Allen Goodman
@allen.bsky.social
Science and programming but prefer skateboarding—Genentech, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Broad Institute, …
Last night I had a dream where @mitpress.bsky.social published all of my Advent of Code solutions in hardcover. There was a book release party. I cried.
December 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Last night I had a dream where @mitpress.bsky.social published all of my Advent of Code solutions in hardcover. There was a book release party. I cried.
“This paper makes a substantial and timely contribution to the understanding of diversity, pluralism, and societal impact in modern language models.” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 blog.neurips.cc/2025/11/26/a...
Announcing the NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards
The Best Paper Award Committee members were nominated by the Program Chairs and the Database and Benchmark track chairs, who selected leading researchers across machine learning topics. These nominations were approved by the General Chairs and Next Generation and Accessibility Chairs.
blog.neurips.cc
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“This paper makes a substantial and timely contribution to the understanding of diversity, pluralism, and societal impact in modern language models.” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 blog.neurips.cc/2025/11/26/a...
There’s a large population of employees at my company—over 100,000 people—who rely entirely on Google Chat for communication. Google Chat!
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
There’s a large population of employees at my company—over 100,000 people—who rely entirely on Google Chat for communication. Google Chat!
I’m also enjoying the combination of uv and scikit-build-core. They work without much fuss. That said, I’d love to know whether it’s possible to use CLion and PyCharm together on a single uv project that uses scikit-build-core. scikit-build-core.readthedocs.io
scikit-build-core 0.11.7.dev22 documentation
scikit-build-core.readthedocs.io
December 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’m also enjoying the combination of uv and scikit-build-core. They work without much fuss. That said, I’d love to know whether it’s possible to use CLion and PyCharm together on a single uv project that uses scikit-build-core. scikit-build-core.readthedocs.io
I like Airspeed Velocity (ASV). It’s far from perfect, but no benchmarking package will satisfy everyone. It just works without much fuss. asv.readthedocs.io
airspeed velocity 0.1.dev1+g12ab21612 documentation
asv.readthedocs.io
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I like Airspeed Velocity (ASV). It’s far from perfect, but no benchmarking package will satisfy everyone. It just works without much fuss. asv.readthedocs.io
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
I expect we’ll see more and more of this. I really tried my best to be positive about AI and LLMs the past year but the situation keeps getting worse. Way too much of my life is now spent reviewing AI slop. The impact on open source is dire. ziglang.org/news/migrati...
Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
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Zig Programming Language
ziglang.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I expect we’ll see more and more of this. I really tried my best to be positive about AI and LLMs the past year but the situation keeps getting worse. Way too much of my life is now spent reviewing AI slop. The impact on open source is dire. ziglang.org/news/migrati...
“I can’t believe Meta continues to treat FAIR like garbage.” Really? You can’t?
October 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“I can’t believe Meta continues to treat FAIR like garbage.” Really? You can’t?
We finally have an opportunity to debate the politics of Douglas P. and Death in June.
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We finally have an opportunity to debate the politics of Douglas P. and Death in June.
I miss the Twitter algorithmic feed.
October 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I miss the Twitter algorithmic feed.
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Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965
- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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October 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965
- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...
- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...
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Awful news that Kaleb Horton died. A talented writer who in another time would've been getting $5 a word with an expense account. Read his skilled filleting of the Entourage movie web.archive.org/web/20150605...
Entourage And The Slow-Burning Death Of The American Dream - Bitter Empire
Entourage is exactly as awful as you think it is, part one.
web.archive.org
September 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Awful news that Kaleb Horton died. A talented writer who in another time would've been getting $5 a word with an expense account. Read his skilled filleting of the Entourage movie web.archive.org/web/20150605...
I couldn’t be more proud of my former @broadinstitute.org coworkers speaking out. Here’re some of the posts:
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September 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I couldn’t be more proud of my former @broadinstitute.org coworkers speaking out. Here’re some of the posts:
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Guys Trump is going to use F-35s to kill boatloads of civilians in the carribbean so that Fox News can have new snuff films to play for Stephen Miller to sleep to at night.
September 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Guys Trump is going to use F-35s to kill boatloads of civilians in the carribbean so that Fox News can have new snuff films to play for Stephen Miller to sleep to at night.
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sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
September 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
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Any other lyrics— don’t even try chronic town murmur or reckoning btw— just form vowels and syllables, and mean it
September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Any other lyrics— don’t even try chronic town murmur or reckoning btw— just form vowels and syllables, and mean it
Back when Tom was CEO of GitHub, I pitched a compiler front-end framework for common programming languages that would output uniform representations—token streams, concrete syntax trees, abstract syntax trees, typed trees, even elaborated trees.
August 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Back when Tom was CEO of GitHub, I pitched a compiler front-end framework for common programming languages that would output uniform representations—token streams, concrete syntax trees, abstract syntax trees, typed trees, even elaborated trees.
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Remember how music used to be?. It was E A D and the occasional bar chord and songs about nice girls being nice, but now it is plonk, control voltage, LED helmets, and intestinal-distress-inducing subs.
August 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Remember how music used to be?. It was E A D and the occasional bar chord and songs about nice girls being nice, but now it is plonk, control voltage, LED helmets, and intestinal-distress-inducing subs.
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In addition to being morally abhorrent, this plan relies on trendy magical technology. It’s one step away from relocating Gazans to the blockchain.
Gift link:
wapo.st/4g2eATo
Gift link:
wapo.st/4g2eATo
August 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In addition to being morally abhorrent, this plan relies on trendy magical technology. It’s one step away from relocating Gazans to the blockchain.
Gift link:
wapo.st/4g2eATo
Gift link:
wapo.st/4g2eATo
Season 4 of Strangers with Candy bsky.app/profile/dyst...
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
August 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Season 4 of Strangers with Candy bsky.app/profile/dyst...
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my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
August 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy