This Post Is A Stand-in For A Very Real Complaint That I'll Eventually Speak Of At A Later Time.

Syllogistically, of course, time waits for an island

Quick! Download those animes from the Internet Archive before a copyright claim takes them down.

"If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria"- Friedrich Nietzsche

The current season is always superior to the previous season because it resolves the previous one like an unfinished musical chord.

"If we keep on optimizing the proxy objective, even after our goal stops improving, something more worrying happens. The goal often starts getting worse, even as our proxy objective continues to improve. Not just a little bit worse either — often the goal will diverge towards infinity. This is an extremely general phenomenon in machine learning. It mostly doesn't matter what our goal and proxy are, or what model architecture we use. If we are very efficient at optimizing a proxy, then we make the thing it is a proxy for grow worse."

Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart's law

the sun won't consume the earth for another 5-7 billion years.. plenty of time to chill (chills for 5-7 billion years) ah - the sun!!

One drawback is that, despite having other work-related things to do, I am essentially drowning in the vast amount of material that is continuously recommended to me—books and information that are both good and very difficult to put down.

Both my biologist and math friends are constantly giving me new ways of looking at the world. I have a rich inner life because of this.

The Smiling Spider (1887) by Odilon Redon

Zero is a funny number. The opposite of one is negative one. But the opposite of zero is still zero.