Ever notice a recurring pattern in your own biology but repress the urge to conclude anything because you can’t explain it mechanistically?

What you see moments before you code review the worst code you've ever seen

Type of guy who’s never built anything but identifies with the collective movement of people that build things

Sometimes when I formulate a convex problem a miniature devil appears on my shoulder asking me if my method scales with data and compute

Still waiting for someone to match my freak [reply speed in asynchronous research discussions].

They promised us flying cars and all we got was structured json outputs

Always found the "curse of dimensionality" a bit of a vague concept -- Wikipedia gives about 10 different definitions. It's actually pretty concrete in the case of function approximation though. Say your data is generated from a noiseless function: Y= f(X), where X =

Paul Erdős

“I usually skip this part” ~ reviewer, but it’s the whole paper

If you want to know something deep, fundamental, and maximally portable between virtually every field: study mathematical optimization.

> picks up guitar > where’s the Command+K on this thing? > Claude, are you there? > give_up.jpg

Pixie: Fast and Generalizable Supervised Learning of 3D Physics from Pixels Contributions: 1. Novel Framework for 3D Physics Prediction: We introduce PIXIE, a unified framework that predicts discrete material types and continuous physical parameters (Young’s modulus, Poisson’s