mczacca

Invested in physics, statistics, and characterisation of materials and uncertainty for engineering use. PhD in biomechanics. Loves abstract music.

[mczacca @mczacca]

"TERFS are the real handmaidens. They're useful idiots, who put a concerned female face on the patriarchal violence against trans people, that will ultimately be enacted by right wing men" - contrapoints

[mczacca @mczacca]

@MoistenedTart Went through this a couple of weeks ago - throwing up the first day, listless with belly ache for about 3 days, then not quite right for a couple of days after. Two of us sick at the same time with a 12 month old was challenging. Hope you feel better and have some support

[Prof. Matt England @ProfMattEngland]

This is driven by a reduction in the density of surface water around the Antarctic margin, which in turn sees greater intrusion of warm Circumpolar Deep Water onto the shelf.

[Edward Saperia @edsaperia]

https://t.co/9WqBzV0WVq

[mczacca @mczacca]

@MoistenedTart .. to jump in and incorporate AI into well established business practice

[mczacca @mczacca]

@MoistenedTart Many opining on the internet currently have suggested the current AI developments are going to be critical to productivity in many if not most industries. Is this what the tip of the wedge looks like? Perhaps. Many other industries are likely to be less reliant and willing ..

[A/Prof Phil Zylstra @Phil_Zylstra]

A lot of eucalypt forests naturally limit bushfires if they're allowed to mature. We worked out how they do it, and how we can tap into that to mitigate fire risk. 1/6
https://t.co/6aTr6iQVse

[mczacca @mczacca]

@RARohde And vice versa

[I'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky @KetanJ0]

A question for those mostly or totally unfamiliar with the IPCC reports and graphical / informational style - do you get this graphic?

(To me it feels generally accessible but I live in chartworld so it's nice to check)

[Shehzad Hameed Ahmad @ShehzadHameed]

My documentary🚨 "Pakistan's Heat Storm"🚨 won at the Golden Earth Film Awards 2022 in India. We filmed Pakistan's brutal heatwave in July, decimating ice-sheets, flooding 2/3rds of the country, costing $40 billion in damages.

Full Doc: https://t.co/EcwwIPHsjb #ClimateCrisis

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

ok, I got ChatGPT working with Additive Prompting

Here's a 1 paragraph ChatGPT prompt you can use to generate infinite interior design/architecture photographs w/ 90%+ coherence to the prompt in Midjourney

Full prompt w/ examples in thread. Try reading the prompts as you go

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[Daily AI Papers @papers_daily]

How Do Transformers Learn Topic Structure: Towards a Mechanistic Understanding

https://t.co/PQOr2xKCRH

The successes of transformers across many domains are indisputable, but accurate understanding of the learning...

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[mczacca @mczacca]

@Jo_Tovey After years of arranging the system to benefit their generation, a minimal lashing of intergenerational equity is a tough pill to swallow.

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

After three years of work, our massive review of climate tipping elements led by @wang_seaver is finally out in Reviews of Geophysics.

With 12 co-authors and clocking in at 81 pages, it provides a comprehensive review of 10 different tipping elements: https://t.co/mt9fLgXXsP

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

Macro Photography of Robotic Insects

A quick/easy/fun prompt for you to play with today

🧵Thread w/ prompts. Reply with your creations

[Daily AI Papers @papers_daily]

Project and Probe: Sample-Efficient Domain Adaptation by Interpolating Orthogonal Features

https://t.co/UE93Su53F4

Conventional approaches to robustness try to learn a model based on causal features. We propose a...

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[Nick Sharp @nmwsharp]

This function has saved me many hours of debugging tensor shapes and dtypes in python code. It's a battle-hardened one-liner to print a table of names and properties.

https://t.co/EBaSesypv1

Works for #numpy, #pytorch, #jax and probably others. Try it out!

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

ok, after many tests, I've managed to get my Additive Prompting structure working for interior design/architecture photography with 90%+ coherence to the prompt in Midjourney.

Examples & prompts in thread. Read them as you look at the images

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[mczacca @mczacca]

@AccountableGOP Actual insanity

[mczacca @mczacca]

@adamliaw Can we cancel the term butty? It is a silly word