jordan

I collected (personal) data on this :)

Averaged about 0.9 hours of email per day (average includes weekends and holidays) since starting my PhD in August of 2021.
FEELS like way more than that...

the famous "cameraman" demo image showing a guy looking through a camera on a tripod

the famous "cameraman" demo image showing a guy looking through a camera on a tripod. but this time it's represented in ascii art! and it's the data URL of the first image.

the base64 encoding of this image is also this image
blog.jordan.matelsky.com/bb64/

bsky bot that auto-replies to skeets with dollar amounts saying "$21.5M SEPTA expansion is worth 28 minutes of doing war"

We could fund an entire PhD student on the expenses the military burned in the time it took you to read this

With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.

...an essential part of humanity is discovery and knowledge. When someone's eyes light up because they finally understand why rainbows form, that's not because they were first to discover it, but rather because it shows them that the universe itself can be understood.

Which is no less valuable imo!

"Science" as a term is overloaded! Science plays a different role for the public than it does for the scientific apparatus itself.
I don't want the cure for cancer to come a decade later just to be slightly more gratifying to the discoverer.

But ...

the famous "cameraman" demo image showing a guy looking through a camera on a tripod

the famous "cameraman" demo image showing a guy looking through a camera on a tripod. but this time it's represented in ascii art! and it's the data URL of the first image.

the base64 encoding of this image is also this image
blog.jordan.matelsky.com/bb64/

that's a really good ratio

cool ones or dumb ones? im up doing dumb ones right now

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One day I will drink my last beer from Brewer's Art in Baltimore and shed a single tear

ha, that's not how I interpreted that line :)

or you can wait a little bit, and eat a hundred marshmallows

it is, if you turn piranesi on its side!

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

meme graphic of a soldier shielding a sleeping person with his body; the bullets are labeled "IT DEPT TRYING TO REMOTELY FORCE-REBOOT MY LAPTOP" and the soldier is labeled "BLENDER SAVE CHANGES BEFORE CLOSING DIALOG"

I remember the days before @blender.org even had a "save before closing" :)

I'm super pumped about this!

LLMs in scientific publishing have at times been a promethean tragic boon.
PlanYourScience.com feels like putting LLMs where they belong!

i have no mouth and i must moan

Seems hard! Why do that when I can ask chatgpt to roll 64 dice??

This is such a scourge of modern ML conferences too — "I didn't quite know how to embed this object so I just asked an LLM to spit out 64 floating-point numbers"

but tbh it's kinda gross. like, it tastes rather delicious to me

no you di— oh wow, yes you did

thanks!!

I know an amazing candidate for this... but i can't find a link to send to apply :) No form on that page!

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

me and my homies hanging out in the Super-Gentrified michelin star thirdwave coffee roaster 500 feet out into the hudson river