happy october to this absolute legend

This library is totally amazing. I suspect that everyone building neural nets is going to want this in their life.

#statistics note to self: For EM-like algorithms (applies to other, real-world contexts): Slow progress is not necessarily an indication of convergence...

Because women tend to be denied access to regular employment on an even larger basis than men in Japan, they also enjoy a lower degree of employment security. This means that they don't just earn less, but they're also more likely to be laid off during times of economic crisis.

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Expand the court.

Looking for a postdoc? Interested in TEs, their regulation, or their impact on germlines? DM or email me, I want you to join my lab at UH, funded by an R35. Start date flex. Houston is AWESOME when it's safe to go to restaurants and museums. Plz retweet! nsmn1.uh.edu/eskelleh/

I want to normalize this for my fellow computational researchers: It can be very difficult to predict how much time is needed to complete a new large coding project for a research question no one has asked before. It's NOT you. It's the process. #AcademicTwitter #WomenWhoCode

This is a neat thread. I haven't read the paper yet, but a framework for quantifying the robustness of results seems like a useful tool to have in the toolkit.

I like footnotes. I like origami. I don't like pseudoscience. This origami textbook really has it all. ("Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art", 2nd Edition by Robert J. Lang)

New post! What I wish someone had explained to me about tensor computation libraries like PyTorch, Theano and JAX. eigenfoo.xyz/tensor-computa…

Just for the record, Minari is an American movie written and directed by an American filmmaker set in America with an American lead actor and produced by an American production company 👀

Repeating one of my favourite productivity tips for new followers. A PowerPoint file (pptx) is actually a Zip file in disguise. If you simply change the .pptx file extension to .zip and unzip, you directly access all embedded media at their original size & resolution. See below!

I keep getting more and more excited by JAX. I'm still pretty attached to PyMC3 for posterior sampling (which is now being developed with a JAX backend) but I'm definitely adding this to my list of libraries to play around with.

Does anyone know someone that recently came to the US from Europe on J1 visa? I would love to learn how to do so (trying to rescue a strained new lab member....). Thank you!

Since there was interest in how I addressed this question, here's a thread on what I said in class. TLDR: if you're operating under certain narrow assumptions about what data analysis is, maybe you should worry about looking at data too much. But usually its better not to 1/

Meg Mitchell, lead of the Ethical AI team has been fired. She got an email to her personal email. After locking her out for 5 weeks. There are many words I can say right now. I'm glad to know that people don't fall for any of their bull. To the VPs at google, I pity you.

We are actively looking for a lab manager/technician to join us! Informal inquiries welcome! #Dros21

One thing that's remained constant over the years: I don't believe in doing any more math than I have to. One thing that's changed over the years: My definition of "have to."