The legendary pull request of `adding --trim option for generating small binaries` has just been merged into master. github.com/JuliaLang/juli… #JuliaLang The Julia Language (1/n)

Thanks Bay Curious and The Bay for the Prop Fest series! It's been really helpful getting familiar with the propositions on the ballot while doing other tasks. kqed.org/propfest

It feels really weird that as an expat I get to vote for local officers and initiatives in a US town where I haven't lived in years and may never live again.

"The open source spirit: To let a billion lemons go unsqueezed. To capture vanishingly less than you create. To marvel at a vast commons of software, offered with no strings attached, to any who might wish to build." world.hey.com/dhh/capture-le…

Upside of being location-bound while on the job market: highly constrained search. Downside: seeing some really cool opportunities that would require just way too much commuting.

Finally upgraded to a Cursor Pro subscription (burned through the trial completions quota in about an hour), and it feels like flying.

Is there a better feeling than making a deadlift PR?

pdftk where have you been all of my life?

Ever thought about using matrix-exp's or log-det's in large-scale ML (think PDEs/GGN matrices with >1M rows)? I have, and maybe you have, too—but gradients? That's where it gets tricky. Not anymore! We have a #NeurIPS2024 spotlight: "Gradients of Functions of Large Matrices."🧵

New paper on EigenVI! To appear at #NeurIPS2024 as a spotlight. EigenVI is an eigenvalue-based approach to black-box VI & constructs its variational approximations from orthogonal function expansions -- inspired by solutions to the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics.

Being outside the US is somehow decreasing my stress about this election. Still there and still intense, but now it feels easier to put down.

Live election coverage. Yeah I need that like I need an unanaesthetized appendectomy.

Yesterday started my first training mesocycle where instead of using a generic training program, I'm tailored the program to attack my weaknesses. Looking forward to some major progress!

actual footage of us upgrading to a bigger apartment in Tübingen

I guess I have a BlueSky account now: bsky.app/profile/sethax…

Trying to switch some repos over to using uv to install dependencies for CI instead of conda, and I'm rather disappointed by how non- straightforward this is.

Oh look, it's me and my kids. This was a fun event! Thanks Universität Tübingen for hosting it!

Super excited to preprint our work on developing a Biomolecular Emulator (BioEmu): Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning from Microsoft Research AI for Science. #ML #AI #NeuralNetworks #Biology #AI4Science biorxiv.org/content/10.110…