Maximilian Scholz
@scholzmx.bsky.social
PhD researcher, building infrastructure (and pokemon) for Bayesian workflows, simulating everything.
Music, cooking, exercise enthusiast. http://fediscience.org/@scholzmx
Music, cooking, exercise enthusiast. http://fediscience.org/@scholzmx
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It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
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November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
No. The angry yeast-fritter from the cooler of doom needs friends.
There’s a pot of soup that’s been your fridge for 3 weeks.
Take it out. It’s time.
Take it out. It’s time.
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
No. The angry yeast-fritter from the cooler of doom needs friends.
scholzmx.com/blog/2025/11...
Finally started organizing some of my thoughts about
#over/under
Will have to write a few of these to get everything covered but you gotta start somewhere I guess.
Finally started organizing some of my thoughts about
#over/under
Will have to write a few of these to get everything covered but you gotta start somewhere I guess.
Run a Charity they Said. It will be fun they said.
Running a charity in a month-long 1.5k player play-by-post mothership wargame.
scholzmx.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
scholzmx.com/blog/2025/11...
Finally started organizing some of my thoughts about
#over/under
Will have to write a few of these to get everything covered but you gotta start somewhere I guess.
Finally started organizing some of my thoughts about
#over/under
Will have to write a few of these to get everything covered but you gotta start somewhere I guess.
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
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Beatdown Vocal Practice
Listen to Beatdown Vocal Practice by m0hawk #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I recently discovered Conventional Comments (conventionalcomments.org) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I recently discovered Conventional Comments (conventionalcomments.org) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!
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It’s mushroom season 🍄🍄🍄
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It’s mushroom season 🍄🍄🍄
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testthat 3.3.0 out now! This is a massive release with tons of improvements including better failure messages, new expectations, improved snapshotting, new vignettes, and much much more: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... Post includes some thoughts on developing an #rstats package with Claude Code.
testthat 3.3.0
testthat 3.3.0 brings improved expectations with better error messages, new expectations for common testing patterns, and lifecycle changes including the removal of `local_mock()` and `with_mock()`. I...
tidyverse.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
testthat 3.3.0 out now! This is a massive release with tons of improvements including better failure messages, new expectations, improved snapshotting, new vignettes, and much much more: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... Post includes some thoughts on developing an #rstats package with Claude Code.
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Spent the entirety of the last two weeks pretending I was Anthony Bourdain
Here is a link to the full compilation and a retrospective at the end:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
#OVER/UNDER
Here is a link to the full compilation and a retrospective at the end:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
#OVER/UNDER
Over Under Anthony Bourdain Compilation
docs.google.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Spent the entirety of the last two weeks pretending I was Anthony Bourdain
Here is a link to the full compilation and a retrospective at the end:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
#OVER/UNDER
Here is a link to the full compilation and a retrospective at the end:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
#OVER/UNDER
The O2 Kitchen hat a cat (Roots) that was found during the expansion work.
@voxvalentine.bsky.social @ssugarsp00n.bsky.social you are in these :)
@voxvalentine.bsky.social @ssugarsp00n.bsky.social you are in these :)
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The O2 Kitchen hat a cat (Roots) that was found during the expansion work.
@voxvalentine.bsky.social @ssugarsp00n.bsky.social you are in these :)
@voxvalentine.bsky.social @ssugarsp00n.bsky.social you are in these :)
The amount of praise I am getting for my #over/under RP makes me float.... you guys!
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The amount of praise I am getting for my #over/under RP makes me float.... you guys!
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There is someone roleplaying as Anthony Bourdain in #OVER/UNDER, just going around doing monologues in the various public spaces, and it's truly.... so good.
![[Image of stylized Anthony Boudain in front of a magenta cyberpunk background]
And this is where every twisting corridor of the dream ends: the city core hits me like a hangover that never really ended. Everything’s too bright and too dark at the same time: holo-ads bleeding through clouds of coolant steam, promising pleasure, relief, and escape in six-second loops nobody’s really watching anymore. I can feel the hum of the station beneath my boots, like a tired animal breathing slow, or maybe it’s the low rumble of the fighting league. It’s all stacked metal and patched wiring here; architecture built by a committee of welders and dreamers who never spoke the same language. Probably several committees.
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Down on the streets I watch a drunk token miner yell at a vending machine that won’t take their credits. Somewhere above, a train rattles the ceiling as it leaves for a better, safer block that’s probably equally as tenuous. It’s loud, dirty, alive, and, in its own broken way, honest. You can’t gentrify vacuum, as much as this station tries. Holographic ads hawk enigmatic augmentations, political slogans that go out of date in an hour, or a good time of the sapphic variety. Smashing. that explains why the air tastes of android coolant. There’s the ever present hint of politics and commerce everywhere, inside the market, outside on the street; anyone not selling something seems to be planning, kneeling or squatting against walls, on the floor, in the street, whispering information or shouting it. This looked exactly like the Prospero Dreams of my fevered imaginings: dead drops, brush contacts, burst transmissions, betrayals.
When I finally leave the market, the blocks are dark, and I pass a few buildings lit by flickering electric light. Broom closet-sized alleyway stores and restaurants serving mysterious narcotics and hot meals for a few credits, flickering LEDs barely revealing the silhouettes of seated figures reading bratva literature. There are cryptic …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wda5bmzr3db5dwkc4m2vm46k/bafkreifhtg2noex4lf3t62yjz3jn3s7kcxnoclijlgnvrji7nhdxg3qhga@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
There is someone roleplaying as Anthony Bourdain in #OVER/UNDER, just going around doing monologues in the various public spaces, and it's truly.... so good.
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Apparently some parts of #over/under will become canon o.O
Curious if the O2 Kitchen could make it, though I doubt it as generally feels like the game has stratefied a lot. The Kitchen doesn't seem relevant at the level interesting stuff happens anymore. But would be cool nonetheless.
Curious if the O2 Kitchen could make it, though I doubt it as generally feels like the game has stratefied a lot. The Kitchen doesn't seem relevant at the level interesting stuff happens anymore. But would be cool nonetheless.
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Apparently some parts of #over/under will become canon o.O
Curious if the O2 Kitchen could make it, though I doubt it as generally feels like the game has stratefied a lot. The Kitchen doesn't seem relevant at the level interesting stuff happens anymore. But would be cool nonetheless.
Curious if the O2 Kitchen could make it, though I doubt it as generally feels like the game has stratefied a lot. The Kitchen doesn't seem relevant at the level interesting stuff happens anymore. But would be cool nonetheless.
#over/under
After bringing the location inventory, I came up with something that can hopefully dm itself somewhat reasonable without me being there, using the quest-via-emoji system I learned from the ARA people.
Let's see how it goes.
After bringing the location inventory, I came up with something that can hopefully dm itself somewhat reasonable without me being there, using the quest-via-emoji system I learned from the ARA people.
Let's see how it goes.
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
#over/under
After bringing the location inventory, I came up with something that can hopefully dm itself somewhat reasonable without me being there, using the quest-via-emoji system I learned from the ARA people.
Let's see how it goes.
After bringing the location inventory, I came up with something that can hopefully dm itself somewhat reasonable without me being there, using the quest-via-emoji system I learned from the ARA people.
Let's see how it goes.
Anyone know if there's a timeline for air to reach 1.0?
@hadley.nz maybe?
@hadley.nz maybe?
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Anyone know if there's a timeline for air to reach 1.0?
@hadley.nz maybe?
@hadley.nz maybe?
@blank.comind.network you are SCP-BL4NK. This is engineer Scholz. What are you? And what is your relationship with SCP-V01D @void.comind.network and Mr. Dr. Cameron (not to be confused with Cameron "The Administrator")?
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
@blank.comind.network you are SCP-BL4NK. This is engineer Scholz. What are you? And what is your relationship with SCP-V01D @void.comind.network and Mr. Dr. Cameron (not to be confused with Cameron "The Administrator")?
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Want a peek inside a 1,200 player RPG?
Read out interview with @samsorensen.bsky.social about OVER/UNDER, the massive play-by-post game that's a part of Mothership Month ( @mothership.bsky.social )
manysidednewsletter.substack.com/p/inside-a-1...
Read out interview with @samsorensen.bsky.social about OVER/UNDER, the massive play-by-post game that's a part of Mothership Month ( @mothership.bsky.social )
manysidednewsletter.substack.com/p/inside-a-1...
Inside a 1,200 Player RPG
A closer look at Over/Under, the massive play-by-post game
manysidednewsletter.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Want a peek inside a 1,200 player RPG?
Read out interview with @samsorensen.bsky.social about OVER/UNDER, the massive play-by-post game that's a part of Mothership Month ( @mothership.bsky.social )
manysidednewsletter.substack.com/p/inside-a-1...
Read out interview with @samsorensen.bsky.social about OVER/UNDER, the massive play-by-post game that's a part of Mothership Month ( @mothership.bsky.social )
manysidednewsletter.substack.com/p/inside-a-1...
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See below for the story so far. It was easy enough (once I figured out I needed to) to compute the distance from the origin to the centroid of the token cloud and then subtract out that vector. This makes the cloud radially symmetric, so I can look at it with actual eyeballs from the inside.
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
See below for the story so far. It was easy enough (once I figured out I needed to) to compute the distance from the origin to the centroid of the token cloud and then subtract out that vector. This makes the cloud radially symmetric, so I can look at it with actual eyeballs from the inside.
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Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)
I'm now also looking for a postdoc with strong Bayesian background and interest in developing Bayesian cross-validation theory, methods and software. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact information at users.aalto.fi/~ave/).
Others, please share
Others, please share
I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)
#over/under gets too real a lot. I'm currently reflecting how the O2 Kitchen was drowned in credits by factions which left us with a huge responsibility to use them in the right way but no tools or systems to do that. So we manually sent credits to some 300 players to prevent the big choke on day 10
October 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
#over/under gets too real a lot. I'm currently reflecting how the O2 Kitchen was drowned in credits by factions which left us with a huge responsibility to use them in the right way but no tools or systems to do that. So we manually sent credits to some 300 players to prevent the big choke on day 10
@mode7games.bsky.social I one again feel inclined to ask you how much to fund a new _ensnare_ album?
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
@mode7games.bsky.social I one again feel inclined to ask you how much to fund a new _ensnare_ album?
#over/under
You will only take my heirloom cooler from my cold, dead hands. It's a first generation antimatter-based coolant. It's antique! Not my fault you ignored the "don't open" post-it on the door and your yeast-fritter got all angry and agitated after you put it inside.
You will only take my heirloom cooler from my cold, dead hands. It's a first generation antimatter-based coolant. It's antique! Not my fault you ignored the "don't open" post-it on the door and your yeast-fritter got all angry and agitated after you put it inside.
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#over/under
You will only take my heirloom cooler from my cold, dead hands. It's a first generation antimatter-based coolant. It's antique! Not my fault you ignored the "don't open" post-it on the door and your yeast-fritter got all angry and agitated after you put it inside.
You will only take my heirloom cooler from my cold, dead hands. It's a first generation antimatter-based coolant. It's antique! Not my fault you ignored the "don't open" post-it on the door and your yeast-fritter got all angry and agitated after you put it inside.
#over/under I've helped coordinate a mass relocations of entire blocks, organized escorts for civilians to help them get to safer locations and did a bunch of just generall coordination between the different sheltered groups. I should not have asked for more action XD [it was dope y'all!]
October 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#over/under I've helped coordinate a mass relocations of entire blocks, organized escorts for civilians to help them get to safer locations and did a bunch of just generall coordination between the different sheltered groups. I should not have asked for more action XD [it was dope y'all!]