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Chad Scherrer

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Doing Bayesian stuff in #rustlang and #julialang. Seattle

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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · Nov 19

I got a Probabilistic Programming starter pack going. Hit me up if you're involved with #probprog R&D and want in!

go.bsky.app/JfvubEf

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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · 2d

Very cool. I have so many questions... I think I saw this took 503 days. So you could pick the same time window each day, but you'd still end up getting samples at different times of the year. So the angle to the sun would be different, right? And you'd be going through different layers of rock?

Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · 5d

My company is based in #Seattle, and we mostly use #Julialang. We're thinking of hosting a Julia meetup, maybe mid-Dec. Maybe a couple of talks, pizza, etc. Any thoughts? Would you attend?

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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · 5d

Ardeal

Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · 6d

Nice digs

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 7d

The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on this day, October 28th, in 1886 in New York Harbor. 🗽

In 1987, President Reagan signed a proclamation designating October 28th as National Immigrants Day. 🗃️

Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · Oct 2

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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · 7d

Cat mode

A goldendoodle lying across the top of a couch

Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · 7d

We're hiring in Seattle! HMU if you're affected by Amazon layoffs and have #julialang experience

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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · 14d

Best CLAUDE.md addition I ever made is "no sales talk allowed"

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 16d

No notes

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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · 16d

One of the coolest things about industry work is really nailing down problems like this

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26d

Sometimes I’ll see a paper that implements an idea I’ve had but implements it poorly for engineering reasons. But then it’s hard to write a follow up paper because it’s not “novel” anymore

Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · 17d

a man with glasses and a mustache is laying on a couch and says your mom goes to college

Alt: Kip from Napoleon Dynamite saying "your mom goes to college"

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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · Sep 27

Blue Apron didn't give us the chicken that was supposed to come with this, but life finds a way

Blue Apron "Bang Bang Chicken" but it's made with Dino Buddies

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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · Sep 25

@centralcinema.bsky.social

Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · Sep 25

I always see it trying
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and changing it to ^ after that fails

Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · Sep 21

I did look at the original paper, but to be fair I haven't read it carefully yet. So on its face the result seems pretty obvious, but there could easily be some subtlety I'm missing

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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · Sep 21

“Unlike human intelligence, it lacks the humility to acknowledge uncertainty...When unsure, it doesn’t defer to deeper research or human oversight; instead, it often presents estimates as facts.”

They present it as a deep thing, but this is just "point estimates have limitations". Which, duh?

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · Sep 21

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · Sep 19

💯
Also Dorchester is pronounced "Dooster"

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 18

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · Sep 19

There's apparently an @inbounds github user who gets tagged when you forget to use backticks in your #julialang PRs.

Probably lots of other anthropomorphic macros out there