wannabebarista

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by wannabebarista 1y ago
Agreed! If people move to a area and don't feel like they're part of the community, reading the local paper is a great way to figure out what's going on.
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by wannabebarista 1y ago
I think so, but it may not take the form of "Googling". My undergraduate students (mostly first-year CS students) often say they "asked a model" or "asked a chatbot". They talked about it more like they were ta
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by wannabebarista 1y ago
Interesting project! The buzzing from the emulator was quite the jump scare though.
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by wannabebarista 1y ago
For years, I used Trello for taking notes and tracking my reading/research. The feature I cared most about was being able to reference notes in other notes and have lists of notes. It turns out that Trello is an awful tool for this bec
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by wannabebarista 1y ago
I work on differentially private query answering and synthetic data generation for tabular data. This is an active area with some cool advances in the last few years. Here's a nice summary of some of these ideas: https://dif
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by wannabebarista 1y ago
He is a sort of strong finitist [0]. Roughly, this means that many usual mathematical objects that rely on notions of infinity, e.g., irrational numbers, do not exist. I came across his YouTube channel [1] years ago as a undergrad and becam
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by wannabebarista 1y ago
I've discovered (and rediscovered) several blogs through MR over the years. I'm not a fan though of the recent trend of linking to X threads and essays. While I much prefer blogs to exist outside of walled garden-type websites, I&
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by wannabebarista 1y ago
I mainly discover new blogs from links from other blogs I read or from HN. I share my blog on HN and Bluesky and a few niche communities like Mander (when it makes sense). Most of my traffic right now comes from chatbots citing my posts, St
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An Utterly Incomplete Look at Research from 1825(bcmullins.github.io)
34 points by wannabebarista 1y ago|2 comments
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by wannabebarista 1y ago
A fun side project I've been working on looks back at research from 100, 150, and 200 years ago. Some stuff is well-known, others have been forgotten, and still others were never read at the time. At the very least, this post will help
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
My personal blog is http://brettcmullins.com It is a static site using Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. Although I'm not doing anything fancy, I'm surprised at how flexible Jekyll is when I try to add a feature.
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
Check out GoatCounter: https://www.goatcounter.com/ . I've used it for six years and am quite happy with it.
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
While I'm not disputing this, chatbots citing my posts have sent a lot of traffic my way. Obviously though, this could all disappear the next time they tune the model.
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
In undergrad, reading these two books really changed my outlook. I went in skeptical and a little conspiratorial and these helped bring me closer to reality and even a little hopeful. - The Cost of Rights (1999) by Stephen Holmes and Cass S
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
I write a blog to share projects and to have a single place to point people to (that can be accessed without an account). I share some of my posts on HN such as annual interesting books [0] and articles [1] lists. But my main source of new
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
If it's a passage, I usually input it manually, which can be a pain. But it's more common for me to just ask general questions. For example, when confused about a term, I asked "In Thoughts on the Funding System and Its Effec
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
Boox Color 7 e-ink reader. I read a lot of pdfs but wasn't a believer in e-ink. However, the screen has dramatically reduced my eye strain. This model is usually ~$250 but it regularly goes on sale for under $200.
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
I read a lot of public domain stuff on Google Books or HathiTrust (usually pdfs). I use a small eink tablet. This was a gamechanger for me. No more eye strain from reading on a monitor. I will occasionally ask Gemini if I'm confused or
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
People post interesting links?
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
Here's my list for 2024: * Wisdom’s Workshop (2016) by James Axtell is a history of the American research university from Medieval times to the present. * The Principles of Science (1874) by William Stanley Jevons (of economics fame) i
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
I've not read Littlewood's book. Thanks for the suggestion!
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
Thanks for finding the quote. Memory can be sketchy sometimes!
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
In A Mathematician's Apology (1940), Hardy has lots of fun musings on math. I don't have the quote handy, but he argues that pure math is closer to reality than applied math since it deals with actual mathematical objects rather t
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
Here's my list - it ended up being a lot of history this year: Wisdom’s Workshop (2016) by James Axtell is a history of the American research university from Medieval times to the present. The Principles of Science (1874) by William St
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
Here's an interesting BBC radio program [0] from 1978 on Ramsey. I came across this years ago and felt inspired to go into research. Of course, this program is a bit out of date and doesn't touch on his pragmatist turn much at al
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
I looked at this book several times last year, but I couldn't get past how hard Barnes and Noble were pushing it!
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
Wisdom’s Workshop (2016) by James Axtell is a history of the American research university from Medieval times to the present. It's worth reading for anyone in academia or grad school in the US. Each year, I put together lists of the bo
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
For me, establishing a sort of routine was the best way to get past the frustration of having multiple lingering unfinished projects/posts. I struggled more with determining when to ship a post rather than getting out what I wanted to
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by wannabebarista 2y ago
A friend and I are starting to work through Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms.
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Coffee in Vancouver and NeurIPS 2024(bcmullins.github.io)
2 points by wannabebarista 2y ago|0 comments

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