Computational social scientist. Personal-capacity tweets about complex social systems (real and simulated). Also NatSec, Python, sci fi, cats and child.
Joined September 2011
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10 Jul 2015
Since we just presented it at #SciPy2015, I guess it's officially out.
Mesa: a Python agent-based modeling package.
github.com/projectmesa/mesa
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23 Apr 2022
If a 3D projection wore pants...
22 Apr 2022
3D plots upset me so frequently that I made this teaching aid. #DataScience #Datavisualization
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17 Apr 2022
the virgin old lady who swallowed a fly vs the chad gadya
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17 Apr 2022
Weird, usually my 57 year old second cousin with frosted tips brings his 21 year old dates to his family's holiday events.
17 Apr 2022
Ok I’m sorry I need to tweet because I can’t take it. My 21 year old second cousin has brought a 57 year old man to Easter lunch. He has both ears pierced. He has frosted tips. He has said “that’s lit” twice. I’m vibrating with cringe and fascination.
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17 Apr 2022
This is the wholesome equivalent of the video of the toddler solution
16 Apr 2022
Philosophers: the only way to solve the trolley problem is to kill one of these groups of imaginary people.
Model railway dads:
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17 Apr 2022
Contrast with
x.com/delmoi/status/88242410…
5 Jul 2017
This toddler's beautiful solution to the philosophical trolley problem shows how children are the future.
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an interesting part of that chomsky quote is comparing russia's actions to a "hurricane" like it's political force majeure and not a series of choices. once again everyone (except the US of course) is mechanistically enacting the laws of history
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16 Apr 2022
Tis the season again
28 Mar 2021
I'd love to see the shape of the annual streaming count curve for Prince of Egypt.
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14 Apr 2022
“We’ll get him another. I know a man in Pisa makes them ten for five florins and a round dozen for cash up front. And you get a certificate with St. Peter’s thumbprint, to say they’re genuine.”
14 Apr 2022
lmao the Russians put a piece of the True Cross on the Moskva and it’s now at the bottom of the Black Sea
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5 Apr 2022
"MALib is a parallel framework of population-based learning nested with multi-agent RL methods, using @RayDistributed #RLlib.
Focus: efficient code reuse and flexible deployments on different distributed computing paradigms."
💻github.com/sjtu-marl/malib
🤖malib.io/
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5 Apr 2022
Wanted @midjourney to make a hard sci fi book cover, but autocorrect changed it to 'civet' and I think it generated the next Children of Time/Ruin novel.
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1 Apr 2022
Frongoo Genge is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
1 Apr 2022
the 1950 Census attempts at using machine learning to automatically transcribe names are, I must report, delightful
(poor Frongoo Genge appears to be actually named something like "Georg Frengos")
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1 Apr 2022
Possible methodologies to arrange spices:
- Spring layout on co-occurrence network
- PCA
- More generalized latent space
I'm sure I'm missing some.
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29 Mar 2022
.@babynetworker wanted to play museum today with @DanielleAlberti's jewelry, and when we asked her where her museum acquired "the most beautiful things in the world" she said they "found them on the road". So I think she has a solid understanding of what the job entails.
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29 Mar 2022
Despite my nerd magnet school having zero fights, at one point the administration decided to start a student hall monitor program. My friends and I wrote a whole manifesto founding the Hall Dis-Monitors, and staged extremely corny fake fights when our friends were on duty.
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25 Mar 2022
Introducing NovGrid: a testbed for experimenting with RL agents facing novel environmental changes
arxiv.org/abs/2203.12117
github.com/eilab-gt/NovGrid
Novelty is a sudden change to the world dynamics at test time, after an agent’s policy has converged and learning is turned off.
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23 Mar 2022
My favourite thing is when people stick trackers on animals and one does literally nothing interesting and sits in 1 place 99% of the time and the researchers are like oh yeah that weird datapoint is Lazy Geoff, he doesn't ever do anything for reasons we don't entirely understand
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24 Mar 2022
A tabletop painted-miniatures game but instead of battles it's Regency-style parties, and players have to maneuver characters into the right company without violating the elaborate social norms.