Tim Feinstein
@timnfeinstein.bsky.social
Ph.D. ex-academic, self-published author of “A Heuristic Guide To Quantitative Imaging”. Lead, operations and technical sales at Coastal Microscopes.
Congrats to Alex and Emily! What a cool project.
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Congrats to Alex and Emily! What a cool project.
No one on that rant cares about efficiency. People attack the USPS to give private carriers a more captive market. Especially before the PAEA in 2006, USPS efficiency kept private carrier margins much lower than they’d like.
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
No one on that rant cares about efficiency. People attack the USPS to give private carriers a more captive market. Especially before the PAEA in 2006, USPS efficiency kept private carrier margins much lower than they’d like.
Flying solo for bioimqge analysis is hard! You have to balance a lot of considerations. I’ve become a big fan of the Z’/SSMD pre-test, used more often in high content screening. Run a positive control first to see if the processing and stats protocols are matched to the expt needs.
December 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Flying solo for bioimqge analysis is hard! You have to balance a lot of considerations. I’ve become a big fan of the Z’/SSMD pre-test, used more often in high content screening. Run a positive control first to see if the processing and stats protocols are matched to the expt needs.
You and they just disagree about who the protagonist is
December 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
You and they just disagree about who the protagonist is
Nobel runner-up would make a great office coffee mug!
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Nobel runner-up would make a great office coffee mug!
Needles don’t have rights to negotiate. But also it’s lazy toxic framing, the same way papers settled on single minority mothers as THE way you illustrate stories about welfare.
December 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Needles don’t have rights to negotiate. But also it’s lazy toxic framing, the same way papers settled on single minority mothers as THE way you illustrate stories about welfare.
I propose to poll Americans whether the British should warm their tea in the microwave
December 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I propose to poll Americans whether the British should warm their tea in the microwave
Something I really missed in early grad lit courses was knowing that skeleton, how each part of a paper section fits together in a standard way. Would have saved a lot of time in lit classes and writing my first.
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Something I really missed in early grad lit courses was knowing that skeleton, how each part of a paper section fits together in a standard way. Would have saved a lot of time in lit classes and writing my first.
It actually made reading faster bc I could tell when I could breeze through (the fewer rephrased bullets per quantity of text, the better you already get it) and where to double back. Need to know first the skeleton of a paper, like what ‘Here, …” means in an abstract, how intros are structured.
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It actually made reading faster bc I could tell when I could breeze through (the fewer rephrased bullets per quantity of text, the better you already get it) and where to double back. Need to know first the skeleton of a paper, like what ‘Here, …” means in an abstract, how intros are structured.
I had a great heuristic for that in grad school. Developed my own shorthand and took down bullet pts as I read, rephrasing key pts. If I wrote down more than a couple short bullets per ~2 paragraphs, or wrote something down verbatim, I knew I didn’t get it.
December 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I had a great heuristic for that in grad school. Developed my own shorthand and took down bullet pts as I read, rephrasing key pts. If I wrote down more than a couple short bullets per ~2 paragraphs, or wrote something down verbatim, I knew I didn’t get it.
It always scanned as a cultural revolutionary set-up. The target being a currently popular RW hate magnet, in a more vulnerable position, could have been predicted even without knowing specific facts of this case.
OU’s willing participation here with a bad faith hate mob should get more press.
OU’s willing participation here with a bad faith hate mob should get more press.
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It always scanned as a cultural revolutionary set-up. The target being a currently popular RW hate magnet, in a more vulnerable position, could have been predicted even without knowing specific facts of this case.
OU’s willing participation here with a bad faith hate mob should get more press.
OU’s willing participation here with a bad faith hate mob should get more press.
That is literally and exactly how my family reacted to my vegetarianism. To be fair I was a know-it-all recent college grad with a million intellectualized reasons for doing everything, so they weren’t all wrong. Even so there was a reflexiveness to their resistance that I understand better now.
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
That is literally and exactly how my family reacted to my vegetarianism. To be fair I was a know-it-all recent college grad with a million intellectualized reasons for doing everything, so they weren’t all wrong. Even so there was a reflexiveness to their resistance that I understand better now.
I don’t get it. We’ve had public specs for those things since the Vietnam era. The hard part is enrichment, and good bloody luck getting a chatbot to help you with that.
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I don’t get it. We’ve had public specs for those things since the Vietnam era. The hard part is enrichment, and good bloody luck getting a chatbot to help you with that.
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That’s the point.
LLM owners want exclusivity for institutional expertise, among other things, so they can charge everyone who wants to access it.
Wikipedia is one of their most hated foes since it provides free knowledge to the masses. And everyone should be supporting Wikipedia for that reason.
LLM owners want exclusivity for institutional expertise, among other things, so they can charge everyone who wants to access it.
Wikipedia is one of their most hated foes since it provides free knowledge to the masses. And everyone should be supporting Wikipedia for that reason.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
That’s the point.
LLM owners want exclusivity for institutional expertise, among other things, so they can charge everyone who wants to access it.
Wikipedia is one of their most hated foes since it provides free knowledge to the masses. And everyone should be supporting Wikipedia for that reason.
LLM owners want exclusivity for institutional expertise, among other things, so they can charge everyone who wants to access it.
Wikipedia is one of their most hated foes since it provides free knowledge to the masses. And everyone should be supporting Wikipedia for that reason.
Pretty sure they did that? The treaty reserved spaces started out huge. They got smaller gradually as settlers found a use for them. I don’t know how they’d ever be states though since they’re sovereign territories.
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Pretty sure they did that? The treaty reserved spaces started out huge. They got smaller gradually as settlers found a use for them. I don’t know how they’d ever be states though since they’re sovereign territories.
Deep, but I don’t mind the typo enough to delete and start over.
November 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Deep, but I don’t mind the typo enough to delete and start over.
Machine learning has been used for many decades without any drama. Uses and risks of ML are different from black box ‘derp’ techniques.
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Machine learning has been used for many decades without any drama. Uses and risks of ML are different from black box ‘derp’ techniques.
And who exactly could be best replaced by AI…
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
And who exactly could be best replaced by AI…
Cultural Revolution’s coming along nicely.
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Cultural Revolution’s coming along nicely.