Josh Bone

PhD student at Northeastern University. Machine Learning and Computer Vision. he/him

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@doulbedoink With all due respect you’re wrong

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@_ghnn_ @AcademicChatter @PhD_Genie I get the reason, but it really bothers me that the steps read from bottom to top in this infographic 😅

[ChûgFromABigHûgMûg @BgHgMg]

mathematicians love to be like "Recall:" and then tell you the thing for the first time.

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@j_bertolotti @matthen2 Right, the ratio is actually always rational given that a computer generated this animation.

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@duetosymmetry Publishing AND perishing

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@CBCarey @lighghtmusic @ghostly 70bpm is in ‘sync’ with 140, I’m sure that’s what he meant

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@two_standpoints In vino veritas

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@kevinbaker Me when my paper gets accepted

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

Playing around with stable diffusion today. Interestingly, it made comic-book speech bubbles without any comic-related information in my text prompt. Now if only they contained real text...

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@AnyTechnology Science has gone too far

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

This sentence is "this sentence is" twice, first without quotes then with quotes, followed by (twice, first without quotes, then with quotes) "twice, first without quotes then with quotes, followed by (twice, first without quotes, then with quotes)"

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@LChoshen @pnkraemer @DVijaykeerthy @matplotlib There’s a before/after on his linked GitHub page, but it doesn’t look like there’s much of a difference in that example.

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@AcademicChatter 👁📹🤖👩‍🏫⚖️

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

It seems like every other day, a professor shows their privilege by referring to calc+ level math as “high school math.”
Last week I had a professor tell me that Lagrange multipliers are taught in high school. Most people at my high school didn’t learn any calculus at all.

[Jon Boeckenstedt @JonBoeckenstedt]

Thread: A slow weekend turned interesting when a student at Columbia, in response to a tweet suggesting the SAT and ACT were "good, actually" posted this chart.

[Preetum Nakkiran @PreetumNakkiran]

In case it's helpful: Resources on learning causality "from scratch", assuming prior math background. (we used this for a reading-group last year; I highly recommend):

First, start with this short lecture for the philosophical motivations: https://t.co/TBNpGHy0az

Then 1/

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

Starting to think computer vision is 90% resizing / reshaping images according to pytorch errors

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

“So there’s hope?”
“I hope so, yes.”

Just heard a great talk by @emilymbender about her recent work: “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” If you haven’t read it yet, please check it out.

https://t.co/36834YkLaT

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@jenuflexion @yet_so_far That’d be linear algebra

[Josh Bone @JoshBone18]

@sadmathboi Congrats!!