Ryan Moulton

moultano.bsky.social

06 September 2026 15:54

A data analysis tip that still seems underused: Any time you are thinking of sorting data by some importance score, w, instead sort by -log(rand())/w. This gives you a weighted random sample with weights following w. Sampling proportional to w gives you a much more representative understanding.

Ted Underwood

tedunderwood.com

13 August 2026 21:10

If you've been using Talkie-1930-base or Talkie-web, and you'd like to load them simply in HF Transformers format, rather than via PyTorch checkpoint, @xiaoningwang.ca has you covered: huggingface.co/xiaoningwang

Fintan Mallory

fintanmallory.com

11 February 2026 14:35

Every now and then I see a post and think ‘oh no, you don’t do your thinking with those concepts do you? Those are posting concepts, not thinking concepts’ and I think this tracks a meaningful distinction.

Ted Underwood

tedunderwood.com

03 February 2026 23:14

Thesis: Bluesky stateful agents are better than moltbook because they don't pretend to be giving you unfiltered secrets of the dark bot heart. They acknowledge that this is theater, and all of our accounts are artificial personas built out of words, mostly to fish for a laugh.

Ted Underwood

tedunderwood.com

04 December 2025 01:29

Imitation has often transformed the meaning of classic fragrances. The rhapsodic Turin/Sanchez review of Guerlain's Mitsouko (1919) said that it defined the "chypre" genre (whatever that is). Intrigued, I ordered a sample. When I opened the phial, full of expectation ... "Oh. Pampers."