Agencies already know they need more staff, but we show how our richer model enables *bundled interventions* that combine extra staff with service design changes. For example, DSS estimated it needed 150 staff to get waits < 2 min: if they could reduce handling time by 50%, they only need 50 more.

Excited to share our paper! Due Process on Hold: A Queueing Framework for Improving Access in SNAP arxiv.org/abs/2605.15165 Millions of Americans interface with the social safety net via call centers that are too congested. In Holmes v. Knodell, bad operations = procedural due process violation.

We just put out a 180-page paper on sampling from the SK model! One big surprise we ran into: the Hessian Ascent algorithms investigated for non-convex optimization have been diffusion models in disguise the whole time! arxiv.org/abs/2605.03718 @freegaussians.bsky.social @oldheneel.bsky.social

i bet Marc Andreessen feels like an idiot now

one watergate scandal ended nixon, but 3½ watergates is just another day for trump