Lead Baseball Analyst @RedSox, recovering physicist. Formerly: @Argonne, @NIU, ATLAS Experiment @CERN, @MurrayStateUniv, STL(area) Native | Tired but hydrated
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Tyler Burch retweeted
Jun 9
I just open sourced my "Is this slop?" simple test
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Jun 9
Lol that took like 24 hours
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One thing that strikes you when you become a parent is that, like, everyone you’ve ever met with really little kids was having kind of a hard time
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May 14
Grant me the serenity to accept the problems where I cannot offload my understanding, courage to let the LLM go burrrr on the problems where I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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May 14
The more I do it, the more it feels like there's some misalignment between LLMs and statistical work. Maybe it's over-abstraction leading to making it harder to turn knobs and experiment? Maybe the harnesses are oriented toward shipping code and not sitting on a problem?
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May 9
The better the models get, the more I seem to have to scream "DON'T FORGET YAGNI" and "come on, KISS!" at them.
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Tyler Burch retweeted
May 6
Gradient descent does not work. I will die on this hill.
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Tyler Burch retweeted
it feels unholy to add agentic workflows into matlab
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May 2
No company has ever been more relatable than Dunkin giving up on the “healthy” protein menu strategy and hard pivoting directly into putting Oreos on everything.
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Apr 27
Every single “the AI deleted prod!” post I’ve seen could have very easily been avoided by thinking about the principle of least privilege even one time.
Apr 27
The conclusions here feel wrong to me. The two lessons I see are:
1. Don't run agents anywhere they might be able to access production environment credentials - it's on you to know which credentials those are
2. Keep tested backups that are independent from your production host
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Apr 24
Not me. I keep my hammer ready at all points in time.
Apr 23
Legally all doctors are allowed to hit you on the knee with a little hammer. Even PhDs. They just rarely exercise this right
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Apr 24
Quick question, does gpt 5.5 still talk to me like it’s trying to prove to me that it’s read every single book on computer programming?
“We need to leverage a shim to reduce the risk surface area” got it
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Apr 21
In case you were wondering how this performed, near-perfect temps meant no weather effect, leaving just the random-walk estimate.
Top-3 average was 2:02:30, ~0.7 posterior SDs faster than the 2:05:10 median, inside the 95% interval (1:57:55–2:12:29).
Apr 20
Based on the attire on the Green Line skewing more Hokas and On Cloudmonsters than a typical workday, I can confirm today is the Boston Marathon.
Just uploaded a new blog post looking at how much of finish-time variation is attributable to weather.
Link in thread
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Tyler Burch retweeted
Report: Runner who tried to jump on Green Line to cheat way to victory in 2022 Boston Marathon just getting to finish line now
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Apr 20
Based on the attire on the Green Line skewing more Hokas and On Cloudmonsters than a typical workday, I can confirm today is the Boston Marathon.
Just uploaded a new blog post looking at how much of finish-time variation is attributable to weather.
Link in thread
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Apr 19
So uh anybody who bought a Mac mini for a clawdbot ready to sell it to me for pennies on the dollar yet?
These MCMC chains aren’t gonna sample themselves, and my MacBook Air is starting to struggle.
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Apr 19
I mean this should just be built into every harness at this point, but I digress
Apr 18
If you don't want Claude to read your .env files
Just add this to your .claude/settings.json
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Apr 15
I too am going to sell all my shoes to buy more GPUs
Apr 15
Shoe company Allbirds just announced that it's planning to
- Sell all of its brands and footwear assets
- Rebrand the company to Newbird AI
- Use a $50M convertible financing facility to "acquire high-performance GPU assets"
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