Joe Scanlin

a polymath that can win a cage fight

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

@slater57649 that is, without the tiniest doubt, exactly what would happen with free bird playing

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

@Ricburton this would be a wonderful @OmarchyLinux background

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

the old map: oil fields, refineries, pipelines, shipping lanes.

the new map: fabs, GPU clusters, data centers, fiber networks.

same geopolitical logic. different substrate.

how compute became the strategic resource of the 21st century:
https://t.co/Kbchg0y4mM

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

retrieval systems pull vectors near the query. but "near" in embedding space doesn't always mean "relevant" to your actual use case.

especially when rare patterns, edge cases, and minority distinctions got compressed away during training.

ideally we find ways to get good at reasoning about what those compressions erase and who/what that affects.

new essay on information loss, context collapse, and representation geometry:
https://t.co/wVnhEKNme9

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

the future of modeling human environments will depend on striking the balance between necessary compression and preservation of the data richness that requires care to understand.
https://t.co/4xiQDEbYK9

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

In a predictive world, autonomy favors those who choose with awareness instead of drifting through defaults:
https://t.co/8jFJG0em5V

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

https://t.co/ZbMPJ0Bt85

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

life hack: believe completely that the only uncertainty in the world is epistemic uncertainty (probably true anyway)

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

@yacineMTB Toyota Hilux if you’re going for “reliable regime change”

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

@beffjezos 'Ship' without a physical-layer binding is just string parsing. Provide RFC for moving mass through spacetime; otherwise we’re optimizing nouns

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

@Value_econ @gbtechnologia appreciate the defense, but i can confidently say Marines have a significantly higher bar for insults. There is almost nothing a civilian can say to a Marine that is more offensive than something a fellow Marine told them in the past 24 hours

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

I’m just waiting for 10^45 floating point operations

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

Marked safe from having hired Soham

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

Turkish towels are the skim milk of the towel industry

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

@TonyLapidus @Cristiano You are a national treasure that needs to be protected at all costs

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

@___frye Instead of a silencer this is a loudencer

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

@viralvideos yes i remember when learning house clearing that we were to keep our iphone in one hand

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

@uncle_deluge You are describing how friendships start in boot camp

[Joe Scanlin @scanlinjoe]

@beffjezos Ship

[nigga @contextmxnster]

you think the itsy bitsy spider gave a fuck about the rain. no. it climbed the spout again. lock in