Absolutely hated this 2018 book Be the Parent, Please especially after reading a much better version fromGrowing Up in Public Lots of parent will absolutely agree w/ the book but it's judgemental & lacks nuance on modern parenting. You deserve better than this— don't even bother with it

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by @dkaraswisher.bsky.social has been on my list just so I can read up on tech gossip lol Frankly, my brain doesn't typically get too excited by people-focused stories, but felt like if there was one to read in my field, this would be it. I think I made a good choice XD

4 months behind on this thread but at least it's only ~12 books 😅 Read Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World back in August It avoids being alarmist and instead focuses on practical advice & empathy. My kids are no where near being teenagers but still has thinking me how I parent

Just putting down the twins & now reflecting on the day w/ them using their newly gifted face paint pens. Not only did they draw all over each other's faces, but also on their body me: wait, what did you draw on your chests? them: abs!!! me: XD

I'm not usually someone who's like 'look at how awful things are' but this video about how short form video might actually be breaking your brain is so well-done I've been loving how Howtown has approached these kind of questions— definitely check them out if you haven't before!

@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social and I are looking for a few testers for something special we've been building! It's an app that lets you view the same content you see here on Bluesky but with extra features — some focused on researchers, some general upgrades. Reach out to us if interested!

this is the way to end Christmas day ♥️✨🧛

Thank you Santa, been needing something to replace my home flip flops ♥️🎅

curl -L christmas.fastapicloud.dev 🎄

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Have one more work day this year so naturally trying to plan out some final reads for this year Basically comes down to these themes: * linguistics & language * living life 'better' * animals * AI/tech madness * Twilight saga extras (stack's already 12 books deep so won't finish them all in 2025)

If you're looking for the 60 minutes piece on CECOT that Bari Weiss canned to protect the President, you can find it here: archive.org/details/60-m...

Hands down the Muppet's version of A Christmas Carol is the best season's movie. But have you heard this reading of the movie? So well-done! My 5yr old twins are digging it while we chill out for 30min youtu.be/w2oD4HpDIwo (Only thing missing are them songs— it's Marley & Marley... ⛓️ooOooOoo⛓️)

The exclusive vs inclusive 'or' You realize that after a while that your logic/math interpretation of it almost always being 'inclusive or' overrides the typical English 'exclusive or' interpretation This message was 100% written by a software developer who's used to thinking in logic tables

(Thread poll, like the reply that corresponds to your response.) AI _____ and that makes me _____.

If you work in tech and frequent some place — a restaurant, bar, cafe, etc — tip well. You can afford it and it can make someone’s entire year, let alone their day.

Opening up for the first time Factorio Space Age a friend gifted me at the airport definitely has a particular kind of vibe

Happy World Linguistics Day from the Bay Area (California, US)! (But if I'm currently on vacation in Chico, CA / Sacramento, CA do I count where I am or where I live??)

spotted some wild hyperbolic paraboloids

Even on vacation at the Sac Zoo, I can't escape my Python work

Last night I was playing with networking on my home intranet so my new headless machine connected together directly w/ ethernet to my server It's not really that impressive or important to anyone here, but I was all giddy getting it to work as expected :D (Felt like a linux god for a hot moment!)

hey #data people, read this quick post on survivorship bias & how to actually identify & work with it (with the power of math!!) (adding the classic image since i'm shameless unlike Randy & their guest)

Happy 'Dragons Love Tacos' Day to those who celebrate! If you got kids, you should totally hear Band Books' reading of the book — it's glorious music.youtube.com/watch?v=E5x8...

Yesterday made a little local terminal chat server & client where the family could use our intranet to chat. Kids were having a blast! github.com/MrGeislinger... Ended up adding more tweaks & running a client from my phone (fyi this is a fake chat — kids really liked saying potty words, as kids do)

whoomp there it is blog.google/products/gem...

Dang @thestorygraph.com is down : / It's times like this I wish there was an API I could later use to update my reading progress. For now. Going back to my old way of timing & taking manual notes Frankly makes me again play with the idea of building something myself ('dig my own well')

Gemini

Big moment as a dad: teaching my kids to play Factorio ♥️♥️ They're 5yrs old & just learning how to use WASD + mouse definitely a bit of an extra challenge that they are just starting to learn to read. But they're still having a good time learning "Dad's building game"

We're doing our weekend house cleanup of the kids' room, and what do I find randomly in a basket of laundry that they filled up? That's right! An unopened jar of mayonnaise!

Just learned that @sfdirewolf.bsky.social passed on If you didn't know much about Alice Wong, they were a disability rights activist. A couple years ago, read their 'Disability Visibility' book of essays— definitely worth reading disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book

I'm excited to announce my RLHF Book is now in pre-order for the @manning.com Early Access Program (MEAP), and for this milestone it's 50% off. Excited to land in print in early 2026! Lots of improvements coming soon. Thanks for the support! hubs.la/Q03Tc37Q0

Tell me you wouldn't just love staring at this output all day? Maybe it's just me, but I think there are not enough graphs in TUIs

Great video about how a lot of the genetics we learn before university is a simplification For the record, I'm nowhere near being a biologist. But I can confirm one part of the video: one of my identical twin children can roll their tongue & the other still hasn't figured it out XD

no context other than this was a quick photoshop necessary to make a deal while riffing with a coworker before lunch

mood is set Let's read the last book of Twilight vampires by the campfire

One of these pitch ideas might be of interest to linguists who are looking to write for a general audience!

Super interesting to me on the model results in this new Oolong dataset re: questins that involves aggregation over a long context (love the name) I wondered along the lines of how well LLMs do in long-contedt— not generally amazing in some contexts according to this XD arxiv.org/abs/2511.02817

Frankly haven't watched this yet but plan on it— Sebastian does an amazing job knowledge sharing & educating about LLMs

DataRater can continuously+adaptively learn which examples will improve an ML model the most during training. Delighted to have worked on this with @luisazintgraf.bsky.social, @dancalian.bsky.social, @gregfar.bsky.social, Iurii Kemaev, et al. (see full list at the of Luisa's thread).

Morning's a little wild so far Woke up at 4am to bike to the bus to get to the work office (it's been a bit) only to realize ~½ there that I forgot my work ID. So biked all the way back & couldn't find it. Contemplating what next, my kid finds it under my desk! So I'm just now at the bus stop :D

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

I've been playing Factorio this morning while my 5yr olds watched, suggested things I do, and did 'hair salon' with me It's been a good morning

How did I utilize my extra hour? I finally decided to give in & play Factorio for the first time, embracing what I knew would become my new addiction

completely triggering— I love my punctuation outside the quotes But also, I'd like to take this moment to completely denounce 'smart quotes' as the plague that they truly are And finally: ' > "

Ooo I really like this! I haven't really been using labelers but this was one that I could see behind super useful to filter out accounts if rather not even bother with bsky.app/profile/stec...

I'm halfway through reading the Twilight saga for the first time (if you include midnight sun), and man are some of those characters just as bonkers as they are in the movies I love it lol I'm totally into it at this point of the story, just like when I binge watch the movies XD

"Friction is an essential ingredient for learning" To me, that's the most important point. Any technology including LLMs can make it 'too easy'. Remember that learning will feel like an effort Also why I don't default to just videos to learn— easy to trick yourself that you understand by watching

I just hit the halfway point of the New Moon book for the first time & I can tell w/ it hit that I'm definitely fully invested in the book series now lol

My wife has been gone all week so it's been solo parenting my twins. But the thing that really has saved me is the kids falling asleep to my wife's recorded reading of a 'meditation bed time story' of a platypus Literally took them less than 2 minutes to drift off

@lingthusiasm.bsky.social if I had to bet anyone on Bluesky would know, I'd put my bet on you! Or at least knowing who might have a rec