Marc Tyndel

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@KelseyTuoc @goblinodds Is your teach-kids-to-read game something might consider sharing or perhaps writing about?

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@kevindavidhayes @karpathy @a_karvonen For sure, it’s no Move 37 or anything. But it’s far beyond what anyone five years ago would have considered a hyperparameter search

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@kevindavidhayes @karpathy @a_karvonen Only if you knew about it and had already included the option in your code. If you didn’t, what pre-agentic hyperparameter tuning algorithm would have been able to come up with it for you?

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@azforeman @kwo_vadis Is it similarly unstable in modern Polish (or other Slavic languages)?

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@azforeman I follow you for the linguistics stuff! Maybe I should try and be less of a read-only user so my engagement isn’t totally invisible…

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@Cory_Henry We tried to see you but it was in Toronto so :(

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@arjie @paulg That particular suggestion doesn’t work because it’s already the name of a different warbler species. Sort of surprising that this field guide author or the article editor didn’t double check that?

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@ZachWeiner Also elsewhere in the same article: "Final /n/, /ŋ/ may be pronounced without complete oral closure, resulting in a syllable that in fact ends with a long nasalized vowel"

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@ZachWeiner See the third bullet here: https://t.co/FoIaEdzTmB. Not close to a fluent speaker but I've definitely noticed what you're describing before (along with what sounds like a bit of vowel nasalization as noted in wikipedia, so I don't think it's creating homophones)

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@Vidor1 @SexyJedi @mattyglesias They publish thousands of predictions so you could: if you say, sampled 100 predictions around 80% and only 65 happen, that would show Silver to be “wrong”. But in fact 538 does such assessments and turns out to be pretty impressively calibrated: https://t.co/WwouvxzGaR

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@gaddmatt @its_adamneely Could it be the other way around? I think a bunch of the Children's Songs borrow from earlier compositions - I know #8 (probably my favourite one) is the first part of The Sky (My Spanish Heart).

[Glenn Sumi @glennsumi]

Marc and Xave @Toronto_Fringe were adorkable. Ear worms for days. And lots to think/smile about.

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@TTChelps the "short turn" announcement on new streetcars ought to actually name the final stop.

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@AllanLichtman now among critics of @NateSilver538 who seem not to have flipped enough coins to understand that P=0.3 events happen a lot

[jonny sun @jonnysun]

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pablo picasso (b. 1881)
"woman with iphone" (2016)
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[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Condolences to Lee Se-dol on losing game one to AlphaGo. I hope he can recover, but the writing is on the wall: https://t.co/fxhx9h0lmv

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Xave a Horse, Ride a Xowboy @FreeTimesCafe 8:30 SAT MAR 7 @xave_ruth @marctyndel #musicTO #toronto #songwriter #voice

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

Brendan @drycomplex for mayor! I mean #drumoff8 champion.

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@mitchchn Far even.

[Marc Tyndel @marctyndel]

@1Password @mitchchn I'd also like to submit a vote for an xkcd-style password generator!