to privileged men, usually blaming women instead of the larger hyper captilistic system for their stress/inadequacy.
A brilliant thread, research backed with a succinct framing of the issue we see all around us.
A brilliant thread, research backed with a succinct framing of the issue we see all around us.
Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men
Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.
www.psypost.org
January 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Dude-fluencers are selling "male victimhood" idealogy to privileged men, usually blaming women instead of the larger hyper captilistic system for their stress/inadequacy.
A brilliant thread, research backed with a succinct framing of the issue we see all around us.
A brilliant thread, research backed with a succinct framing of the issue we see all around us.
Regarding elon's salute shitfest. What I see missing from reporting and commentary is how he was obviously tweaked out of his fucking mind that day.
January 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Regarding elon's salute shitfest. What I see missing from reporting and commentary is how he was obviously tweaked out of his fucking mind that day.