Often said about me: "From Infinity" & "Too Beyond"
Joined June 2012
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Ky Elliott Mathews retweeted
May 20
🧠 New paper: can we train the brain to pay attention faster? We used EEG neurofeedback to make people voluntarily speed up their individual alpha frequency (IAF), the brain's natural "attentional clock." Here's what happened 🧵 (1/3)
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Ky Elliott Mathews retweeted
We are thrilled to share that John Acorn has been named a recipient of an honorary degree this spring.
John earned a bachelor of science in zoology in 1980 and a master’s in entomology in 1988, both from the @UAlberta Faculty of Science.
Please join us in celebrating this milestone alumni achievement!
ualberta.ca/en/folio/2026/05…
Photo credit: John Ulan.
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We are going to win the world cup
Liam Millar with a fantastic block to deny Tunisia on the counter 💪 #CanMNT
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For the fourtieth time, @CANMNT_Official is going to win the world cup
Mar 31
Canada's pool at the Men's World Cup of soccer this summer:
Switzerland is 19th on FIFA rankings
Canada is 30th
Qatar is 55th
Boznia 65th
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I finally recognize the character now, @ItsAlwaysSunnyQ
Mar 20
Clavicular left the interviewer completely speechless after explaining just how far he takes heightmaxxing 😭
“If they make you take your shoes off, you can sag your pants to hide your heels… and just tiptoe maxx.”
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Ky Elliott Mathews retweeted
A new book that says new methods (not theory, etc) are the drivers of scientific discovery
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One of the most fascinating perspectives ever.
A symbiotic origin of the ribosome?
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Ky Elliott Mathews retweeted
Feb 25
I wonder if people who haven't heard of Sapir-Whorf are less able to imagine that their language's vocabulary might affect the very thoughts and concepts that they are able to think of?
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Ky Elliott Mathews retweeted
Feb 20
We see this in the stark difference between students joylessly straining for perfection in the eyes of an Ivy League admissions committee vs a free range founder pursuing curiosity for themselves funmaxxing. Of all the reasons to work with 1517, having fun is number 1.
Feb 20
to win gold medals and nobel prizes you just need to be funmaxxing
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Feb 19
I am a believer in AI but things like this make me wonder if there would be PhD theses written in humanities departments about the collective AI psychosis.
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Feb 17
I think I solved this with Opus 4.6 agent swarm in 65 minutes, but it might be cheating or not in the spirit of the original tweet from @kmcannon about stale Phds that I: have a phd, already supervise phd students, have extensive understanding of cognitive psych from @PsychIllinois, and understanding of game theory from training with @hsu_ming at @BeckmanIllinois, ....
or maybe we need to recalibrate our labs and training and goals.
hi! this is a paper that will likely make up a third of my dissertation. i will pay you $500 if you can figure out how to extend the main result to allow for persistent/markovian states (something we suspect is possible but never did) in <5 hours of time.
economics.mit.edu/sites/defa…
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Feb 17
We thank the OP Daniel Luo for their details tweetback and provide a detailed response letter github.com/kylemath/Luo2024E… with tweet by tweet responses indicating how we revised the paper, including python analysis pipeline for stats and figures and revisions. github.com/kylemath/Luo2024E…
and update the webpage accompanyment:
kylemath.github.io/Luo2024Ex…
as someone who has tried to used ai to help me write proofs, this has pretty much been my universal experience with it. with very simple tasks (compute this algebraic expression for me) it does wonderfully. it’s also really good at typesetting. but there are difficulties.
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Triggering action potentials of a single neuron by multiphoton excitation elicits visually guided behavior
"disruption of a single neuron within the ensemble temporarily paralyzes the entire ensemble and suspends behavioral responses to visual stimuli"
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Feb 13
Successfully published microgptjs@1.0.0
Feb 13
I ported @karpathy's microgpt.py to JavaScript and published it as an npm package.
Train a GPT from scratch. In your browser. In 10 lines of code. Zero dependencies.
npm install microgptjs
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Feb 13
I ported @karpathy's microgpt.py to JavaScript and published it as an npm package.
Train a GPT from scratch. In your browser. In 10 lines of code. Zero dependencies.
npm install microgptjs
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It's MIT licensed, on npm, and the demo is live:
npm: npmjs.com/package/microgptjs
Demo: kylemath.github.io/microgptJ…
Source: github.com/kylemath/microgpt…
Thank you @karpathy for making the original microgpt.py -- the most educational 150 lines of ML I've ever read. This is my attempt to bring that to the JavaScript world.
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