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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · Jan 23

NIH funded research benefits your community even if it doesn’t (yet!) directly benefit you. Each $ invested in NIH yields significantly higher return on investment (average 254%) than the same $ invested in “defense”.

Call your reps: (202) 224-3121

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Non-defense spending such as NIH yields SIGNIFICANTLY higher return on investment than defense spending.

In Michigan alone, $991M of NIH funding creates $2420M of economic activity, a 244% return on investment.

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1h

I remember that! Brilliant choice of photo

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, that’s too bad, I enjoy rebutting the actual reviewers’ comments and attempting to improve the paper, and I used to hope that authors I reviewed would do the same. Lately I wonder if that’s maladaptive when quantity or iMpaCt is more valued than integrity

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 5h

You are courageous to sign this given the proclivities of current, uh, leadership. Speaking truth to power is riskier than usual. Bravo.

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 7h

It used to be on UHF channels every Saturday!

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 7h

Very nice! Near Lucca?

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 18h

MongoDB: like Snapchat for data 😁

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 19h

Hail Zappa!

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1d

I always tell students, I don’t care if you do your work in FORTRAN, R, python, JavaScript, Julia, or C. Just comment it.

Intro CS at MIT was taught in Scheme for decades, because computer science is about computers the same way astronomy is about telescopes. Stats is similar. Math >> bit fiddling

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1d

So @sherlockpholmes.bsky.social pointed out recently that Claude is like having four enthusiastic new grad students banging away at a keyboard. They get a lot done but require A LOT of supervision.

We mentor by providing intuition about which questions are most likely to yield interesting answers.

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1d

Same brainrot, different hat

A variety of fascistic haberdashery over the years

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1d

PIBBLE!!1

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 1d

I ditched twitter and promptly ended up with more followers and engagement here.

I’ll never buy a new Tesla and I’ll never post on that site again. I can’t support cutting aid to starving children in Myanmar.

Maybe the people who harbor moral convictions just tend to come here.

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 2d

Small language models are becoming more fashionable

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 2d

That’s cool but can you run the model on an RPN calculator? Gotta throw down 😉

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 2d

Good news for these guys: the United States is not such a country

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 2d

Sunglasses and a hat are great. There’s also a reason I, a fair skinned individual, usually keep at least a remedial beard around. (Unlike sunscreen, it does not wear off.)

A lifetime in the mountains has torched my forearms, though. That’s the part of me that really looks 50.

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 2d

Do take care of your back
Do take care of your knees

Don’t get too fat (see above)
Don’t get too lazy (above)

Go new places, meet people

Do something enjoyable enough that, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t thrown away your youth for someone else’s benefit

Work really hard and one day this can be you:

(On a tombstone)

RIP
Worked Really Hard

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 2d

I strongly doubt that Rubio is ignorant. You don’t get to be a senator by being an ignorant fool (unless you win a lot of sportsball trophies in the SEC, and little Marco did not do that)

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 2d

Staring into the abyss for 8 hours a day makes for great bar stories and severe mental health issues later

I swear, we knew this 30 years ago, why is anyone pretending it isn’t so?

This is exactly what “AI” is for: attempting binary classification (with occasional human review) of OK / not OK

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 2d

Very well, every institute of higher learning shall have an MLK boulevard

(The “ of his time “ is understood, you see)

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent first sentence of the introduction, doubly so for these Lysenkoist times.

Neat work!

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 2d

5) cheapdate
6) fruitless (ahem)

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 3d

Feynman had trouble following McClintock’s work. But then, plenty of biology grad students have trouble following Luria & Delbruck. Science is tough

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds about right

Hiring MBAs to run the joint might not have been the best idea

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 3d

This is why I send propublica $5/month.

Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable ✊