the door guys are putting new doors in our house, dealing with little problems and letting us know, and i'm doing a bunch of mappings to link up data with a bunch of little predictive models, and honestly, it feels like i have the same job as the door guys. just easier

what's the normal age when you should start being able to see your reflection in a mirror?

When people are listening to a person they consider a high-status intellectual, they project what he says onto the nearest thing they understand and consider to be true, so as to agree with him

You can tell that I'm being a jerk because I used "they" instead of "we" for people, presuming to exclude myself from the proles who do this

I'm the postdoc who took months of additional time to make sure they could still run the code after I left, because the instrument was (and is) still generating data

Thread on the hot question of the moment: what is probability? My stance is that, once you get away from frequencies of repeated events, probability is a weird abstract math thing, inspired by the concrete, that happens to be useful in the real world. Same as, say, relativity.

I've turned off every tech thing in my life that tries to feed me news because they're all like, "oh, you're interested in science? Perhaps you're the kind of person who would enjoy some quantum consciousness string theory speculation from an Indian fluff newspaper"

FAANG promises infinite personalization, delivers unislop

I know right, and it's like, why would I believe anything from these people, why would I believe the Haitian cat thing or whatever the hell it was... why bother with any information from people who are so manifestly indifferent to the specific content of what they're saying?

My wife is my rock 😂 It's a little embarrassing but it's sooooo true lmao She calms my inner storms like magic In this case, specifically, my rage that my data pipeline is inefficient and unreliable because I'm bad at my job