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May 4
Graduated with an MS in Data Science from Umich!
GPA, especially in grad school, really doesn't matter. But I got A, A, A in my last (and hardest) semester, for a final GPA of 3.886.
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May 4
Today I started my work as a researcher at a lab and will hopefully publish interesting things this year. I never thought until very recently that I'd actually be a scientist!
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31 Dec 2025
Haven't read yet, but Bayesianism as a foundational language can basically express anything in statistics. Another example of this story (useful technique is special case of simple Bayesian setup) is Ridge Regression is a MAP of Bayesian regression with normal priors.
30 Dec 2025
Really incredible.
If this holds up, it is a full and complete story of how LLMs work.
Tl;dr transformers converges on Bayesian inference where you can predict the posterior function exactly.
Excellent work by Vishal.
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31 Dec 2025
Things that work well are often optimal in some way. Bayesian updating fulfills some kind of universal property inside stochastic categories. I don't know the specifics, but there are "Markov categories" in the study of graphical models (diagrammatic Bayesian probability)
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31 Dec 2025
in which the posterior is some universal operation. And attention itself can be described by Markov properties.
Just some thoughts on "a full and complete story"; if there -is- a full and complete story, it must be categorical!
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7 Dec 2025
Watching SDJ in Japan, finally a Jigglypuff camps side plat diagonally above Yoshi/Amsa (the metaknight vs Olimar angle). Spam shield, di out when you end up in a scuffle. Totally busted matchup, risk:reward is just too much in jiggs favor if they play with no honor
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8 Nov 2025
There's widespread misandry in criticism of men writing about sex, here or in Murakami, or seemingly any time a man writes sex -- a great urge to depict it as disgusting or creepy.
8 Nov 2025
Stephen King is a great writer in a lot of ways but when he tries to write anything sexual it’s always extremely creepy and gross and weird
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8 Nov 2025
Male sexual interiority is frowned upon wherever you look, and I don't see any hope for a men's sexual liberation movement: feminists who should stand for this stuff are deeply disgusted by men, and trads do give a pathway to male empowerment, but just by subjugating your wife
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24 Oct 2025
The GM Naroditsky death is very sad. Many parallels and differences with Hax. Not sure what the lessons are. Some young men really do put everything into a game, and it's usually not responsible, but it's inherent to and encouraged by competitive culture.
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24 Oct 2025
Clearly the Internet can turn otherwise normal people into sadists. I don't think that can be stopped, but when someone is drowning, the empathetic who can rise above those impulses should be given more power to mediate.
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24 Oct 2025
In both cases, for all their differences, there's clearly a coordination problem where leadership of these communities are shortsighted and unable to recognize the seriousness of the situation and don't go to proper lengths to resolve the problem.
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26 Sep 2025
reinforcement learning vibrator with fitbit connectivity for your biometrics
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14 Sep 2025
Yesterday's school shooters are becoming tomorrow's assassins
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14 Sep 2025
Maybe there's some difference in the profile of a potential school shooter to politically motivated assassins.
But it's frightening that assassination will get you much more attention than a mass shooting, and that this seems like a Phenomenon
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