Look, I don't use AI to help me with my review tasks (though I understand the temptation...this is intense, tiring, time expensive, *unpaid!* work) but one thing that really bothers me is when there's a major flaw right out of the gate and you just..have to keep reviewing the paper.

CAN trying to goon Abbey Murphy but if that’s the plan they need to hit harder

Trying to work but Hilary Knight making that impossible by doing GOAT things in Italy

Hahaha Emma Sears was like I’m gettin this one #uswnt

Good grief…phew! Good news in in the District!!

I don’t even watch college football but what a game! 🏈

I’ve seen enough: the next PWHL expansion team should be in DC! Absolutely amazing fun

Josh Allen what on earth

Tonight I archived the project folder for my very first academic paper (and foundation of my dissertation). It’s done. donzo. Fini. Backed up and filed away. End of an era.

Inspired, I've been doing this today and it really works! I'm actually *doing* my tasks fully instead of 3,8,12,28 minute interruptions.

For the past month or so, I've been slowly working through this book by @sebastianraschka.com which theoretically and practically builds a GPT model from scratch. Highly recommended! Ironically, I'm writing much more code by hand as a result

Hey everyone, I'm happy to announce that the paper I wrote with Alex Hughes and Mike Rivera which explores the lack of truly open, grounded, expert-level hallucination benchmarks for language models has been accepted to ICICT 2026 in Honolulu, HI! arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17345

Hi everyone! Welcome back. I'm so excited to share that the video deepfake detection paper that I co-wrote with Hany Farid has been accepted to the WACV SAFE 2026 workshop!

I was totally working (ok limping) my way through DOS 2, but how did I manage to start a Starfield thing two days ago. Watchtower mod is something!

All done!

As my first official act of 2026, I have closed all of my tabs

And…Just about finished! just like 2025

Getting there!

Also playing a BG3 modded Shadowheart run #BG3

Currently playing Dispatch! Highly recommend.

Another Star Wars set in progress #lego

Finally get a chance to read my good friend’s new book!

Started off the break with this awesome TIE Bomber set. I have a lighting kit that I’ll install at some point

It’s that time of year again when I get to think slowly, learn deeply, and play like I did when I was a kid.

I’ll tell you what: whatever team/league that signs Rodman for 2026 and beyond is where my $$$ for sports is going.

Watching #uswnt after the NWSL champ letdown as a spirit fan is tough. I need to cheer for Rose, but I don’t like it

That’s my Washington Spirit going back to the NWSL championship!!!

KINGSBURY!!! Wow! #nwsl

Finally pulled the trigger and migrated to the #blacksky PDS. Took like 5 mins.

Sofia Cantore dear god that was insane

Is Adriana Leon hurt or something? #uswnt

Do I need to watch…US *men’s* soccer now? Like, are they good? #uswnt

Ohh Kay seems like Thompson is just fine that was like a 4.8 40 she just ran #uswnt

Rose Lavelle is having an absolutely massive match today #uswnt

Hutton (asked by a reporter about her goal, a part of a 2-0 HT result): “Yeah think it’s a little sloppy we need to clean it up out there” Emma Hayes is teaching that championship headspace for #uswnt

#uswnt and #usmnt both up 2-0 at the same time how about that

Rose out here breaking ankles lmao #uswnt

There’s just so much speed on the #uswnt roster right now.

I loved the Alters mostly, but the save mechanic is tough if you don’t have uninterrupted time. going to pivot to Expedition 33!

My goodness Alyssa Thompson!

Whoo boy coding on windows is not for the weak

Time for chai and reviewing papers

New Paper! there is little scientific work that attempts to measure the prevalence of language model hallucination in a comprehensive way. We argue that language models should be evaluated using repeatable, open, and domain-contextualized hallucination benchmarking. arxiv.org/abs/2505.17345

I have 2 paper deadlines so I’m not really involved but what a time for gaming: AC Shadows, South of Midnight, Atomfall, Clair Obscura 33, and Oblivion remaster (I know, some controversy) Have fun folks!

Checking this one out today, certainly an interesting premise arxiv.org/abs/2504.03933

PIs be like: “can you meet between 6:14 and 6:23 under the big willow tree? You know the one. Bring all of your results.”

I’m probably going to do my typical playthrough-pause on AC Shadows early this time. I’m really enjoying South of Midnight

In a short detour from what I probably should be doing, I’m going to check the multimodal world / contrastive learning to extract feature embeddings for audio data arxiv.org/abs/2211.06687

I read this a couple of weeks ago by Zhou et al—and given the venue and their findings I’m pretty surprised that it didn’t get more attention www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This has to be the longest sustained period of nice weather in SF I’ve ever experienced