as for #6: I also like to keep my intro light-hearted, but wouldn't straight up start with a joke. Let the audience settle in a bit, actually start listening to you and make them laugh "on slide 2" so to speak.
Readit Newsfxwin commented on Getting into public speaking james.brooks.page/blog/ge... · Posted by u/jbrooksuk
Wow, there's a lot going on with this pelican riding a bicycle: https://gist.github.com/simonw/c31d7afc95fe6b40506a9562b5e83...
the only benchmark i trust
fxwin commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
If they scare teens of Instagram the danger is some of them will go to places like 4Chan.
i assume 4chan would fall in the age restricted social media category
fxwin commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
I do have a son. I plan to tell my kiddo not to engage with those platforms and set boundaries. I dont plan to force every kid in every scenario into the same pattern.
>Locking up kids inside social media echo chambers is much more isolation than kicking them out of them imho
"Locking" Why not instead ban the social graph, or certain engagement techniques. Theres a whole other arm here, where the AusGov has pulled back entirely from promised gambling restrictions. Its easy to see a path where dark patterns in both industries are outlawed instead of banning half.
Not to mention that 4chan and youtube are unaffected, so I doubt those kids with the broken backs or whatever are going to be "free".
i doubt 4chan will be unaffected by this
fxwin commented on Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun iflscience.com/the-fall-o... · Posted by u/doener
Tbh, do not quite get the excitement around this picture. It was staged, and the stunt doesn’t appear to be particularly complex. A lot of logistics, sure. But seems like all there is to it is that someone just bothered to do it. So not clear what’s the additional value over photoshop.
> So not clear what’s the additional value over photoshop.
I think photography might just not be for you (nothing wrong with that)
fxwin commented on Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source deepnote.com/blog/were-op... · Posted by u/zX41ZdbW
> Teams need notebooks that are reactive, collaborative, and AI‑ready
reactive: this matters, but all the alternatives have it
collaborative: this matters very little in the Figma / Google Docs sense of collaborative in practice. It's very rare you want two people working on the same notebook at the same time. What you really want is git style version control.
AI‑ready: you want something as close to plain python (which is already as AI-ready as it gets) as possible.
if you're measuring across these dimensions, I'd go with marimo.
marimo is saved as plain .py files, easy to version control and has a reactive model.
This is the first time I'm hearing about marimo and i have to say their landing page is excellent! Immediately makes me want to try it
fxwin commented on Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source deepnote.com/blog/were-op... · Posted by u/zX41ZdbW
>Meanwhile, the market is voting with its feet. Across the Fortune 1000, job postings that mention and require Jupyter knowledge are down sharply; the most recent month was deep in the red YTD.
This is a joke, right?
fxwin commented on Language models are injective and hence invertible arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511... · Posted by u/mazsa
I disagree. Within the research community (which is the target of the paper), that title means something very precise and not at all clickbaity. It's irrelevant that the rest of the Internet has an inaccurate notion of "model" and other very specific terms.
In a field with as much public visibility as this one it is naive to only think of the academic target audience, especially when choosing a title like this. As a researcher you are responsible for communicating your findings both to other experts and to outsiders, and that includes choosing appropriate titles. (Though i think we fundamentally disagree about the role of researchers here)
It's like writing a title that says "drinking only 200ml of water a day leads to weight loss" which is technically true, but misleading.
fxwin commented on Language models are injective and hence invertible arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511... · Posted by u/mazsa
fxwin commented on Language models are injective and hence invertible arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511... · Posted by u/mazsa
Still, it is technically correct. The model produces a next-token likelihood distribution, then you apply a sampling strategy to produce a sequence of tokens.
I agree it is technically correct, but I still think it is the research paper equivalent of clickbait (and considering enough people misunderstood this for them to issue a semi-retraction that seems reasonable)