Great crowd in Pittsburgh to #standupforscience2025

Five years ago I went a bit overboard with bringing instruments to Vancouver. Still couldn't help myself this NeurIPS, but a smidge more sensible

Happy NeurIPS Poster Session is Full day to all who celebrate

Introduce yourself with 4 records

Current reading list, not unrelated to a project I'm ramping up on

We planted milkweed to attract monarch butterflies this year. I've seen a couple butterflies earlier and today discovered more on the way!

A poster with the signatures of past and present members of the Nine Inch Nails live band. These were handed out to those of us lucky enough to attend the band Q&A event at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame event last year.

This tower is an old facade structure around a giant decommissioned municipal water tank. It also happens to be on our property so we have to maintain it. We've got a crew coming out in a week or so to start repairing the balcony and sides.

Every "How to use LLMs on your business's data" blogspam. Some don't even get past step 1

There is a real delight in using tactile controls to drive neural network parameters for generating images and audio. Here I'm working on a latent space synth that I trained on audio from a certain composer duo

Another important step for the workshop: wifi! Barely get one bar otherwise. Bonus repurposing of a planter box prototype as the stand

We bought an old carriage house carved off a larger estate, which has a dedicated two story detached garage. Top floor was for cars, bottom was for wintering fruit trees, but recently for storing random building materials. Currently turning the latter into a workshop.