Entropy☃️Chase

Finished an article summarizing some tips I learned to write faster pandas code! Notebook included! [buymeacoffee.com/entropychase/f…] For me, this led to big speed improvements, esp for tasks that require row by row iteration!

@BillyBostickson @PrometheusCHT @stevenemassey @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan @mattwridley Thank you for writing this!

@PrometheusCHT @EntropyChase @stevenemassey @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan @mattwridley Doing my level best! researchgate.net/publication/40…

SARS2 needed the insertion of a furin cleavage site to spread to humans, which the authors of the paper studiously ignore No member of the sarbecovirus has such a site, indicating its origin may not be natural

The Cube XL is a much newer product (10 years after the pod 2.0) and I think it's modeling is a bit more advanced, that's why it "chugs" better (the response changes more dramatically than the pod when you attack the strings and get more output). Can't go wrong either way!

Did some experiments with the Line 6 pod, I think it sounds great. That said, I think the Cube XL has it beat when it comes to rock tones. However, the pod has really awesome "slight breakup" tones. Also, it's like 1/4 of the cost 🤣

cc @GreenZenForest @Solomon_Slate early days but this 20 yr old piece of equipment seems to have a lot of potential...

First time trying the guitar through the Line 6 pod. I'm impressed by its ability to get an old school sound, that kind of "edge of break up" tone! Havent fully dialed it in but really pumped! soundcloud.com/entropychase/l…

About to plug in the Line 6 Pod for the first time. This guitar gear is ~20 years old. This will be interesting!!

@TelGlobalHealth @honigsbaum Typically, when a theory has no empirical support, calling it "parsimonious" might not be the best idea...

@TelGlobalHealth @honigsbaum @honigsbaum delivered a low-quality article with massive omissions, like: - no infected animals were found at market (confirmed by deep environmental sampling) - Wuhan trades very little SARS susceptible wildlife - market strains weren't earliest strains Sad to see it.

A ‘nail in the coffin’ for the lab-leak theory? A new study suggests Covid-19 didn’t need special adaptation to spread to humans but was simply waiting for the right opportunity Analysis by medical historian Mark Honigsbaum (@honigsbaum)👇 telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

@_CatintheHat yikes.

Aaarrrghh! The cover-up begins… The WHO page about Meningococcal Meningitis & its modes of transmission (including the word ‘AEROSOL’) has just been removed from their website. Original link: who.int/teams/health-p… Thankfully there’s an archived page: web.archive.org/web/2026012701…

@TweetATherapist wtfff

Lyft emails me later: “I'm following up on feedback about your behavior during a recent ride. The feedback alleged you made inappropriate or derogatory comments.” (They sided with the driver and I was penalized) Honestly fkd up that they can just…make up a claim like that

One time my @lyft driver made an unsafe u-turn and I go “woah” because they whipped around on a busy city street which took me by surprise. The driver immediately pulls over. “Get out.” I was stunned but got out. (Continued)

@maskedmamaB the foolishness on this site knows no bounds lol

Oh the irony..

@PeteUK7 yikes

There are a few ways to remove aerosols. Ventilation & air filtration are good ways. However, the favoured way by Public Health appears to be just to delete them. Compare what this page said when crawled in Dec 2025 to what it says today. 7th Dec 2025 pictured. 1/🧵

@Liesl4CleanAir @CorsIAQ @JimRosenthal4 @CRFoundationUS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Nearly 6 yrs ago @CorsIAQ and @JimRosenthal4 taught us all (including me) how to make a CR box. This past weekend I got to spend a day with them both as we strategized the next phase of the @CRFoundationUS. What an honor to know and work with these gentlemen.

Should be an exciting night, about to try the Line 6 Pod 2.0 for the first time! Gonna try to clean up my work area first so the vibe looks extra futuristic lol

@emeriticus 🤣🤣👏👏

The name of Marc Andreessen's memoir:

@DeepDishEnjoyer @brian_eno_69 beryllium sphere

@brian_eno_69 baby fever?

please 🙏 do not ❌ use the "b word" 🅱️ on my profile 🙂‍↔️ thank you! 👼

Had a blast rocking out to Linkin Park's first album, Hybrid Theory. I know they get made fun of, but that album has some fantastic guitar riffs. Vocals are a little much for be but man, great riffs and flow overall.

@PrometheusCHT @stevenemassey @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan @mattwridley yeah, that was my thought too. Sadly, would be a waste of time.

@EntropyChase @stevenemassey If they don't have a truth-seeking epistemology, what's the point. We have to recognise they have a competing vision of 'science' basd on political activism and proactively refute them, debunk their myth-making & shame them for the attempt. cc: @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan @mattwridley

@Silimund @quetzal_rainbow I recall seeing other work that showed that models require far more (by several orders of magnitude) examples to learn patterns, compared to humans. I think the way they "learn" is quite different

@Silimund @quetzal_rainbow The paper says that the models scored "0% accuracy beyond the Easy tier". They were given documentation, interpreter feedback, and iterative experimentation. I think humans with those resources would probably do better, no?

"Language models solve 10% of tasks in languages which would make your brain boil out of eye sockets which prove that they only memorize stuff"