Coming soon to a bookstore near you :).

... maybe multiple pressures have produced zebra stripes & the other zebra stripe hypotheses (like dazzle confusion of predators, or thermoregulatory benefits) still deserve another look. Read more in our paper Scientific Reports, with Andrew Gersick: go.nature.com/3hdrNy7 (9/9)

made #stablediffusion 19% faster on Mac by replacing einsum(…, q, k)*scale with baddbmm(…), and einsum(…, attn, v) with bmm(…). baddbmm is 99% faster than the einsum+multiply. bmm is 15% faster than the einsum. 8 Heun steps 10.4s -> 8.7s PyTorch nightly 1.14.0.dev20221103

Project Mushroom is working on automating the process of migrating your Twitter account to Mastodon *including* support for finding all of your followers & automatically notifying them of how to follow you in an easy step-by-step process (in about 5 min). tryprojectmushroom.com

We are sincerely grateful to 🇳🇱, 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇿 for providing significant and much-needed support – 90 T-72 tanks. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are pushing forward and need this equipment. We value the help of partners. Together we stand for protection of freedom & democracy!

James K Conan’s 78 page critique of Rorty is painful to read. Rorty’s 8 page counterpoints are clear and the last two are full of zingers. Truth (unobtainium in Rorty’s view) vs truthfulness (honest expression of thoughts) as a pivotal distinction. Contingently i-RON-ick Richard Rorty tweeting

I've probably analysed 300+ codebases over the past decade. A common observation is that we developers are fairly conscious of the DRY principle...in application code. When it comes to test code, well, not so much. Consequently, some of the worst code I find tends to be in tests.

November 6 🎂🥳🎉: Happy birthday and long life to Alexandra Elbakyan! Neuroscientist and software developer #Alexandra Elbakyan who revolutionized the academic and scientific world with her ideals of open access to scientific knowledge.

I am now on Mastodon as @[email protected] Earl K. Miller hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social @northernthrux Dorothy Bishop Russ Poldrack Mel_Goodale @hugospiers @smfleming Stephen Smith

And the free ad copy you and millions provide to Musk for free. And before him Trump, and before him Gingrich. Does no one learn not to listen?

More a thing of Brokaw’s great generation—fight in WW2, then start a family in the 1950s, then in the 60s and 70s you look around at wild 20 year olds and say: “ what the hell am I doing at this for”. That’s the original midlife crisis I am familiar with.

Don’t even think about what Meta blows on VR that blows.

Looks damn fit! Go Pat.

Putin's war and the Chaos Climbers - by Noah Smith noahpinion.substack.com/p/putins-war-a…

We rely on our institution. NIH overhead should cover this. UTenn has about 6 PB of storage for us. And they happily expand. We have used up as much as 250 TB as scratch space on Lustre during active projects but then compress to under 100 TB when done. Mouse and rat sequence.

The chapter in which Pippi goes to school—more than irreverent. And playing tag with two police officers. Does subversive imply a bit underhanded attack on conventional belief? Pippi is definitely all above board.

I like that version. Teacher asks Pippi “Can you tell me what 5 and 7 are?” Pippi’s answers are radically out of synch. I wish she had answered “Two odd positive integers.” But

Please remember this is a glorious study of males only and of only a single fully inbred genome of mouse—inevitably C57BL/6J. “We used C57BL/6J male mice…” And from this we blithely generalize to all mice. Is that science or a faith-based generalization?

Planning to take a 30 day break from Twitter to rake leaves, read, and to make a point to myself. I have enjoyed the daily interactions and growth of ideas via Twitter. See some of you again in early December.

Watch Starship’s fourth flight test → spacex.com/launches x.com/i/broadcasts/1…