kognate

Sleeping furiously with colorless green ideas. Pythonista, Communitarian, all else is commentary.

[kognate @kognate]

Agurticracy (IPA? a.ˈʝiɾ.tikra.si): A government run by charlatans and frauds. I think this will be the title of my NaNoWriMo project.

[kognate @kognate]

Since "No Children" is trending on everything It's probably a good time to mention that I have indeed considered the Tetrapod.

[James Dempsey @[email protected] @jamesdempsey]

We’ve been working real real hard and we think you’re gonna like it…

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[WiML @WiMLworkshop]

Call for Participation! The 16th Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (WiML) will be co-located with the virtual @NeurIPSConf in December, 2021.
Deadline for submission: September 29th, 2021
Read the full CFP: https://t.co/6oMxlJEm7G
#WiML #WiML2021 #NeurIPS2021

[Adriana Porter Felt @__apf__]

the fun thing about low probability events is that they happen

[sophie alpert @sophiebits]

at facebook someone told me, “coding is the most important part of being an engineer, which is why 2/4 of the onsite interviews are coding”, which only seems like a worse and worse take as I think about it each passing year

[rax ‘levon honkers’ king @RaxKingIsDead]

how about normalize you telling me how much the fucking job pays in the first place

[woo woo woo @McgarrDana]

Accessibility isn’t more work, you were just cutting corners before. The work was incomplete.

[kognate @kognate]

@evanmoran Yep, you read it before. You even recommended it to me in loops 7, 19, 31, 38, 39, and 41

[Jean MacDonald @macgenie]

Somehow a chat about @Apple's upcoming developers conference turned into a discussion of ST:VOY. It wasn't me who started it, but it ended with me suggesting @TheKateMulgrew as a great keynote speaker for WWDC or @AltConference. A girl can dream...

[kognate @kognate]

Targ call meeting to inform team that Targ smash silly Gantt chart showing unrealistic schedule created by Forces of Evil. Wait, Targ muted. Targ start over...

[Jessie Char @jessiechar]

In case anyone was wondering, Ally McBeal does not hold up in 2021

[kognate @kognate]

So, I was doing some research today about NLP and poetry modalities (as you do) and stumbled upon a paper by @mattt on the design of a computational poetry engine.

[kognate @kognate]

@griotspeak Racket and Guile are two languages that will get you close to this. Swift has potential, but that's a much longer conversation (swift is an acceptable Haskell after all).

[@[email protected] @catherinedevlin]

On private property, flying that flag would be an inviolable First Amendment right.

On a public overpass, it's littering. And my patriotism has always included taking garbage off the roadways.

[kognate @kognate]

The Lunchbox is all I can think of. https://t.co/Sw6IB3xHFK

[Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️ @Nnedi]

Question: Can you name a film, tv series or novel you love where the stakes don’t involve death (as in, no one dies), and it’s *not* a comedy or for kids. Just need some ideas because I can’t name one right now and I’ve got things to do, lol.

[kognate @kognate]

Schumpeter: The foodoo economics of meal delivery https://t.co/yaJJskD7zz via @TheEconomist