I mean sure. But also "Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)" has an _iconique_ video (even when I taught in Canada this couldn’t be a pre-lecture vid) and is an absolute banger youtu.be/8ZXJijki9ik?...

Tonight’s DnD session was basically extremely stressful social interactions followed by what was, for all intents and purposes, “Battleship but you’ve got daggers”. Unrelated to this skill set, i successfully navigated my health insurance being dicks today in a series of phone calls.

Commenting on PRs is broken. Time to just merge PRs.

The Now/Later/Soon sequence from A Little Night Music is truly so stunning. youtu.be/STsXHiA3J9U?...

Ventured out into the cold to get the bear essentials: PrEP and blood pressure meds

Truly, putting commas in a file name. What marvels that never cease to astound!

Just put me on a flaming raft and push it out to sea.

What if people only think AI is good at coding because they’ve only ever seen the modern AI/ML codebase which are, to a one, spectacularly bad. (This is a subtweet, but I’ll never tell)

I’ve never felt older than when a colleague “had never seen a makefile used as a build system before”.

As a child I was obsessed with umbrellas. Unrelated, I also used to use a broom to process down the side of the house like I was an altar boy holding a crucifix. Later I was an altar boy.

I knew I was evil before I knew I was fruity. come to think of it the two are totally unrelated. well I've made a fine mess of this prompt. kindergarten, though. I knew I was host to something ancient and horrible during arts & crafts

And this is why, in 2003, Meat Loaf re-wrote the words to Tear Me Down (from Hedwig and the Angry Inch) to be about his life.

I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives

Every single person who was involved in not calling this “PEGging For Fun And Profit” hates fags more than god does.

computers talk to each other all the time, and have done for decades. having them use natural language is just a step back in terms of efficiency and security

The thing that bothers me so much about Carney's joke about greenlighting the Heated Rivalry show is that it furthers the narrative that it's a needle in a haystack. Anyone who reads Canadian books and watches Canadian film knows that we could have dozens more HRs with enough funding.

There is never a wrong time to watch a Jarman movie.

Watch “Sebastiane” (1976), honoring the patron saint of twinks getting tied up and penetrated, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuIW...

Why precisely did I think a Gaspar Noé film was going to relax me after a tough week?

I MEAN: www.youtube.com/shorts/OnVxn...

This is infuriating. We've known that these datasets are rife with CSAM since at least 2023, and those are the ones that are public. stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:k...

Let. Them. Eat. Gate.

If anyone wonders what I do for a living these days, it’s shit like reading the JSON schema spec cover to cover and making sure when we write parsers for it they are actually correct. And also much cooler things. But we aren’t talking about the cooler things yet blog.dottxt.ai/dotjson-has-...

The most unexpected collaboration thus far in my career but it’s fun. We just got a grant to work on: “A data science framework for quantifying environmental action in faith communities”

Words fail me.

"Machine learning research is not serious research & therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees prestigious group of ML researchers" I ❤️ when the titles write themselves But seriously, I don't think there's much to debate statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/m...

Considerably spicier riff: for a lot of predictive modelling, where your interest is slightly out of sample prediction, formally specifying a treatment to get an ATE is kinda like specifying a bullshit null hypothesis: mechanically satisfying but fucking useless.

Do predictive models need to be causal? notstatschat.rbind.io/2026/01/26/d...

Ok this is is an excellent read for a nice cold day. (Unrelated, it appears there is a horror-focused bookshop and cafe in my neighbourhood so I think I live there now)

If you happen to be in New York And Her Children at SoHo Playhouse is a hard watch but an amazing play. A mostly one woman loose adaptation of Brecht’s Mother Courage about an NRA spokeswoman.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Anania's experience with her trans identity

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

As an experiment, I spent this afternoon trying to do something mildly difficult and getting ChatGPT to help. It fucking sucked. That is all.

For audio, log-signature features complement Fourier-style features (e.g. spectrograms) in the sense that certain characteristics that are noisy or poorly captured by Fourier features are cleanly captured with certain log-signature features. Particularly interesting for audio source separation. 2/2

Recently, I have been exploring path log-signatures as features in machine learning models for audio. I found that no library supported backprop through log-signatures using modern pytorch, so I created a small library with minimal dependencies here: github.com/Froskekongen... 1/2

The problem with the Death Becomes Her recasting is that it should’ve been Bonnie Milligan.

OK well they are. Hope that helps

Anyway. My hot R vs Python take for 2026 is that I hate programming in Python because it desperately needs a more explicit type system. R suffers less from this.

In the bad old days of yore, data people would do their R vs Python rage-baiting. When really all it was was Everything vs pandas

I'm drafting a paper with a collaborator in which we are trying to sell a model with penalised splines. It's opened up a discussion on the 'correspondence' between penalties and priors. Below are some excerpts from an email I sent to my coauthor. This is something I struggle to communicate.

TIL that Hal Sedgwick, Eve Sedgwick's husband, lived in Frank Rosenblatt's farmhouse attic at Cornell. archive.ph/Q8EfZ

FDA drugs and biologics guidance for Bayesian clinical trials is something I've been dreaming of for decades. I am thrilled that this draft has been released!! #Statistics #StatsSky #fda #clinicaltrial #bayes

When you hit one of Rust’s sharp edges it’s a _real experience_. (Do not ask me about sanitising error messages in binaries unless you have provided me with a case of bourbon)

Oh my god the ability to get from the west to the east side without taking the 125th St bus ride of the damned!

"without witness, without reward" is a really good principle to follow. whether it's action, kindness, providing aid, or charity, you can do a lot of good in this world without seeking the validation that comes from the number on your post going up.

New York is limited by only what you want to find. It’s a magical place if you’re open to it.