Wikimedia has a new AI strategy! A colleague and I spent months working on it. I am so happy that it is out. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/04...

Need a break from doomscrolling? Need to remember there is still good out there? Listen to Wikipedia being edited live -- by real people just like you. listen.hatnote.com

Laundry, fold clothes, pick up floor, clean dishes.

Working on Wikipedia for almost five years has prepared me for when my kid flipped opened an international calendar and started asking me what every single holiday meant.

“I should make banana bread”

I can’t find who originally wrote it, but someone had this great blog post about how scientists don’t replicate other scientist’s work (new method, new theory, etc) to check if it is correct, they replicate it because it is useful to their own work. I think about that a lot.

Good, practical advice on charts

The positive corollary of this is that even in dark times, you can still give your kid a wonderful childhood they will always remember.

When are we getting a grimdark Pokémon reboot?

What is the vibe on ml bluesky these days?

Barkley marathon is murdering people this year Where is Barkley bluesky?

A nice little 20,772 hour long video.

Me waiting around with post-viral fatigue. (Flu, not covid)

Earthquake bluesky unite

What did I miss

Write a Wikipedia edit, get the chance to write a second edit for free!

Where is my semantic web!

Huge respect to David Revoy ( aka Deevad ) for making this illustration and releasing it on Wikipedia. www.davidrevoy.com

My new paper "Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different": arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113. Generalization behaviours in deep learning can be intuitively understood through a notion of soft inductive biases, and formally characterized with countable hypothesis bounds! 1/12

I like bluesky because every once in a wild I stumble upon someone i knew from Twitter and I’m like, hey it’s X!!! Today it’s @cingraham.bsky.social

I’ve decided the defining feature of working at Wikimedia is that you can be almost five years at the job and at any other job you’d be the wizened elder but at Wikimedia you are still like just barely not onboarding anymore.

Exactly what a bot would ask

I need to read the history that leads me to rewatching Babylon 5

To the young guy running who almost ran over my kid and then exclaimed “Fucking children!”, when you have children I hope the legos on the floor are always facing up.

Recently I heard someone describe Wikipedia as: By humans, for humanity. Couldn’t have said it better. So many cool things planned for this year.

I had to unfollow everyone posting about cycling because they spoil every race for me.

Calm down, San Francisco

This is what peak coffee performance looks like.

OpenAI's GPT 4.5 system card is out: cdn.openai.com/gpt-4-5-syst...

I want to follow more ML/AI people on bluesky. Who is awesome?

At this point people should just start posting videos about what *can’t* run Doom

engagement = revenue And the easiest way to engagement is rage-bait

This is effectively how I organize todo’s except: 1. I use a physical notebook rather than something digital, and 2. Every week I turn a page in the notebook and copy each list to the new page. bsky.app/profile/chri...

From now on this account is going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: Wikipedia and tatter tots.

This is what the asteroid wants you to think

Need a break from doomscrolling? Need to remember there is still good out there? Listen to Wikipedia being edited live -- by real people just like you. listen.hatnote.com

What is so amazing to me about Waymo is that as a product it just works. Sometimes a human needs to take control but from a UX perspective it’s really nice. Also Waymo will patiently wait as long as you want while you put car seats in for your kids.

“Reduced new bug reports by 9% in February”

nice mix of probability and visualization.

bluesky feature I would pay for: when I post an image the alt text is automatically generated

current status

The thing about SF is that you can sit on a beach like this, then walk inland 5 minutes and you are in a modern city.

Organize your groceries by aisle

Another option getfreewrite.com/products/alpha

Boozey In-N-Out brunch when

Them: Do you have hobbies? Me: Cycling Them: Nice! Where do you ride? Me: actually I mostly do Zwift, an cycling multiplayer game where you can do group rides, races, and events it is really fun and just easier for me because I can find a race 24/7 or workout in the— Them: <eyes glaze over>

I am not opposed to this rebranding