Alex Chin

AI, data science @Airbnb ~ Stats PhD from @Stanford

[Alex Chin @ajwchin]

@amazingmap In this world the Dutch navy doesn't exist and the Netherlands don't become a colonial force in the East Indies

[Alex Chin @ajwchin]

@SwiftOnSecurity hunter2

[Alex Chin @ajwchin]

@yvanspijk How do we know about the -az/-a in the proto-Germanic forms? Presumably they are attested in some daughter languages?

[Alex Chin @ajwchin]

I-50 and I-60 don't exist. They were skipped to avoid confusion with US-50 and US-60

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Very satisfying. Well done, random US official.

[Alex Chin @ajwchin]

@PackMensBball anonymous coach was Roy Williams

[Alex Chin @ajwchin]

Ich habe es geyotet

[Tim the Shitposting Linguist @LinguisticsShi1]

If you feel like you’re too old to say yeet maybe try inflecting it as a Germanic strong verb. Yeet/Yote/Yoten. More old timey.

[Alex Chin @ajwchin]

@JonayAcosta82 @PhDniX @DannyBate4 venir et aller, past and future. Very different

[Alex Chin @ajwchin]

@MorningBrew so chalky.

[Mike Simonsen 🐉 @mikesimonsen]

This is incredible.

From @Jamie_Lane where AirBnBs are fully booked next week.

[NC State Men's Basketball @PackMensBball]

FINAL FOUR BOUND 🏜️

[Bogáta Timár @BogataTimar]

Helena Bibowa, the oldest and only surviving native speaker of a tiny language called Wymysiöeryś is turning 102 today.
In honor of that, let me take you along on the story of Wymysiöeryś.
It's of death and resurrection, and a hefty deal of random, but I promise it's a happy one.

[tyson brody @tysonbrody]

oh now you're part of europe

[Lynda Carter @RealLyndaCarter]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to one irresistible hunk.

[Alex Chin @ajwchin]

@penguins Pretty apt for how the season is going

[Leon Derczynski ⚒️☁️🏔️🌲 @LeonDerczynski]

it's 2024 and we're still having to say this lol

cos sucks if you have more than say three or four dimensions

[Russell Wilson @DangeRussWilson]

Year 13. Grateful. @Steelers

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

A STORM IS BREWING 😤

[Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb]

This is such a nice feature of some Sinitic languages (Mandarin and Canto both do it): the possibility of splitting up bysillabic loanwords to form A-not-AB questions, so "is it ok?" becomes "o唔ok?" or "o不ok?"😀

[Molly Offer-Westort @mofferw]

The 2024 syllabus for my Advanced topics Causal Inference & Machine Learning course is up! @UChicago @DSI_UChicago
https://t.co/3P6nO98aVA

[Alex Chin @ajwchin]

Making these visuals using @manim_community has been a satisfying part of this work. We found it fruitful to dedicate a good amount of effort to visual communication.

[Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor]

So how do get to the latent space? It's a straightforward adaptation of LLM models:
1. Convert events into tokens.
2. Include longer-term trajectories in the loss function.

@ajwchin did some amazing work not only getting this working but with these visualizations.