Chuck Wooters

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
— Albert Einstein

National biscotti day

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

Good Science

xkcd.com/3101/

This Father’s Day, I’m thinking of the families torn apart by Trump’s cruel deportation policies.

Innocent kids are paying the price — simply because their dads showed up for work, were near a Home Depot, or were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This cruelty must end.

A cartoon of a grilled cheese sandwich with the caption “grilled cheese”. Below it is a grilled cheese sandwich wearing a pink frilly dress withe the caption “girlled cheese”

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Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

We now have first-class documentation for using uv with AWS Lambda

docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/in...

The Ocenaudio audio editor showing an audio file that is also the logo of the Python programming language.

#genuary7 prompt: Use software not intended to make images.

I wrote a Python program that takes an image and produces a .WAV file. Viewed with a spectrogram... shows the image 😎

Made with #PyScript:
pyscript.com/@ambv/genuar...

#genuary2025 #genuary #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #WebGL #Python

Me too! He was amazing!

The hand-picked selection of the best Python libraries and tools of 2024 – 10th edition!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1hbs4t8/the_handpicked_selection_of_the_best_python/

Image made in Python, showing all continuous distribution from SciPy library, organised in 10x11 blocks. Each section is showing shaded distribution line, underlining distribution, it's name and mathematical equation.

Another a bit different #ArtAdventCalendar day 21. This one I made in Python in 2021, and I still like it. It's showing all continuous distribution (available at that time) from SciPy library. 🐡🧪
Image is a bit larger, and can be seen in full resolution here: rdzudzar.github.io/scipy_distri...

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Big news! We’ve got a new free tier of GitHub Copilot right inside of VS Code! github.blog/news-insight...

Learn to learn well. Adapt. Repeat. Remain a curious student, and tech will never leave you behind.

The image is a flowchart titled “Sequential Optimization of Instruction and Examples.” It consists of two rows, each depicting a sequence of steps involving documents, speech bubbles, and gears. The background is a blue to green gradient.

PromptWizard from Microsoft Research is now open source. It is designed to automate and simplify AI prompt optimization, combining iterative LLM feedback with efficient exploration and refinement techniques to create highly effective prompts in minutes. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Release v0.0.13 2024-12-16 · pydantic/pydantic-ai Breaking changes All releases prior to V1 can contain breaking changes according to semvar, but this release contains more than usual: The format of messages has changed significantly since the la...

Big PydanticAI release, includes:
* @anthropic.com support
* Mistral AI support
* big refactor to message history

Overall this release includes 40 PRs from 16 different people! 🤘

github.com/pydantic/pyd...

I hope you are right! Would be fantastic!

We are excited to announce the launch of ML SUPERB 2.0 (multilingual.superbbenchmark.org) as part of the Interspeech 2024 official challenge! We hope this upgraded version of ML SUPERB advances universal access to speech processing worldwide. Please join it!

#Interspeech2025

Imagine creating custom datasets and training AI models WITHOUT writing a single line of code. We did and made it a reality.

@hf.co Synthetic Data Generator

Blog: huggingface.co/blog
Space: huggingface.co/spaces/argil...
GitHub: github.com/argilla-io/s...

Software Engineering Manager, Multimodal Assistive Agents (Astra) - Japan Tokyo, Japan

1/2: ✨ Google DeepMind Tokyo is growing! ✨ We're building the future of AI with Project Astra. Join my team! We're hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead the challenge from Japan 🇯🇵 boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job... #GoogleDeepMind #AI #Jobs #Tokyo

Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵

Online spectrogram computation available at huggingface.co/spaces/jhaur...

Rare selfie from the Hummel Telescope.

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Linguistics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDF... @lhlew.bsky.social

I've started putting together a starter pack with people working on Speech Technology and Speech Science: go.bsky.app/BQ7mbkA

(Self-)nominations welcome!

priest: body of christ
me: yes chef