Ian
@iwsmith.bsky.social
Bad artist. Dog valet. So very tired. Partially Liminal.
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If we want to create a more affordable, livable Seattle, we need to design for *reducing* car volumes. This is the only way to meet our climate, public health, vision zero, accessibility and housing goals. Our fight to design highway on-ramps with LESS capacity epitomizes why it's still hard.
Op-Ed: It’s Time to Imagine a Safer, More Connected Rainier Avenue » The Urbanist
# Rainier Avenue has too many cars traveling at dangerous speeds, but conventional planning practices make it hard to change that and design a future where Rainier Avenue thrives. Let's stop making ha...
www.theurbanist.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If we want to create a more affordable, livable Seattle, we need to design for *reducing* car volumes. This is the only way to meet our climate, public health, vision zero, accessibility and housing goals. Our fight to design highway on-ramps with LESS capacity epitomizes why it's still hard.
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In this three part series I compare #LLM and #RecommenderSystems to show the gaps and opportunities. They are surprisingly fewer than one would think.
Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
Ranking Models explained: Deep Dive into RecSys Architecture (Features, Embeddings, & Attention)
Watch now (18 mins) | What happens post retrieval in a recommender system
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In this three part series I compare #LLM and #RecommenderSystems to show the gaps and opportunities. They are surprisingly fewer than one would think.
Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...
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This project is absolutely nuts. You can take the vector embeddings for text and convert them back to the text that generated them.
github.com/vec2text/vec...
github.com/vec2text/vec...
GitHub - vec2text/vec2text: utilities for decoding deep representations (like sentence embeddings) back to text
utilities for decoding deep representations (like sentence embeddings) back to text - vec2text/vec2text
github.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This project is absolutely nuts. You can take the vector embeddings for text and convert them back to the text that generated them.
github.com/vec2text/vec...
github.com/vec2text/vec...
Read Xia et al., “TransAct V2.” earlier today, some notes:
- long and short term user histories (long term [10k items], short term [100], impressions [100])
- sampled soft max loss function seems useful in environments with very weak negatives
#recsys #ml
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02267
- long and short term user histories (long term [10k items], short term [100], impressions [100])
- sampled soft max loss function seems useful in environments with very weak negatives
#recsys #ml
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02267
TransAct V2: Lifelong User Action Sequence Modeling on Pinterest Recommendation
Modeling user action sequences has become a popular focus in industrial recommendation system research, particularly for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. However, industry-scale CTR models o...
arxiv.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Read Xia et al., “TransAct V2.” earlier today, some notes:
- long and short term user histories (long term [10k items], short term [100], impressions [100])
- sampled soft max loss function seems useful in environments with very weak negatives
#recsys #ml
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02267
- long and short term user histories (long term [10k items], short term [100], impressions [100])
- sampled soft max loss function seems useful in environments with very weak negatives
#recsys #ml
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02267
watching Alien: Earth and I think I'm rooting for the alien
August 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
watching Alien: Earth and I think I'm rooting for the alien
todays discover outage was brought to you by the letter <SPACE>
July 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
todays discover outage was brought to you by the letter <SPACE>
anyone got opinions on data orchestration tools? Specifically Dagster vs Temporal?
July 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
anyone got opinions on data orchestration tools? Specifically Dagster vs Temporal?
To celebrate Zohran Mamdani's apparent win in NYC I donated my democracy vouchers to my choice for mayor, Katie Wilson @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social . If you live in Seattle you can too! www.wilsonforseattle.com/democracy-vo...
Vouchers | Katie Wilson
Each Seattle voter has $100 worth of Democracy Vouchers to give to their candidate(s) of choice. We would love if you assigned your vouchers to our campaign!
www.wilsonforseattle.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:10 AM
To celebrate Zohran Mamdani's apparent win in NYC I donated my democracy vouchers to my choice for mayor, Katie Wilson @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social . If you live in Seattle you can too! www.wilsonforseattle.com/democracy-vo...
May 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
EWR giving SEA a run for bad airport award
April 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
EWR giving SEA a run for bad airport award
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You won't want to miss this one. Join @bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team for a conversation on the future of social and how users can take control over their own online experience at #SXSW. #Bluesky #JayGraber
Watch LIVE at 1pm CT: ow.ly/3K0U50Vccnj
Watch LIVE at 1pm CT: ow.ly/3K0U50Vccnj
March 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
You won't want to miss this one. Join @bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team for a conversation on the future of social and how users can take control over their own online experience at #SXSW. #Bluesky #JayGraber
Watch LIVE at 1pm CT: ow.ly/3K0U50Vccnj
Watch LIVE at 1pm CT: ow.ly/3K0U50Vccnj
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4 days left!!! Now that it's sunny, it's a great time to get those ballots into drop boxes, or in mailboxes! ☀️🗳️☀️🗳️☀️🗳️
February 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
4 days left!!! Now that it's sunny, it's a great time to get those ballots into drop boxes, or in mailboxes! ☀️🗳️☀️🗳️☀️🗳️
this is a test of the corgi broadcast system. If this were an actual corgi you would be loudly hearing barking at the wind. this is only a test.
January 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
this is a test of the corgi broadcast system. If this were an actual corgi you would be loudly hearing barking at the wind. this is only a test.
I've won 1 of my last 10 Deadlock matches. Game feels dead now and the only people left are the try hards. Oh well, was fun while it lasted.
January 15, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I've won 1 of my last 10 Deadlock matches. Game feels dead now and the only people left are the try hards. Oh well, was fun while it lasted.
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Hey Seattle voters! Have you used your Seattle Democracy Vouchers yet?
We recommend donating yours to Alexis Mercedes Rinck for City Council Position 8! You can donate yours online, even if you lost your original paper copies:
We recommend donating yours to Alexis Mercedes Rinck for City Council Position 8! You can donate yours online, even if you lost your original paper copies:
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alexisforseattle.na4.documents.adobe.com
October 2, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Hey Seattle voters! Have you used your Seattle Democracy Vouchers yet?
We recommend donating yours to Alexis Mercedes Rinck for City Council Position 8! You can donate yours online, even if you lost your original paper copies:
We recommend donating yours to Alexis Mercedes Rinck for City Council Position 8! You can donate yours online, even if you lost your original paper copies:
I turned off the porn filter and now my feed is all raccoons
August 6, 2023 at 12:59 AM
I turned off the porn filter and now my feed is all raccoons