PhD @IULuddy. BS @ECEIllinois. Tweets about machine learning, music, movies, and video games. Sometimes politics. Hot takes are my own. (He/Him)

Joined August 2009
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21 years ago today, Christopher Nolan’s ‘BATMAN BEGINS’ was released in theaters.
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May 7
Celebrating 80 years of Sony 🎉 Looking back at decades of innovative technology and creative storytelling across gaming, TV, movies, music, and anime... what was the first Sony product you ever experienced?
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when i hear people talk about what Nurture means to them, and how it’s affected their lives, i can’t tell you how happy it makes me.. i feel understood in all the ways you would hope for as artist; like my exact feelings have reached people, in the exact ways i wanted while making it. as a listener, i'd always wondered if my favorite artists could feel what i feel when i listen to their music; with Nurture, i’m CERTAIN that’s happening. i’m CERTAIN that you and me are feeling the same things when we listen to Nurture. it means a lot to me because that highly clear, unambiguous transmission of feeling, where very little is lost or misunderstood along the way, is what i'm always striving for as an artist. it's rare for me and precious to me happy 5th anniversary to this album. thank you to the people who love it... i hope people will continue to feel what i felt for many years to come
happy 5th birthday to @porterrobinson 's "nurture" — an album that has inspired me endlessly.
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Take the Green Herb? 🌿🌿🌿
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They have escaped into the mansion where they thought it was safe. Yet… Resident Evil launched in North America 30 years ago today.
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On this day 34 years ago, Pearl Jam stepped onto the stage at Kaufman Astoria Studios and delivered an unforgettable performance for MTV's Unplugged.
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先日、1年ぶりに二馬力を訪ねました。 宮さん(宮﨑駿氏)は今も元気に好きな「絵」を自由に書いてました。凄い人です。 今回も写真はナウシカからの歴戦のスタッフさんに撮ってもらいました。 最後のは途中まで見送ってくれた宮さんから「握手しよう」と言われて撮ってもらった写真です。穏やかになったなぁ。 コメント 庵野秀明
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BEEP BEEP THE HAWKS ARE BACK IN SEATTLE. And so are 750,000 of your closest friends, all coming to Seattle to celebrate our SUPER BOWL CHAMPS. So if you're heading to Seattle tomorrow, take whatever ferry, bus, train, or spinning teacup is closest to you. Please.
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The Ents showing up to take down Isengard
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Feb 9
That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰
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Indiana, this one’s for you.
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David Bowie’s Blackstar turns a decade old this week. What was it like to witness the creation of (and help shape) such a landmark release? My interview with saxophonist and band leader Donny McCaslin 👇 open.substack.com/pub/deepcu…
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27 Dec 2025
When I created Claude Code as a side project back in September 2024, I had no idea it would grow to be what it is today. It is humbling to see how Claude Code has become a core dev tool for so many engineers, how enthusiastic the community is, and how people are using it for all sorts of things from coding, to devops, to research, to non-technical use cases. This technology is alien and magical, and it makes it so much easier for people to build and create. Increasingly, code is no longer the bottleneck. A year ago, Claude struggled to generate bash commands without escaping issues. It worked for seconds or minutes at a time. We saw early signs that it may become broadly useful for coding one day. Fast forward to today. In the last thirty days, I landed 259 PRs -- 497 commits, 40k lines added, 38k lines removed. Every single line was written by Claude Code Opus 4.5. Claude consistently runs for minutes, hours, and days at a time (using Stop hooks). Software engineering is changing, and we are entering a new period in coding history. And we're still just getting started..
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The @analogue 3D was worth the wait! Quick-to-setup drop-in replacement for my still-functioning N64 with a clean 4K60 output. Breathed new life into Smash 64. I played with my brother using 8bitdo controllers; the time flew by! The thumbstick now is less callous inducing. 😅
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Jak 3 came out 21 years ago today! 🏜️ This PS2 adventure saw Jak and Daxter journey through (and survive) the daunting Wasteland.
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Hope you have an amazing tour @feedme—Felt Sick is another testament to your versatility, a wonderful follow-up to Vintage Rally. I had single “Pyro” on repeat before but now I’m obsessed with “Spectral Feel”, “Mug”, and “The Sky, The Limit”. 🔥 Bound to be my top listen of 2025.
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Wishing I was at the @nineinchnails @boysnoize show last night in Seattle. Looks like they played a mashup of NIN’s 1990 song “Sin” with Boy Noize’s 2015 song “Cerebral”. It was a huge throwback for me as I remember remixing the latter song 10 yrs ago! on.soundcloud.com/8Ocsc9hreG…

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Very nice work by @Sa_9810 from #ICLR2025!
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Excited to share our ICLR 2025 paper, I-Con, a unifying framework that ties together 23 methods across representation learning, from self-supervised learning to dimensionality reduction and clustering. Website: aka.ms/i-con A thread 🧵 1/n
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On April 8, 1990, the first episode of TWIN PEAKS, "Pilot / Northwest Passage", was premiered. 35 years ago everything began to happen.
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