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Alex Gude
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Machine learning engineer in Silicon Valley! Formerly a particle physicist at CERN and alumni of Insight. He/Him

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I mean the exit polling... 🤣
Exit polling showing white people at 57%, black people at 90%, and Hispanics and Asians at 69%.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Looks pretty flat to me (ignore his fit of course).
Plot but with log x.
October 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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We did it! 🥰
Screenshot of clear skies top 25 blockers from yesterday showing me in about I don't know 20th place with 1,494 blocks.
October 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Blocked. BLOCKED. *BLOCKED*!

You're all blocked!

None of you are free of sin!
Screenshot of Blockenheimer running on my Raspberry Pi on Localhost.
October 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Lol indeed
Screenshot of the op: Not even American buddy. Just look at the French if you want to know how to do it.
October 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Grok?

Ah yes Grok.
Screenshot of the Wikipedia app showing a search for mechahitler and a redirect to Grok the chat bot.
October 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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XKCD "Average Familiarity" Comic. Two stick figures are talking. Figure 1: Machine learning is second nature to us MLEs, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the difference between training and inference, and one or two optimizers. Figure 2: And RELU, of course. Figure 1: Of course.
October 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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That's right, tank supremacy!
Cover a bolo showing a big ass tank with some sort of turret that's like 20 ft tall. Cover of rogue Bolo, there's a bolo on the moon and it's got arms? Bolo Anthologies 1 cover. There's a tank that's like 40 ft tall and they're like three other tanks and it's got 17 guns... Bolos anthologies 2 cover. There's a tank and a volcano and it looks really precarious and it has like 5 different treads, and it's probably going to fall over soon as it hits the lava.
October 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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We've got the (earthquake) juice!
Bluesky screenshot showing a lot of "Earthquake" posts in my feed.
September 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Glad I'm not the only weirdo who gets woken up and immediately reports it...
Screenshot of the "Felt it!" page from USGS showing 3 reports.
September 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Answering my own question:

Looks like it's base salary only, and so probably about 50% of total comp.
Table for Machine Learning Engineer salaries in the H-1B program for Block Inc. Ranging from about $165k to $225k, but specifically saying "Base Salary".
September 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Fuck yeah Kaiser! Let's go! 💉
Vaccine updates COVID-19 vaccines will be available beginning September 15 at most locations, depending on vaccine supply. Following a thorough review of the FDA’s latest guidance and other scientific evidence, we strongly encourage adults 65 and older and anyone 6 months to 64 years with certain conditions to prioritize vaccination. We also recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for everyone 6 months and older who would like to receive it.
September 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Vta light rail system map showing average weekday station ridership for October of 2023. The highest station is the mountain view connection to Kyle train at 534. The median station probably has between 100 and 200 boardings a day.
September 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Ooohhhhhhhh!

The user base is going to be so mad. 🤣
Blue Sky job posting showing a machine learning engineer job and the machine learning engineer job.
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Which meme showing a child who looks very mad, with text: "congrats, happy for you, nice"
September 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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_Guy who has only read Blindsight_: "Wow, this book reminds me of Blindsight!"
A screen shot of my website, showing the bottom of my Blindsight review, which contains back links to all the other reviews that link to it: Reviews that mention Blindsight Artificial Condition The Colonel A Desolation Called Peace Disco Elysium Echopraxia A Fire Upon The Deep Flowers for Algernon Look to Windward A Memory Called Empire Network Effect Not Till We Are Lost Roadside Picnic Rogue Protocol Stand on Zanzibar Surface Detail
August 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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No sarcasm.
Screenshot of YAML: # Residential Rate Plans effective March 1, 2025 # All rates are in dollars per kWh. E-1: name: "Tiered Rate Plan (E-1)" type: "Tiered" # For tiered plans, we define tiers instead of time periods. # The 'limit' is the upper bound of the tier (e.g., up to 1.0 = 100% of baseline). tiers: - { name: "Tier 1", limit: 1.0, rate: 0.41 } - { name: "Tier 2", limit: Infinity, rate: 0.51 } E-TOU-C: name: "Time-of-Use (E-TOU-C)" type: "TOU" # This plan's rates depend on baseline allocation. has_baseline_tiers: true seasons: summer: # June 1 - Sept 30 periods: - { name: "Peak", hours: [[16, 21]], days: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6], rates: { below_baseline: 0.52, above_baseline: 0.63 } } - { name: "Off-Peak", hours: [[0, 16], [21, 24]], days: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6], rates: { below_baseline: 0.40, above_baseline: 0.50 } } winter: # Oct 1 - May 31 periods: - { name: "Peak", hours: [[16, 21]], days: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6], rates: { below_baseline: 0.40, above_baseline: 0.50 } } - { name: "Off-Peak", hours: [[0, 16], [21, 24]], days: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6], rates: { below_baseline: 0.37, above_baseline: 0.47 } } E-TOU-D: name: "Time-of-Use (E-TOU-D)" type: "TOU" has_baseline_tiers: false seasons: summer: periods: # Weekdays have a peak period - { name: "Peak", hours: [[17, 20]], days: [0,1,2,3,4], rate: 0.57 } - { name: "Off-Peak", hours: [[0, 17], [20, 24]], days: [0,1,2,3,4], rate: 0.44 } # Weekends are all off-peak - { name: "Weekend Off-Peak", hours: [[0, 24]], days: [5,6], rate: 0.44 } winter: periods: - { name: "Peak", hours: [[17, 20]], days: [0,1,2,3,4], rate: 0.48 } - { name: "Off-Peak", hours: [[0, 17], [20, 24]], days: [0,1,2,3,4], rate: 0.44 } - { name: "Weekend Off-Peak", hours: [[0, 24]], days: [5,6], rate: 0.44 }
August 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Gemini just took this PDF and turned it into YAML...
Screen shot of PG&E's PDF showing 6 different rate plans, some time of use, some with multiple-seasons, etc.
August 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Because Tungsten is cool!

At CMS we used lead tungstate crystals for ECAL and they were super cool because they're see through *AND* heavy as hell!
Picture of a scientist in a white lab coat in a blue room; near him are piled clear rectangles that look like glass.
August 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Also ChatGPT 5 can design it if you ask.
Sure — here’s the transcription of the text in the image: --- ChatGPT > I want it to be 16 → 2 → 1 with binary output. I only have 2 light sensors Thought for 41s love this build idea, you can totally do a 16 → 2 → 1 network with only two light sensors if you’re okay with a quick two-phase (time-multiplexed) operation. below is a simple, hands-on plan that uses lights as inputs, rotating shades as the weights, and sensors as thresholded neurons. High-level idea Each neuron = “sum of light” + threshold. Point multiple input lights at one “summing target.” Put a rotating shade (a sector/iris) in front of each input beam to control how much light gets through (that’s the weight). A light sensor at the target outputs 1 if the total light ≥ threshold, otherwise 0. We have only 2 sensors, but need 3 neurons (H1, H2, and Output). We’ll compute the two hidden neurons first (in parallel with the two sensors), “latch” their binary results into two hidden-output lights, and then re-use one sensor to compute the final output. Materials (rough) 16 small input lamps/LED flashlights (on = 1, off = 0). 32 rotating shades (one per input → hidden neuron; i.e., 16 feeding H1; 16 feeding H2). A rotating “pie-slice” disk or adjustable slit works. Mark percentage openings. 2 light sensors with a threshold (could be LDR + comparator w/ knob, or a photodiode module with a trim-pot). 2 “hidden-output lights” (these represent the binary outputs of H1 and H2; can be latched on/off by hand or a simple relay). 2 more rotating shades (weights from H1/H2 into the Output neuron).
August 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The 4x4 light-based neural network at the @exploratorium.bsky.social is really neat!

Uses light as the signal and shades that block light as the weights. Sensors at the top combine the signals.
Photograph of a light neural network at the exploratorium in San Francisco. It uses light beams as the input to the network, little rotating shades that block the light as the learned weights, and the light sensor at the top to combine signals.
August 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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One of the four pillars of the transit agency: Provide reliable freeway travel Keep freeways moving smoothly by reducing backups from crashes, better using existing travel lanes, and fixing bottlenecks.
August 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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I've been using Firefox for a few years now and it's great. I use an external password manager though so that's been easy to move...

The one thing that worries me is this:
Market share plot from January 2009 to present showing Chrome and Firefox. Firefox has been steadily decreasing since about 2010 and shows no sign of a market share improvement. It's at about 2.4% of users now.
August 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Looks like it didn't.
Plot showing number of traffic fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in Canada in the United States and the United States has a major bump in 2020
July 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Holy shit!

The Conti Grand Prix 5000 is 50% more expensive than it was in 2023!?

Why Trump take bike tire!?
Camelcamelcamel price graph showing it's now mostly $70 instead of $50 in 2023.
July 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM