Grant me the serenity to accept the problems where I cannot offload my understanding, courage to let the LLM go burrrr on the problems where I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Tyler Burch
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Tyler Burch
@TylerJBurch
Lead Baseball Analyst @RedSox, recovering physicist. Formerly: @Argonne, @NIU, ATLAS Experiment @CERN, @MurrayStateUniv, STL(area) Native | Tired but hydrated
Peabody, MA Katılım Nisan 2011
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The more I do it, the more it feels like there's some misalignment between LLMs and statistical work. Maybe it's over-abstraction leading to making it harder to turn knobs and experiment? Maybe the harnesses are oriented toward shipping code and not sitting on a problem?
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The better the models get, the more I seem to have to scream "DON'T FORGET YAGNI" and "come on, KISS!" at them.
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Gradient descent does not work. I will die on this hill.
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it feels unholy to add agentic workflows into matlab
MATLAB@MATLAB
Introducing the MATLAB Agentic Toolkit Get started 👉 spr.ly/6019BBw4zH
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No company has ever been more relatable than Dunkin giving up on the “healthy” protein menu strategy and hard pivoting directly into putting Oreos on everything.
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Every single “the AI deleted prod!” post I’ve seen could have very easily been avoided by thinking about the principle of least privilege even one time.
Simon Willison@simonw
The conclusions here feel wrong to me. The two lessons I see are: 1. Don't run agents anywhere they might be able to access production environment credentials - it's on you to know which credentials those are 2. Keep tested backups that are independent from your production host
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Not me. I keep my hammer ready at all points in time.
jon drake@DrakeGatsby
Legally all doctors are allowed to hit you on the knee with a little hammer. Even PhDs. They just rarely exercise this right
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Quick question, does gpt 5.5 still talk to me like it’s trying to prove to me that it’s read every single book on computer programming?
“We need to leverage a shim to reduce the risk surface area” got it
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In case you were wondering how this performed, near-perfect temps meant no weather effect, leaving just the random-walk estimate.
Top-3 average was 2:02:30, ~0.7 posterior SDs faster than the 2:05:10 median, inside the 95% interval (1:57:55–2:12:29).
Tyler Burch@TylerJBurch
Based on the attire on the Green Line skewing more Hokas and On Cloudmonsters than a typical workday, I can confirm today is the Boston Marathon. Just uploaded a new blog post looking at how much of finish-time variation is attributable to weather. Link in thread
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Report: Runner who tried to jump on Green Line to cheat way to victory in 2022 Boston Marathon just getting to finish line now
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@StatsbyLopez There's actually pretty good availability! At least through 2019 easily available. See: github.com/adrian3/Boston…
I scoped it down to top-3 for the sake of grounding to existing work. and to save a bit of sanity for a pedagogical-leaning post. Definitely could be much richer.
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@TylerJBurch This is tremendous. Wish there was individual level data available for runners outside top 3, as guessing impact is greater among non-elite runners
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Based on the attire on the Green Line skewing more Hokas and On Cloudmonsters than a typical workday, I can confirm today is the Boston Marathon.
Just uploaded a new blog post looking at how much of finish-time variation is attributable to weather.
Link in thread
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So uh anybody who bought a Mac mini for a clawdbot ready to sell it to me for pennies on the dollar yet?
These MCMC chains aren’t gonna sample themselves, and my MacBook Air is starting to struggle.
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I mean this should just be built into every harness at this point, but I digress
Daniel San@dani_avila7
If you don't want Claude to read your .env files Just add this to your .claude/settings.json
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I too am going to sell all my shoes to buy more GPUs
Evan@StockMKTNewz
Shoe company Allbirds just announced that it's planning to - Sell all of its brands and footwear assets - Rebrand the company to Newbird AI - Use a $50M convertible financing facility to "acquire high-performance GPU assets"
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Tyler Burch, an analyst for the Boston Red Sox, will present a seminar tomorrow at 11am, 1310 Sterling. His talk will trace how changes in baseball analytics have shaped front office decision-making, on-field strategy, and player development. today.wisc.edu/events/view/22…
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