Alex

University of Toronto Computer Science & Cognitive Science '21 | hobbyist game designer | non-binary (they/them)

[Alex @AppearingBlock]

@blveboi I saw this headline and one of my first thoughts was "this would probably annoy charlie, and for good reason"

[ACLU @ACLU]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has not responded to our emergency request to block Texas’ radical new 6-week abortion ban, SB8. The law now takes effect.

Access to almost all abortion has just been cut off for millions of people. The impact will be immediate and devastating.

[Alex @AppearingBlock]

This guy's insurance just stopped covering the surgery he's scheduled to get... one week from now.
https://t.co/YEsXbhNLj0

[moritz ✨ @angerman]

@shin0_0ne @newhoggy @vitariesocks For at least some, there seems to be an improvement. https://t.co/FrTkuNEYfG

[joey @vitariesocks]

Got long COVID as a teenager. Comic thread: (1/3)

[Alex @AppearingBlock]

@No7Sammy @deal1503 @GamerGuyW To my knowledge, there do exist people who want their children to be biologically both theirs *and* their romantic partner's. You'd have to argue that that's not a valid desire.

[Alex @AppearingBlock]

@deal1503 @No7Sammy @GamerGuyW You two are talking past each other. You're imagining a person who wants to have biological kids *with their partner*. Sammy is imagining someone who wants to have kids who are biologically theirs, but doesn't care whether the other biological parent is their partner.

[Alex @AppearingBlock]

@2ndlast2rise @AlGoodNameRGon https://t.co/SIzd6cmikO

[Alex @AppearingBlock]

@2ndlast2rise @AlGoodNameRGon It's probably this person.
https://t.co/T3D7LlIAT4

[Alex @AppearingBlock]

@IntiReferences The BSM-02 Garand, a miniboss in Luminous Avenger iX, also has a giant energy beam attack that's called "Accel Blast" in the game's OST booklet.

[Alex @AppearingBlock]

And that concludes my thread. Thank you for reading!

[Alex @AppearingBlock]

Hello, and welcome to a thread I wrote as an assignment for my Probabilistic Learning and Reasoning class! I’ll be using it to explain the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method for sampling from a probability distribution.

[Alex @AppearingBlock]

But even this doesn’t get rid of the problem entirely. Sometimes, yet another completely different approach is needed. It’s what we have some of those fancy neural-network models for.