Perry Gibson 🍐

machine learning📉 + systems🔩 | tensor compilers | PhD grad @GlasgowCS + @gic_LAB | oatcake fiend

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One of those home maintenance Saturdays: limescale clearing, fridge deep clean, and debugging some flaky dotfiles

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First encountered Lemuria a few years ago, reading the ccru writings (look, who isn't drawn in by the image of Warwick academics going off on jungle music and Deleuze?)

It's only recently I've been made aware that it's not a nation of lemurs à la King Julian

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My navigation app has a sponsored algorithm?

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@WretchedMorgan Done it to and fro London a few times.

Survivable, if you keep repeating the mantra "it's okay, I'm saving so much dosh this way"

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also, yk, the feeling of "how secure are my IAM policies for this use-case"?

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real "ouch my tummy" moments when developing scripts to automatically launch/manage ec2 instances

you feel the fractions of pennies you're charged for every failed iteration

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@cypnk Yeah the creator seems pretty certain that the end is inevitable and soon. But I think it's really cool that it exists, and I've been meaning to put some copies in a Faraday cage just in case

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@cypnk I remember first seeing this argument with Collapse OS [1] a few years ago.

If you can run it on a torn apart washing machine, then it fits the bill!

[1] https://t.co/BYuXGLccXH

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Got my group chat bot summarizing long voice notes

Which does feel a wee bit "depersonalisation through technology" dystopian nightmare

But then, cmon man three minutes?

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what's the patter again?

> ask the guy if the component is Mealy or Moore

> It's a good component sir

> it's mealy

that'll do

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The giant pandas in Edinburgh zoo went back home last December after 12 years

But tbf it was an exchange program, Sichuan got two of our unicorns

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@MartianLawyers Love the look, and I know I'll have a lot of fun edge-case hunting at release!

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Congratulations to @PerryGibson_ on his PhD! Look back to p.48 of #HiPEACinfo71 to find out about Perry's doctoral journey (including the importance of choosing a great supervisor like @jcanore)
👉 https://t.co/oJRhkpEIQk

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Magic Mike but instead of getting his kit off he's building Tensorboard visualisations and figuring out HPO

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Has anyone actually made and sold the avacado chair yet?

You'd think the number of folk who say they're getting burned out and want to ply a craft, someone would've packed in Keras for furniture making

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Feel I cannae wear my bunnet out and about anymore cause it reads as Tommy Shelby-fan, rather than 15 year old me's intent of larping as my great uncle working down Clydeside

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I love dinner

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@MegaSlippers Aye they've increased the lifetime of a good number of my shoes. Their approach to staffing is pretty good from what I hear an'aw

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four quid to get a belt repaired? timpsons really is a national treasure