Ron Garcia

Transmogrifies coffee into LaTeX at University of British Columbia

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@ShriramKMurthi 🙌🏾

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

Sometimes it takes me 22 years (+ one evening) to write a blog post. Here are my thoughts on "homoiconicity" and, as an alternative, "bicameral syntax". (Warning: 4000 words.)
https://t.co/2dN2mAK3yG

[SPLASH Conference @splashcon]

The @sigplan Robin Milner Young Research Award goes to Armando Solar-Lezama for his work on program synthesis.

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@ShriramKMurthi I'm guessing Wade Davis wouldn't mind if this episode has been forgotten (you can skip in to about 19:00 to get the vibe, but the entire talk is epic):
https://t.co/LCOTJzcgCY

[Isil Dillig @IsilDillig]

For those reaching out to me for the upcoming PhD admissions cycle: Yes, I am taking students and post-docs with a strong PL background and similar research interests. So, if you are interested, please apply to UTCS!

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@MohammadAtari90 @JoHenrich @JF_Schulz Quick q: on p. 10, policy intervention implications of Reimer et al. are discussed, but the discussion sounds like Reimer et al.'s results are associational (predictive) not causal? Or am I misunderstanding?

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@samth @frang_u99393 Adjusting variables in a regression without justifying them with respect to transparent causal assumptions does not make for adequate causal inference in 2024. And this issue is not limited to non-experimental science: https://t.co/pTNV0siKjX

[Sam Westrick @shwestrick]

For students applying to PhD programs this cycle: I am recruiting!

I do research on parallel programming, compilers, run-time systems, and parallel algorithms. My main focus is making it simpler and safer to write efficient, scalable, and correct parallel code.

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@opdroid1234 @krismicinski I started here and found it helpful:
https://t.co/TyurR81l4v

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@joomy Congratulations! 🎉🎉

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@EpiEllie I hope your medical issues improve soon!

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@xwangsd @jeanqasaur If @jeanqasaur were the one who takes advice from all those, and only those, who don't take their own advice, then you could just do what she does.

[UBC Computer Science @UBC_CS]

#UBC Computer Science is proud to welcome our new faculty member, Dr. Reto Achermann.
Read all about his history, what he's working on, and his thoughts on working in the department and living in #Vancouver.
https://t.co/djrUYdQF1q
@UBC_Systopia @achreto @UBCNews @UBCScience

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

Michael's writings are among the most lucid, precise, and clarifying I've seen on these topics, and that's not just his banger twitter threads. Check out the wealth of resources on his site!

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@ShriramKMurthi That dissertation sounds cool. Link?

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@TitzerBL Good point: it's complex numbers.

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

A microcosm of my lifelong battles with math: spent an unreasonable number of hours (on and off, over weeks) trying to flesh out the details of one throwaway sentence in a larger proof. 😩

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@josecalderon @samth I did scouts because my brother did (that's also how I got into music and computers: I was not particularly original 😅). No idea why he did it!

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@samth @josecalderon Even the difference between my (7 years older) brother's copy and my copy were palpable

[Ron Garcia @rg9119]

@EpiEllie Ahh, your other thread nicely clarifies what I was unsure about ("being" an instrument vs. "using" an instrument (to estimate causal effects)). Thanks!
https://t.co/3l4dJmn6EV

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

Those 3 assumptions are enough for a variable to *be* an instrument, but to *use* an instrument to get a causal effect estimate we need a fourth assumption.

(Otherwise, we can only compute causally-interpretable bounds on the effect!)