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enjalot.bsky.social
Ian Johnson 🔬🤖
@enjalot.bsky.social
Data Visualization and Machine Learning
Building Latent Scope to visualize unstructured data through the lens of ML
github.com/enjalot/latent-scope
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March 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I'm interested in chatting about some data vis work!
February 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
She is interested in policy, and it sounds like the potential for adopting tech is both exciting and overwhelming. perhaps good examples where tech intervention has had clear benefits. I think plant health would be a great place to start!
January 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
hi Gabriel, do you have any resources/reading to recommend? I have a friend working in Taiwan to improve local agriculture who's interested in learning about tech potential to help
January 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
is it the overhead of running / opening / managing notebook files via browser?

I found using notebooks in vscode (and cursor) got me over the hump of "just getting started" since I'm already in the ide so much
January 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
cool! what are you mapping exactly?
December 30, 2024 at 6:44 AM
yes, i want to use it for storage but in order to do so i need to do this inefficient conversion. i'm wondering if there is a better choice to store with
December 10, 2024 at 8:27 PM
I've been operating under assumption parquet is best way to store intermediate data, but now that I'm trying to handle incoming image data it feels a bit wasteful. especially since converting to bytes is only like 40 it/s
December 10, 2024 at 7:51 PM
what do you think about having cut out templates like this cool cone ornament coloring thing:
picklebums.com/paper-cone-c...
Paper Cone Christmas Decorations - Free Printable
Make these cute Santa and Christmas tree paper cone Christmas decorations with our free printable templates.
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November 30, 2024 at 6:40 PM
I've organized and participated in many unconferences in the past, and they are always the most intense exchange of ideas and information that I've experienced. Given the energy we're seeing in the registration this one is poised to be no different!

register today!
hiddenstates.org
November 26, 2024 at 6:23 PM
After the morning keynotes we will have a short voting session where topics get put on the board and everyone gets a few votes. Then the most popular topics get assigned to different session times. We will have parallel tracks and breakout rooms for the niche topics with dedicated interest too.
November 26, 2024 at 6:23 PM
There is lots of interest in steering and alignment by leveraging latest interpretability techniques like SAEs. Many people also brought up dimensionality reduction and visualization as well as better ways to extract structure from models.

So how will everyone get to talk about these topics?
November 26, 2024 at 6:23 PM
The beauty of the unconf format is the self-organizing nature, people find each other based on common curiosities. We have noticed some themes in the topics shared during registration:

Lot's of people want to go beyond the chat interface, and there appear to be lots of ideas for how to do that.
November 26, 2024 at 6:23 PM
First we've got 2 amazing keynote speakers to kick off the day: @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social and @thesephist.com

Leland has built indispensable tools for working with model internals, namely UMAP, HDBSCAN and DataMapPlot.
Linus has published inspiring design research interfacing with hidden states.
November 26, 2024 at 6:23 PM