David Cournapeau

Amazon, ex-search/recommendation/ML at @mercari_jp. Former NumPy/Scipy core contributor. Occasional musings on economics/music/Japanese culture

[David Cournapeau @cournape]

Scipy Japan 2019 schedule is on: talks about chainer, tensorflow, RAPIDS and more: https://t.co/IHcRbl0lzV all the talks will be available in both english and Japanese through translation

[Dan Castellano @ninja_padrino]

@rei_merrygo I did, gomen!🙇🏻‍♂️

[Astrid Carmalouille @carmalouille]

@Mach_Low Vous n'êtes pas gentil avec le tiers monde. Même eux installent des clims s'ils le peuvent. Nous c'est notre folie pathologique décroissante, presque unique au monde, qui nous maintient là où on en est.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

QUESTION on CHINA.
It seems to me that China is libertarian for small entities, w/near complete laissez faire, compared to, say, Italy or France, where the small is overregulated and the large able to play the system. China's state control applies to large entities.
CORRECT?

[Susan Zhang @suchenzang]

to be fair, you can also smell sycophantic glazing from a mile away now which is stupidly useful in transactional corporate theater world

[John Myles White @johnmyleswhite]

This combo from intheweights is super fascinating. Basically just a perfect image of the effect of focusing on Meta internal work for a decade.

[Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf]

You need a reason NOT to use SQLite as your file format. It's the best default.

[Stella Biderman @BlancheMinerva]

In which the protégé of the founder of Palantir pretends that AI and mass surveillance are a “communist” because his job is to lie to people for political gain.

[Graham Neubig @gneubig]

OK, I tried GLM-5.2 and this is a good model.

Probably the first model good enough to eschew closed models from your workflow entirely (except if you need vision).

I know this won't run on your laptop, but what are the best current vllm/sglang serving recipes?

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

I see that Ben Gvir is once again having a normal one.

[David Cournapeau @cournape]

@fhuszar @jonathan_wilke And CLI are more composable than GUI which matters for automation

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

British politics summed up in one photo.

[Rémi @remilouf]

Buying hard drives and downloading files overnight like it’s the 2000s again

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

I can't tell if I've been living one meal away from death for years or if ChatGPT is wildly conservative when it comes to food safety.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

San Francisco VCs doing their Midjourney body scans.

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

a sustainable future needs to include weirdos. If your vision for where we're headed requires the weirdos to be suppressing themselves then it's not gonna be sustainable.

[David Cramer @zeeg]

openclaw is tamagotchi for zoomers

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

Being in the model weights will be my legacy.

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

Out: Fable
In: Parisian Subway

[Alister @SchnockRevue]

« Le match le plus difficile de ma carrière » déclarera t-il à l’issue de l’exercice.