Chris Hefele

[Joe Sill @joe_sill]

Went through some old pics and found one of me at an ML conference in HK in '96 w/Leo Breiman (2nd from left in glasses). I am 4 seats down.

Breiman was 68 and had not yet done his hugely influential work on random forests.

Big technical achievements very doable later in life!

[Chris Hefele @ChrisHefele]

The Holmdel Horn, a Cosmic Shrine in New Jersey, Stays Put - the antenna that first detected the remnants of the Big Bang is no longer threatened by real estate developers https://t.co/x2IKejMwBP

[Chris Hefele @ChrisHefele]

Back to New Jersey, Where the Universe Began - Nice NYT article about Bell Lab’s horn antenna in NJ that was the first to detect remnants of the big bang. https://t.co/aQwgU2wOiH

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares." – Michael Feathers

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Researchers at the University of Toronto used cell phone usage to measure the rebound from Covid in different downtowns, and no big American city's is more than 2/3 of what it was. SF is by far the worst off, at only 1/3 of 2019.

[kc5fm @kc5fm]

It's National Static Electricity Day! https://t.co/4gam5xLKLu #NationalStaticElectricityDay
#StaticElectricityDay from @checkiday

“A sweater I bought was picking up static electricity. So, I returned it to the store. They gave me another one free of charge.”

[Chris Hefele @ChrisHefele]

The Phoebus cartel, formed in the 1920's, was a secret cartel formed between lightbulb manufacturers to lower the life expectancy of light bulbs by 50% & raise prices in what what has been described as a "classic example of planned obsolescence".
https://t.co/EPAqsBoIrE

[Chris Hefele @ChrisHefele]

The End of Programming https://t.co/iF14RpUY00

[Chris Hefele @ChrisHefele]

Winter Solstice 2022: Sunrise Live from Stonehenge https://t.co/Uv8SNsf4i9

[Chris Hefele @ChrisHefele]

Wow, telecom employment has dropped 50% over the past 20 years.

[Chris Hefele @ChrisHefele]

"...the real world — growing food, building houses — is a smaller part of economic life than it used to be, and that manipulating symbolic objects in online databases is a bigger part. Modern life is lived in databases."

--Matt Levine, Bloomberg

https://t.co/P5GUSsx4Tx

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

ChatGTP and coding problem

[Chris Hefele @ChrisHefele]

Looks like #chatGPT can do some logical reasoning...it may not get it right all of the time, but even the ability to get it right sometimes is impressive.

[Dan Groshev @dangroshev]

GPT is hot on Twitter again, now as #chatGPT. Here's your regular reminder that it's still a very advanced statistical search engine incapable of reasoning beyond statistical inference

[Stijn Spanhove @stspanho]

Experimenting with ChatGPT and WebAR. I was able to build this AR scene by talking to a chatbot 🤩🤩.

#chatgpt #openai #threejs #aframe #8thwall

[Chris Hefele @ChrisHefele]

Save the antenna! The microwave antenna used to confirm the Big Bang (& win a Nobel Prize) sits on land that may soon be re-zoned for development.

Petition: https://t.co/xXajr8INYm

Group: https://t.co/SNiXivSJhO

History: https://t.co/WbbvZyFM4W

News: https://t.co/miY9pu2Z8Z

[Unix tool tip @UnixToolTip]

sort a b | uniq > c # c is a union b

sort a b | uniq -d > c # c is a intersect b

sort a b b | uniq -u > c # c is set difference a - b

[Chris Hefele @ChrisHefele]

Gabriel's horn is a 3D shape with infinite surface area but finite volume. https://t.co/30Yo8g12LL

[Chris Hefele @ChrisHefele]

Brain cells in a lab dish learn to play Pong — and offer a window onto intelligence https://t.co/qiu6bxJt8T