Mistral Newman

I like writing, music, puzzles, immersive design, code, language. Software developer. Profile picture by

[Operation Mincemeat on Broadway @mincemeatbway]

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to MI5! 🫡 The #OperationMincemeat cast
performs Born to Lead at 2025 @thetonyawards 💼

[codemash @codemash]

The CodeMash 2025 Call for Speakers is open!
https://t.co/a7Kj9kuNUG

[Mistral Newman @mistralnewman]

New blog post, where I discuss types of #immersive
puzzles that don't require your characters to be weirdos: https://t.co/Z4W2UjEPfb

[𓀬Orion𓀬 @atiglain]

Huxley from Terra Ignota! commission for @mistralnewman

[Risa Puno @RisaPuno]

Are you a Black artist in the immersive industry? The Black Immersive Creators Grant is a new, $10,000 cash award to help support you and your work. Learn more here: https://t.co/SwH3nnG7Xa 🖤💰 #BICGrant #BlackCreators #ImmersiveArt #ExperientialArt #BlackArtMatters

[The SCP Foundation 🏳️‍⚧️ @scpwiki]

Remember, as we head into so-called "spooky season", please do not use antimemetic materials or symbology in your costumes. Luckily we haven't had trouble with it before, but you can never be too careful.

[Mistral Newman @mistralnewman]

I wrote about undergraduate STEM writing for Oberlin's Writing Center blog: https://t.co/2G2k0sbYw8

[Mistral Newman @mistralnewman]

@mangopdf i really like cookies & cream ice cream and also i enjoyed your top secret hacker blog posts a lot!

[Cailyn Nagle @CailynNagle]

Shockingly, 17% reported skipping an access code. That means that 1 in 5 #HigherEd students are being priced out of fully participating in class. #TextbookBroke #EdTech

[ash 🏳️‍🌈 @rakshesha]

*whispers* Did you know that if you want to make a website, you can just… make a website?

[Mistral Newman @mistralnewman]

@maxkreminski yes I was thinking about that! I assume you'd just need some kind of syllable-parsing library which would be a mess, but otherwise much the same

it seems like something that could also be used for constraint writing which I've always found very neat

[Mistral Newman @mistralnewman]

@maxkreminski hot take: a tool that helps you write things with short words and no long words

[Mistral Newman @mistralnewman]

while browsing free online courses that thousands of people can take at once, I hit one button in my music app to teach an artificially intelligent algorithm more about my music preferences, and I just realized I live in the future

[Mistral Newman @mistralnewman]

@jarhill0 more recently, a professor accidentally sent out a link enabling several students to log in to the course evals website as a department chair

[Mistral Newman @mistralnewman]

should I put "responsibly disclosing minor security flaws to Oberlin College since 2018" on my resume

[Mistral Newman @mistralnewman]

@jarhill0 hey I found that one too! I figured out my room a week before they released it using that. it's gone now probably because I asked them about it

[Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton]

I’ve been noticing a dangerous polarization in our discussions around navigating our way through the pandemic. Reopening is said to be playing games with people’s lives. Continuing stay at home measures is said to be without regard for the economy. This is a false choice. 1/

[Mistral Newman @mistralnewman]

@NguyenLuce Caveats: this assumes that it correctly categorizes every criminal as a criminal, which is unlikely because this seems pretty bogus all around. I'm not a face scientist but I don't think you can just do that

[Mistral Newman @mistralnewman]

@NguyenLuce I'd guess "80% accuracy" means "20% false positives." If it's correct 80% of the time, but only 5% of the population is criminals, then it could be miscategorizing up to ~18% of innocents as criminals. (And this is generous for several reasons: cont'd)

[Maithra Raghu @maithra_raghu]

ICLR Town: Pokemon-esque environment to wander around and bump into people, which syncs almost seamlessly with video-chatting capabilities.

What a fun idea for virtual (research) conferences! Thanks @iclr_conf organizers!! #ICLR2020 #iclr

(Uses https://t.co/VlMGaTSMiD)