David Masad @badnetworker

Computational social scientist. Personal-capacity tweets about complex social systems (real and simulated). Also NatSec, Python, sci fi, cats and child. Washington, DC Joined September 2011

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Thea Don-Siemion @StationryBandit

4 years ago

If a 3D projection wore pants...

Sanjay Manohar @BrainInTheMind

4 years ago

3D plots upset me so frequently that I made this teaching aid. #DataScience #Datavisualization

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4 years ago

@zfurnas @Shugars Congratulations!! Belated welcome to the world, Baby F-C!

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Uncommon Cackle 🦇🩸🌑 @Q_quiscula

4 years ago

the virgin old lady who swallowed a fly vs the chad gadya

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4 years ago

Weird, usually my 57 year old second cousin with frosted tips brings his 21 year old dates to his family's holiday events.

ChihuahuaEnjoyer420 @tweetsandboobs

4 years ago

Ok I’m sorry I need to tweet because I can’t take it. My 21 year old second cousin has brought a 57 year old man to Easter lunch. He has both ears pierced. He has frosted tips. He has said “that’s lit” twice. I’m vibrating with cringe and fascination.

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David Masad @badnetworker

4 years ago

Contrast with

忍者の神 Marxist-Yeagerist ⌬ @delmoi

9 years ago

This toddler's beautiful solution to the philosophical trolley problem shows how children are the future.

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David Masad @badnetworker

4 years ago

This is the wholesome equivalent of the video of the toddler solution

Ben Phillips @benphillips76

4 years ago

Philosophers: the only way to solve the trolley problem is to kill one of these groups of imaginary people. Model railway dads:

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Seva @SevaUT

4 years ago

an interesting part of that chomsky quote is comparing russia's actions to a "hurricane" like it's political force majeure and not a series of choices. once again everyone (except the US of course) is mechanistically enacting the laws of history

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David Masad @badnetworker

4 years ago

Tis the season again

David Masad @badnetworker

5 years ago

I'd love to see the shape of the annual streaming count curve for Prince of Egypt.

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4 years ago

“We’ll get him another. I know a man in Pisa makes them ten for five florins and a round dozen for cash up front. And you get a certificate with St. Peter’s thumbprint, to say they’re genuine.”

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppy_haze

4 years ago

lmao the Russians put a piece of the True Cross on the Moskva and it’s now at the bottom of the Black Sea

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cts🌸 @gf_256

4 years ago

average api consumer vs average web etiquette ignorer

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David Masad @badnetworker

4 years ago

@CMastication This was pretty close to my grad-school Santa Fe Institute summer school experience. Lectures on various interdisciplinary methods, work on fun short-term research projects, lots of beer and hiking and New Mexican food.

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👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige

4 years ago

"MALib is a parallel framework of population-based learning nested with multi-agent RL methods, using @RayDistributed+#RLlib. Focus: efficient code reuse and flexible deployments on different distributed computing paradigms." 💻github.com/sjtu-marl/malib 🤖malib.io

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4 years ago

@Maddoxnelson The sequel was also really good!

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4 years ago

Wanted @midjourney to make a hard sci fi book cover, but autocorrect changed it to 'civet' and I think it generated the next Children of Time/Ruin novel.

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David Masad @badnetworker

4 years ago

Frongoo Genge is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy

4 years ago

the 1950 Census attempts at using machine learning to automatically transcribe names are, I must report, delightful (poor Frongoo Genge appears to be actually named something like "Georg Frengos")

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David Masad @badnetworker

4 years ago

Possible methodologies to arrange spices: - Spring layout on co-occurrence network - PCA - More generalized latent space I'm sure I'm missing some.

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy

4 years ago

the 1950 Census attempts at using machine learning to automatically transcribe names are, I must report, delightful (poor Frongoo Genge appears to be actually named something like "Georg Frengos")

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David Masad @badnetworker

4 years ago

@catacalypto Learning about procgen and narrative from the perspective of someone who actually needs to make them work. More positivity than my stream generally has. Also possums.

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4 years ago

.@babynetworker wanted to play museum today with @DanielleAlberti's jewelry, and when we asked her where her museum acquired "the most beautiful things in the world" she said they "found them on the road". So I think she has a solid understanding of what the job entails.

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4 years ago

China's dumb cyberpunk present.

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy

4 years ago

the 1950 Census attempts at using machine learning to automatically transcribe names are, I must report, delightful (poor Frongoo Genge appears to be actually named something like "Georg Frengos")

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David Masad @badnetworker

4 years ago

Despite my nerd magnet school having zero fights, at one point the administration decided to start a student hall monitor program. My friends and I wrote a whole manifesto founding the Hall Dis-Monitors, and staged extremely corny fake fights when our friends were on duty.