Computational social scientist. Personal-capacity tweets about complex social systems (real and simulated). Also NatSec, Python, sci fi, cats and child.
Ok I’m sorry I need to tweet because I can’t take it. My 21 year old second cousin has brought a 57 year old man to Easter lunch. He has both ears pierced. He has frosted tips. He has said “that’s lit” twice. I’m vibrating with cringe and fascination.
an interesting part of that chomsky quote is comparing russia's actions to a "hurricane" like it's political force majeure and not a series of choices. once again everyone (except the US of course) is mechanistically enacting the laws of history
“We’ll get him another. I know a man in Pisa makes them ten for five florins and a round dozen for cash up front. And you get a certificate with St. Peter’s thumbprint, to say they’re genuine.”
@CMastication This was pretty close to my grad-school Santa Fe Institute summer school experience. Lectures on various interdisciplinary methods, work on fun short-term research projects, lots of beer and hiking and New Mexican food.
"MALib is a parallel framework of population-based learning nested with multi-agent RL methods, using @RayDistributed+#RLlib.
Focus: efficient code reuse and flexible deployments on different distributed computing paradigms."
💻https://t.co/Rkr4mHJEW9
🤖https://t.co/wO2ujrfbig
Wanted @midjourney to make a hard sci fi book cover, but autocorrect changed it to 'civet' and I think it generated the next Children of Time/Ruin novel.
the 1950 Census attempts at using machine learning to automatically transcribe names are, I must report, delightful
(poor Frongoo Genge appears to be actually named something like "Georg Frengos")
@catacalypto Learning about procgen and narrative from the perspective of someone who actually needs to make them work. More positivity than my stream generally has. Also possums.
.@babynetworker wanted to play museum today with @DanielleAlberti's jewelry, and when we asked her where her museum acquired "the most beautiful things in the world" she said they "found them on the road". So I think she has a solid understanding of what the job entails.
Despite my nerd magnet school having zero fights, at one point the administration decided to start a student hall monitor program. My friends and I wrote a whole manifesto founding the Hall Dis-Monitors, and staged extremely corny fake fights when our friends were on duty.