Pile of kitties #cats

Mina sandwich #cats

Another day, another injured animal 🫠

Switching to tea in the evening is a sustainable way to maintain productivity without the risk of a panic attack. You can pry my 3 cups of coffee in the morning from my sweaty, palpitating hands.

I don't believe in genetic essentialism, but boy do I hate smiling in photos and I blame my grandparents.

Terrance Tao (one of the greatest mathematicians alive today) lost his main research grant after it was previously approved. If it can happen to Terrance Tao, it can happen to anyone doing research in the USA. www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

King's Cross/St. Pancras is the C/C++ of train stations

Lots of postdocs stress over their immigration to the US. The implication is that doing a postdoc at a "top" school is a golden ticket to a TT position. Really though, nobody gives a shit what school you went to. Research productivity is the best metric for success and you can do that in Europe.

Cuddle puddle, but Io looks displeased to have been woken from his slumber #cats

If the constant of integration was a cool Greek letter, and not "+C" everybody would remember it.

I tried to update VScode and it insisted on installing a windows bootloader on my Linux hard drive and downloaded some weird NVIDIA drivers. TBH I did not really like VScode all that much, and I was planning on learning Vim to eventually use NeoVim as my IDE. Maybe a little overkill but w.e.

Thinking alot about how the Beer-Lambert law is actually applicable to analyzing beer. This cannot be a coincidence #conspiracy

This is a small funding instrument in Canada that enables researchers to help prop up a dying industry. Contrary to popular belief, I do not think Canada is an advanced economy. Advanced economies invest more into economic diversification. Canada relies on its natural resource wealth. #science

Word not only takes more time, but the Graphical User Interface breaks my focus.

Nobody wanted to adopt this FIV positive little guy, so we did a trial run to make sure there was no risk of violence between him and our other cats that could lead to transmission. Turns out he is just a sweet man who just likes sitting on the bed with his tongue out. No problems.

Weird thing about Ukrainian, it is common to switch "D" for "Д" if you want to go for a more modern - or futuristic look. I can confidently say that in Ukrainian the two most hated letters are (in order): "Ґ" (used for Russian loan words) and "Д" because fuck 'em.

On this day in history, I performed a mock interview with a pharmaceutical company and after carefully considering the technical questions, I confidently answered them all incorrectly.

I'm not surprised an American government institution posted this, but I do wonder how you could paint something like this without having an "am I the baddy" moment. Excusing genocide because it was "normal" ignores many more developed societies who were not committing genocide at the time.

I'd really like to combine my coding skills with something practical like welding so I can make Gundams or some shit.

Finally embracing the Spanish keyboard; previously I thought it was like Mandarin where you type the sounds and it gives you a list of possible characters. To my abject horror, they actually expect you to know where the accent goes ahead of time.

The kind of models I am least interested in are the models that minimize prediction error at the expense of interpretation. I am looking at you XGBOOST.

Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

No, but my cats would sell my soul to Satan for a treat

A powerful graph that shows the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine in preventing cancer and saving lives.

Loving kitties. Temperance is officially out and chill with everyone.

This is hubris. Canada invests in specific research areas once it has been convinced of its applications in the private sector. There are practically no opportunities for researchers to pitch their idea based on scientific feasibility alone.

What she means is “researchers in applied fields who can work in companies or develop products in Canada”. She does not mean academics. There will be less $$ and fewer academic jobs in 🇨🇦 for the next several years. It is not and will not be a panacea for research

Elvira and Phoebe #cats

Snuggle puddle #cats

I finally made it as a programmer: someone on Reddit asked me to help build their cryptocurrency platform with zero money upfront.

Temperance sitting in the litter box, like I sit on the toilet with my phone sometimes.

Sometimes I forget that the bassoon exists.

Two snuggly cats #cats

Snuggles and bath time #cats #cute

I have been in Vienna for 6 hours and have eaten 3 Brosnar.

It doesn't currently improve our societies, and it shouldn't live by a different set of rules than the rest of us. Machine learning was better before the business kids got wind of it.

Elvira and Amora have different personalities but they are both very polite and are very close. We went back for Elvira after she approached us in the same parking lot we found Amora #cats #parking #sisters #reunion

Elvira is very sleepy #cats

Mina and Io #cats

Pomegranate blossoms 🌸

Phoebe hiding from the thunder 🥰 We lifted up the blanket so she could feel safe and then she fell asleep.

Phoebe sitting weird🥰

I like to use both my last names, because my father's last name alone (Armstrong) wears very sardonically for a chronically skinny dude. Alternatively, the literal translation of my mother's surname is "Magpie man", which I will insist upon in the working language of my next institution.

Got shortlisted for my dream job, but this means I can't tell jokes at the interview. Unless?

I don't think everyone turns off their phones on the plane.

Mina is sleeping

anyone know how to make capital letters in LaTeX \mathbf{} by default? I'm tired of emboldening my matrices #math

Amora with her adopted mommy #cats

Caught zooming #cats