It’s impossible to watch any political thriller now because whatever incident is generating dramatic tension pales in comparison to reality.

Sign in PRO for presumed liability. app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House?se...

If we want to create a more affordable, livable Seattle, we need to design for *reducing* car volumes. This is the only way to meet our climate, public health, vision zero, accessibility and housing goals. Our fight to design highway on-ramps with LESS capacity epitomizes why it's still hard.

In this three part series I compare #LLM and #RecommenderSystems to show the gaps and opportunities. They are surprisingly fewer than one would think. Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...

This project is absolutely nuts. You can take the vector embeddings for text and convert them back to the text that generated them. github.com/vec2text/vec...

Read Xia et al., “TransAct V2.” earlier today, some notes: - long and short term user histories (long term [10k items], short term [100], impressions [100]) - sampled soft max loss function seems useful in environments with very weak negatives #recsys #ml arxiv.org/abs/2506.02267

Atticus wants to play

watching Alien: Earth and I think I'm rooting for the alien

todays discover outage was brought to you by the letter <SPACE>

anyone got opinions on data orchestration tools? Specifically Dagster vs Temporal?

To celebrate Zohran Mamdani's apparent win in NYC I donated my democracy vouchers to my choice for mayor, Katie Wilson @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social . If you live in Seattle you can too! www.wilsonforseattle.com/democracy-vo...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page testing

EWR giving SEA a run for bad airport award

been hitting refresh all day www.kuow.org/stories/moni...

You won't want to miss this one. Join @bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team for a conversation on the future of social and how users can take control over their own online experience at #SXSW. #Bluesky #JayGraber Watch LIVE at 1pm CT: ow.ly/3K0U50Vccnj

4 days left!!! Now that it's sunny, it's a great time to get those ballots into drop boxes, or in mailboxes! ☀️🗳️☀️🗳️☀️🗳️

this is a test of the corgi broadcast system. If this were an actual corgi you would be loudly hearing barking at the wind. this is only a test.

I've won 1 of my last 10 Deadlock matches. Game feels dead now and the only people left are the try hards. Oh well, was fun while it lasted.

Hey Seattle voters! Have you used your Seattle Democracy Vouchers yet? We recommend donating yours to Alexis Mercedes Rinck for City Council Position 8! You can donate yours online, even if you lost your original paper copies:

🙄

I turned off the porn filter and now my feed is all raccoons