Austin Basye

applied ML @Hudl | pan sports fan | fmr. @CERN ∈ @PhysicsIllinois (#AtlasTTHbb), @BrookhavenLab (#PhenixRPCs) ∈ @ACUedu | takes are all mine

[Austin Basye @ATBasye]

First publication Post-PHD! https://t.co/CbpASbXQLn #feelsgreatman
Huge hat-tips to the rest of the @HudlAnalysis team! #SSAC17

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

@lugubrious_lad The dimensionality of talent space is easily in the hundreds of thousands.

[Austin Basye @ATBasye]

@VicVijayakumar @JOEtheLuckiest Candidly... I suck so much it tempts me to put too much time in it to get better at the cost of higher priority time investments.

Somehow I made it work through marriage + grad school (CoD: Black Ops was 🤌) ... but kids changed the game.

ARC lets me sneak and avoid contact.

[Austin Basye @ATBasye]

@JOEtheLuckiest @VicVijayakumar We've done a number of them. Diablo 1-3, Minecraft, No Man's Sky, Void Crew. I've been itching for an extraction shooter, so we kept our eye on ARC.

I think our plan is to do 2 teams of two and see if we can get voice coms over discord and 🤞that we wind up on the same server.

[Austin Basye @ATBasye]

@VicVijayakumar Yep! We had our eye on it for a few weeks, alongside a few others. When it went on sale, we collectively pulled the trigger, in a manner of speaking.

[Austin Basye @ATBasye]

@CJHandmer The none-too-subtle Rickover name-drop at the end of Groves' book was just too much, huh? :D

I followed up with Stormin' Norman's autobiography, but I may have to circle back to this one.

[Austin Basye @ATBasye]

@CJHandmer Thanks a ton for posting this, just picked it up! Got it queued up for tomorrow's plane ride.

[Austin Basye @ATBasye]

Me: It costs nothing to be polite...

9yo: WRONG... it costs ~$9.5M/year

Me: ... frankly, it's on you if "Please", "Thank You" and "You're Welcome" aren't trivial cache hits.

[Sebastian Raschka @rasbt]

Polite users and LLMs are wasting millions of dollars!
Napkin math:
> Say "Please" and "thank you" costs ~3 tokens per ChatGPT exchange.
> At GPT-4o rates, that's ~$0.00003 each time.
> Multiply by 800M chats/day and that's "wasting" ~$9.5M/year on politeness 😅

[LifeAtHudl @LifeAtHudl]

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[Austin Basye @ATBasye]

I leave CERN to work in AI and settle in Abilene, TX to raise a family...

... and then OpenAI builds a $500B GPU compute cluster 5 miles from my house, to solve physics problems.

Wonder what the universe is trying to tell me 😅.

[Dan Roberts @danintheory]

My short talk at @sequoia AI Ascent on how we at @OpenAI are attempting to flip the old "cherry-on-top" meme about "Scaling RL"

[Austin Basye @ATBasye]

I love physicists.

> Yes we did the math, and I think we're all in agreement on the calc. and the results.
> Excellent, oh BTW, what's the uncertainty on that?
> Uncertainty? It's [checks notes]... a factor of 10.
> ...
> ...
> ... maybe also a minus sign in there... somewhere.

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

At the outset there was a factor of 10 uncertainty in the quantity of U235 or Plutonium needed.

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

@davidbessis I think what people mean when they say "nobody understands quantum mechanics" is that the better you understand the model of nature, the more you realize that you don't understand the thing the model represents.

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

Physicists: the formula works for the first seven values, it must be true!
Mathematicians:

[Adam Loewy @LoewyLawFirm]

Sharing this A+ analysis on the Luka trade by the always insightful @chris_kratovil

Makes a ton of sense to me from the #txlege angle - esp considering Lite Patrick likely done next Session.

Good stuff. Read it 👇🏼

#txlege
#MFFL

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

https://t.co/cd3Xt5upl4

[Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit]

"Oh, I'm a *pure* mathematician, I don't write code/do calculations/etc.."
"Oh, I'm a *theoretical* physicist, I don't do experiments/analyze data/etc.."
Etc.

These kinds of statements are typically uttered with an air of intellectual smugness. But what are they really? (1/6)

[Hand Banana @__hand_banana]

one of the best things I ever did by accident was go to college in the Midwest

first, because I met my wife there

second, because I got to see a different social status game than the one people play in the northeast

[Austin Basye @ATBasye]

@peterrhague @AlsoKnowne We call this technique “grad-student decent.”