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Sleeping furiously with colorless green ideas. Pythonista, Communitarian, all else is commentary.

Pittsburgh
Joined May 2008
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Agurticracy (IPA? a.ˈʝiɾ.tikra.si): A government run by charlatans and frauds. I think this will be the title of my NaNoWriMo project.
Since "No Children" is trending on everything It's probably a good time to mention that I have indeed considered the Tetrapod.
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Call for Participation! The 16th Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (WiML) will be co-located with the virtual @NeurIPSConf in December, 2021. Deadline for submission: September 29th, 2021 Read the full CFP: bit.ly/wiml2021 #WiML #WiML2021 #NeurIPS2021
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the fun thing about low probability events is that they happen
Replying to @flames_of_chaos
The author posted this video in the comments. It's a truck full of traffic lights.
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at facebook someone told me, “coding is the most important part of being an engineer, which is why 2/4 of the onsite interviews are coding”, which only seems like a worse and worse take as I think about it each passing year
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how about normalize you telling me how much the fucking job pays in the first place
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Accessibility isn’t more work, you were just cutting corners before. The work was incomplete.
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Somehow a chat about @Apple's upcoming developers conference turned into a discussion of ST:VOY. It wasn't me who started it, but it ended with me suggesting @TheKateMulgrew as a great keynote speaker for WWDC or @AltConference. A girl can dream...
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Targ call meeting to inform team that Targ smash silly Gantt chart showing unrealistic schedule created by Forces of Evil. Wait, Targ muted. Targ start over...
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In case anyone was wondering, Ally McBeal does not hold up in 2021
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So, I was doing some research today about NLP and poetry modalities (as you do) and stumbled upon a paper by @mattt on the design of a computational poetry engine.
On private property, flying that flag would be an inviolable First Amendment right. On a public overpass, it's littering. And my patriotism has always included taking garbage off the roadways.
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The Lunchbox is all I can think of. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_…
Question: Can you name a film, tv series or novel you love where the stakes don’t involve death (as in, no one dies), and it’s *not* a comedy or for kids. Just need some ideas because I can’t name one right now and I’ve got things to do, lol.
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