Kevin Mader

Biomedical engineering lecturer, software engineer, and occasional Twitter troll

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@janusch_patas Posting when the "to be published" code actually drops is potentially even more useful than the papers themselves 🤪

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@francoisfleuret I wonder if there are any good public datasets with written exams and grading to experiment with.

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@francoisfleuret Have you tried to get some of these models to reproduce incorrect student answers on exams? It would be fascinating to see the overlap on specific problems.

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

I’m calling for all artificial intelligence labs to stop publishing for at least six months, so I can catch up with the literature

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@jburnmurdoch Are we going to see some nice charts of spotify vs strava data exports?

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@janbromberger @lioninawhat @jamierusso Quite a few different elements: war/peace-time ceo roles, building great teams from imperfect pieces, firing and all the anecdotes to give everything credibility and context

[gaut @0xgaut]

Google Calendar, but it shows the cost of the meeting

[Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix]

Async programming is so cool. With just a few minutes of work you can have a program that hangs forever and is impossible to debug

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

ChatGPT to me seems to weld an English professor’s writing skills to an encyclopedia’s knowledge base and a kindergartener’s reasoning ability, producing impressive and highly polished nonsense. The screen is on - at 8K 120Hz - but nobody’s at the keyboard.

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@betatim Tell me you hate mypy without telling me

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@betatim And worth switching? Won't you miss the chaos here 🔥?

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@betatim In my experience, it's often a good thing because it serves as a warning that "hey it's not quite as simple as you think" I keep a large collection of declined PRs at the ready when someone asks why don't we just upgrade numpy or switch to py3.11

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@lizardbill wait isn't that how all data-scientists read constants from databases? who needs ORM when you have from pandas import *

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@tunguz Wow this makes getting started with and debugging CUDA almost nice

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@betatim It's quite hard to reliably measure unless it's running on isolated dedicated hardware like GPU and even then the standard deviations can be enormous

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@betatim In Switzerland?!? My working assumption was all the dangerous little animals were killed off long ago

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@getupnext No free tier or even a free trial? ❌

[Kevin Mader @KevinSMader]

@David_Ouyang @mkaic_ @OpenAI @gdb So many options in the biomedical imaging rabbit hole https://t.co/CkkbLVEoFf